Quantile Motion and Tunneling

The concepts of quantile position, trajectory, and velocity are defined. For a tunneling quantum mechanical wave packet, it is proved that its quantile position always stays behind that of a free wave packet with the same initial parameters. In quantum mechanics the quantile trajectories are mathematically identical to Bohm's trajectories. A generalization to three dimensions is given.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, elsart, 3 ps figures, submitted to Phys. Lett.

A Monte Carlo Event Generator for W Off-shell Pair Production including Higher Order Electromagnetic Radiative Corrections

We present the Monte Carlo event generator {\tt WOPPER} for pair production of $W$'s and their decays at high energy $e^+e^-$ colliders. {\tt WOPPER} includes the effects from finite $W$ width and focusses on the calculation of higher order electromagnetic corrections in the leading log approximation including soft photon exponentiation and explicit generation of exclusive hard photons.Comment: Contribution to the Second Workshop -- Munich, Annecy, Hamburg: $e^+e^-$ Collisions at 500~GeV: The Physics Potential, November 20, 1992, to April 3, 1993. LaTeX, 6 pages + 4 uuencoded EPS figures, IKDA 93/28, SI-93-

Out-of-equilibrium evolution of quantum fields in the hybrid model with quantum back reaction

The hybrid model with a scalar "inflaton" field coupled to a "Higgs" field with a broken symmetry potential is one of the promising models for inflation and (p)reheating after inflation. We consider the nonequilibrium evolution of the quantum fields of this model with quantum back reaction in the Hartree approximation, in particular the transition of the Higgs field from the metastable "false vacuum" to the broken symmetry phase. We have performed the renormalization of the equations of motion, of the gap equations and of the energy density, using dimensional regularization. We study the influence of the back reaction on the evolution of the classical fields and of the quantum fluctuations. We observe that back reaction plays an important role over a wide range of parameters. Some implications of our investigation for the preheating stage after cosmic inflation are presented.Comment: 35 pages, 16 eps figures, revtex4; v2: typos corrected and references added, accepted for publication in Physical Review

Quantum mechanics on the personal computer

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Untersuchung der e+e--Wechselwirkung oberhalb der W+W--Schwelle sowie Ausrichtung des Herbstseminars fuer Hochenergiephysik in Maria Laach Schlussbericht

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: DtF QN1(97,29) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)DEGerman

Experiment am Speicherring LEP bei CERN. Begleitende theoretische Untersuchungen Schlussbericht

Available from TIB Hannover: DtF QN1(51,49) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman