613 research outputs found
Direct collider signatures of large extra dimensions
The realization of low (TeV) scale strings usually requires the existence of
large (TeV) extra dimensions where gauge bosons live. The direct production of
Kaluza-Klein excitations of the photon and Z-boson at present and future
colliders is studied in this work. At the LEPII, NLC and Tevatron colliders,
these Kaluza-Klein modes lead to deviations from the standard model
cross-sections, which provide lower bounds on their mass. At the LHC the
corresponding resonances can be produced and decay on-shell, triggering a
characteristic pattern in the distribution of the dilepton invariant mass.Comment: 14 pages, LateX, 5 figure
Production of Kaluza-Klein States at Future Colliders
Perturbative breaking of supersymmetry in four-dimensional string theories
predict in general the existence of new large dimensions at the TeV scale. Such
large dimensions lie in a domain of energies accessible to particle
accelerators. Their main signature is the production of Kaluza-Klein
excitations which can be detected at future colliders. We study this
possibility for hadron colliders (TEVATRON, LHC) and colliders
(LEP-200, NLC-500).Comment: 13 pages, LATEX, 4 postscript figures appended at the end,
CPTH-A293.0294 and IEM-FT-84/9
Parton distribution functions from the precise NNLO QCD fit
We report the parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined from the NNLO
QCD analysis of the world inclusive DIS data with account of the precise NNLO
QCD corrections to the evolution equations kernel. The value of strong coupling
constant \alpha_s^{NNLO}(M_Z)=0.1141(14), in fair agreement with one obtained
using the earlier approximate NNLO kernel by van Neerven-Vogt. The intermediate
bosons rates calculated in the NNLO using obtained PDFs are in agreement to the
latest Run II results.Comment: 8 pages, LATEX, 2 figures (EPS
Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders
The Higgs boson production cross section at pp and p\bar{p} colliders is
calculated in QCD at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We find that the
perturbative expansion of the production cross section is well behaved and that
scale dependence is reduced relative to the NLO result. These findings give us
confidence in the reliability of the prediction. We also report an error in the
NNLO correction to Drell-Yan production.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, minor change
Anomalous dimension of the gluon operator in pure Yang-Mills theory
We present new one loop calculations that confirm the theorems of Joglekar
and Lee on the renormalization of composite operators. We do this by
considering physical matrix elements with the operators inserted at non-zero
momentum. The resulting IR singularities are regulated dimensionally. We show
that the physical matrix element of the BRST exact gauge variant operator which
appears in the energy- momentum tensor is zero. We then show that the physical
matrix elements of the classical energy-momentum tensor and the gauge invariant
twist two gluon operator are independent of the gauge fixing parameter. A
Sudakov factor appears in the latter cases. The universality of this factor and
the UV finiteness of the energy-momentum tensor provide another method of
finding the anomalous dimension of the gluon operator. We conjecture that this
method applies to higher loops and takes full advantage of the triangularity of
the mixing matrix.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev. D, 18 pages LaTEX uses psfig and revtex
macros, figures appended as uuencoded Postscript file (complete Postsript
version including figures available via anonymous ftp from
ftp://max.physics.sunysb.edu/preprints/harris/paper.ps.Z), ITP-SB-94-3
An OPR3-independent pathway uses 4,5-didehydrojasmonate for jasmonate synthesis.
Biosynthesis of the phytohormone jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) requires reduction of the JA precursor 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA) by OPDA reductase 3 (OPR3). Previous analyses of the opr3-1 Arabidopsis mutant suggested an OPDA signaling role independent of JA-Ile and its receptor COI1; however, this hypothesis has been challenged because opr3-1 is a conditional allele not completely impaired in JA-Ile biosynthesis. To clarify the role of OPR3 and OPDA in JA-independent defenses, we isolated and characterized a loss-of-function opr3-3 allele. Strikingly, opr3-3 plants remained resistant to necrotrophic pathogens and insect feeding, and activated COI1-dependent JA-mediated gene expression. Analysis of OPDA derivatives identified 4,5-didehydro-JA in wounded wild-type and opr3-3 plants. OPR2 was found to reduce 4,5-didehydro-JA to JA, explaining the accumulation of JA-Ile and activation of JA-Ile-responses in opr3-3 mutants. Our results demonstrate that in the absence of OPR3, OPDA enters the β-oxidation pathway to produce 4,5-ddh-JA as a direct precursor of JA and JA-Ile, thus identifying an OPR3-independent pathway for JA biosynthesis
Correction Factors for Reactions involving Quark-Antiquark Annihilation or Production
In reactions with production or annihilation, initial-
and final-state interactions give rise to large corrections to the lowest-order
cross sections. We evaluate the correction factor first for low relative
kinetic energies by studying the distortion of the relative wave function. We
then follow the procedure of Schwinger to interpolate this result with the
well-known perturbative QCD vertex correction factors at high energies, to
obtain an explicit semi-empirical correction factor applicable to the whole
range of energies. The correction factor predicts an enhancement for
in color-singlet states and a suppression for color-octet states, the effect
increasing as the relative velocity decreases. Consequences on dilepton
production in the quark-gluon plasma, the Drell-Yan process, and heavy quark
production processes are discussed.Comment: 25 pages (REVTeX), includes 2 uuencoded compressed postscript figure
The light-cone gauge and the calculation of the two-loop splitting functions
We present calculations of next-to-leading order QCD splitting functions,
employing the light-cone gauge method of Curci, Furmanski, and Petronzio (CFP).
In contrast to the `principal-value' prescription used in the original CFP
paper for dealing with the poles of the light-cone gauge gluon propagator, we
adopt the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt prescription which is known to have a solid
field-theoretical foundation. We find that indeed the calculation using this
prescription is conceptionally clear and avoids the somewhat dubious
manipulations of the spurious poles required when the principal-value method is
applied. We reproduce the well-known results for the flavour non-singlet
splitting function and the N_C^2 part of the gluon-to-gluon singlet splitting
function, which are the most complicated ones, and which provide an exhaustive
test of the ML prescription. We also discuss in some detail the x=1 endpoint
contributions to the splitting functions.Comment: 41 Pages, LaTeX, 8 figures and tables as eps file
Looking For TeV-Scale Strings and Extra-Dimensions
In contrast to the old heterotic string case, the (weakly coupled) type I
brane framework allows to have all, part or none of the standard model gauge
group factors propagating in large extra--dimensions of TeV size. We
investigate the main experimental signatures of these possibilities, related to
the production of Kaluza-Klein excitations of gluons and electroweak gauge
bosons. A discovery through direct observation of resonances is possible only
for compactification scales below 6 TeV. However effects due to exchange of
virtual Kaluza-Klein excitations could be observed for higher scales. We find
that LHC can probe compactification scales as high as 20 TeV for excitations of
gluons and 8-15 TeV for excitations of electroweak gauge bosons. Finally, in
the case where no gauge boson feels the extra-dimension, we find that effective
contact interactions due to massive string mode oscillations dominate those due
to the exchange of Kaluza-Klein excitations of gravitons and could be used to
obtain bounds on the string scale.Comment: 13 pages, latex, 6 eps figure
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