208 research outputs found
Effects of resonant single-particle states on pairing correlations
Effects of resonant single-particle (s.p.) states on the pairing correlations
are investigated by an exact treatment of the pairing Hamiltonian on the Gamow
shell model basis. We introduce the s.p. states with complex energies into the
Richardson equations. The solution shows the property that the resonant s.p.
states with large widths are less occupied. The importance of many-body
correlations between bound and resonant prticle pairs is shown.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Minimal Scenarios for Leptogenesis and CP Violation
The relation between leptogenesis and CP violation at low energies is
analyzed in detail in the framework of the minimal seesaw mechanism. Working,
without loss of generality, in a weak basis where both the charged lepton and
the right-handed Majorana mass matrices are diagonal and real, we consider a
convenient generic parametrization of the Dirac neutrino Yukawa coupling matrix
and identify the necessary condition which has to be satisfied in order to
establish a direct link between leptogenesis and CP violation at low energies.
In the context of the LMA solution of the solar neutrino problem, we present
minimal scenarios which allow for the full determination of the cosmological
baryon asymmetry and the strength of CP violation in neutrino oscillations.
Some specific realizations of these minimal scenarios are considered. The
question of the relative sign between the baryon asymmetry and CP violation at
low energies is also discussed.Comment: 36 pages, 5 figures; minor corrections and references updated. Final
version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Leptogenesis in Neutrino Textures with Two Zeros
The leptogenesis is studied in the neutrino textures with two zeros, which
reduce the number of independent phases of the CP violation. The
phenomenological favored neutrino textures with two zeros are decomposed into
the Dirac neutrino mass matrix and the right-handed Majorana one in the see-saw
mechanism. Putting the condition to suppress the decay
enough, the texture zeros of the Dirac neutrino mass matrix are fixed in the
framework of the MSSM with right-handed neutrinos. These textures have only one
CP violatig phase. The magnitude of each entry of the Dirac mass matrix is
determined in order to explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe by solving
the Boltzman equations. The relation between the leptogenesis and the low
energy CP violation is presented in these textures.Comment: Latex file with 20 pages, 6 eps figure
b-physics signals of the lightest CP-odd Higgs in the NMSSM at large tan beta
We investigate the low energy phenomenology of the lighter pseudoscalar
in the NMSSM. The mass can naturally be small due to a global
symmetry of the Higgs potential, which is only broken by trilinear
soft terms. The mass is further protected from renormalization group
effects in the large limit. We calculate the
amplitude at leading order in and work out the contributions to
rare , and radiative -decays and mixing. We obtain
constraints on the mass and couplings and show that masses down to
MeV are allowed. The -physics phenomenology of the NMSSM
differs from the MSSM in the appearance of sizeable renormalization effects
from neutral Higgses to the photon and gluon dipole operators and the breakdown
of the MSSM correlation between the branching ratio and
mixing. For masses above the tau threshold the
can be searched for in processes with branching ratios
\lsim 10^{-3}.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures; references adde
Logarithmic and complex constant term identities
In recent work on the representation theory of vertex algebras related to the
Virasoro minimal models M(2,p), Adamovic and Milas discovered logarithmic
analogues of (special cases of) the famous Dyson and Morris constant term
identities. In this paper we show how the identities of Adamovic and Milas
arise naturally by differentiating as-yet-conjectural complex analogues of the
constant term identities of Dyson and Morris. We also discuss the existence of
complex and logarithmic constant term identities for arbitrary root systems,
and in particular prove complex and logarithmic constant term identities for
the root system G_2.Comment: 26 page
Triggering an eruptive flare by emerging flux in a solar active-region complex
A flare and fast coronal mass ejection originated between solar active
regions NOAA 11514 and 11515 on July 1, 2012 in response to flux emergence in
front of the leading sunspot of the trailing region 11515. Analyzing the
evolution of the photospheric magnetic flux and the coronal structure, we find
that the flux emergence triggered the eruption by interaction with overlying
flux in a non-standard way. The new flux neither had the opposite orientation
nor a location near the polarity inversion line, which are favorable for strong
reconnection with the arcade flux under which it emerged. Moreover, its flux
content remained significantly smaller than that of the arcade (approximately
40 %). However, a loop system rooted in the trailing active region ran in part
under the arcade between the active regions, passing over the site of flux
emergence. The reconnection with the emerging flux, leading to a series of jet
emissions into the loop system, caused a strong but confined rise of the loop
system. This lifted the arcade between the two active regions, weakening its
downward tension force and thus destabilizing the considerably sheared flux
under the arcade. The complex event was also associated with supporting
precursor activity in an enhanced network near the active regions, acting on
the large-scale overlying flux, and with two simultaneous confined flares
within the active regions.Comment: Accepted for publication in Topical Issue of Solar Physics: Solar and
Stellar Flares. 25 pages, 12 figure
Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, Intersecting Branes and Free Fermions
We show that various holomorphic quantities in supersymmetric gauge theories
can be conveniently computed by configurations of D4-branes and D6-branes.
These D-branes intersect along a Riemann surface that is described by a
holomorphic curve in a complex surface. The resulting I-brane carries
two-dimensional chiral fermions on its world-volume. This system can be mapped
directly to the topological string on a large class of non-compact Calabi-Yau
manifolds. Inclusion of the string coupling constant corresponds to turning on
a constant B-field on the complex surface, which makes this space
non-commutative. Including all string loop corrections the free fermion theory
is elegantly formulated in terms of holonomic D-modules that replace the
classical holomorphic curve in the quantum case.Comment: 67 pages, 6 figure
From weak-scale observables to leptogenesis
Thermal leptogenesis is an attractive mechanism for generating the baryon
asymmetry of the Universe. However, in supersymmetric models, the parameter
space is severely restricted by the gravitino bound on the reheat temperature
. For hierarchical light neutrino masses, it is shown that thermal
leptogenesis {\it can} work when GeV. The low-energy
observable consequences of this scenario are . For higher , thermal leptogenesis works in a
larger area of parameter space, whose observable consequences are more
ambiguous. A parametrisation of the seesaw in terms of weak-scale inputs is
used, so the results are independent of the texture chosen for the GUT-scale
Yukawa matrices.Comment: a few references adde
Reconstructing the Cosmic Expansion History up to Redshift z=6.29 with the Calibrated Gamma-Ray Bursts
Recently, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) were proposed to be a complementary
cosmological probe to type Ia supernovae (SNIa). GRBs have been advocated to be
standard candles since several empirical GRB luminosity relations were proposed
as distance indicators. However, there is a so-called circularity problem in
the direct use of GRBs. Recently, a new idea to calibrate GRBs in a completely
cosmology independent manner has been proposed, and the circularity problem can
be solved. In the present work, following the method proposed by Liang {\it et
al.}, we calibrate 70 GRBs with the Amati relation using 307 SNIa. Then,
following the method proposed by Shafieloo {\it et al.}, we smoothly
reconstruct the cosmic expansion history up to redshift with the
calibrated GRBs. We find some new features in the reconstructed results.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, revtex4; v2: title changed, accepted by
Eur. Phys. J. C; v3: published versio
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