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Threshold expansion for heavy-light systems and flavor off-diagonal current-current correlators
An expansion scheme is developed for Feynman diagrams describing the
production of one massive and one massless particle near the threshold. As an
example application, we compute the correlators of heavy-light quark currents,
(\bar b gamma_mu u) and (\bar b gamma_5 u), through O(alpha_s^2).Comment: 4 pages, revtex
Hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment revisited
We discuss hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon
anomalous magnetic moment a_\mu^{\rm lbl}, paying particular attention to the
consistent matching between the short- and the long-distance behavior of the
light-by-light scattering amplitude. We argue that the short-distance QCD
imposes strong constraints on this amplitude overlooked in previous analyses.
We find that accounting for these constraints leads to approximately 50 per
cent increase in the central value of a_\mu^{\rm lbl}, compared to existing
estimates. The hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution becomes
a_\mu^{\rm lbl}=136(25) \times 10^{-11}, thereby shifting the Standard Model
prediction closer to the experimental value.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure
An estimate of the QCD corrections to the decay Z --> W u d
We present an estimate of perturbative QCD corrections to the decay . A simple approximate approach is described in detail. The difference
of masses of and is used as an expansion parameter. A complete
analytical formula for a part of the corrections is also presented.Comment: 9 pages, late
The results of U-Pb SHRIMP-II dating of zircon from granitoids of Talitsky molybdenum-bearing massif (eastern slope of the Middle Urals)
Age position and geodynamic conditions of molybdenum metallization and productive granitoids of the Urals formation are very little studied now. This publication contains the results of isotopic dating of granites from Talitsa Cu-Mo-porphyry deposit which should help solve this problem. The timing of formation of the molybdenum-bearing granitoids of Talitsa deposit was determined by applying the U-Pb SHRIMP-II method through zircons (the Center for Isotopic Research of All Russian Geological Research Institute, St.Petersburg). The U-Pb-age has been calculated on 7 (from a total of 11 conducÂted) measurements with probability of concordanŃĐ” 0.996 and MSWD = 0.105 and it is 297.4 ± 2.3 Ma. The results of U-Pb dating are similar to before published Re-Os ages of Talitsa molybdenite deposit: 299.9 ± ± 2.9 Ma and 298.3 ± 1.3 Ma. These data establishes the new unknown before age level of molybdenum metallization. Until recently there has been only data on the Yuzhno-Shameiskoe molybdenum deposit connected with the subalkaline granites of Malyshevo massif which is younger: 277.1 ± 1.1 Ma. According to the received data, the intrusion of investigated granitoids happened practically at the same time as the formation of the wide-spread in the western slope of the Middle Urals intrusive bodies which are accompanied by gold metallization (Verkhisetsky, Shartashsky and others). With such close (practically the same) time of formation the rocks of molybdenum-bearing and gold-bearing massifs significantly differ in petrochemical peculiarities, which probably determines their metallogenetic specialization. Granitoids forming gold-bearing quartz veins on chemical composition are rocks of calc-alkaline series (typical exemple - Shartashskyi massif with Beriozovsk gold deposite). The granitoids productive on of Cu-Mo-porphyry type metallization together with large number of normal alkalinity rocks includes subalkaline rocks such as monzodiorites and quartz monzodiorites
Pion pole contribution to hadronic light-by-light scattering and muon anomalous magnetic moment
We derive an analytic result for the pion pole contribution to the
light-by-light scattering correction to the anomalous magnetic moment of the
muon, . Using the vector meson dominance model (VMD) for
the pion transition form factor, we obtain .Comment: 4 pages, revte
alpha^2 corrections to parapositronium decay: a detailed description
We present details of our recent calculation of alpha^2 corrections to the
parapositronium decay into two photons. These corrections are rather small and
our final result for the parapositronium lifetime agrees well with the most
recent measurement. Implications for orthopositronium decays are briefly
discussed.Comment: 18 pages, late
Two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of two off-shell electroweak bosons in gluon fusion
High-precision QCD at hadron colliders: electroweak gauge boson rapidity distributions at NNLO
We compute the rapidity distributions of W and Z bosons produced at the
Tevatron and the LHC through next-to-next-to leading order in QCD. Our results
demonstrate remarkable stability with respect to variations of the
factorization and renormalization scales for all values of rapidity accessible
in current and future experiments. These processes are therefore
``gold-plated'': current theoretical knowledge yields QCD predictions accurate
to better than one percent. These results strengthen the proposal to use W and
Z production to determine parton-parton luminosities and constrain parton
distribution functions at the LHC. For example, LHC data should easily be able
to distinguish the central parton distribution fit obtained by MRST from that
obtained by Alekhin.Comment: 47 pages, 17 figures. Minor typos, 1 reference correcte
Non-planar master integrals for the production of two off-shell vector bosons in collisions of massless partons
DBSolve Optimum: a software package for kinetic modeling which allows dynamic visualization of simulation results
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Systems biology research and applications require creation, validation, extensive usage of mathematical models and visualization of simulation results by end-users. Our goal is to develop novel method for visualization of simulation results and implement it in simulation software package equipped with the sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques for model development, verification and parameter fitting.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We present mathematical simulation workbench DBSolve Optimum which is significantly improved and extended successor of well known simulation software DBSolve5. Concept of "dynamic visualization" of simulation results has been developed and implemented in DBSolve Optimum. In framework of the concept graphical objects representing metabolite concentrations and reactions change their volume and shape in accordance to simulation results. This technique is applied to visualize both kinetic response of the model and dependence of its steady state on parameter. The use of the dynamic visualization is illustrated with kinetic model of the Krebs cycle.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>DBSolve Optimum is a user friendly simulation software package that enables to simplify the construction, verification, analysis and visualization of kinetic models. Dynamic visualization tool implemented in the software allows user to animate simulation results and, thereby, present them in more comprehensible mode. DBSolve Optimum and built-in dynamic visualization module is free for both academic and commercial use. It can be downloaded directly from <url>http://www.insysbio.ru</url>.</p
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