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Multiple Scattering Theory for Slow Neutrons (from thermal to ultracold)
The general theory of neutron scattering is presented, valid for the whole
domain of slow neutrons from thermal to ultracold. Particular attention is
given to multiple scattering which is the dominant process for ultracold
neutrons (UCN). For thermal and cold neutrons, when the multiple scattering in
the target can be neglected, the cross section is reduced to the known value. A
new expression for inelastic scattering cross section for UCN is proposed.
Dynamical processes in the target are taken into account and their influence on
inelastic scattering of UCN is analyzed.Comment: 28 pages, latex, 2 Postscript figures, submitted to the European
Physical Journal
The action for the (propagating) torsion and the limits on the torsion parameters from present experimental data
Starting from the well established form of the Dirac action coupled to the
electromagnetic and torsion field we find that there is some additional softly
broken local symmetry associated with torsion. This symmetry fixes the form of
divergences of the effective action after the spinor fields are integrated out.
Then the requirement of renormalizability fixes the torsion field to be
equivalent to some massive pseudovector and its action is fixed with accuracy
to the values of coupling constant of torsion-spinor interaction, mass of the
torsion and higher derivative terms. Implementing this action into the abelian
sector of the Standard Model we establish the upper bounds on the torsion mass
and coupling. In our study we used results of present experimental limits on
four-fermion contact interaction (LEP, HERA, SLAC, SLD, CCFR) and TEVATRON
limits on the cross section of new gauge boson, which could be produced as a
resonance at high energy collisions.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures include
Generalized Density Matrix Revisited: Microscopic Approach to Collective Dynamics in Soft Spherical Nuclei
The generalized density matrix (GDM) method is used to calculate
microscopically the parameters of the collective Hamiltonian. Higher order
anharmonicities are obtained consistently with the lowest order results, the
mean field [Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equation] and the harmonic potential
[quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA)]. The method is applied to
soft spherical nuclei, where the anharmonicities are essential for restoring
the stability of the system, as the harmonic potential becomes small or
negative. The approach is tested in three models of increasing complexity: the
Lipkin model, model with factorizable forces, and the quadrupole plus pairing
model.Comment: submitted to Physical Review C on 08 May, 201
Tree Level Unitarity Bounds for the Minimal B-L Model
We have derived the unitarity bounds in the high energy limit for the minimal
B-L extension of the Standard Model by analysing the full class of Higgs and
would-be Goldstone boson two-to-two scatterings at tree level. Moreover, we
have investigated how these limits could vary at some lower critical value of
the energy.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; 1d figure modified, typos corrected,
bibliography augmented; published in PRD after minor adjustmen
The Z' boson of the minimal B-L model at future Linear Colliders in e+e- --> mu+mu-
We study the capabilities of future electron-positron Linear Colliders, with
centre-of-mass energy at the TeV scale, in accessing the parameter space of a
boson within the minimal model. We carry out a detailed comparison
between the discovery regions mapped over a two-dimensional configuration space
( mass and coupling) at the Large Hadron Collider and possible future
Linear Colliders for the case of di-muon production. As known in the literature
for other models, we confirm that leptonic machines, as compared to the
CERN hadronic accelerator, display an additional potential in discovering a
boson as well as in allowing one to study its properties at a level of
precision well beyond that of any of the existing colliders.Comment: 5 pages, proceeding of LC09 (Perugia), published by the Italian
Physical Society in the Nuovo Cimento C (Colloquia
Spontaneous violation of chiral symmetry in QCD vacuum is the origin of baryon masses and determines baryon magnetic moments and their other static properties
A short review is presented of the spontaneous violation of chiral symmetry
in QCD vacuum. It is demonstrated, that this phenomenon is the origin of baryon
masses in QCD. The value of nucleon mass is calculated as well as the masses of
hyperons and some baryonic resonances and expressed mainly through the values
of quark condensates -- -- the vacuum
expectation values (v.e.v.) of quark field. The concept of vacuum expectation
values induced by external fields is introduced. It is demonstrated that such
v.e.v. induced by static electromagnetic field results in quark condensate
magnetic susceptibility, which plays the main role in determination of baryon
magnetic moments. The magnetic moments of proton, neutron and hyperons are
calculated. The results of calculation of baryon octet -decay constants
are also presented.Comment: 13 pades, 5 figures. Dedicated to 85-birthday of acad. S.T.Belyaev.
To be published in Phys.At.Nucl. Few references are correcte
XQCAT: eXtra Quark Combined Analysis Tool
XQCAT (eXtra Quark Combined Analysis Tool) is a tool aimed at determining
exclusion confidence levels for scenarios of new physics characterised by the
presence of one or multiple heavy extra quarks which interact through Yukawa
couplings with any of the Standard Model quarks. The code uses a database of
efficiencies for pre-simulated processes of QCD-induced pair production of
extra quarks and their subsequent on-shell decays. In the version 1.2 of XQCAT
the efficiencies have been computed for a set of seven publicly available
search results by the CMS experiment. The input for the code is a text file in
which masses, branching ratios and dominant chirality of the couplings of the
new quarks are provided. The output of the code is the exclusion confidence
levels of the test point for each implemented experimental analysis considered
individually and, when possible, in statistical combination.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in Comp. Phys.
Comm., fixed formatting problems caused by the arXiv's autotex syste
Vector, Axial, Tensor and Pseudoscalar Vacuum Susceptibilities
Using a recently developed three-point formalism within the method of QCD Sum
Rules we determine the vacuum susceptibilities needed in the two-point
formalism for the coupling of axial, vector, tensor and pseudoscalar currents
to hadrons. All susceptibilities are determined by the space-time scale of
condensates, which is estimated from data for deep inelastic scattering on
nucleons
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