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Constraints on the Gluon Density from Lepton Pair Production
The hadroproduction of lepton pairs with mass Q and finite transverse
momentum Q_T is described in perturbative QCD by the same partonic subprocesses
as prompt photon production. We demonstrate that, like prompt photon
production, lepton pair production is dominated by quark-gluon scattering in
the region Q_T>Q/2. This feature leads to sensitivity to the gluon density in
kinematical regimes accessible in collider and fixed target experiments, and it
provides a new independent method for constraining the gluon density.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Fermilab
Physics at Run II Workshop on ``QCD and Weak Boson Physics
Flow of entropy in the evolution of the B^0 anti B^0 system: Upper bound on CP violation from unidirectionality
We have previously studied the time-dependence of a B anti B meson mixture in
terms of its density matrix. The requirement that the absolute value of the
Stokes vector zeta(t) should evolve monotonically from its initial value
zeta(0)=0 to its final value zeta(infinity)=1 was shown to lead to an upper
bound on the CP violating overlap . In the present note we consider an
entropy variable S as an alternative measure of mixing. We show that exactly
the same upper bound emerges from the requirement that the flow of entropy is
unidirectional (dS/dt<0). We compare the entropic current dS/dt with and
without CP violation and identify certain physical features that appear when
the bound on is violated.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Typos corrected, comment on entropy added. To be
published in Physical Review
Production of a Prompt Photon in Association with Charm at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
A second order, , calculation in perturbative quantum
chromodynamics of the two particle inclusive cross section is presented for the
reaction for large values of the
transverse momentum of the prompt photon and charm quark. The combination of
analytic and Monte Carlo integration methods used here to perform phase-space
integrations facilitates imposition of photon isolation restrictions and other
selections of relevance in experiments. Differential distributions are provided
for various observables. Positive correlations in rapidity are predicted.Comment: 27 pages in RevTex plus 14 figures in one compressed PS fil
Top quark physics at muon and other future colliders
The top quark will be extensively studied at future muon colliders. The
threshold cross section can be measured precisely, and the small beam energy
spread is especially effective at making the measurement useful. We report on
all the activities of the top quark working group, including talks on top quark
physics at other future colliders.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, Summary report of the Top Quark Working Group at
the Workshop on Physics at the First Muon Collider and at the Front End of a
Muon Collider, November 6-9, 1997, Fermi National Accelerator Laborator
Top Spin and Experimental Tests
We examine pair mass dependence near threshold as a means to measure the spin
of the top quark in hadron collisions, and we discuss the possibility that a
top squark signal could be hidden among the top events.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX, 3 figures. Contribution to the Thinkshop on
Top-Quark Physics for the Tevatron Run II, Fermilab, October 16 - 18, 199
Isolated leptons from heavy flavor decays: Theory and data
Events with isolated leptons play a prominent role in signatures of new
physics phenomena at high energy collider physics facilities. In earlier
publications, we examine the standard model contribution to isolated lepton
production from bottom and charm mesons and baryons through their semileptonic
decays (b, c -> l + X), showing that this source can overwhelm the effects of
other standard model processes in some kinematic domains. In this paper, we
show that we obtain good agreement with recent Tevatron collider data, both
validating our simulations and showing that we underestimate the magnitude of
the heavy-flavor contribution to the isolated lepton yields. We also show that
the isolation requirement acts as a narrow bandpass filter on the momentum of
the isolated lepton, and we illustrate the effect of this filter on the
background to Higgs boson observation in the dilepton mode. We introduce and
justify a new rule of thumb: isolated electrons and muons from heavy flavor
decay are produced with roughly the same distributions as b and c quarks, but
with 1/200 times the rates of b and c production, respectively.Comment: 12 pg, revtex, 5 fig, corrected typo
Next-to-leading Order SUSY-QCD Calculation of Associated Production of Gauginos and Gluinos
Results are presented of a next-to-leading order calculation in perturbative
QCD of the production of charginos and neutralinos in association with gluinos
at hadron colliders. Predictions for cross sections are shown at the energies
of the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN Large Hadron Collider for a typical
supergravity (SUGRA) model of the sparticle mass spectrum and for a light
gluino model.Comment: 3 pages, latex, 4 figures, paper presented by E. L. Berger at ICHEP
2000, the XXXth International Conference on High Energy Physics July 27 -
August 2, 2000, Osaka, Japa
An upper limit on CP violation in the system
In a previous publication we noted that the time dependence of an incoherent
mixture undergoes a qualitative change when the magnitude of CP
violation exceeds a critical value. Requiring, on physical grounds,
that the system evolve from an initial incoherent state to a final pure state
in a monotonic way, yields a new upper limit for . The recent
measurement of the wrong charge semileptonic asymmetry of mesons
presented by the D0 collaboration is outside this bound by one standard
deviation. If this result is confirmed it implies the existence of a new
quantum mechanical oscillation phenomenon.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, version submitted for publication (Physical
Review
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