38 research outputs found
Spin Physics at e^+e^- Colliders
A large number of measurements with polarized beams and/or spin analysis of
final state particles has been performed at the e^+e^- colliders LEP and SLC,
providing important information on the dynamics of high energy interactions. In
this paper three subjects, for which the role of spin studies was particularly
relevant, will be covered: the measurements of the electroweak couplings, the
study of fragmentation dynamics and the search for physics beyond the Standard
Model.Comment: 11 pages, Invited talk given at the International Workshop on
Symmetry and Spin - Prague, Czech Republic, August 30 - September 5, 199
Tests of the Standard Model: W mass and WWZ Couplings
Recent tests of the electroweak Standard Model are reviewed, covering the precise measurements of Z decays at LEP I and SLC and measurements of fermion pair production at higher energies at LEP II. Special emphasis is given to new results on W physics from LEP and FNAL
Complete LEP Data: Status of Higgs Boson Searches
The LEP experiments completed data-taking in November 2000. New preliminary
combined results of the four LEP experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL are
presented for various Higgs boson searches.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures. Proc. Third Int.Conference on Non-Accelerator
New Physics, NANP-01, Moscow, 200
Heavy Flavour Physics at HERA - a Survey
At the HERA collider at DESY, high energy electron and positron beams
interact with proton beams. A review is presented of the variety of ways in
which these collisions produce final states containing charm and beauty quarks.Comment: 45 pages including 30 figures. Submitted to International Journal of
Modern Physics
Diffractive charm photoproduction at HERA ep-collider
The cross section of the -meson diffractive photoproduction at the HERA
collider has been calculated in the framework of perturbatively motivated model
for the different kinematic regions. The camparison between the different
Pomeron models has been performed.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
Photoproduction and electroproduction of charm at high energies
We estimate the differential and total cross sections for both the
photoproduction of vector D*-meson and its yield in deep inelastic scattering
at the HERA collider in the framework of model motivated by perturbative
calculations in QCD. The offered model allows us to take into account higher
twists over the transverse momentum of meson at p_T ~ m_c and to correctly
approach the dominance of -quark fragmentation at p_T >> m_c. We consider a
possibility for the hadronization of color-octet c q-bar state into the meson.
The combined contribution by the singlet and octet-color terms results in a
good agreement with the experimental data for both the photoproduction and the
production in deep inelastic scattering.Comment: 27 pages, ReVTeX, 8 eps-figures, explanations added, results
unchange
Unanswered Questions in the Electroweak Theory
This article is devoted to the status of the electroweak theory on the eve of
experimentation at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. A compact summary of the logic
and structure of the electroweak theory precedes an examination of what
experimental tests have established so far. The outstanding unconfirmed
prediction of the electroweak theory is the existence of the Higgs boson, a
weakly interacting spin-zero particle that is the agent of electroweak symmetry
breaking, the giver of mass to the weak gauge bosons, the quarks, and the
leptons. General arguments imply that the Higgs boson or other new physics is
required on the TeV energy scale. Indirect constraints from global analyses of
electroweak measurements suggest that the mass of the standard-model Higgs
boson is less than 200 GeV. Once its mass is assumed, the properties of the
Higgs boson follow from the electroweak theory, and these inform the search for
the Higgs boson. Alternative mechanisms for electroweak symmetry breaking are
reviewed, and the importance of electroweak symmetry breaking is illuminated by
considering a world without a specific mechanism to hide the electroweak
symmetry.
For all its triumphs, the electroweak theory has many shortcomings. . . .Comment: 31 pages, 20 figures; prepared for Annual Review of Nuclear and
Particle Science (minor changes
Production of Triply Charmed Baryons in Annihilation
The total and differential cross sections for the production of triply
charmed baryons in annihilation are calculated at
the -boson pole.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure
Possible Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry
One possible ramification of unified theories of nature such as string theory
that may underlie the conventional standard model is the possible spontaneous
breakdown of Lorentz and CPT symmetry. In this talk, the formalism for
inclusion of such effects into a low-energy effective field theory is
presented. An extension of the standard model that includes Lorentz- and
CPT-breaking terms is developed. The restriction of the standard model
extension to the QED sector is then discussed.Comment: Talk presented at Non-Accelerator New Physics, Dubna, Russia, July
199
Contribution of higher meson resonances to the electromagnetic -meson mass difference
Modifications of the DGMLY relation for calculation of electromagnetic
-meson mass difference based on the Chiral Symmetry Restoration phenomenon
at high energies as well as the Operator Product Expansion of quark densities
for vector () and axial-vector () meson fields difference are
proposed. In the calculations higher meson resonances in vector and
axial-vector channels are taken into account. It is shown that the inclusion of
the first and radial excitations improves the results for
electromagnetic -meson mass difference as compared with the previous ones.
Estimations on the electromagnetic and -meson decay constants and
the constant of effective chiral Lagrangian are obtained from the
generalized Weinberg sum rules.Comment: Latex2e, 10 pages, submitted to Yad. Phy