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Critical velocities and in general theory of relativity
We consider a few thought experiments of radial motion of massive particles
in the gravitational fields outside and inside various celestial bodies: Earth,
Sun, black hole. All other interactions except gravity are disregarded. For the
outside motion there exists a critical value of coordinate velocity : particles with are accelerated by the
field, like Newtonian apples, particles with are
decelerated like photons. Particles moving inside a body with constant density
have no critical velocity; they are always accelerated. We consider also the
motion of a ball inside a tower, when it is thrown from the top (bottom) of the
tower and after classically bouncing at the bottom (top) comes back to the
original point. The total time of flight is the same in these two cases if the
initial proper velocity is equal to .Comment: 13 page
Do Present LEP Data Provide Evidence for Electroweak Corrections?
The Born approximation, based on instead of
, reproduces all electroweak precision measurements within their
accuracy. The low upper limits for the genuinely electroweak
corrections constitute one of the major achievements of LEP. The astonishing
smallness of these corrections results from the cancellation of a large
positive contribution from the heavy top quark and large negative contributions
from all other virtual particles. It is precisely the non-observation of
electroweak radiative corrections that places stringent upper and lower limits
on the top mass.Comment: 12 pages, preprint CERN-TH.6943/9
Theory of Z boson decays
The precision data on Z boson decays from LEP-I and SLC colliders are
compared with the predictions based on the Minimal Standard Theory. The Born
approximation of the theory is based on three most accurately known
observables: G_mu -- the four fermion coupling constant of muon decay, m_Z --
the mass of the Z boson, and alpha(m_Z) -- the value of the running fine
structure constant at the scale of m_Z. The electroweak loop corrections are
expressed, in addition, in terms of the masses of higgs, m_H, of the top and
bottom quarks, m_t and m_b, and of the strong interaction constant
alpha_s(m_Z). The main emphasis of the review is focused on the
one-electroweak-loop approximation. Two electroweak loops have been calculated
in the literature only partly. Possible manifestations of new physics are
briefly discussed.Comment: 80 pages, 16 figures, accepted in Reports on Progress in Physic
Electroweak radiative corrections in Z boson decays
Contribution to A.D.Sakharov memorial volume. A detailed review of the
electroweak radiative corrections to the Z-boson decays in the framework of the
Minimal Standard Modelm (MSM) is presented. After a short historical
introduction we describe the optimal parametrization of the MSM, especially of
the Born approximation, and derive expressions for the one-loop electroweak
corrections. Finally a global fit of all relevant experimental data is
performed, resulting in fitted values of the top-quark mass, m_t, and strong
coupling constant /alpha_s. Allowed range for the value of the Higgs mass, m_H,
is discussed. Various details of calculations are described in 16 appendices.Comment: 98 pages,21 EPS and PS figures,uses epsf.sty, separate file with the
tared, compressed and uuencoded figures is awailable at
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Do neutrino oscillations allow an extra phenomenological parameter?
The quantity introduced recently in the phenomenological description of
neutrino oscillations is in fact not a free parameter, but a fixed number.Comment: 2 pages, LaTeX 2e style articl
Precision measurements, extra generations and heavy neutrino
The existence of extra chiral generations with all fermions heavier than
is strongly disfavored by the precision electroweak data. The exclusion
of one additional generation of heavy fermions in SUSY extension of Standard
Model is less forbidden if chargino and neutralino have low degenerate masses
with GeV. However the data are fitted nicely even by a few
extra generations, if one allows neutral leptons to have masses close to 50
GeV. Such heavy neutrino can be searched in the reaction at LEP-200 with total final luminosity of .Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings ICHEP2000 Osaka conferenc
On the search for 50 GeV neutrinos
Using the computer code CompHEP we estimate the number of events and the
background, at LEP II and TESLA, for the reaction ,
where is a hypothetical Dirac neutrino with mass of the order of 50 GeV.Comment: Standard LaTeX, 9 pages, 2 tables, 3 figure
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