789 research outputs found
An Interesting Fitting of Quark Masses
In this note we show an empirical formula of quark masses, which is found by
implementing a least squares fit. In this formula the measured QCD coupling is
almost a "best fitting coupling".Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Self-Energy of Decuplet Baryons in Nuclear Matter
We calculate, in chiral perturbation theory, the change in the self-energy of
decuplet baryons in nuclear matter. These self-energy shifts are relevant in
studies of meson-nucleus scattering and of neutron stars. Our results are
leading order in an expansion in powers of the ratio of characteristic momenta
to the chiral symmetry-breaking scale (or the nucleon mass). Included are
contact diagrams generated by 4-baryon operators, which were neglected in
earlier studies for the isomultiplet but contribute to the self-energy
shifts at this order in chiral perturbation theory.Comment: 11 pages, 2 eps figures, REVTe
Neutrino Mixing and Future Solar Neutrino Experiments
Possibilities of a model independent treatment of the data from future
real-time solar neutrino experiments (SNO, Super-Kamiokande and others) are
discussed. It is shown that in the general case of transitions of the initial
solar 's into and/or the total flux of initial 8B
neutrinos and the survival probability can be determined directly from
the experimental data. Lower bounds for the probability of transition of solar
's into all possible sterile states are derived and expressed through
measurable quantities.Comment: 3 pages. Compressed postscript file. If you prefer the uncompressed
postscript file or a hardcopy of the paper, please write to
[email protected]. Talk presented by S.M. Bilenky at TAUP93. DFTT 66/9
A Quantum Hall Fluid of Vortices
In this note we demonstrate that vortices in a non-relativistic Chern-Simons
theory form a quantum Hall fluid. We show that the vortex dynamics is
controlled by the matrix mechanics previously proposed by Polychronakos as a
description of the quantum Hall droplet. As the number of vortices becomes
large, they fill the plane and a hydrodynamic treatment becomes possible,
resulting in the non-commutative theory of Susskind. Key to the story is the
recent D-brane realisation of vortices and their moduli spaces.Comment: 10 pages. v2(3): (More) References adde
Cosmological Constant of the -Dimensional World, Embedded in the -Dimensional Bulk Space
In this manuscript we study the cosmological constant of a
-dimensional world, which lives in the higher dimensional bulk space. We
assume the extra dimensions are compact on tori. We consider two cases:
positive and negative bulk cosmological constant. It is pointed out that the
tiny cosmological constant of our world can be obtained by the dynamics of a
scalar field and adjusting the parameters of the model. The cosmological
constant of the dual world also will be discussed. We obtain the Dirac
quantization of these cosmological constants.Comment: 11 pages, Latex, No figure. In the revised version, major changes
have been introduced and also references have been adde
Scaling Behavior of Ricci Curvature at Short Distance near Two Dimensions
We study the renormalization of the Ricci curvature as an example of
generally covariant operators in quantum gravity near two dimensions. We find
that it scales with a definite scaling dimension at short distance. The Ricci
curvature singularity at the big bang can be viewed as such a scaling
phenomenon. The problem of the spacetime singularity may be resolved by the
scale invariance of the spacetime at short distance.Comment: 9pages, LaTe
Visible Sector Supersymmetry Breaking Revisited
We revisit the possibility of "visible sector" SUSY models: models which are
straightforward renormalizable extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM), where SUSY is broken at tree level. Models of this type
were abandoned twenty years ago due to phenomenological problems, which we
review. We then demonstrate that it is possible to construct simple
phenomenologically viable visible sector SUSY models. Such models are indeed
very constrained, and have some inelegant features. They also have interesting
and distinctive phenomenology. Our models predict light gauginos and very heavy
squarks and sleptons. The squarks and sleptons may not be observable at the
LHC. The LSP is a stable very light gravitino with a significant Higgsino
admixture. The NLSP is mostly Bino. The Higgs boson is naturally heavy. Proton
decay is sufficently and naturally suppressed, even for a cutoff scale as low
as 10^8 GeV. The lightest particle of the O'Raifeartaigh sector (the LOP) is
stable, and is an interesting cold dark matter candidate.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, LaTe
Family Symmetry, Gravity, and the Strong CP Problem
We show how in a class of models Peccei--Quinn symmetry can be realized as an
automatic consequence of a gauged family symmetry. These models provide
a solution to the strong CP problem either via a massless --quark or via the
DFSZ invisible axion. The local family symmetry protects against potentially
large corrections to induced by quantum gravitational
effects. In a supersymmetric extension, the `--problem' is shown to have a
natural solution in the context of gravitationally induced operators. We also
present a plausible mechanism which can explain the inter--generational mass
hierarchy in such a context.Comment: BA-92-79, 14 pages, in LaTeX, no figure
Supernovae as a probe of particle physics and cosmology
It has very recently been demonstrated by Csaki, Kaloper and Terning (CKT)
that the faintness of supernovae at high redshift can be accommodated by mixing
of a light axion with the photon in the presence of an intergalactic magnetic
field, as opposed to the usual explanation of an accelerating universe by a
dark energy component. In this paper we analyze further aspects of the CKT
mechanism and its generalizations. The CKT mechanism also passes various
cosmological constraints from the fluctuations of the CMB and the formation of
structure at large scales, without requiring an accelerating phase in the
expansion of the Universe. We investigate the statistical significance of
current supernova data for pinning down the different components of the
cosmological energy-momentum tensor and for probing physics beyond the standard
models.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected, minor changes,
references added; v3: updated figures, details regarding fits include
Higher spin fields and the problem of cosmological constant
The cosmological evolution of free massless vector or tensor (but not gauge)
fields minimally coupled to gravity is analyzed. It is shown that there are
some unstable solutions for these fields in De Sitter background. The back
reaction of the energy-momentum tensor of such solutions to the original
cosmological constant exactly cancels the latter and the expansion regime
changes from the exponential to the power law one. In contrast to the
adjustment mechanism realized by a scalar field the gravitational coupling
constant in this model is time-independent and the resulting cosmology may
resemble the realistic one.Comment: 15 pages, Latex twic
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