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Probing the Top-Quark Electric Dipole Moment at a Photon Linear Collider
We probe the top-quark electric dipole moment (EDM) in top-quark pair
production via photon-photon fusion at a photon linear collider. We show how
linearly-polarized photon beams can be used to extract information on the
top-quark EDM without the use of complicated angular correlations of top-quark
decay products. If the luminosity of the laser back-scattered photon-photon
collisions is comparable to that of the collisions, then the
measurement of the top-quark EDM obtained by counting top-quark-production
events in photon fusion can be as accurate as the measurement obtained by
studying the decay correlations in collisions using a
perfect detector.Comment: Latex, 11 pages, 1 figure (not included). One compressed postscript
file of the paper available at
ftp://ftp.kek.jp/kek/preprints/TH/TH-443/kekth443.ps.g
Elementary operations for quantum logic with a single trapped two-level cold ion beyond Lamb-Dicke limit
A simple alternative scheme for implementing quantum gates with a single
trapped cold two-level ion beyond the Lamb-Dicke (LD) limit is proposed. Basing
on the quantum dynamics for the laser-ion interaction described by a
generalized Jaynes-Cummings model, one can introduce two kinds of elementary
quantum operations i.e., the simple rotation on the bare atomic state,
generated by applying a resonant pulse, and the joint operation on the internal
and external degrees of the ion, performed by using an off-resonant pulse.
Several typical quantum gates, including Hadamard gate, controlled-Z and
controlled-NOT gates , can thus be implemented exactly by using these
elementary operations. The experimental parameters including the LD parameter
and the durations of the applied laser pulses, for these implementation are
derived analytically and numerically. Neither the LD approximation for the
laser-ion interaction nor the auxiliary atomic level is needed in the present
scheme.Comment: 5 pages, no figure, to appear in Opt. Com
An algorithm to obtain global solutions of the double confluent Heun equation
A procedure is proposed to construct solutions of the double confluent Heun
equation with a determinate behaviour at the singular points. The connection
factors are expressed as quotients of Wronskians of the involved solutions.
Asymptotic expansions are used in the computation of those Wronskians. The
feasibility of the method is shown in an example, namely, the Schroedinger
equation with a quasi-exactly-solvable potential
CP asymmetry in the Higgs decay into the top pair due to the stop mixing
We investigate a potentially large CP violating asymmetry in the decay of a
neutral scalar or pseudoscalar Higgs boson into the top-anti-top pair. The
source of the CP nonconservation is the complex mixing in the (left-right) stop
sector. One of the interesting consequence is the different rates of the Higgs
boson decays into CP conjugate polarized states.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures include
Exchange interactions and Curie temperature in (GaMn)As
We use supercell and frozen-magnon approaches to study the dependence of the
magnetic interactions in (Ga,Mn)As on the Mn concentration. We report the
parameters of the exchange interaction between Mn spins and the estimates of
the Curie temperature within the mean-field and random-phase approximations. In
agreement with experiment we obtain a nonmonotonous dependence of the Curie
temperature on the Mn concentration. We estimate the dependence of the Curie
temperature on the concentration of the carries in the system and show that the
decrease of the number of holes in the valence band leads to fast decrease of
the Curie temperature. We show that the hole states of the valence band are
more efficient in mediating the exchange interaction between Mn spins than the
electron states of the conduction band
T-odd Gluon-Top-Quark Effective Couplings at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
The T-odd top-quark chromoelectric dipole moment (tCEDM) is probed through
top-quark-pair production via gluon fusion at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) by considering the possibility of having polarized protons. The complete
analytic expressions for the tree-level helicity amplitudes of gg-> ttbar is
also presented. For the derived analytic results we determine the 1-sigma
statistical sensitivities to the tCEDM form factor for (i) typical CP-odd
observables composed of lepton and anti-lepton momenta from t and tbar
semileptonic decays for unpolarized protons, and (ii) a CP-odd event asymmetry
for polarized protons by using the so-called Berger-Qiu (BQ) parametrization of
polarized gluon distribution functions. We find that at the CERN LHC, the
CP-odd energy and angular correlations can put a limit of 10^{-18} to 10^{-17}
g_scm on the real and imaginary parts of the tCEDM, while the simple CP-odd
event asymmetry with polarized protons could put a very strong limit of
10^{-20} g_scm on the imaginary part of the tCEDM.Comment: 14 pages(LaTeX), 1 Postscript figure(use epsfig.sty
Equidistribution of zeros of holomorphic sections in the non compact setting
We consider N-tensor powers of a positive Hermitian line bundle L over a
non-compact complex manifold X. In the compact case, B. Shiffman and S.
Zelditch proved that the zeros of random sections become asymptotically
uniformly distributed with respect to the natural measure coming from the
curvature of L, as N tends to infinity. Under certain boundedness assumptions
on the curvature of the canonical line bundle of X and on the Chern form of L
we prove a non-compact version of this result. We give various applications,
including the limiting distribution of zeros of cusp forms with respect to the
principal congruence subgroups of SL2(Z) and to the hyperbolic measure, the
higher dimensional case of arithmetic quotients and the case of orthogonal
polynomials with weights at infinity. We also give estimates for the speed of
convergence of the currents of integration on the zero-divisors.Comment: 25 pages; v.2 is a final update to agree with the published pape
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC
One of the major goals of the Large Hadron Collider is to probe the
electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism and the generation of the masses of the
elementary particles. We review the physics of the Higgs sector in the Standard
Model and some of its extensions such as supersymmetric theories and models of
extra dimensions. The prospects for discovering the Higgs particles at the LHC
and the study of their fundamental properties are summarised.Comment: 27 pages, 45 figures, uses LaTeX (insa.sty). Invited review for
volume on LHC physics to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian
National Science Academy, edited by Amitava Datta, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and
Amitava Raychaudhuri. Expanded the acronym in the title in the annoncement.
No other change in the text or reference
Narrow ridge waveguide high power single mode 1.3-μm InAs/InGaAs ten-layer quantum dot lasers
Ten-layer InAs/In0.15Ga0.85As quantum dot (QD) laser structures have been grown using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on GaAs (001) substrate. Using the pulsed anodic oxidation technique, narrow (2 μm) ridge waveguide (RWG) InAs QD lasers have been fabricated. Under continuous wave operation, the InAs QD laser (2 × 2,000 μm2) delivered total output power of up to 272.6 mW at 10 °C at 1.3 μm. Under pulsed operation, where the device heating is greatly minimized, the InAs QD laser (2 × 2,000 μm2) delivered extremely high output power (both facets) of up to 1.22 W at 20 °C, at high external differential quantum efficiency of 96%. Far field pattern measurement of the 2-μm RWG InAs QD lasers showed single lateral mode operation
Shrinking a large dataset to identify variables associated with increased risk of Plasmodium falciparum infection in Western Kenya
Large datasets are often not amenable to analysis using traditional single-step approaches. Here, our general objective was to apply imputation techniques, principal component analysis (PCA), elastic net and generalized linear models to a large dataset in a systematic approach to extract the most meaningful predictors for a health outcome. We extracted predictors for Plasmodium falciparum infection, from a large covariate dataset while facing limited numbers of observations, using data from the People, Animals, and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project to demonstrate these techniques: data collected from 415 homesteads in western Kenya, contained over 1500 variables that describe the health, environment, and social factors of the humans, livestock, and the homesteads in which they reside. The wide, sparse dataset was simplified to 42 predictors of P. falciparum malaria infection and wealth rankings were produced for all homesteads. The 42 predictors make biological sense and are supported by previous studies. This systematic data-mining approach we used would make many large datasets more manageable and informative for decision-making processes and health policy prioritization
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