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Analytic Results for Massless Three-Loop Form Factors
We evaluate, exactly in d, the master integrals contributing to massless
three-loop QCD form factors. The calculation is based on a combination of a
method recently suggested by one of the authors (R.L.) with other techniques:
sector decomposition implemented in FIESTA, the method of Mellin--Barnes
representation, and the PSLQ algorithm. Using our results for the master
integrals we obtain analytical expressions for two missing constants in the
ep-expansion of the two most complicated master integrals and present the form
factors in a completely analytic form.Comment: minor revisions, to appear in JHE
Four-dimensional integration by parts with differential renormalization as a method of evaluation of Feynman diagrams
It is shown how strictly four-dimensional integration by parts combined with
differential renormalization and its infrared analogue can be applied for
calculation of Feynman diagrams.Comment: 6 pages, late
Bimaximal Neutrino Mixing with Discrete Flavour Symmetries
In view of the fact that the data on neutrino mixing are still compatible
with a situation where Bimaximal mixing is valid in first approximation and it
is then corrected by terms of order of the Cabibbo angle, we present examples
where these properties are naturally realized. The models are supersymmetric in
4-dimensions and based on the discrete non-Abelian flavour symmetry S4.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure; contribution prepared for DISCRETE'10 - Symposium
on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetrie
Q2237+0305 source structure and dimensions from light curves simulation
Assuming a two-component quasar structure model consisting of a central
compact source and an extended outer feature, we produce microlensing
simulations for a population of star-like objects in the lens galaxy. Such a
model is a simplified version of that adopted to explain the brightness
variations observed in Q0957 (Schild & Vakulik 2003). The microlensing light
curves generated for a range of source parameters were compared to the light
curves obtained in the framework of the OGLE program. With a large number of
trials we built, in the domain of the source structure parameters, probability
distributions to find "good" realizations of light curves. The values of the
source parameters which provide the maximum of the joint probability
distribution calculated for all the image components, have been accepted as
estimates for the source structure parameters. The results favour the
two-component model of the quasar brightness structure over a single compact
central source model, and in general the simulations confirm the Schild-Vakulik
model that previously described successfully the microlensing and other
properties of Q0957. Adopting 3300 km/s for the transverse velocity of the
source, the effective size of the central source was determined to be about
2x10^15 cm, and Epsilon =2 was obtained for the ratio of the integral
luminosity of the outer feature to that of the central source.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, LaTe
Enhancing the conductance of a two-electron nanomechanical oscillator
We consider electron transport through a mobile island (i.e., a
nanomechanical oscillator) which can accommodate one or two excess electrons
and show that, in contrast to immobile islands, the Coulomb blockade peaks,
associated with the first and second electrons entering the island, have
different functional dependences on the nano-oscillator parameters when the
island coupling to its leads is asymmetric. In particular, the conductance for
the second electron (i.e., when the island is already charged) is greatly
enhanced in comparison to the conductance of the first electron in the presence
of an external electric field. We also analyze the temperature dependence of
the two conduction peaks and show that these exhibit different functional
behaviors.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
Asymptotic Bound-state Model for Feshbach Resonances
We present an Asymptotic Bound-state Model which can be used to accurately
describe all Feshbach resonance positions and widths in a two-body system. With
this model we determine the coupled bound states of a particular two-body
system. The model is based on analytic properties of the two-body Hamiltonian,
and on asymptotic properties of uncoupled bound states in the interaction
potentials. In its most simple version, the only necessary parameters are the
least bound state energies and actual potentials are not used. The complexity
of the model can be stepwise increased by introducing threshold effects,
multiple vibrational levels and additional potential parameters. The model is
extensively tested on the 6Li-40K system and additional calculations on the
40K-87Rb system are presented.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
Two-Loop Sudakov Form Factor in a Theory with Mass Gap
The two-loop Sudakov form factor is computed in a U(1) model with a massive
gauge boson and a model with mass gap. We analyze the result
in the context of hard and infrared evolution equations and establish a
matching procedure which relates the theories with and without mass gap setting
the stage for the complete calculation of the dominant two-loop corrections to
electroweak processes at high energy.Comment: Latex, 5 pages, 2 figures. Bernd Feucht is Bernd Jantzen in later
publications. (The contents of the paper is unchanged.
Two-Loop Iteration of Five-Point N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Amplitudes
We confirm by explicit computation the conjectured all-orders iteration of
planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the nontrivial case of
five-point two-loop amplitudes. We compute the required unitarity cuts of the
integrand and evaluate the resulting integrals numerically using a
Mellin--Barnes representation and the automated package of ref.~[1]. This
confirmation of the iteration relation provides further evidence suggesting
that N=4 gauge theory is solvable.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Scaling Limit and Critical Exponents for Two-Dimensional Bootstrap Percolation
Consider a cellular automaton with state space
where the initial configuration is chosen according to a Bernoulli
product measure, 1's are stable, and 0's become 1's if they are surrounded by
at least three neighboring 1's. In this paper we show that the configuration
at time n converges exponentially fast to a final configuration
, and that the limiting measure corresponding to is in
the universality class of Bernoulli (independent) percolation.
More precisely, assuming the existence of the critical exponents ,
, and , and of the continuum scaling limit of crossing
probabilities for independent site percolation on the close-packed version of
(i.e., for independent -percolation on ), we
prove that the bootstrapped percolation model has the same scaling limit and
critical exponents.
This type of bootstrap percolation can be seen as a paradigm for a class of
cellular automata whose evolution is given, at each time step, by a monotonic
and nonessential enhancement.Comment: 15 page
Computing the Loewner driving process of random curves in the half plane
We simulate several models of random curves in the half plane and numerically
compute their stochastic driving process (as given by the Loewner equation).
Our models include models whose scaling limit is the Schramm-Loewner evolution
(SLE) and models for which it is not. We study several tests of whether the
driving process is Brownian motion. We find that just testing the normality of
the process at a fixed time is not effective at determining if the process is
Brownian motion. Tests that involve the independence of the increments of
Brownian motion are much more effective. We also study the zipper algorithm for
numerically computing the driving function of a simple curve. We give an
implementation of this algorithm which runs in a time O(N^1.35) rather than the
usual O(N^2), where N is the number of points on the curve.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures. Changes to second version: added new paragraph
to conclusion section; improved figures cosmeticall
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