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Hadronic Higgs Production and Decay in Supersymmetry at Next-to-Leading Order
Supersymmetric QCD corrections to the gluonic production and decay rate of a
CP-even Higgs boson are evaluated at next-to-leading order. To this aim, we
derive an effective Lagrangian for the gluon-Higgs coupling. We show that a
consistent calculation requires the inclusion of gluino effects, in contrast to
what has been done previously. The supersymmetric corrections to the
gluon-Higgs coupling lead to a modification of the next-to-leading order
K-factor for the Higgs production rate at the LHC by less than five percent.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, 12 ps-files included. v2: Typos fixed, references
added, minor modifications. v3: Typos fixed
Non-equilibrium cluster-perturbation theory
The cluster perturbation theory (CPT) is one of the simplest but systematic
quantum cluster approaches to lattice models of strongly correlated electrons
with local interactions. By treating the inter-cluster potential, in addition
to the interactions, as a perturbation, it is shown that the CPT can be
reformulated as an all-order re-summation of diagrams within standard
weak-coupling perturbation theory where vertex corrections are neglected. This
reformulation is shown to allow for a straightforward generalization of the CPT
to the general non-equilibrium case using contour-ordered Green's functions.
Solving the resulting generalized CPT equation on the discretized
Keldysh-Matsubara time contour, the transient dynamics of an essentially
arbitrary initial pure or mixed state can be traced. In this way, the
time-dependent expectation values of one-particle observables can be obtained
within an approximation that neglects spatial correlations beyond the extension
of the reference cluster. The necessary computational effort is very moderate.
A detailed discussion and simple test calculations are presented to demonstrate
the strengths and the shortcomings of the proposed approach. The
non-equilibrium CPT is systematic and is controlled in principle by the inverse
cluster size. It interpolates between the non-interacting and the atomic or
decoupled-cluster limit which are recovered exactly and is found to predict the
correct dynamics at very short times in a general non-trivial case. The effects
of initial-state correlations on the subsequent dynamics and the necessity to
extend the Keldysh contour by the imaginary Matsubara branch are analyzed
carefully and demonstrated numerically. It is furthermore shown that the
approach can describe the dissipation of spin and charge to an uncorrelated
bath with an essentially arbitrary number of degrees of freedom.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment
Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major soccer competitions we cannot replicate their result. Teams kicking first win only 53.4% of 262 shootouts in our data, which is not significantly different from random. Our findings have two implications: (1) Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta’s results are not generally robust. (2) Using specific subsamples without a coherent criterion for data selection might lead to non-representative findings
Reply to [arXiv:1201.5347] "Comment on 'Vortex-assisted photon counts and their magnetic field dependence in single-photon superconducting detectors'"
We argue that cutoff in the London model cannot be settled without use of the
microscopic theory
A Shortcut to the Q-Operator
Baxter's Q-operator is generally believed to be the most powerful tool for
the exact diagonalization of integrable models. Curiously, it has hitherto not
yet been properly constructed in the simplest such system, the compact spin-1/2
Heisenberg-Bethe XXX spin chain. Here we attempt to fill this gap and show how
two linearly independent operatorial solutions to Baxter's TQ equation may be
constructed as commuting transfer matrices if a twist field is present. The
latter are obtained by tracing over infinitely many oscillator states living in
the auxiliary channel of an associated monodromy matrix. We furthermore compare
and differentiate our approach to earlier articles addressing the problem of
the construction of the Q-operator for the XXX chain. Finally we speculate on
the importance of Q-operators for the physical interpretation of recent
proposals for the Y-system of AdS/CFT.Comment: 41 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added; v3: version published in
J. Stat. Mec
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