911 research outputs found
Production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs Bososn at LEP200
We collect and update theoretical predictions for the production rate and
decay branching fractions of the Standard Model Higgs boson that will be
relevant for the Higgs search at LEP200. We make full use of the present
knowledge of radiative corrections. We estimate the systematics arising from
theoretical and experimental uncertainties.Comment: 27 page
Formation of superdense hadronic matter in high energy heavy-ion collisions
We present the detail of a newly developed relativistic transport model (ART
1.0) for high energy heavy-ion collisions. Using this model, we first study the
general collision dynamics between heavy ions at the AGS energies. We then show
that in central collisions there exists a large volume of sufficiently
long-lived superdense hadronic matter whose local baryon and energy densities
exceed the critical densities for the hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma
transition. The size and lifetime of this matter are found to depend strongly
on the equation of state. We also investigate the degree and time scale of
thermalization as well as the radial flow during the expansion of the
superdense hadronic matter. The flow velocity profile and the temperature of
the hadronic matter at freeze-out are extracted. The transverse momentum and
rapidity distributions of protons, pions and kaons calculated with and without
the mean field are compared with each other and also with the preliminary data
from the E866/E802 collaboration to search for experimental observables that
are sensitive to the equation of state. It is found that these inclusive,
single particle observables depend weakly on the equation of state. The
difference between results obtained with and without the nuclear mean field is
only about 20\%. The baryon transverse collective flow in the reaction plane is
also analyzed. It is shown that both the flow parameter and the strength of the
``bounce-off'' effect are very sensitive to the equation of state. In
particular, a soft equation of state with a compressibility of 200 MeV results
in an increase of the flow parameter by a factor of 2.5 compared to the cascade
case without the mean field. This large effect makes it possible to distinguish
the predictions from different theoretical models and to detect the signaturesComment: 55 pages, latex, + 39 figures available upon reques
Near-threshold Production in Heavy-ion Collisions
Within a hadronic transport model we study in detail contributions to kaon
yields and momentum spectra from various baryon (resonance)-baryon (resonance)
and interactions in heavy-ion collisions at beam energies near the
free-space kaon production threshold. It is found that the finite lifetime of
baryon resonances affects significantly the shape of kaon spectra, and the high
energy parts of the kaon spectra are dominated by kaons from processes. resonances are found to contribute
about 10\% to the kaon yield. Effects of boosting the Fermi momentum
distributions of the two colliding nuclei into their center of mass frame,
centrality of the reaction as well as the nuclear equation of state on kaon
yields and spectra are also discussed. Model calculations on ,
and spectra for the reaction of Au+Au at GeV are
compared with the experimental data from the KaoS collaboration.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures available upon request. TAMU preprint #940403
Chaos and Preheating
We show evidence for a relationship between chaos and parametric resonance
both in a classical system and in the semiclassical process of particle
creation. We apply our considerations in a toy model for preheating after
inflation.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures; uses epsfig and revtex v3.1. Matches version
accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
“Trunk-like” heavy ion structures observed by the Van Allen Probes
Dynamic ion spectral features in the inner magnetosphere are the observational signatures of ion acceleration, transport, and loss in the global magnetosphere. We report “trunk-like” ion structures observed by the Van Allen Probes on 2 November 2012. This new type of ion structure looks like an elephant's trunk on an energy-time spectrogram, with the energy of the peak flux decreasing Earthward. The trunks are present in He+ and O+ ions but not in H+. During the event, ion energies in the He+ trunk, located at L = 3.6–2.6, magnetic local time (MLT) = 9.1–10.5, and magnetic latitude (MLAT) = −2.4–0.09°, vary monotonically from 3.5 to 0.04 keV. The values at the two end points of the O+ trunk are energy = 4.5–0.7 keV, L = 3.6–2.5, MLT = 9.1–10.7, and MLAT = −2.4–0.4°. Results from backward ion drift path tracings indicate that the trunks are likely due to (1) a gap in the nightside ion source or (2) greatly enhanced impulsive electric fields associated with elevated geomagnetic activity. Different ion loss lifetimes cause the trunks to differ among ion species
Biharmonic pattern selection
A new model to describe fractal growth is discussed which includes effects
due to long-range coupling between displacements . The model is based on the
biharmonic equation in two-dimensional isotropic defect-free
media as follows from the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation for pattern formation
-or, alternatively, from the theory of elasticity. As a difference with
Laplacian and Poisson growth models, in the new model the Laplacian of is
neither zero nor proportional to . Its discretization allows to reproduce a
transition from dense to multibranched growth at a point in which the growth
velocity exhibits a minimum similarly to what occurs within Poisson growth in
planar geometry. Furthermore, in circular geometry the transition point is
estimated for the simplest case from the relation
such that the trajectories become stable at the growing surfaces in a
continuous limit. Hence, within the biharmonic growth model, this transition
depends only on the system size and occurs approximately at a distance far from a central seed particle. The influence of biharmonic patterns on
the growth probability for each lattice site is also analysed.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev. E. Copies upon request to
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Universality in two-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth
We analyze simulations results of a model proposed for etching of a
crystalline solid and results of other discrete models in the 2+1-dimensional
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class. In the steady states, the moments W_n of
orders n=2,3,4 of the heights distribution are estimated. Results for the
etching model, the ballistic deposition (BD) model and the
temperature-dependent body-centered restricted solid-on-solid model (BCSOS)
suggest the universality of the absolute value of the skewness S = W_3 /
(W_2)^(3/2) and of the value of the kurtosis Q = W_4 / (W_2)^2 - 3. The sign of
the skewness is the same of the parameter \lambda of the KPZ equation which
represents the process in the continuum limit. The best numerical estimates,
obtained from the etching model, are |S| = 0.26 +- 0.01 and Q = 0.134 +- 0.015.
For this model, the roughness exponent \alpha = 0.383 +- 0.008 is obtained,
accounting for a constant correction term (intrinsic width) in the scaling of
the squared interface width. This value is slightly below previous estimates of
extensive simulations and rules out the proposal of the exact value \alpha=2/5.
The conclusion is supported by results for the ballistic deposition model.
Independent estimates of the dynamical exponent and of the growth exponent are
1.605 <= z <= 1.64 and \beta = 0.229 +- 0.005, respectively, which are
consistent with the relations \alpha + z = 2 and z = \alpha / \beta.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Soft, collinear and non-relativistic modes in radiative decays of very heavy quarkonium
We analyze the end-point region of the photon spectrum in semi-inclusive
radiative decays of very heavy quarkonium (m alpha_s^2 >> Lambda_QCD). We
discuss the interplay of the scales arising in the Soft-Collinear Effective
Theory, m, m(1-z)^{1/2} and m(1-z) for z close to 1, with the scales of heavy
quarkonium systems in the weak coupling regime, m, m alpha_s and m alpha_s^2.
For 1-z \sim alpha_s^2 only collinear and (ultra)soft modes are seen to be
relevant, but the recently discovered soft-collinear modes show up for 1-z <<
alpha_s^2. The S- and P-wave octet shape functions are calculated. When they
are included in the analysis of the photon spectrum of the Upsilon (1S) system,
the agreement with data in the end-point region becomes excellent. The NRQCD
matrix elements and
are also obtained.Comment: Revtex, 11 pages, 6 figures. Minor improvements and references added.
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Supersymmetry and Integrability in Planar Mechanical Systems
We present an N=2-supersymmetric mechanical system whose bosonic sector, with
two degrees of freedom, stems from the reduction of an SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
with the assumption of spatially homogeneous field configurations and a
particular ansatz imposed on the gauge potentials in the dimensional reduction
procedure. The Painleve test is adopted to discuss integrability and we focus
on the role of supersymmetry and parity invariance in two space dimensions for
the attainment of integrable or chaotic models. Our conclusion is that the
relationships among the parameters imposed by supersymmetry seem to drastically
reduce the number of possibilities for integrable interaction potentials of the
mechanical system under consideration.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figure
Contractions, deformations and curvature
The role of curvature in relation with Lie algebra contractions of the
pseudo-ortogonal algebras so(p,q) is fully described by considering some
associated symmetrical homogeneous spaces of constant curvature within a
Cayley-Klein framework. We show that a given Lie algebra contraction can be
interpreted geometrically as the zero-curvature limit of some underlying
homogeneous space with constant curvature. In particular, we study in detail
the contraction process for the three classical Riemannian spaces (spherical,
Euclidean, hyperbolic), three non-relativistic (Newtonian) spacetimes and three
relativistic ((anti-)de Sitter and Minkowskian) spacetimes. Next, from a
different perspective, we make use of quantum deformations of Lie algebras in
order to construct a family of spaces of non-constant curvature that can be
interpreted as deformations of the above nine spaces. In this framework, the
quantum deformation parameter is identified as the parameter that controls the
curvature of such "quantum" spaces.Comment: 17 pages. Based on the talk given in the Oberwolfach workshop:
Deformations and Contractions in Mathematics and Physics (Germany, january
2006) organized by M. de Montigny, A. Fialowski, S. Novikov and M.
Schlichenmaie
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