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U-Spin Tests of the Standard Model and New Physics
Within the standard model, a relation involving branching ratios and direct
CP asymmetries holds for the B-decay pairs that are related by U-spin. The
violation of this relation indicates new physics (NP). In this paper, we assume
that the NP affects only the Delta S = 1 decays, and show that the NP operators
are generally the same as those appearing in B -> pi K decays. The fit to the
latest B -> pi K data shows that only one NP operator is sizeable. As a
consequence, the relation is expected to be violated for only one decay pair:
Bd -> K0 pi0 and Bs -> Kbar0 pi0.Comment: 12 pages, latex, no figures. References changed to follow MPL
guidelines; info added about U-spin breaking and small NP strong phases;
discussion added about final-state pi-K rescattering; analysis and
conclusions unaltere
Summary of Experimental Meson Physics
A summary of the present experimental status of meson physics is presented.
The presentation includes the new results presented at the MESON06 workshop, as
well as other recent experimental developments in the field.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, presented at 9th International Workshop on Meson
Production, Properties and Interaction, Krakow, Poland, June 200
Magnetic Excitations of Stripes Near a Quantum Critical Point
We calculate the dynamical spin structure factor of spin waves for weakly
coupled stripes. At low energy, the spin wave cone intensity is strongly peaked
on the inner branches. As energy is increased, there is a saddlepoint followed
by a square-shaped continuum rotated 45 degree from the low energy peaks. This
is reminiscent of recent high energy neutron scattering data on the cuprates.
The similarity at high energy between this semiclassical treatment and quantum
fluctuations in spin ladders may be attributed to the proximity of a quantum
critical point with a small critical exponent .Comment: 4+ pages, 5 figures, published versio
Magnetic Excitations of Stripes and Checkerboards in the Cuprates
We discuss the magnetic excitations of well-ordered stripe and checkerboard
phases, including the high energy magnetic excitations of recent interest and
possible connections to the "resonance peak" in cuprate superconductors. Using
a suitably parametrized Heisenberg model and spin wave theory, we study a
variety of magnetically ordered configurations, including vertical and diagonal
site- and bond-centered stripes and simple checkerboards. We calculate the
expected neutron scattering intensities as a function of energy and momentum.
At zero frequency, the satellite peaks of even square-wave stripes are
suppressed by as much as a factor of 34 below the intensity of the main
incommensurate peaks. We further find that at low energy, spin wave cones may
not always be resolvable experimentally. Rather, the intensity as a function of
position around the cone depends strongly on the coupling across the stripe
domain walls. At intermediate energy, we find a saddlepoint at for
a range of couplings, and discuss its possible connection to the "resonance
peak" observed in neutron scattering experiments on cuprate superconductors. At
high energy, various structures are possible as a function of coupling strength
and configuration, including a high energy square-shaped continuum originally
attributed to the quantum excitations of spin ladders. On the other hand, we
find that simple checkerboard patterns are inconsistent with experimental
results from neutron scattering.Comment: 11 pages, 13 figures, for high-res figs, see
http://physics.bu.edu/~yaodx/spinwave2/spinw2.htm
Radiative penguin Bs decays at Belle
We report searches for the radiative penguin decays Bs to phi gamma and Bs to
gamma gamma based on a 23.6 fb-1 data sample collected with the Belle detector
at the KEKB e+e- energy-asymmetric collider operating at the Upsilon(5S)
resonance.Comment: On behalf of the Belle Collaboration. To appear in the proceedings of
the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics
(EPS-HEP2007), Manchester, England, 19-25 July 2007. 3 pages, 2 figure
The XYZs of Charmonium at BES
This contribution reviews some recent developments in charmonium
spectroscopy, and discusses related theoretical predictions. The spectrum of
states, strong decays of states above open charm threshold, electromagnetic
transitions, and issues related to the recent discoveries of the "XYZ" states
are discussed. Contributions that BES can make to our understanding of
charmonium and related states are stressed in particular.Comment: 5 pages, 1 eps figure. Invited contribution to the International
Workshop on Tau-Charm Physics Charm2006 (5-7 June 2006, Beijing, China
Nondecoupling of Heavy Fermions and a Special Yukawa Texture
Talk based on work entitled ``Yukawa textures, new physics and
nondecoupling,'' done in collaboration with G. C. Branco and J. I.
Silva-Marcos, arXiv:hep-ph/0612252, to appear in Phys. Rev. D. In this work we
pointed out that New Physics can play an important r\^ ole in rescuing some of
the Yukawa texture zero ans\" atze which would otherwise be eliminated by the
recent, more precise measurements of . We have shown that the presence
of an isosinglet vector-like quark which mixes with standard quarks, can render
viable a particularly interesting four texture zero Yukawa ansatz. The crucial
point is the nondecoupling of the effects of the isosinglet quark, even for
arbitrary large values of its mass.Comment: Invited talk at CTP Symposium on Supersymmetry at LHC: Theoretical
and Experimental Prospectives, Cairo, Egypt, 11-14 Mar 200
CP asymmetries at D0
Using two independent measurements of the semileptonic CP asymmetry in the
system, we constrain the CP violating phase of the system to be
. The data sample corresponds to an integrated
luminosity of 1.1 fb accumulated with D0 detector at the Fermilab
Tevatron collider. We also measure the direct CP violating asymmetry in the
decay to be (stat)(syst). The data corresponds to an integrated
luminosity of 1.6 fb.Comment: contributed paper to EPS07, Manchester, UK, manuscript number
EPSHEPP17
Exploring Deep Space: Learning Personalized Ranking in a Semantic Space
Recommender systems leverage both content and user interactions to generate
recommendations that fit users' preferences. The recent surge of interest in
deep learning presents new opportunities for exploiting these two sources of
information. To recommend items we propose to first learn a user-independent
high-dimensional semantic space in which items are positioned according to
their substitutability, and then learn a user-specific transformation function
to transform this space into a ranking according to the user's past
preferences. An advantage of the proposed architecture is that it can be used
to effectively recommend items using either content that describes the items or
user-item ratings. We show that this approach significantly outperforms
state-of-the-art recommender systems on the MovieLens 1M dataset.Comment: 6 pages, RecSys 2016 RSDL worksho
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