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New Spectroscopy with Charm and Beauty Multiquark States
Exotic charmonium and bottonomium resonances recently discovered are
discussed and interpreted as diquark-antidiquark states containing a pair of
charm quarks and a pair of light, up and down, quarks. Successes, shortcomings
and predictions of the model are illustrated.Comment: Talk given at the Erice School of Subnuclear Physics, June 30, 2013,
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Science and Culture, Erice, Ital
The GIM Mechanism: origin, predictions and recent uses
The GIM Mechanism was introduced by Sheldon L. Glashow, John Iliopoulos and
Luciano Maiani in 1970, to explain the suppression of Delta S=1, 2 neutral
current processes and is an important element of the unified theories of the
weak and electromagnetic interactions. Origin, predictions and uses of the GIM
Mechanism are illustrated. Flavor changing neutral current processes (FCNC)
represent today an important benchmark for the Standard Theory and give strong
limitations to theories that go beyond ST in the few TeV region. Ideas on the
ways constraints on FCNC may be imposed are briefly described.Comment: Opening Talk, Rencontres de Moriond, EW Interactions and Unified
Theories, La Thuile, Valle d'Aosta, Italia, 2-9 March, 201
Non-Perturbative Renormalisation and Kaon Physics
A general review is presented on the problem of non perturbative computation
of the transition amplitude.Comment: 8 pages, Latex, uses espcrc2.sty, Talk given at LATTICE9
Concluding Remarks: the Scientist that Lived Three Times
The highlights of the conference: The Legacy of Bruno Pontecorvo: the
Scientist and the Man, held in Roma, Universit\`a La Sapienza, 11-12 September,
2013, are summarised and illustrated
The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958-1993)
Personal recollections on theoretical particle physics in the years when the
Standard Theory was formed. In the background, the remarkable development of
Italian theoretical physics in the second part of the last century, with great
personalities like Bruno Touschek, Raoul Gatto, Nicola Cabibbo and their
schools.Comment: 53 pages, 12 figures, to be published in The European Physical
Journal H. New version with added text and figure
More loosely bound hadron molecules at CDF?
In a recent paper we have proposed a method to estimate the prompt production
cross section of X(3872) at the Tevatron assuming that this particle is a
loosely bound molecule of a D and a D*bar meson. Under this hypothesis we find
that it is impossible to explain the high prompt production cross section found
by CDF at sigma(X(3872)) \sim 30-70 nb as our theoretical prediction is about
300 times smaller than the measured one. Following our work, Artoisenet and
Braaten, have suggested that final state interactions in the DD*bar system
might be so strong to push the result we obtained for the cross section up to
the experimental value. Relying on their conclusions we show that the
production of another very narrow loosely bound molecule, the X_s=D_s D_s*bar,
could be similarly enhanced. X_s should then be detectable at CDF with a mass
of 4080 MeV and a prompt production cross section of sigma(X_s) \sim 1-3 nb.Comment: Minor revisions made. To appear in Phys Lett
Bounds to the Higgs Sector Masses in Minimal Supersymmetry from LHC Data
We update our analysis of the Higgs sector masses in Minimal Supersymmetry
and in the Two-Higgs Doublet Model to the final ATLAS and CMS data from the
2011-2012 LHC run.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, comments added, references update
Further discussions on a possible lattice chiral gauge theory
In a possible lattice chiral gauge theory with a large multifermion
coupling, we try to further clarify the threshold phenomenon: the possibility
that the right-handed three-fermion state turns into the virtual states of its
constituents (free chiral fermions) in the low-energy limit. Provided this
phenomenon occurs, we discuss the chiral gauge coupling, Ward identities and
the gauge anomaly within the gauge-invariant prescription of the perturbative
chiral gauge theory.Comment: LaTex 14 pages, to appear in Phys. Lett.
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