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Three dimensional field theories from infinite dimensional lie algebras
A procedure for constructing topological actions from centrally extended Lie
groups is introduced. For a \km\ group, this produces \3al \cs, while for the
\vir\ group the result is a new \3al \tft\ whose physical states satisfy the
\vir\ \wi. This \tft\ is shown to be a first order formulation of two
dimensional induced gravity in the chiral gauge. The extension to -gravity
is discussed.Comment: 11 pages, USC-92/01
A classical N=4 super W_3 algebra
I construct classical superextensions of the Virasoro algebra by employing
the Ward identities of a linearly realized subalgebra. For the
superconformal algebra, this subalgebra is generated by the
supercurrent and a spin~0 superfield. I show that this structure can be
extended to an super algebra, and give the complete form of this
algebra.Comment: 15 pages, USC/92-02
Prospects for New Physics in CP Violation and Rare Decays at LHCb
LHCb is the heavy flavour precision experiment of the proton-proton Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It will search for new physics in CP violation
and rare decays and is ready for the start-up of the LHC. An overview of its
physics program will be given, illustrated by few key examples: measurements of
the CKM angle , of the CP violating phase in
oscillations and searches for new physics in and in
.Comment: PANIC08 conference proceedings, 3 page
Status and expected performance of the LHCb experiment
LHCb is a dedicated b-physics experiment at the future LHC collider. Its
construction has started and it will be ready to take data from the start of
LHC operation, scheduled in 2007, and directly at its full physics potential.
LHCb will benefit from an unprecedented source of b-hadrons, provided by LHC,
to improve substantialy precision measurements of CP violation parameters in
many different and complementary channels. The detector provides good particle
identification, vertexing and has an efficient and flexible trigger. Its status
and expected performance are reviewed.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of 6th International
Conference on Hyperons, Charm & Beauty Hadrons, Chicago, United States, June
27 -- July 3 200
b Physics
A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is
presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings,
lifetimes, B0-B0bar oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the
number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |V_{td}|, |V_{cb}|, |V_{ub}|
and implication for |V_{ts}| are discussed.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures, Second Latin American Symposium on High Energy
Physics, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 199
Computational Particle Physics for Event Generators and Data Analysis
High-energy physics data analysis relies heavily on the comparison between
experimental and simulated data as stressed lately by the Higgs search at LHC
and the recent identification of a Higgs-like new boson. The first link in the
full simulation chain is the event generation both for background and for
expected signals. Nowadays event generators are based on the automatic
computation of matrix element or amplitude for each process of interest.
Moreover, recent analysis techniques based on the matrix element likelihood
method assign probabilities for every event to belong to any of a given set of
possible processes. This method originally used for the top mass measurement,
although computing intensive, has shown its power at LHC to extract the new
boson signal from the background.
Serving both needs, the automatic calculation of matrix element is therefore
more than ever of prime importance for particle physics. Initiated in the
eighties, the techniques have matured for the lowest order calculations
(tree-level), but become complex and CPU time consuming when higher order
calculations involving loop diagrams are necessary like for QCD processes at
LHC. New calculation techniques for next-to-leading order (NLO) have surfaced
making possible the generation of processes with many final state particles (up
to 6). If NLO calculations are in many cases under control, although not yet
fully automatic, even higher precision calculations involving processes at
2-loops or more remain a big challenge.
After a short introduction to particle physics and to the related theoretical
framework, we will review some of the computing techniques that have been
developed to make these calculations automatic. The main available packages and
some of the most important applications for simulation and data analysis, in
particular at LHC will also be summarized.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, Proceedings of CCP (Conference on Computational
Physics) Oct. 2012, Osaka (Japan) in IOP Journal of Physics: Conference
Serie
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