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Electroweak corrections to muon pair production in electron-positron annihilation at high energy
Abstract The lowest-order radiative corrections to the reaction e + + e − → μ + + μ − are analyzed in the standard SU(2) × U(1) electroweak theory. The virtual corrections are calculated in the on-shell renormalization scheme. The masses of the recently discovered Z-boson and W-boson are used to fix the weak coupling constants. The decay width of the Z-boson is also taken into account. By including the cross section of hard photon emission, various kinds of distribution are obtained both analytically and numerically. The magnitude of the effective axial vector coupling is confirmed to be quite different from that previously taken in the calculations within QED. This difference, which is due to the genuine electroweak corrections, reaches about 10% in angular distribution at the energy around the Z-boson mass, even if the reasonable effect of a hard photon is included.
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Calculation of Single Top Quark Production in Electron-Positron Scattering
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Automation of loop amplitudes in numerical approach
Abstract An automatic calculating system GRACE-L1 of one-loop Feynman amplitude is reviewed. This system can be applied to 2 to 2-body one-loop processes. A sample calculation of 2 to 3-body one-loop amplitudes is also presented.
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Monte Carlo Approach to Radiative Corrections in Bhabha Scattering
§ 1. lntroduction It has become a common understanding that detailed theoretical predictions for e+ e- experiments should include the radiative corrections with multi-photon contribu­ tion. A well-known example is the significant modification of the apparent cross section around the Z-boson pole at LEP.ll The study of inclusive processes with multi-photon emission has led some authors to propose several kinds of Monte Carlo generators. 2 l In a pre~ious paper 3 l we have reported a new method for the Monte Carlo generator of multi-photon and have shown some results obtained via a computer progam written for muon pair production in e+ e- annihilation. This is a QED version of the parton shower model which has been studied extensively in QCD. In this paper we generalize this method to the Bhabha scattering by employing essen­ tially the same algorithm as that for muon pair production. It will be convenient to summarize the main features of the algorithm to generate photons. We rely on the technique to sum up all the collinear singularities, which plays an essential role in the parton shower model. 4 J The present model is limited to the leading logarithmic approximation, though there is no difficulty in principle to include the next-to-leading corrections. 5 l This approximation is reasonable as the QED coupling a is very small compared with that in QCD. Another remarkable feature is that the transverse momentum distribution of produced photons is derived correctly once one imposes the four-momentum conservation at each of branching vertices. 4 l This is a consequence of the branching, e±--> e±y, being aprocess of 1--> 2 bodies.
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Full $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ electroweak radiative corrections to $e^+e^- \rightarrow e^+e^- \gamma$ at the ILC with GRACE-Loop
By using the GRACE-Loop system, we calculate the full $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ electroweak radiative corrections to the process $e^+e^- \rightarrow e^+e^- \gamma$, which is important for future investigations at the International Linear Collider (ILC). With the GRACE-Loop system, the calculations are checked numerically by three consistency tests: ultraviolet finiteness, infrared finiteness, and gauge-parameter independence. The results show good numerical stability when quadruple precision is used. In the phenomenological results, we find that the electroweak corrections to the total cross section range from $\sim -4\%$ to $\sim -21\%$ when $\sqrt{s}$ varies from $250$ GeV to $1$ TeV. The corrections also significantly affect the differential cross sections, which are a function of the invariant masses and angles and the final-particle energies. Such corrections will play an important role for the high-precision program at the ILC.
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Precise Numerical Evaluation of the Scalar One-Loop Integrals with the Infrared Divergence
We present a new approach for obtaining very precise integration results for infrared vertex and box diagrams, where the integration is carried out directly without performing any analytic integration of Feynman parameters. Using an appropriate numerical integration routine with an extrapolation method, together with a multi-precision lib rary, we have obtained integration results which agree with the analytic results to 10 digits even for such a very small photon mass as 10 150 GeV in the infrared vertex diagram.
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Forward photon energy spectrum at LHC 7 TeV p-p collisions measured by LHCf
Abstract The LHCf experiment is one of the LHC forward experiments. The aim is to measure the energy and the transverse momentum spectra of photons, neutrons and π 0 's at the very forward region (the pseudo-rapidity range of η > 8.4 ), which should be critical data to calibrate hadron interaction models used in the air shower simulations. LHCf successfully operated at s = 900 GeV and s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions in 2009 and 2010. We present the first physics result, single photon energy spectra at s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions and the pseudo-rapidity ranges of η > 10.94 and 8.81 η 8.9 . The obtained spectra were compared with the predictions by several hadron interaction models and the models do not reproduce the experimental results perfectly.
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Development of francium atomic beam for the search of the electron electric dipole moment
For the measurement of the electron electric dipole moment using Fr atoms, a Fr ion-atom conversion is one of the most critical process. An ion-atom converter based on the "orthotropic" type of Fr source has been developed. This converter is able to convert a few keV Fr ion beam to a thermal atomic beam using a cycle of the surface ionization and neutralization. In this article, the development of the converter is reported.
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An Introduction to Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries for Particle Physicists
Introduction.- Basics of Finite Groups.- Subgroups and Decompositions of Multiplets.- Anomalies.- Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetry in Quark/Lepton Flavor Models.- Useful Theorems.- Representations of S4 in Different Bases.- Representations of A4 in Different Bases.- Representations of A5 in Different Bases.- Representations of T1 in Different Bases.- Other Smaller Groups.- References.
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Production cross section measurements of radioactive isotopes by BigRIPS separator at RIKEN RI Beam Factory
Abstract We have measured the production rates and production cross sections for a variety of radioactive isotopes which were produced from 124 Xe, 48 Ca, and 238 U beams at an energy of 345 MeV/nucleon using the BigRIPS separator at the RIKEN Nishina Center RI Beam Factory (RIBF). Proton-rich isotopes with atomic numbers Z  = 40–52 and neutron-rich isotopes with Z  = 5–16 were produced by projectile fragmentation of the 124 Xe and 48 Ca beam on Be targets, respectively. Neutron-rich isotopes with Z  = 20–59 were produced by in-flight fission of the 238 U beam, in which both Be and Pb were used as production targets. The measured production rates and production cross sections were compared with those of the LISE ++ calculations, and overall fairly good agreement has been obtained. Furthermore, in the measurements with the 124 Xe beam, we have discovered four new isotopes on the proton-drip line, 85,86 Ru and 81,82 Mo, and obtained the clear evidence that 103 Sb is particle unbound with an upper limit of 49 ns for the half-life. The measurements of projectile-fragment momentum distributions have been also performed with the 124 Xe beam, in which the low-momentum tails of the distributions have been measured for the first time at the energy of 345 MeV/nucleon.
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Vacuum system for the SAMURAI spectrometer
Abstract The first commissioning experiment of the SAMURAI spectrometer and its beam line was performed in March, 2012. The vacuum system for the SAMURAI spectrometer includes its beam line and the SAMURAI vacuum chamber with the windows for detecting neutrons and charged particles. The window for neutrons was made of stainless steel with a thickness of 3 mm and was designed with a shape of partial cylinder to support itself against the atmospheric pressure. The window for charged particles was of the combination of Kevlar and Mylar with the thickness of 280 and 75 μm, respectively. The pressure in the vacuum system was at a few Pa throughout the commissioning experiment.