118565514
Holographic monopole catalysis of baryon decay
We study how monopole catalysis of baryon decay is realized in holographic QCD. Physics of monopole catalysis becomes much simpler in holographic description as it occurs due to the violation of the Bianchi identity for the 5D gauge symmetry when magnetic monopole is present. In holographic QCD we find a unified picture of the baryon number violation under magnetic monopole or electroweak sphaleron, giving a new mechanism of baryon number violation. We also embed our set-up in the string theory model by Sakai and Sugimoto.
119199828
The general M5-brane superconformal index
We calculate and study the general superconformal index for the 6d U(N) (2,0) theory with four chemical potentials, from the indices of gauge theories on CP^2 x R. Our index agrees with the large N supergravity index on AdS_7 x S^4 at low energies, and also yields the negative 'Casimir energy' with an N^3 scaling which was recently calculated from a QFT on S^5. Our approach also suggests a systematic study of the (1,0) superconformal indices.
119250832
New BPS configurations of BMN matrix theory
We explore the 1/2 BPS configurations in BMN matrix theory with SO(3) angular momentum of SO(3) × SO(6) symmetry. The fluctuation analysis of the BPS configurations near the abelian solutions and also the fuzzy two sphere vacua reveals how nonabelian BPS configurations emerge. Especially the irreducible nonabelian configurations seem to have the maximal angular momentum of order N3, beyond which they collapse to abelian ones. We also find some new BPS configurations explicitly.
7063414
Mass-Deformed Bagger-Lambert Theory and its BPS Objects
We find a 16-supersymmetric mass-deformed Bagger-Lambert theory with SO(4)xSO(4) global R symmetry. The R charge plays the role of the noncentral term in the superalgebra. This theory has one symmetric vacuum and two inequivalent broken sectors of vacua. Each sector of the broken symmetry has SO(4) geometry. We find the 1/2 BPS domain walls connecting the symmetric phase and any broken phase, and 1/4 BPS supertubelike objects, which may appear as anyonic q-balls in the symmetric phase or vortices in the broken phase. We also discuss mass deformations, which reduce the number of supersymmetries.
11205361
The CP(n) model on noncommutative plane
We construct the consistent CP(n) model on noncommutative plane. The Bogomolny bound on the energy is saturated by (anti-)self-dual solitons with integer topological charge, which is independent of their scaling and orientation. This integer quantization is satisfied for our general solutions, which turns out regular everywhere. We discuss the possible implication of our result to the instanton physics in Yang–Mills theories on noncommutative R4.
29030259
Magnetic monopole with Wilson-loop symmetry breaking.
A nonsingular classical magnetic-monopole solution is obtained in a theory with Wilson-loop symmetry breaking. The solution is used to elucidate the quantization rules governing the magnetic charge, which are more restrictive than those for Higgs monopoles.
119293528
CP violation in tau decays
CP violation of the charged lepton sector has not been found yet. Tau is a unique charged lepton which can decay into hadrons. In this talk, we argue what kind of new physics can be studied with CP violation of tau lepton decays. We also disucuss how to handle hadronic final state interactions for a prediction of the direct CP violation.
117725824
Dynamical Evolution and Particle Production in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
We present an overview of the different stages in the dynamical evolution of relativistic nuclear collisions, from the entropy generating initial pre-equilibrium stage through the hydrodynamic expansion phase to particle freeze-out. We discuss the various theoretical models which have been applied to these different stages, and compare their predictions with the recent results from heavy-ion experiments at CERN and Brookhaven. Particular attention is given to the possible formation and subsequent hadronization of a quark-gluon plasma in these collisions. The observed strange particle abundancies are interpreted as an indication for chemical equilibration in nuclear collisions, and the particle momentum spectra are analyzed for signs of collective expansion flow.
119242266
Stringy unification of type IIA and IIB supergravities under N=2 D=10 supersymmetric double field theory
Abstract To the full order in fermions, we construct D = 10 type II supersymmetric double field theory. We spell the precise N = 2 supersymmetry transformation rules as for 32 supercharges. The constructed action unifies type IIA and IIB supergravities in a manifestly covariant manner with respect to O ( 10 , 10 ) T-duality and a pair of local Lorentz groups, or Spin ( 1 , 9 ) × Spin ( 9 , 1 ) , besides the usual general covariance of supergravities or the generalized diffeomorphism. While the theory is unique, the solutions are twofold. Type IIA and IIB supergravities are identified as two different types of solutions rather than two different theories.
119274952
Lepton flavor violation in a nonuniversal gauge interaction model
The flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC) are derived at tree level if the electroweak gauge group depends on the fermion family, which are absent in the standard model. We study the lepton flavor violation through the FCNC interactions in a nonuniversal gauge interaction model where the third generation fermions are subjected to the separate SU(2){sub L} gauge group.
16963420
Evolution equation for the heavy quark distribution function in the parton model approach
We explore the perturbative QCD corrections to the inclusive semileptonic decays of $B$ mesons. In inclusive $B$ decay processes the parton picture works well and the scaling feature manifests because the mass of $b$ quark is larger than the QCD scale. Due to this property, the decay rate may be expressed by a single structure function describing the light-cone distribution of $b$ quark apart from the kinematic factor. We derive a $q^2$ evolution equation for the distribution function, which violates the scaling property through the Altarelli-Parisi type approach. The evolution equation is numerically solved and its phenomenological implications are also discussed.