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A quantum gravitational model of redshifts
The main features of an alternative model of redshifts are described here. The model is based on conjectures about an existence of the graviton background with the Planckian spectrum and a super-strong character of quantum gravitational interaction. This model is connected with the assumed quantum mechanism of gravity. A behavior of two theoretical functions of a redshift $z$ in this model - the geometrical distance $r(z)$ and the luminosity distance $D_{L}(z)$ - and an existence of two different cosmological horizons for any observer are discussed.
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A few remarks about the Pioneer anomaly
Some features of the Pioneer anomaly are discussed in context of author’s explanation of this effect as a deceleration of the probes in the graviton background. It is noted that if the model is true then the best parameter of the anomalous acceleration should be not the distance to the Sun but a cosine of the angle between a velocity of the probe and its radius-vector.
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Small effects of low-energy quantum gravity
Small effects of quantum gravity on the scale $\sim 10^{-3} eV$ and their cosmological consequences are discussed and compared with observations of supernovae 1a, gamma-ray bursts and galaxies.
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Model of graviton-dusty universe
Primary features of a new cosmological model, which is based on conjectures about an existence of the graviton background and superstrong gravitational quantum interaction, are considered. An expansion of the universe is impossible in such the model because of deceleration of massive objects by the graviton background, which is similar to the one for the NASA deep space probes Pioneer 10, 11. Redshifts of remote objects are caused in the model by interaction of photons with the graviton background, and the Hubble constant depends on an intensity of interaction and an equivalent temperature of the graviton background. Virtual massive gravitons would be dark matter particles. They transfer energy, lost by luminous matter radiation, which in a final stage may be collected with black holes and other massive objects.
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A Fine quantum mechanism of classical gravity
It is shown that screening the background of super-strong interacting gravitons ensures the Newtonian attraction, if a part of single gravitons is pairing and graviton pairs are destructed by collisions with a body. If the considered quantum mechanism of classical gravity is realized in the nature, than an existence of black holes contradicts to the equivalence principle. In such the model, Newton's constant is proportional to $H^{2}/T^{4},$ where $H$ is the Hubble constant, $T$ is an equivalent temperature of the graviton background. The estimate of the Hubble constant is obtained for the Newtonian limit: $H=3.026 \cdot 10^{-18} s^{-1}$ (or $94.576 km \cdot s^{-1} \cdot Mpc^{-1}$).
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May gravitons be super-strong interacting particles?
A scheme, in which gravitons are super-strong interacting, is described. The graviton background with the Planckian spectrum and a small effective temperature is considered as a reservoir of gravitons. A cross-section of interaction of a graviton with any particle is assumed to be a bilinear function of its energies. Any pair of bodies are attracting not due to an exchange with its own gravitons, but due to a pressure of external gravitons of this background. A graviton pairing is necessary to obtain classical gravity. Any divergencies are not possible in such the model because of natural smooth cut-offs of the graviton spectrum from both sides. Some cosmological consequences of this scheme are discussed, too. Also it is shown here that the main conjecture of this approach may be verified at present on the Earth.
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Integrating out strange quarks in ChPT: Terms at order p6
Abstract Chiral perturbation theory in the two-flavour sector allows one to analyse Green functions in qcd in a limit where the strange quark mass is considered to be large in comparison to the external momenta and to the light quark masses m u and m d . In this framework, the low-energy constants of SU ( 2 ) R × SU ( 2 ) L depend on the value of the heavy quark masses. In a recent article, we have worked out, for the coupling constants l i which occur at order p 4 in the chiral expansion, the dependence on the strange quark mass at two-loop accuracy. Here, we provide analogous relations for some of the couplings c i which are relevant at order p 6 . To keep the calculations somewhat reasonable in size, we consider only those 28 couplings which enter the Green functions built from vector and axial vector quark currents in the chiral limit m u = m d = 0 , m s ≠ 0 . This provides the matching for 27 linear combinations of the 28 couplings.
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Radiative decays of double heavy baryons in a relativistic constituent three-quark model including hyperfine mixing effects
We study flavor-conserving radiative decays of double-heavy baryons using a manifestly Lorentz covariant constituent three-quark model. Decay rates are calculated and compared to each other in the full theory, keeping masses finite, and also in the heavy quark limit. We discuss in some detail hyperfine mixing effects.
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Predictions for semileptonic decay rates of charmed baryons in the quark confinement model
Baryons as relativistic three-quark states are investigated in the quark confinement model (QCM), a relativistic quark model based on some assumptions about hadronization and quark confinement. In the framework of the quark-diquark approximation of the three-quark structure of baryons, the main characteristics of light (noncharmed) baryons are calculated. The obtained results agree with experimental data. Predictions are also given for semileptonic decay of charmed baryons and differential production cross-sections in quasielastic neutrino scattering of charmed baryons.
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Testing Lorentz invariance of dark matter
We study the possibility to constrain deviations from Lorentz invariance in dark matter (DM) with cosmological observations. Breaking of Lorentz invariance generically introduces new light gravitational degrees of freedom, which we represent through a dynamical timelike vector field. If DM does not obey Lorentz invariance, it couples to this vector field. We find that this coupling affects the inertial mass of small DM halos which no longer satisfy the equivalence principle. For large enough lumps of DM we identify a (chameleon) mechanism that restores the inertial mass to its standard value. As a consequence, the dynamics of gravitational clustering are modified. Two prominent effects are a scale dependent enhancement in the growth of large scale structure and a scale dependent bias between DM and baryon density perturbations. The comparison with the measured linear matter power spectrum in principle allows to bound the departure from Lorentz invariance of DM at the per cent level.
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Heavy-to-Light Form Factors in the Quark Model with Infrared Heavy-Quark Propagators
Abstract. We calculate the heavy-to-light form factors in a relativistic quark model with infrared heavy-quark propagators. Their -dependence in the physical region is defined by two parameters: the “infrared” parameter characterizing the infrared behaviour of the heavy quark and the mass difference of the heavy meson and the heavy quark . It is found that the values of the and form factors at are in excellent agreement with the available experimental data and other approaches whereas for transitions these values are found to be larger than those of several other models. The obtained form factors are used to calculate the widths of the semileptonic decays of and mesons. A comparison of our results with available experimental data and other approaches is presented.