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Light bending by nonlinear electrodynamics under strong electric and magnetic field
We calculate the bending angles of light under the strong electric and magnetic fields by a charged black hole and a magnetized neutron star according to the nonlinear electrodynamics of Euler-Heisenberg interaction. The bending angle of light by the electric field of charged black hole is computed from geometric optics and a general formula is derived for light bending valid for any orientation of the magnetic dipole. The astronomical significance of the light bending by magnetic field of a neutron star is discussed.
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RAPIDITY GAP OF WEAKLY COUPLED LEPTOQUARK PRODUCTION IN ep COLLIDER
We show that the current bounds on the leptoquark couplings imply that if leptoquarks are produced in ep collisions, a significant fraction of them could form a leptoquark–quark bound state. The decay of the bound state has a distinct event shape with rapidity gap. A possible application of this observation in the leptoquark search at HERA is discussed.
16719442
Chiral vacuum alignment in dense QCD
Abstract We discuss an interesting possibility of nontrivial, quark-mass induced chiral vacuum alignment in color–flavor locking phase of cold, dense QCD. With the simplifying assumption that the gaps for quarks are identical to those of antiquarks and the light quark masses are given by m u = m d and m s / m d =15, we find the true chiral vacuum can align only to one of the discrete number of directions in the continuum of chiral vacua. The alignment depends on the size of the diquark condensates, and the vacuum transitions between the discrete vacua caused by the evolution of the diquark condensates can be first order phase transition with vanishing or nonvanishing latent heat, depending on the vacua involved. It is also shown that as μ →∞, where μ is the baryon chemical potential, parity is spontaneously broken through the vacuum alignment.
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COSMIC STRING SPACETIME IN DILATON GRAVITY AND FLAT ROTATION CURVES
In dilaton gravity theories, we consider a string-like topological defect formed during U(1) gauge symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early Universe, and far from the cosmic string we have vacuum solutions of the generalized Einstein equation. We discuss how they can be related to the flatness of galactic rotation curves.
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Heavy quark mass determination from the quarkonium ground state energy: a pole mass approach
The heavy quark pole mass in perturbation theory suffers from a renormalon caused, inherent uncertainty of O(?QCD). This fundamental difficulty of determining the pole mass to an accuracy better than the inherent uncertainty can be overcome by direct resummation of the first infrared renormalon. We show how a properly defined pole mass as well as the mass for the top and bottom quarks can be determined accurately from the O(m?s5) quarkonium ground state energy.
11092579
Cosmological gravitino production in gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking models
Abstract We study the cosmological gravitino production in gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking models, while properly taking into account the existence of the messenger mass scale. It is found that for sizable parameter range of the model the messenger sector contribution leads to more stringent upper bound on the reheat temperature obtained from the condition that the universe should not be overclosed by relic gravitinos. However it turns out that in the limit of relatively low messenger scale and large gravitino mass, the relic gravitino mass density can be smaller than the critical density independently of the reheat temperature, suggesting the possibility in this limit to have a high reheat temperature without the dilution of gravitinos at late time.
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Relativistic quantum mechanics of anyon
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Topological Ward identity and anti-de Sitter space / CFT correspondence
Abstract The dual relationship between the supergravity in the anti-de Sitter (AdS) space and the superconformal field theory is discussed in the simplest form. We show that a topological Ward identity holds in the three dimensional Chern–Simons gravity. In this simple case the proposed dual relationship can be understood as the topological Ward identity. Extensions to the supersymmetric theories and higher dimensional ones are also briefly discussed.
117114158
Relativistic Anyon and (2+1) Dimensional Gravity
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The Entropy of the BTZ Black Hole and AdS/CFT Correspondence
We construct an action, which governs the dynamics of the Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole and perform the canonical quantization. The quantum action is given by a $SL(2,R)$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model on the boundary coupled to the classical anti-de Sitter background, representing a massless BTZ black hole. The coupling, determined by a one-cocyle condition, is found to give dominant contribution to the central charge of Virasoro algebra. The entropy of the BTZ black hole is discussed from the point view of the AdS/CFT correspondence and an explanation is given to the puzzle of black hole entropy in the BTZ case. The BTZ black hole is a quantum object and the BTZ black hole with finite mass should be considered as a quantum excitation of the massless one.
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Two dimensional anti-de Sitter space and discrete light cone quantization
Abstract We realize the two dimensional anti-de Sitter ( AdS 2 ) space as a Kaluza-Klein reduction of the AdS 3 space in the framework of the discrete light cone quantization (DLCQ). Introducing DLCQ coordinates which interpolate the original (unboosted) coordinates and the light cone coordinates, we discuss that AdS 2 / CFT correspondence can be deduced from the AdS 3 / CFT . In particular, we elaborate on the deformation of WZW model to obtain the boundary theory for the AdS 2 black hole. This enables us to derive the entropy of the AdS 2 black hole from that of the AdS 3 black hole.