119224499
On the Yang–Mills two-loop effective action with worldline methods
Abstract We derive the two-loop effective action for covariantly constant field strength of pure Yang–Mills theory in the presence of an infrared scale. The computation is done in the framework of the worldline formalism, based on a generalization procedure of constructing multiloop effective actions in terms of the bosonic worldline path integral. The two-loop β -function is correctly reproduced. This is the first derivation in the worldline formulation, and serves as a non-trivial check on the consistency of the multiloop generalization procedure in the worldline formalism.
118117795
Radiative corrections to $h^0\to WW^*/ZZ^*\to 4$\,leptons in the MSSM
The electroweak $\mc O(\alpha)$ radiative corrections to the decay of the lightest MSSM Higgs boson to four leptons are presented, improved by the two-loop corrections provided by the program package FeynHiggs. We also analyze the results in the decoupling limit and investigate the numeric impact of contributions from the genuine supersymmetric particle spectrum.
118538162
Hydrodynamics of a 5D Einstein-dilaton black hole solution and the corresponding BPS state
A bstractWe apply the potential reconstruction approach to generate a series of asymp-totically AdS (aAdS) black hole solutions, with a self-interacting bulk scalar field. Based on the method, we reproduce the pure AdS solution as a consistency check and we also generate a simple analytic 5D black hole solution. We then study various aspects of this solution, such as temperature, entropy density and conserved charges. Furthermore, we study the hydrodynamics of this black hole solution in the framework of fluid/gravity duality, e.g. the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density. In a degenerate case of the 5D black hole solution, we find that the c function decreases monotonically from UV to IR as expected. Finally, we investigate the stability of the degenerate solution by studying the bosonic functional energy of the gravity and the Witten-Nester energy EWN. We confirm that the degenerate solution is a BPS domain wall solution. The corresponding superpotential and the solution of the killing spinor equation are found explicitly.
119194335
One-loop matching for parton distributions: Nonsinglet case
We derive the one-loop matching condition for nonsinglet quark distributions in the transverse-momentum cutoff scheme, including unpolarized, helicity and transversity distributions. The matching is between the quasidistribution defined by static correlation at finite nucleon momentum and the light-cone distribution measurable in experiments. The result is useful for extracting the latter from the former in a lattice QCD calculation which uses the lattice spacing as the ultraviolet cutoff.
38560063
Physics of the gluon-helicity contribution to proton spin.
The total gluon helicity in a polarized proton, measurable in high-energy scattering, is shown to be the large momentum limit of a gauge-invariant but nonlocal, frame-dependent gluon spin E × A⊥ in QCD. This opens a door for a nonperturbative calculation of this quantity in lattice QCD and also justifies using free-field expressions in the light-cone gauge as physical observables.
54928710
Gravity/Fluid Correspondence and Its Application on Bulk Gravity with Gauge Field
As the long wavelength limit of the AdS/CFT correspondence, the gravity/fluid correspondence has been shown to be a useful tool for extracting properties of the fluid on the boundary dual to the gravity in the bulk. In this paper, after briefly reviewing the algorithm of gravity/fluid correspondence, we discuss the results of its application on bulk gravity with a gauge field. In the presence of a gauge field, the dual fluid possesses more interesting properties such as its charge current. Furthermore, an external field could affect the charge current, and the Chern-Simons term also induces extra structures to the dual current giving anomalous transport coefficients.
118307709
Boundary Conditions for NHEK through Effective Action Approach
We study the asymptotic symmetry group(ASG) of the near horizon geometry of extreme Kerr black hole through the effective action approach developed in [7]. By requiring a finite boundary effective action, we derive a new set of asymptotic Killing vectors and boundary conditions, which are much more relaxed than the ones proposed in [3], and still allow a copy of conformal group as its ASG. In the covariant formalism, the asymptotic charges are finite, with the corresponding central charge vanishing. By using the quasi-local charge and introducing a plausible cut-off, we find that the higher order terms of the asymptotic Killing vectors, which could not be determined through the effective action approach, contribute to the central charge as well. We also show that the boundary conditions suggested in [1] lead to a divergent first order boundary effective action. ∗ bchen01@pku.edu.cn † ningbo@pku.edu.cn ‡ jjzhang@pku.edu.cn
118567146
Thermodynamics of black hole horizons and Kerr/CFT correspondence
A bstractIn this paper we investigate the thermodynamics of the inner horizon and its implication on the holographic description of the black hole. We focus on the black holes with two physical horizons. Under reasonable assumption, we prove that the first law of thermodynamics of the outer horizon always indicates that of the inner horizon. As a result, the fact that the area product being mass-independent is equivalent to the relation T+S+ = T−S−, with T± and S± being the Hawking temperatures and the entropies of the outer and inner horizons respectively. We find that the mass-independence of entropy product breaks down in general Myers-Perry black holes with spacetime dimension d ≥ 6 and Kerr-AdS black holes with d ≥ 4. Moreover we discuss the implication of the first laws of the outer and inner horizons on the thermodynamics of the right- and left-moving sectors of dual CFT in Kerr/CFT correspondence. We show that once the relation T+S+ = T−S− is satisfied, the central charges of two sectors must be same. Furthermore from the thermodynamics relations, we read the dimensionless temperatures of microscopic CFT, which are in exact agreement with the ones obtained from hidden conformal symmetry in the low frequency scattering off the black holes, and then determine the central charges. This method works well in well-known cases in Kerr/CFT correspondence, and reproduce successfully the holographic pictures for 4D Kerr-Newman and 5D Kerr black holes. We go on to predict the central charges and temperatures of a possible holographic CFT description dual to 5D doubly rotating black ring.
118664541
Quasi-normal modes of extremal black holes from hidden conformal symmetry
In this Letter, we construct the quasi-normal modes of three-dimensional extremal black holes in an algebraic way. We show that the infinite towers of the quasi-normal modes of scalar, vector and tensor could be constructed as the descendents of the highest weight modes. Our investigation shows that the hidden conformal symmetry suggested in Chen et al. (2010) [5] is an intrinsic property of the extremal black hole. Moreover, we notice that we need to fix the freedom in defining the local vector fields and find the right hidden conformal symmetry to obtain the physical quasi-normal modes. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
119192406
Rotating a curvaton brane in a warped throat
In this paper we study a curvaton model obtained by considering a probe anti-D3-brane with angular motion at the bottom of a KS throat with approximate isometries. We calculate the spectrum of curvature perturbations and the non-Gaussianities of this model. Specifically, we consider the limit of relativistic rotation of the curvaton brane which leads to a small sound speed, and thus it can be viewed as an implementation of the DBI-curvaton mechanism. We find that the primordial power spectrum is nearly scale-invariant while the non-Gaussianity of local type is sizable and that of equilateral type is usually large and negative. Moreover, we study both the theoretical and observational constraints on this model, and find that there exists a sizable allowed region for the phase space of this model.
119452670
Pion decay constant, ZA and chiral log from overlap fermions
Abstract We report our calculation of the pion decay constant f π , the axial renormalization constant Z A , and the quenched chiral logarithms from the overlap fermions. The calculation is done on a quenched 20 4 lattice at a = 0.148 fm using tree level tadpole improved gauge action. The smallest pion mass we reach is about 280 MeV. The lattice size is about 4 times the Compton wavelength of the lowest mass pion.