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HADRONIZATION OF A QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
45880759
Strange matter lumps in the early Universe.
We study the stability of hot strange matter lumps formed in the early Universe. As the Universe cools below the hadronization temperature, these lumps normally become unstable against boiling. They can stabilize themselves against this process if their mass is sufficiently large to hold a hadronic crust by gravitational attraction. Our analysis improves on previous studies of the internal structure of such stable hot quark matter lumps with hadronic crust by correctly treating the constraints from chemical equilibrium of baryonic and electric charge between crust and core. Since the expansion rate of the early Universe is much faster than the cooling rate of the strange matter lumps, their internal structure is characterized by constant entropy per baryon. Our improved analysis confirms the earlier finding that such stable quark matter lumps require a mass well above the total mass inside the horizon.
122366381
Collective flow model for the pion transverse momentum spectra from relativistic nuclear collisions at CERN
The transverse momentum spectra for pions observed by WA80 and NA35 collaborations are analysed within a fireball model with collective isentropic expansion and a realistic freeze-out criterion. By varing the initial state of the fireball, an excellent fit to the data is achieved for the whole measured range ofPT. Slight differences in the data for the spectral slopes from central and pheripheral collisions originate in our model from the difference in the size of the fireball and in the number of participating nucleons in central and peripheral collisions. Using additional information from two-pion correlations, we can extrapolate our model back from the freeze-out point (determined from the spectra) to the initial state; we find that an initial energy density of 1.5–2GGeV/fm3 is sufficient to explain the data from central O+Au collisions at 200A GeV.
124365920
A statistical model analysis of the rapidity distribution of hadrons
122648978
Strangeness and hadronization from a quark-gluon plasma☆
Abstract From a phenomenological equation of state, the role of strangeness in the hadronizing QGP is studied. Even though strangeness abundance of the QGP is similar to that of an equilibrium hadron gas, the characteristic change in the slope of energy spectra of K + and K − mesons can serve as a signature of QGP.
121511469
The ϱ-peak in the dimuon spectrum as a clock for fireball lifetimes in relativistic nuclear collisions
Abstract We discuss the modification of the dipleton yield from vector mesons inside a nuclear fireball. We argue that the relative magnitude of the ϱ peak in the dilepton spectrum determines the lifetime of the hadron gas phase in nuclear collisions with an accuracy of about 1 fm/ c . We also find that the φ (ω + ϱ) ratio measured in the dimuon channel in 200 A GeV O + U and S + U collisions points towards a rather short-lived hadronic phase in these collisions.
14337412
Implications of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and Higgs-mediated flavor changing neutral currents
Abstract In the light of the recent measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment a μ by the Muon ( g −2) Collaboration, we examine the contribution to a μ from the exchange of flavor changing scalars. Assuming that the heavier generations have larger flavor changing couplings, we obtain a bound on the μ – τ Yukawa coupling for a given scalar mass. Constraints on other individual flavor changing/conserving couplings are also obtained from the lepton flavor violating decays of the muon and tau leptons, and bounds on the branching ratio of τ →3 e , μ →3 e and τ → eμe processes are predicted. In addition, we study the implications of the lepton flavor violating pair production at e + e − colliders.
119257380
BPS magnetic monopole bags
We explore the characteristics of spherical bags made of large numbers of BPS magnetic monopoles. There are two extreme limits. In the Abelian bag, $N$ zeros of the Higgs field are arranged in a quasiregular lattice on a sphere of radius ${R}_{\mathrm{cr}}\ensuremath{\sim}N/v$, where $v$ is the Higgs vacuum expectation value. The massive gauge fields of the theory are largely confined to a thin shell at this radius that separates an interior with almost vanishing magnetic and Higgs fields from an exterior region with long-range Coulomb magnetic and Higgs fields. In the other limiting case, which we term a non-Abelian bag, the $N$ zeros of the Higgs field are all the origin, but there is again a thin shell of radius ${R}_{\mathrm{cr}}$. In this case the region enclosed by this shell can be viewed as a large monopole core, with small Higgs field but nontrivial massive and massless gauge fields.
1928023
Probing anomalous right-handed top quark couplings in rare $B$ decays
We explore the anomalous right-handed $\bar{t}sW$ and $\bar{t}bW$ couplings using $ B \to X_s \gamma$ and $B \to X_s l^+ l^-$ decays induced by the flavour-changing penguin diagrams. The anomalous $\bar{t}sW$ coupling can yield 10% enhancement of the $B \to X_s l^+ l^-$ decay rate under the constraint from the present $B \to X_s \gamma$ data, while it does not affect the forward-backward asymmetry of the charged lepton. The allowed region for anomalous $\bar{t}bW$ coupling by the $ B \to X_s \gamma$ constraint is two-fold, the small value region and the large value region. Though the effect of the small anomalous coupling on the $B \to X_s l^+ l^-$ branching ratio is very little, it can yield a substantial chanhge for the forward-backward asymmetry.
197511603
Super-Yang-Mills theories on $S^{4} \times \mathbb{R}$
16887731
5-D actions for 6-D selfdual tensor field theory
We present two equivalent five-dimensional actions for six-dimensional (N,0) N=1,2 supersymmetric theories of self-dual tensor whose one spatial dimension is compactified on a circle. The Kaluza-Klein tower consists of a massless vector and infinite number of massive self-dual tensor multiplets living in five-dimensions. The self-duality follows from the equation of motion. Both actions are quadratic in field variables without any auxiliary field. When lifted back to six-dimensions, one of them gives a supersymmetric extension of the bosonic formulation for the chiral two-form tensor by Perry and Schwarz.