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HOLOGRAPHIC SUPERCONDUCTOR FOR A LIFSHITZ FIXED POINT
We consider the gravity dual of strongly coupled system at a Lifshitz-fixed point and finite temperature, which was constructed in a recent work arXiv:0909.0263. We construct an Abelian-Higgs model in that background and calculate condensation and conductivity using holographic techniques. We find that condensation happens and DC conductivity blows up when temperature turns below a critical value. We also study the zero temperature limit of strongly coupled system at the Lifshitz-fixed point.
118679403
Comments on Baryon Melting in Quark Gluon Plasma with Gluon Condensation
We consider a black hole solution with a non-trivial dilaton from IIB super gravity which is expected to describe a strongly coupled hot gauge plasma with non-vanishing gluon condensation present. We construct a rotating and moving baryon to probe the screening and phases of the plasma. Melting of the baryons in hot plasma in this background had been studied previously, however, we show that baryons melt much lower temperature than has been suggested previously.
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Holographic RG flow and sound modes of sQGP
A bstractWe consider the hydrodynamics of strongly interacting quark gluon plasma in finite temperature and density using the holographic duality of charged black hole in anti DeSitter space. We calculate the transport coefficients at arbitrary energy scale by considering the holographic screen at finite radial position. We first calculate the flow of sound velocity in this method and check the consistence with previous result. Then we calculate diffusion constant of charge and find that Einstein relation between susceptibility, conductivity and diffusion constants will hold at arbitrary slice.
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Holographic melting of heavy baryons in plasma with gluon condensation
We propose a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) D5 vertex brane plus N(c) fundamental strings configuration to describe a baryon probe in strongly coupled gauge theory with gluon condensation at finite temperature via AdS/CFT correspondence. We investigate properties of this configuration in a dilaton deformed AdS(5) x S(5) background, in which IIB string theory is dual to super Yang-Mills theory in a state with a constant self-dual gauge field (F(mn) = F(mn)*) background. We find that for most values of temperature T and gluon condensation parameter q (q = pi(2) ), there always exists a screening length L(s). The relation L(s) similar to 1/T has been checked. We give the q dependence of L(s). We calculate the boost velocity nu(nu = - tanh eta) and angular velocity omega dependence of L(s) for a baryon probe, and obtain L(s) = L(0)* (1-nu(2))(1/4) for large nu and L(s) similar to omega(-1), which are consistent with those dependence relations in the point brane plus strings case, and find that the usual relations have been modified by q. We also calculate the mass of baryon and find T dependence of baryon mass.
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Interpreting N M2 branes
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Mixed RG flows and hydrodynamics at finite holographic screen
A bstractWe consider a strongly interacting gauge theory at finite temperature and chemical potential and study renormalization group flows of transport coefficients in the framework of gauge/gravity duality. We first study them using the flow equations and compare the results with hydrodynamic results by calculating the Green functions on the arbitrary slice. Two results match exactly. Transport coefficients at arbitrary scale are obtained by calculating hydrodynamics Green functions. When either momentum or charge vanishes, transport coefficients decouple from each other.
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Mixing-induced CP violating sources for electroweak baryogenesis from a semiclassical approach
The effects of flavor mixing in electroweak baryogenesis is investigated in a generalized semiclassical WKB approach. Through calculating the non-adiabatic corrections to the particle currents, it is shown that extra CP violation sources arise from the off-diagonal part of the equation of motion of particles moving inside the bubble wall. This type of mixing-induced source is of first order in a derivative expansion of the Higgs condensate, but it is oscillation suppressed. The numerical importance of the mixing-induced source is discussed in the minimal supersymmetric standard model and compared with the source term induced by a semiclassical force. It is found that in a large parameter space where oscillation suppression is not strong enough, the mixing-induced source can dominate over that from the semiclassical force.
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The CP violating phase $\gamma$ from global fit of rare charmless hadronic B decays
We study constraints on the CP violating phase $\gamma$ in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model using available experimental data. We first follow the conventional method to up date the constraint on $\gamma$ by performing a $\chi^2$ analysis using data from $|\epsilon_K|$, $\Delta m_{B_{d,s}}$ and $|V_{ub}/V_{cb}|$. We also include the recent information on $\sin2\beta$ in the analysis. We obtain the best fit for $\gamma$ to be $66^\circ$ and the 95% C.L. allowed range to be $42^\circ \sim 87^\circ$. We then develop a method to carry out a $\chi^2$ analysis based on SU(3) symmetry using data from $B\to \pi \pi$ and $B\to K \pi$. We also discuss SU(3) breaking effects from model estimate. We find that present data on $B\to \pi\pi, K \pi$ can also give some constraint on $\gamma$ although weaker than the earlier method limited by the present experimental errors. Future improved data will provide more stringent constraint. Finally we perform a combined fit using data from $|\epsilon_K|$, $\Delta m_{B_{d,s}}$, $|V_{ub}/V_{cb}|$, $\sin2\beta$ and rare charmless hadronic B decays. The combined analysis gives $\gamma=67^\circ$ for the best fit value and $43^\circ \sim 87^\circ$ as the 95% C.L. allowed range. Several comments on other methods to determine $\gamma$ based on SU(3) symmetry are also provided.
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Azimuthal correlations in Pb--Pb and pp collisions measured with the ALICE detector
We present results from the measurements of azimuthal correlations of charged particles in $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV Pb--Pb collisions and $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 7 TeV pp collisions. In addition, the comparison of the experimental measurements in pp collisions with those from Pythia and Phojet simulations are presented.
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Higher moments of net baryon distribution as probes of the QCD critical point
It is crucially important to find an acceptance and late collision process independent observable in searching for the possible critical point predicted by QCD. By utilizing a multiphase transport (AMPT) model and ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) model, we study the centrality and evolution time dependence of higher moments of net baryon distribution in Au+Au collisions at sq root(s{sub NN})=17.3 GeV. The results suggest that kurtosis and skewness are less sensitive to the acceptance effect and late collision process. Thus, they should be good observables providing the information on the early stage of a heavy-ion collision. In addition, our study shows that the product of kurtosis times sigma{sup 2} of the net proton distribution is quite different from that of the net baryon distribution when the collision energy is lower than sq root(s{sub NN})=20 GeV, the Monte Carlo calculations on kurtosiscentre dotsigma{sup 2} have a deviation from the theoretical predictions.
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Higher harmonic anisotropic flow measurements of charged particles at 2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector
We report the measurements of elliptic flow $v_{2}$, as well as higher harmonics triangular flow $v_{3}$ and quadrangular flow $v_{4}$, in $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} =$ 2.76 TeV Pb--Pb collisions, measured with the ALICE detector. We show that the measured elliptic and triangular flow can be understood from the initial spatial anisotropy and its event--by--event fluctuations. The resulting fluctuations of $v_{2}$ and $v_{3}$ are also discussed.