122968394
Multiscale technicolor and top quark decay
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Detecting Toppion via a Flavor-Changing Single Top QuarkProduction Process*
In the framework of topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) theory, we study a flavor changing single top quarkproduction process pp(pp) →Ⅱ0t → tc(tc) at upgraded Tevatron and LHC. The results show that with the flavor changingcoupling of neutral toppion to top and charm quark, toppion provides a large te-channel resonance effect. The signal ofsingle top production could be detected at LHC. Otherwise, the narrow peak in the invariant mass distribution could beclearly detected both at upgraded Tevatron and LHC. Therefore, such single top production process provides a uniqueway to test TC2 model via the detection of tc-channel neutral toppion contribution.
124006491
Derivation of effective chiral Lagrangian for the whole nonet pseudo-scalar Goldstone bosons from QCD
The effective chiral Lagrangian derived from underlying QCD for pseudo-scalar Goldstone bosons has been generalized to involve the whole nonet pseudo-Goldstone bosons, no approximation is made in the derivation. The formulation offers general QCD definitions for the coefficients in effective chiral Lagrangian.
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Rare decays of the top quark in the one generation technicolor model.
The decays [ital t][r arrow][ital cV] ([ital V]=[gamma],[ital g],[ital Z]) and [ital t][r arrow][ital cP][sup 0] induced through loop processes are calculated in the Farhi-Susskind one family technicolor (TC) model. We find that these new contributions can enhance the SM branching fractions by as much as 3--4 orders of magnitude, i.e., [ital B]([ital t][r arrow][ital cg])[similar to]10[sup [minus]6], [ital B]([ital t][r arrow][ital cZ])[similar to]10[sup [minus]7], [ital B]([ital t][r arrow][ital c][gamma])[similar to]10[sup [minus]8], and [ital B]([ital t][r arrow][ital cP][sup 0])[similar to]10[sup [minus]9], for the favorable values of the parameters. It might provide a unique window to detect the virtual effects of pseudo Goldstone bosons in TC theory.
119790642
Production of Neutral Top-Pion Associated with a Gauge Boson at LHC
In this paper, we study the production of the neutral top-pion (Π0t) associated with a gauge boson at the LHC, i.e. pp→Πt0V (V = g,W,Z,γ). The cross section of pp→Πt0g is at the level of 102 pb in the most parameter space. Such a process with the flavor-changing decay mode Πt0→t might provide viable signatures to detect Π0t at the LHC. The cross sections of other processes pp→Πt0W(Z,γ) are too small to detect Π0t, which open a window to distinguish the Higgs boson in the SM or MSSM from Π0t.
120877028
Single Production of Charged Gauge Boson WH− from Left-Right Twin Higgs Model in Association with Top Quark at LHC
The twin Higgs mechanism has recently been proposed to solve the little hierarchy problem. In the context of the left-right twin Higgs (LRTH) model, we discuss single production of the new charged gauge boson WH−, which is predicted by the left-right twin Higgs model, in association with top quark at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is found that, for a typical nonzero value of mass mixing parameter M = 150 GeV in the LRTH model, the production cross section is in the range of 3 × 10-2 ~ 6.07 × 103 fb at the LHC. As long as the WH− is not too heavy, the possible signatures of the heavy charged gauge boson might be detected at the LHC experiments.
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Simulation studies of Micromegas and parallel ionization multiplier with woven mesh
We report simulation results of the Micromegas in a bulk and PIM (parallel ionization multiplier) with one or more layers of woven micromeshes based on 3D models and Garfield/ Magboltz. Studies are conducted for different detector geometries. Effects of wire diameter, mesh pitch, mesh effective thickness and gas mixture are investigated. The transverse diffusion of drifting electrons and broadening of electron clouds that affect electron transfer through the micromeshes are studied. Different arrangements of gas gains in the required avalanche and signal induction regions of a PIM-like configuration are studied. The motivation of this work is to understand the electron transfer process in Micromegas and PIMs constructed by using relatively thick woven micromeshes. We have attempted to find optimized PIM configurations in order to obtain high gas gain, fast rise time and other desirable detector properties.
55824325
Spin alignment of vector mesons in non-central A+A collisions
We discuss the consequence of global polarization of the produced quarks in non-central heavy-ion collisions on the spin alignment of vector mesons. We show that the alignment is quite different for different hadronization scenarios. These results can be tested directly by measuring the vector mesons' alignment through angular distributions of the decay products with respect to the reaction plane. Such angular distributions will give rise to azimuthal anisotropy v{sub 2} of the decay products in the collision frame. Constraints provided by the data on the azimuthal anisotropy of hadron spectra at RHIC points to a quark recombination scenario of hadronization.
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High-pT hadronic trigger using electromagnetic calorimeter with the STAR detector
Abstract We derive a new method to improve the statistics of identified particles at high transverse momentum ( p T ) using online-triggered events by the STAR Barrel electro-magnetic-calorimeter (BEMC) detector. The BEMC is used to select charged hadrons ( π ± , K ± , and p ( p ¯ ) ) via hadronic shower energy deposited in the BEMC. With this trigger, the statistics of the high p T particles are significantly enhanced (by a factor of up to ∼ 100 for STAR) with trigger efficiency up to 20%. In addition, weak-decay V0s ( K S 0 and Λ ( Λ ¯ ) ) can be reconstructed by selecting the BEMC-trigger hadron as one of the decay daughters. We also show that the trigger efficiency can be obtained reliably in simulation and data-driven approaches, and final results from new method are compared with previous published results.
12890774
Gamma-Jet Tomography of Quark-Gluon Plasma in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
Abstract Within the next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model, suppression of away-side hadron spectra associated with a high p T photon due to parton energy loss is shown to provide a complete tomographic picture of the dense matter formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. Dictated by the shape of the γ -triggered jet spectrum in NLO pQCD, hadron spectra at large z T = p T h / p T γ ≳ 1 are more susceptible to parton energy loss and therefore are dominated by surface emission of γ -triggered jets, whereas small z T hadrons mainly come from fragmentation of jets with reduced energy from volume emission. These lead to different centrality dependence of the hadron suppression in different regions of z T .
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Globally polarized quark-gluon plasma in noncentral A + A collisions.
Produced partons have a large local relative orbital angular momentum along the direction opposite to the reaction plane in the early stage of noncentral heavy-ion collisions. Parton scattering is shown to polarize quarks along the same direction due to spin-orbital coupling. Such global quark polarization will lead to many observable consequences, such as left-right asymmetry of hadron spectra and global transverse polarization of thermal photons, dileptons, and hadrons. Hadrons from the decay of polarized resonances will have an azimuthal asymmetry similar to the elliptic flow. Global hyperon polarization is studied within different hadronization scenarios and can be easily tested.