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Identify Charged Higgs Boson in $W^\pm H^\mp$ Associated Production at LHC
We investigate the possibility to discover the charged Higgs via $pp\to W^{\pm}H^{\mp}\to l+\met+b\bar{b}jj$ process at LHC, which suffers from large QCD backgrounds. We optimize the kinematic cuts to suppress the backgrounds, so that the reconstruction of the charged Higgs through hadronic decay is possible. The angular distribution of the b-jet from $H^{\pm}$ decay is investigated as a way to identify the charged scalar from vector bosons.
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Multirefringence phenomena in nonlinear electrodynamics
Universite´ de Nice Sophia Antipolis, 06103 Nice Cedex 2, Franceand Dipartimento di Fisica and ICRA, Sapienza Universita` di Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy(Received 19 April 2013; published 13 September 2013)Wave propagation in nonlinear theories of the electromagnetism described by Lagrangian densitiesdependent upon its two local invariants LðF;GÞ is revisited. On the light of the recent ﬁndings inmetamaterials, it is here shown that trirefringence is also a possible phenomenon to occur in the realm ofsuch nonlinear theories. A speciﬁc model exhibiting this effect is investigated in terms of both phase andgroup velocities. It is claimed that wave propagation in some well known nonlinear models for spin-oneﬁelds, like QED and QCD in certain regimes, may exhibit trirefringence.
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OPERA Collaboration have observed phase speed of neutrino wave function, while advanced time displacement is mainly due to finite life time of pion
First we call the attention that velocity defined by ratio between some intervals of space and time respectively is sometimes ambiguous, in the framework of quantum theory. Velocity in general is not possible to be well defined as some generator of certain space-time symmetry operation. Then in section 3 by analyzing the OPERA experiment we show that the OPERA Collaboration may have measured the phase speed of the neutrino wave function. Employing a very (maybe too) simple model which is just a reproduction from Brillouin's classical book, we demonstrate the phase velocity and group velocity. These are just a qualitative illustration rather than aiming to quantitively explain the OPERA data. However, how to rigorously define the phase containing the particle production ordering information as a space-time distribution observable in QFT needs more investigations. Due to the finite life time of the pions (w.r.t. its flying time in the 1 km long tunnel) which decay to the muon neutrinos, the wave form for neutrinos recorded by OPERA is deformed from that of the proton. Such an effect is estimated to lead to an advanced time displacement of the order of 100ns, which coincides with the measured. Such an effect can only be significant when measuring phase speed and the recorded neutrino events per extraction of proton smaller than one, as the OPERA case.
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Dirac structure of quark-hadron vertex in Bethe-Salpeter wave function under the framework covariant instantaneous ansatz
In the framework of covariant instantaneous ansatz, the general form of the quark-hadron vertex of certain kind of mesons is provided; how to arrange the Dirac covariants of the complete set by the power counting rule is discussed. Employing the leading order Dirac covariants for vector and pseudoscalar mesons, their decay constants are calculated. This proceeding paper is complementary to our other two previous papers, emphasizing on some conceptual discussions. The strong interaction is special for its basic degree of freedoms are confined in hadrons, preventing the measurement of the “really-free” quanta, i.e., quarks and gluons in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Hence, a description for the asymptotic states, the hadrons, in the strong interactions/collisions, with the language of the basic quanta/fields, quarks, and gluons, is a necessary but challenging task. In the framework of relativistic quantum field theory, at least one “standard” way to describe bound states, i.e., the Bethe-Salpeter wave function (BSW), which is the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter integral equation (BSE), seems available. Through an extensive employment of various techniques in the quantum field theory, such as the DysonSchwinger Equations, one may expect to know the movement of the quarks and gluons in hadrons, and to calculate various kinds of interactions/collisions in various energy scales with such knowledge. This is one of the most important purposes of studying the hadron structure. However, a full understanding of the physical picture of the BSW and a satisfactory way to solve the BES in QCD are still beyond approach. Even, one is not able to give the “rigorous” form of the kernel of the BSE without practical non-perturbative techniques in QCD. More specifically, one has a very powerful picture/tool in high energy hadronic interactions, i.e., the perturbative QCD inspired parton model, but how to approach this parton picture starting from low energy BSW of hadron is an open question. At the same time, the standard factorization scheme is often facing danger in various special processes [1, 2]. So it is very much justified to put more labour on the study of BSW/BSE, especially their
118901774
Gluon Shadowing and Hadron Production at RHIC
Nuclear Science Division, Mailstop 70-319, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720.(October 3,2001)Hadron multiplicity in the central rapidity region of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investi-gated within a two-component mini-jet model which consists of soft and semi-hard particle produc-tion. The hard contribution from mini-jets is reevaluated using the latest parameterization of partondistributions and nuclear shadowing. The energy dependence of the experimental data from RHICrequires a strong nuclear shadowing of the gluon distribution in this model. The centrality depen-dence of the hadron multiplicity at√s = 130 GeV is reproduced well with the impact-parameterdependent parton shadowing. However, energy variation of the centrality dependence is needed todistinguish diﬀerent particle production mechanisms such as the parton saturation model.25.75.-q,12.38.Bx,12.38.Mh,24.85.+p
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Comments on CLEO new measurements for $\upsilon_{1S}$ decays to charmonium final states and investigations on associate strange particle enhancement in $\upsilon$ to J/Psi + $X$
The recent measurements by CLEO Collaboration for the inclusive J/Psi and Psi(2S) production in Upsilon(1S) decay and our previous calculation are analyzed. The J/Psi momentum spectrum and the production ratio of Psi(2S) versus J/Psi favour Upsilon to J/Psi(Psi(2S)) + ccbar g as the dominant contribution. We point out that the differences between the experimental data and our previous results are mainly originated from the setting of the parameter charm quark mass. We further suggest the associate strange particle enhancement as a probe for the open charm particles in Upsilon to J/Psi (Psi(2S)) + ccbar g.
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Observational constraints on Tachyon and DBI inflation
We present a systematic method for evaluation of perturbation observables in non-canonical single-field inflation models within the slow-roll approximation, which allied with field redefinitions enables predictions to be established for a wide range of models. We use this to investigate various non-canonical inflation models, including Tachyon inflation and DBI inflation. The Lambert function will be used extensively in our method for the evaluation of observables. In the Tachyon case, in the slow-roll approximation the model can be approximated by a canonical field with a redefined potential, which yields predictions in better agreement with observations than the canonical equivalents. For DBI inflation models we consider contributions from both the scalar potential and the warp geometry. In the case of a quartic potential, we find a formula for the observables under both non-relativistic (sound speed cs2 ~ 1) and relativistic behaviour (cs2 1) of the scalar DBI inflaton. For a quadratic potential we find two branches in the non-relativistic cs2 ~ 1 case, determined by the competition of model parameters, while for the relativistic case cs2 → 0, we find consistency with results already in the literature. We present a comparison to the latest Planck satellite observations. Most of the non-canonical models we investigate, including the Tachyon, are better fits to data than canonical models with the same potential, but we find that DBI models in the slow-roll regime have difficulty in matching the data.
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Design and characterization of the VMM1 ASIC for micropattern gas detectors
Abstract Measurements of the first prototype VMM1 ASIC designed at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 130 nm CMOS and fabricated in spring 2012 are presented. The 64-channel ASIC features a novel design for use with several types of micropattern gas detectors. The data driven system measures peak amplitude and timing information in tracking mode including sub-threshold neighbors and first channel hit address in trigger mode. Several programmable gain and integration times allows the flexibility to work with Micromegas, Thin Gap Chambers (TGCs), and Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors. The IC design and features are presented along with measurements characterizing the performance of the VMM1 such as noise, linearity of the response, time walk, and calibration range.
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SO(4) monopole as a new topological invariant and its topological structure
By making use of the decomposition theory of gauge potential, the inner structure of SU(2) and SO(4) gauge theory is discussed in detail. We find the SO(4) monopole can be given via projecting the SO(4) gauge field onto an antisymmetric tensor. This projection fix the coset $% SU(2)/U(1)\bigotimes SU(2)/U(1)$ of SO(4) gauge group. The generalized Hopf map is given via a Dirac spinor. Further we prove that this monopole can be consider as a new topological invariant. Which is composed of two monopole structures. Local topological structure of the SO(4) monopole is discussed in detail, which is quantized by winding number. The Hopf indices and Brouwer degree labels the local property of the monopoles.
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Renormalization group improved predictions for $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ production at hadron colliders
We study the factorization and resummation of the $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ production at hadron colliders. The cross section in the threshold limit can be factorized into a convolution of hard and soft functions and parton distribution functions with the soft-collinear effective theory. We calculate the next-to-leading order soft function for the associated production of the heavy quark pair and colorless particle, and we perform the resummation calculation with the next-to-next-to-leading logarithms accuracy. Our results show that the resummation effects reduce the dependence of the cross section on the scales significantly and increase the total cross section by $7-13\%$ compared with NLO QCD results.
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Constraints on Randall-Sundrum model from the events of dijet production with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC
We study the dijet production in Randall-Sundrum model at the LHC with QCD next-to-leading(NLO) order accuracy. Our results show that the QCD NLO corrections can increase the total cross sections by more than $80\%$ and reduce the scale dependence. We also explore in detail several important kinematic distributions at the NLO level. Moreover, we discuss the upper limits of the KK graviton excluded mass range and the allowed parameter space for the coupling constant and KK graviton mass, using the experiment data.