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Top-quark spin correlation at Linear Colliders with anomalous couplings
We investigate the feasibility of probing anomalous top-quark couplings of Wtb, Zt (t) over bar, and gammat (t) over bar in terms of an effective Lagrangian with dimension-six operators at future e(+)e(-) linear colliders with a c.m. energy roots similar to500-800 GeV. We first examine the constraints on these anomalous couplings from the Z-->b (b) over bar data at CERN LEP I and from unitarity considerations. We then consider in detail the effects of anomalous couplings on t (t) over bar spin correlations in the top-pair production and decay with three spin bases: the helicity, beamline, and off-diagonal bases. Our results show that the polarized beams are more suitable for exploring the effects of different new operators. For polarized beams, the helicity basis yields the best sensitivity.
118808651
Inclusive J/\psi Production In \Upsilon Decay Via Color-singlet Mechanism
In this work, we have calculated the tree level color-singlet contribution to the inclusive $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ production in $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}$ decay of the ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{5}$ order QCD process $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+c\overline{c}g$ and ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}^{2}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2}$ order QED processes $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{*}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+c\overline{c}$ and $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+gg$. It is found that the contribution of the QED processes is comparable with that of the QCD process and the numerical results of the QCD process alone are about an order of magnitude smaller than the previous theoretical predictions. Our prediction in total is $4.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ which is about an order of magnitude smaller than the recent CLEO measurement on the branching fraction $\mathcal{B}(\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+X)$. It indicates that the $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ production mechanism in $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}$ decay is not well understood and further theoretical work and experimental analysis are still necessary.
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UNIVERSALLY TREATING THE QUARK PAIR WITH A VACUUM QUANTUM NUMBER IN THE RELATED CHARM DECAYS
A method for universally treating the quark pair with a vacuum quantum number is proposed and it is applied to calculating some charm meson decays as examples. The smallness for W-exchange and annihilation mechanisms has new explanation and the result obtained by means of the proposed method on the decay fits the experimental data well.
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Next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to e+e- -->J/psi gg at the B factories.
We calculate the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to e;{+}e;{-}-->J/psi gg via color singlet J/psi(3S1) at the B factories. The result shows that the cross section is enhanced to 0.373 pb by a K factor (NLO/LO) of about 1.21. By considering its dependence on the charm quark mass and renormalization scale, the NLO cross section can range from 0.294 to 0.409 pb. Further including the psi;{'} feed-down, sigma[e;{+}e;{-}-->J/psi X(non-cc[over ])] is enhanced by another factor of about 1.29 and reach 0.482 pb. In addition, the momentum distributions of J/psi production and polarization are presented. Recent measurements from Belle agree well with our prediction for the cross section and momentum distribution. It is expected that this process can serve as a very good channel to clarify the J/psi polarization puzzle by performing further experimental measurements.
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Next-to-Leading-Order QCD corrections to $J/\psi (\upsilon) + \gamma$ production at the LHC
In this work, we calculate the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to the process $p+p \to J/\psi + \gamma$ via the color-singlet mechanism at the LHC. The results show that the partial cross section ($p_t^{J/\psi}>$3GeV and $|y^{J/\psi,\gamma}|<$3) is enhanced by a factor of about 2.0, and the differential cross section can be enhanced by two orders of magnitude in the large transverse momentum region of $J/\psi$. Furthermore, the polarization of $J/\psi$ changes from transverse polarization at leading-order to longitudinal polarization at NLO. For the inclusive $J/\psi$ hadroproduction, it is known that the color-octet contributions are one order of magnitude larger than the color-singlet contribution, and the polarization distribution is dominated by the color-octet behavior at NLO. In contrast, for $J/\psi+\gamma$ production the color-singlet contribution is of the same order as the color-octet contribution, and the polarization distribution arises from both the color-singlet and color-octet. Therefore, measurements of $J/\psi$ production associated with a direct photon at the hadron collider could be an important supplement to testify the theoretical framework treating with the heavy quarkonium. In addition, an NLO QCD correction to $\Upsilon+\gamma$ production at the LHC is also presented in this paper.
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J/psi polarization in photoproduction up to the next-to-leading order of QCD
We investigate the J/psi polarization in photoproduction at the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) up to the next-to-leading order of QCD. The results show that the transverse momentum p(t) and energy fraction z distributions of J/psi production do not agree with the observed ones very well. The theoretical uncertainties for the z distributions of the J/psi polarization parameters with respect to various choices of the renormalization and factorization scales are too large to give a definite predication. The uncertainties for the p(t) distributions of these parameters are small when p(t) > 3 GeV and the obtained p(t) distributions cannot describe the experimental data even in this region.
119378025
A note on brane inflation
We demonstrate that there exists an inflationary solution on the positive tension brane in the Randall-Sundrum scenario. Inflation is driven by a slow-rolling scalar field on the brane and is achieved within the perturbative limit of the radion field. We find that inflation on the positive tension brane results in a slight increase in the separation between the two branes. However, we show that the slow-roll inflation is not possible on the negative tension brane.
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Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Measurements are presented of production properties and couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson using the decays into boson pairs, H --> gamma-gamma, H --> ZZ* --> 4 leptons and H --> WW --> 2 leptons + 2 neutrinos. The results are based on the complete pp collision data sample recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 25/fb. Evidence for Higgs boson production through vector-boson fusion is reported. Results of combined fits probing Higgs boson couplings to fermions and bosons, as well as anomalous contributions to loop-induced production and decay modes, are presented. All measurements are consistent with expectations for the Standard Model Higgs boson.
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Searches for heavy Higgs bosons in two-Higgs-doublet models and for t -> ch decay using multilepton and diphoton final states in pp collisions at 8 TeV
Searches are presented for heavy scalar (H) and pseudoscalar (A) Higgs bosons posited in the two doublet model (2HDM) extensions of the standard model (SM). These searches are based on a data sample of pp collisions collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 inverse femtobarns. The decays H to hh and A to Zh, where h denotes an SM-like Higgs boson, lead to events with three or more isolated charged leptons or with a photon pair accompanied by one or more isolated leptons. The search results are presented in terms of the H and A production cross sections times branching fractions and are further interpreted in terms of 2HDM parameters. We place 95% CL cross section upper limits of approximately 7 pb on sigma times B for H to hh and 2 pb for A to Zh. Also presented are the results of a search for the rare decay of the top quark that results in a charm quark and an SM Higgs boson, t to ch, the existence of which would indicate a nonzero flavor-changing Yukawa coupling of the top quark to the Higgs boson. We place a 95% CL upper limit of 0.56% on B(t to ch).
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Study on the Bunch Lengthening and Its Related Instability on BEPC
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Proposal for direct measurement of a pure spin current by a polarized light beam.
The photon helicity may be mapped to a spin-1/2, whereby we put forward an intrinsic interaction between a polarized light beam as a "photon spin current" and a pure spin current in a semiconductor, which arises from the spin-orbit coupling in valence bands as a pure relativity effect without involving the Rashba or the Dresselhaus effect due to inversion asymmetries. The interaction leads to linear and circular optical birefringence, which are similar to the Voigt effect and the Faraday rotation in magneto-optics but nevertheless involve no net magnetization. The birefringence effects provide a direct, nondemolition measurement of pure spin currents.