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Effective Fractional Hall Effect with Pseudo-Photons
At variational level in the framework of dimensional reduced 'U_e(1)\times U_g(1)' electromagnetism it is considered an anyon Landau-Ginzburg Chern-Simons model for the fractional Hall effect. The collective gauge fields are due to pseudo-photons (...). We show that the model contains both magnetic vortexes due to the internal photons (interpreted as quasi-particles) and electric vortexes due to the internal pseudo-photons (interpreted as quasi-holes) that account for the anyon quantized magnetic flux and fractional electric charges, respectively. The effective magnetic flux is the only effective effect attributed to the standard internal photon which ensures compatibility between the pseudo nature of Laughlin's wave functions and macroscopical parity 'P' and time-inversion 'T' symmetries. In this way the model preserves these symmetries both at variational level and at the level of the electromagnetic equations. In particular holds the usual fractional Hall conductances with the Hall conductance '\hat{\sigma}_H' being a pseudo-scalar consistently with the electric Hall current equation. The negative energy contribution of quasi-holes to the Laughlin's wave function (...) is justified and the quantization of magnetic flux is directly equivalent to the Dirac's quantization condition applied to the coupling constants, or fundamental unit charges 'e' and 'g'. If our framework proves to be correct, quantization of magnetic flux may be the most direct evidence for Dirac's quantization condition. Our results also indicate that pseudo-photons electric vortex may give a theoretical justification for the electric potential between layers of bi-layer Hall systems.
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Canonical Functional Quantization of Pseudo‐Photons in Planar Systems
Extended Ue(1)×Ug(1) electromagnetism containing both a photon and a pseudo‐photon is introduced at the variational level and is justified by the violation of the Bianchi identities in conceptual systems, either in the presence of magnetic monopoles or non‐regular external fields, not being accounted for by the standard Maxwell Lagrangian. A dimensional reduction is carried out that yields a Ue(1)×Ug(1) Maxwell‐BF type theory and a canonical functional quantization in planar systems is considered which may be relevant in Hall systems.
118480062
Landau-Ginzburg Chern-Simons model with Ue(1)xUg(1) Gauge Symmetry and Internal Pseudo-Photons
In this article it is studied, at variational level, a mathematical setup given by the Landau-Ginzburg Chern-Simons model for anyons in 2+1-dimensions within the framework of dimensional reduced Ue(1)xUg(1) extended electromagnetism with both vector gauge fields (photons) and pseudo-vector gauge fields (pseudo-photons) such that both magnetic and electric vortexes coexist in the planar system. This model exhibits explicit planar P and T discrete symmetries being the Hall conductivity consistently a tensor and the Dirac quantization on the electric and magnetic coupling constants is equivalent to the quantization of magnetic flux. It is also discussed a thickening to 4-dimensions of the model with explicit 4-dimensional P violation which allows either for electric and magnetic charge separation, either for the Meissner effect. Although mathematically consistent, the electromagnetic field content for this model does not coincide with the standard Hall effect being present an extra orthogonal electric and longitudinal magnetic fields.
119098673
Pseudo-Photon Radiative Corrections in Non-Regular Backgrounds
Extended $U_e(1)\times U_g(1)$ electromagnetism containing both a photon and a pseudo-photon is introduced at variational level and is justified by the violation of the Bianchi identities in conceptual systems, either in the presence of magnetic monopoles or non-regular external fields, not being accounted by the standard Maxwell action. It is shown that in the perturbative quantum field theory regimes there are observable consequences both for the magnetic momenta and second order vacuum polarization radiative corrections in the presence of non-regular strong electromagnetic fields (e.g. rotating magnetic fields).
6355453
Rotating Electric Classical Solutions of 2+1 D U(1) Einstein Maxwell Chern-Simons
We study electric stationary radial symmetric classical solutions of the U(1) Einstein Maxwell Chern-Simons theory coupled to a gravitational massless scalar field with a cosmological constant in 2+1 dimensions. Generic aspects of the theory are discussed at an introductory level. We study solutions for both negative sign (standard) and positive sign (ghost) of the gauge sector concluding that although the expressions for the solutions are the same, the constants as well as the physics change significantly. It is found a rotating electric point particle. For the standard sign and specific values of the parameters corresponding to solutions with positive mass the singularity is dressed (in the sense that itself constitutes an horizon). The space-time curvatures can be both positive or negative depending on the dominance of the scalar or topologically massive matter. The Chern-Simons term is responsible for interesting features, besides only allowing for rotating solutions, it imposes restrictive bounds on the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ such that it belongs to a positive interval and is switch on and off by the topological mass $m^2$. Furthermore the charge, angular momentum and mass of the particle solution are expressed uniquely as functions of the ratio between the cosmological constant and the topological mass squared $x=\Lambda/m^2$. The main drawback of our particle solution is that the mass is divergent. Our background is a rotating flat space without angular deficit. We briefly discuss parity and time-inversion violation by the Chern-Simons term which is explicit in the solutions obtained, their angular momentum only depends on the relative sign between the Chern-Simons term and the Maxwell term. Trivial solutions are briefly studied holding non-singular extended configurations.
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From compact U(1) Maxwell Chern-Simons to Azbel-Hofstadter: Testing magnetic monopoles and gravity to approximately 10**-17 meters on a nearby laboratory
18964730
Probing wrong-sign Yukawa couplings at the LHC and a future linear collider
We consider the two-Higgs-doublet model as a framework in which to evaluate the viability of scenarios in which the sign of the coupling of the observed Higgs boson to down-type fermions (in particular, b-quark pairs) is opposite to that of the Standard Model (SM), while at the same time all other tree-level couplings are close to the SM values. We show that, whereas such a scenario is consistent with current LHC observations, both future running at the LHC and a future e +e − linear collider could determine the sign of the Higgs coupling to b-quark pairs. Discrimination is possible for two reasons. First, the interference between the b-quark and the t-quark loop contributions to the ggh coupling changes sign. Second, the charged-Higgs loop contribution to the γγh coupling is large and fairly constant up to the largest charged-Higgs mass allowed by tree-level unitarity bounds when the b-quark Yukawa coupling has the opposite sign from that of the SM (the change in sign of the interference terms between the b-quark loop and the W and t loops having negligible impact).
17460509
Simultaneous Estimation of Noise and Signal in Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments
To correctly analyse data sets from current microwave detection technology, one is forced to estimate the sky signal and experimental noise simultaneously. Given a time-ordered data set we propose a formalism and method for estimating the signal and associated errors without prior knowledge of the noise power spectrum. We derive the method using a Bayesian formalism and relate it to the standard methods; in particular we show how this leads to a change in the estimate of the noise covariance matrix of the sky signal. We study the convergence and accuracy of the method on two mock observational strategies and discuss its application to a currently-favoured calibration procedure.
14689706
Microwave Anisotropies from Random Sources
I report on recent developments in the theory of cosmic background radiation perturbations. I describe ways of modeling alternatives to the canonical Gaussian theories within the standard framework of cosmological perturbation theory. Some comments are made on using these techniques to resolve the uncertainties in theories of structure formation with topological defects. (To appear in the proceedings of the XXXIth Moriond meeting, ``Microwave Background Anisotropies'')
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Are there hidden scalars in LHC Higgs results?
A bstractThe Higgs boson recently discovered at the Large Hadron Collider has shown to have couplings to the remaining particles well within what is predicted by the Standard Model. The search for other new heavy scalar states has so far revealed to be fruitless, imposing constraints on the existence of new scalar particles. However, it is still possible that any existing heavy scalars would preferentially decay to final states involving the light Higgs boson thus evading the current LHC bounds on heavy scalar states. Moreover, decays of the heavy scalars could increase the number of light Higgs bosons being produced. Since the number of light Higgs bosons decaying to Standard Model particles is within the predicted range, this could mean that part of the light Higgs bosons could have their origin in heavy scalar decays. This situation would occur if the light Higgs couplings to Standard Model particles were reduced by a concomitant amount. Using a very simple extension of the SM — the two-Higgs doublet model — we show that in fact we could already be observing the effect of the heavy scalar states even if all results related to the Higgs are in excellent agreement with the Standard Model predictions.
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Do LEP results suggest that quarks have integer electric charges
We argue that recent results from two-photon processes at LEP are better explained by quarks possessing integer electric charges.