17004434
Baryons and Skyrmions in QCD with Quarks in Higher Representations
We study the baryonic sector of QCD with quarks in the two-index symmetric or antisymmetric representation. The minimal gauge invariant state that carries baryon number cannot be identified with the Skyrmion of the low-energy chiral effective Lagrangian. Mass, statistics, and baryon number do not match. We carefully investigate the properties of the minimal baryon in the large N limit and we find that it is unstable under formation of bound states with higher baryonic number. These states match exactly with the properties of the Skyrmion of the effective Lagrangian.0.
17004434
Baryons and Skyrmions in QCD with Quarks in Higher Representations
We study the baryonic sector of QCD with quarks in the two-index symmetric or antisymmetric representation. The minimal gauge invariant state that carries baryon number cannot be identified with the Skyrmion of the low-energy chiral effective Lagrangian. Mass, statistics, and baryon number do not match. We carefully investigate the properties of the minimal baryon in the large N limit and we find that it is unstable under formation of bound states with higher baryonic number. These states match exactly with the properties of the Skyrmion of the effective Lagrangian.0.
15703412
Skyrmions in Orientifold and Adjoint QCD
This is a review of recent developments regarding the Skyrmion sector of higher representation QCD. Ordinary QCD is a SU(n) gauge theory with n_f Dirac quarks in the fundamental representation. Changing the representation of quarks leads to different and interesting theories, which are not as well studied as ordinary QCD. In order to be able to have a consistent asymptotically free large n limit, we must limit ourselves to three cases: two-index representation (symmetric or anti-symmetric) and adjoint representation. Skyrmions of the low-energy effective Lagrangian shall be the main subject of this review. There are puzzling aspects, both in orientifold and adjoint QCD, regarding the identification of the Skyrmion and its quantum stability, that have not yet been understood. We shall explain these problems and the solution we proposed for them. The first part is dedicated to the two-index representation. Here the challenge is to identify the correct particle in the spectrum that has to be identified with the Skyrmion. It turns out not to be the simplest baryon (as in ordinary QCD) but a baryonic state with higher charge, precisely composed by n(n\pm 1)/2 quarks. Although not the simplest among the baryons, it is the one that minimizes the mass per unit of baryonic charge and thus is the most stable among them. The second part is devoted to the quarks in the adjoint representation. The task here assume a different perspective. We do not have a baryon charge, like in ordinary QCD. An important role is now played by a massive fermion that must be considered in the low-energy effective Lagrangian. Through this fermion, the Skyrmion acquires an anomalous fermionic number (-1)^F and, as a consequence, an odd relationship between the latter and its spin/statistic. This implies a Z_2 stability of the Skyrmion.
119126143
Magnetic catalysis in AdS4
We study the formation of fermion condensates in anti-de Sitter space. In particular, we describe a novel version of magnetic catalysis that arises for fermions in asymptotically AdS4 geometries which cap off in the infrared with a hard wall. We show that in the presence of a magnetic field, a condensate develops in the bulk, spontaneously breaking CP symmetry. From the perspective of the dual boundary theory, this corresponds to a strongly coupled version of d = 2 + 1 magnetic catalysis.
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MULTI-VORTICES WITH LARGE MAGNETIC FLUX
17078274
Stable vs. unstable vortices in SQCD
We give a topological classification of stable and unconfined massive particles and strings (and some instantons) in worldvolume theories of M5-branes and their dimensional reductions, generalizing Witten's classification of strings in SYM. In particular 4d = 2 SQCD softly broken to = 1 contains torsion (Douglas-Shenker) N-strings and nontorsion (Hanany-Tong) -strings. Some of the former are stable when the flavor symmetry is gauged, while those that are not stable confine quarks and in some vacua even dyons into baryons. The nontorsion strings are stable if and only if all colors are locked to flavors, which is weaker than the BPS condition. As a byproduct unstable string decay modes and approximate lifetimes are found. Cascading theories have no vortices stabilized by the topological charges treated here and in particular Gubser-Herzog-Klebanov axionic strings do not carry such a charge.
202135142
Local Muon Reconstruction in the Drift Tube Detectors
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Measurement of Drift Velocity in the CMS Barrel Muon Chambers at the CMS Magnet Test Cosmic Challenge
This note reports the results of the analysis performed on the data collected by the CMS Barrel Muon system during the Magnet Test-Cosmic Challenge, aimed to study the Drift Tube chambers behavior at the nominal value of the CMS magnetic field. In particular, the analysis is devoted to the study of the drift velocity in the various equipped regions of the apparatus. It is shown that the drift velocity is significantly affected by the presence of a residual magnetic field in the chamber volume only in the innermost stations, MB1, of Wheel+2; where the maximal variation inside the chamber is of 4 percent, which does not prevent a good functionality of the DT trigger even in this most critical region.
209916255
Muon Detection in CMS: From the Detector Commissioning to the Standard Model Higgs Search
208850743
W/Z and diboson production at hadron colliders
A general review of the latest results about single and double vector boson production in the multipurpose experiments at LHC (ATLAS and CMS) and at Tevatron (CDF and D0) will be presented. The review will focus on boson production, while a more detailed report about W and Z properties can be found elsewhere. Only leptonic decays into electrons and muons will be considered.
11160721
Higgs at LHC
An overview of recent theoretical results on the Higgs boson and its discovery strategy at ATLAS and CMS will be presented, focusing on the main Higgs analysis effective with low integrated luminosity (less than 30 fb^-1).