116727157
Production of a pair of heavy quarks in e+ e- annihilation in the threshold region
The process of e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation to a pair of quarks for which the semiweak decay channels Q..-->..Wq are open is discussed. The total cross section of e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation to a pair of such quarks near threshold is obtained. This cross section is a calculable function of the quark mass and width and the coupling constant ..cap alpha../sub s/.
119379184
Radiative corrections to the hadronic cross-section measurement at DA$\Phi$NE
Abstract. The hadronic invariant mass distribution for the process of electron–positron annihilation into a pair of charged pions accompanied by a photon radiated from the initial state has been studied for the region of DA$\Phi$NE energies. The Born cross–section and the electromagnetic radiative corrections to it are calculated for realistic conditions of the KLOE detector. The dependence on the physical parameters which define the event selection is obtained.
119436494
QCD Interconnection Effects
Heavy objects like the W, Z and t are short-lived compared with typical hadronization times. When pairs of such particles are produced, the subsequent hadronic decay systems may therefore become interconnected. We study such potential effects at Linear Collider energies.
125850380
Multiple Hadron Production in Parton {QCD} Jets
117871006
Pomeron universality from identical pion correlations at the LHC
Abstract Bose–Einstein correlations of identical pions produced in high-energy pp collisions at the LHC allow a probe of the Pomeron exchange mechanism. The size of the domain which emits the pions depends on the multiplicity of events, but not on the collider energy. This confirms the universal structure of Pomeron exchange. The data at relatively low multiplicities indicate that the size of the source created by one-Pomeron exchange is much less than the size of the proton.
124029542
On the sensitivity of the inclusive distributions in parton jets to the coherence effects in QCD gluon cascades
The KNO multiplicity distributions and properties of two-particle correlations in QCD jets are considered in the framework of the perturbative approach accounting for effects of the coherence in the soft gluon bremsstrahlung.
118422000
Analytic results for MHV Wilson loops
We obtain concise analytic formulae for Wilson loops computed on special n-point polygonal contours through two-loops in weakly coupled $ \mathcal{N} = 4 $ supersymmetric gauge theory. The contours we consider can be embedded into a (1 + 1)-dimensional subspace of the 4-dimensional gauge theory, corresponding to the boundary of the AdS3 on the string theory side. Our analytic results hold for any number of edges, thus generalising to arbitrary n the recently derived expressions for 2-dimensional octagons. These polygonal Wilson loops have been conjectured to be equivalent to MHV scattering amplitudes in planar $ \mathcal{N} = 4 $ SYM.
120078928
Non-perturbative contribution to total cross sections in non-abelian gauge theories
Abstract We consider the instanton-induced contribution to the total cross section of vector boson scattering in the SU (2) gauge theory with and without Higgs mechanism. The exponential suppression of instanton-induced processes disappears asymptotically at energies for above the infrared cutoff for the instanton scale size, which is provided, in the Higgs (confinement) phase, by the vacuum expectation value (virtuality of the gluons). Instanton-induced processes may therefore be important in close-to-mass-shell gluon collisions. Our finding also suggests that electroweak baryon-and lepton-number violation with the associated production of many W-bosons may become important at very high energies.
123478544
Comment on thermal sphaleron transitions
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Multi-instantons do not stop the cross-section at half the 't Hooft suppression
Abstract Using the (1+1)-dimensional abelian Higgs model as a toy model we study the non-perturbative semiclassical behaviour of the total cross-section in the limit of large Higgs mass mh as compared to the vector boson mass mw. In the single-instanton approximation the total cross-section rises steeply with energy. The leading-order exponential suppression by the 't Hooft factor (twice the instanton action) disappears at energies near the sphaleron energy. Above the sphaleron energy semiclassical methods based on the instanton/anti-instanton valley break down. The influence of multi-instanton contributions is found to be completely negligible up to energies of the order of the sphaleron energy.
14098895
Gluino condensate and magnetic monopoles in supersymmetric gluodynamics
We examine supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories on R3 × S1 with a circle of circumference β. These theories interpolate between four-dimensional N = 1 pure gauge theory for β = ∞ and three-dimensional N = 2 gauge theory for β = 0. The dominant field configurations of the R3 × S1 SU(N) theories in the semi-classical regime arise from N varieties of monopole. Periodic instanton configurations correspond to mixed configurations of N single monopoles of the N different types. We semi-classically evaluate the non-perturbatively generated superpotential of the R3 × S1 theory and hence determine its vacuum structure. to the gluino condensate in these theories and take the decompactification limit β = ∞. In this way we obtain a value for the gluino condensate in the four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory, which agrees with the previously known ‘weak coupling’ expression but not with the ‘strong coupling’ expression derived in the early literature solely from instanton considerations. Moreover, we discover that the superpotential gives a mass to the dual (magnetic) photon, which implies confinement of the original electric photon and disappearance of all the massless modes.