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Central exclusive meson production in the perturbative regime
Selected new results on central exclusive production (CEP) processes within the pQCD-based Durham model are discussed.
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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.
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Multiple Hadron Production in Parton {QCD} Jets
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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.
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.
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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.
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MHV Rules for Higgs Plus Multi-Gluon Amplitudes
We use tree-level perturbation theory to show how non-supersymmetric oneloop scattering amplitudes for a Higgs boson plus an arbitrary number of partons can be constructed, in the limit of a heavy top quark, from a generalization of the scalar graph approach of Cachazo, Svrček and Witten. The Higgs boson couples to gluons through a top quark loop which generates, for large mt, a dimension-5 operator H trGμνG μν . This effective interaction leads to amplitudes which cannot be described by the standard MHV rules; for example, amplitudes where all of the gluons have positive helicity. We split the effective interaction into the sum of two terms, one holomorphic (selfdual) and one antiholomorphic (anti-selfdual). The holomorphic interactions give a new set of MHV vertices — identical in form to those of pure gauge theory, except for momentum conservation — that can be combined with pure gauge theory MHV vertices to produce a tower of amplitudes with more than two negative helicities. Similarly, the anti-holomorphic interactions give anti-MHV vertices that can be combined with pure gauge theory anti-MHV vertices to produce a tower of amplitudes with more than two positive helicities. A Higgs boson amplitude is the sum of one MHV-tower amplitude and one anti-MHV-tower amplitude. We present all MHV-tower amplitudes with up to four negative-helicity gluons and any number of positive-helicity gluons (NNMHV). These rules reproduce all of the available analytic formulae for Higgs + n-gluon scattering (n ≤ 5) at tree level, in some cases yielding considerably shorter expressions.
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Screening of multi-instanton corrections to anomalous processes in the standard model
Abstract We calculate the multi-instanton contribution to the logarithm of the cross-section for (B+L)-violating (anomalous) high-energy collisions in the next-to-leading order (in terms of ( E M sp ) 2 3 ) approximation. It is demonstrated that in this approximation there is no sign of “premature unitarization” of anomalous processes, i.e. there is no indication that multi-instanton contributions become of the same magnitude as the single-instanton contribution at energies where the single-instanton result is still exponentially suppressed.
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Higgs vacuum stability from the dark matter portal
A bstractWe consider classically scale-invariant extensions of the Standard Model (CSI ESM ) which stabilise the Higgs potential and have good dark matter candidates. In this framework all mass scales, including electroweak and dark matter masses, are generated dynamically and have a common origin. We consider Abelian and non-Abelian hidden sectors portally coupled to the SM with and without a real singlet scalar. We perform a careful analysis of RG running to determine regions in the parameter space where the SM Higgs vacuum is stabilised. After combining this with the LHC Higgs constraints, in models without a singlet, none of the regained parameter space in Abelian ESMs, and only a small section in the non-Abelian ESM survives. However, in all singlet-extended models we find that the Higgs vacuum can be stabilised in all of the parameter space consistent with the LHC constraints. These models naturally contain two dark matter candidates: the real singlet and the dark gauge boson in non-Abelian models. We determine the viable range of parameters in the CSI ESM framework by computing the relic abundance, imposing direct detection constraints and combining with the LHC Higgs constraints. In addition to being instrumental in Higgs stabilisation, we find that the singlet component is required to explain the observed dark matter density.
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Instanton calculations in the β-deformed AdS/CFT correspondence
We consider non-perturbative effects in the β-deformed = 4 supersymmetric gauge theory in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We concentrate on certain types of the n-point correlation functions of the Yang-Mills operators which correspond to the lowest Kaluza-Klein modes propagating on the dual supergravity background found by Lunin and Maldacena in [1]. In particular, we calculate all multi-instanton contributions to these correlators in the β-deformed SYM and find a compelling agreement with the results expected in supergravity.
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Exact results in noncommutative = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories
We study the low-energy dynamics of noncommutative = 2 supersymmetric U(N) Yang-Mills theories in the Coulomb phase. Exact results are derived for the leading terms in the derivative expansion of the wilsonian effective action. We find that in the infrared regime the U(1) subgroup decouples, and the remaining SU(N) is described by the ordinary commutative Seiberg-Witten solution. IR/UV mixing is present in the U(1), but not in SU(N). Our analysis is based on explicit perturbative and multi-instanton calculations.