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Casimir Effect in Compact Universes
The Casimir effect in compact hyperbolic Universes was numerically obtained in previous publications. In this talk, I expose these results.
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Casimir energy in a small volume multiply connected static hyperbolic preinflationary universe
A few years ago, Cornish, Spergel and Starkman (CSS) suggested that a multiply connected ''small'' universe could allow for classical chaotic mixing as a preinflationary homogenization process. The smaller the volume, the more important the process. Also, a smaller universe has a greater probability of being spontaneously created. Previously DeWitt, Hart and Isham (DHI) calculated the Casimir energy for static multiply connected flat space-times. Because of the interest in small volume hyperbolic universes (e.g., CSS), we generalize the DHI calculation by making a numerical investigation of the Casimir energy for a conformally coupled, massive scalar field in a static universe, whose spatial sections are the Weeks manifold, the smallest universe of negative curvature known. In spite of being a numerical calculation, our result is in fact exact. It is shown that there is spontaneous vacuum excitation of low multipolar components.
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BIANCHI I SOLUTIONS OF EFFECTIVE QUADRATIC GRAVITY
It is believed that soon after the Planck time, Einstein's general relativity theory should be corrected to an effective quadratic theory. Numerical solutions for the anisotropic generalization of the Friedmann "flat" model E3 for this effective gravity are given. It must be emphasized that although numeric, these solutions are exact in the sense that they depend only on the precision of the machine. The solutions are identified asymptotically in a certain sense. It is found solutions which asymptote de Sitter space, Minkowski space and a singularity. This work is a generalization for nondiagonal spatial metrics of a previous result obtained by one of us and a collaborator for Bianchi I spaces.
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A Study of Correlations Between Identified Charged Hadrons in Hadronic Z0 Decays
We present a preliminary study of correlations in rapidity between pairs of identified charged pions, kaons and protons in the SLD data. Details of short-range charge correlations between all combinations of these hadron species are used to study the locality of quantum number conservation, and suggest local charge ordering along the entire hadronization chain. A strong long-range K{sup +}K{sup -} correlation is observed at high-momentum and weaker long-range {pi}{sup +}-{pi}{sup -}, {pi}{sup +}-K{sup -} and p-K{sup -} correlations are observed in light flavor events, providing new information on leading particle production in u, d and s jets. The long-range correlations observed in c{bar c} and b{bar b} events are markedly different and consistent with expectations based on known decay properties of the leading heavy hadrons. The SLC electron beam polarization is used to tag the quark hemisphere in each event, allowing the first study of rapidities signed relative to the quark (vs. antiquark) direction. Distributions of ordered, signed rapidity differences provide a new probes of the fragmentation process, including the first direct observation of baryon number ordering along the q {yields} {bar q} axis.
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The concept of phenomenological light-front wave functions -- Regge improved diquark model predictions
We introduce a classification scheme for parton distribution models and we model generalized parton distributions (GPDs), their form factors, and parton distribution functions (PDFs), integrated and unintegrated ones, in terms of unintegrated double distributions that are obtained from the parton number conserved overlap of effective light-front wave functions. For a so-called "spherical" model we present general expressions for all twist-two related non-perturbative quantities in terms of one effective light-front wave function, including chiral-odd GPDs. We also discuss the Regge improvement of such quark models from the $s$-channel point of view and study the relations between zero-skewness GPDs and unintegrated PDFs on a more general ground. Finally, we provide a few phenomenological applications that emphasize the role of orbital angular momenta.
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A study of jet handedness in hadronic Z0 decays
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Precision tests of the Standard Model at electron colliders
We review electroweak physics studies in high-energy e + e − collisions at CERN and SLAC. Studies of couplings of the Z 0 boson to many of the fundamental fermions are now quite detailed, and those of the W ± bosons are well under way. Sensitivity to radiative corrections due to the massive top quark, the as yet undiscovered Higgs boson, and new physics at the TeV scale has been achieved. The Standard Model is consistent with all data, although further studies are indicated in several areas. In the absence of new physics, the Higgs mass is limited to <188 GeV/c2 at 95% C.L.
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ISR Hadron Production in $e^+e^-$ Annihilations and Meson-Photon Transition Form Factors
We present several recent results from the BaBar collaboration in the areas of initial state radiation physics and transition form factors. An updated study of the processes e + e − ! K + K − � + � − and e + e − ! K + K − � 0 � 0 provides an improved understanding of the Y (2175) meson. A very precise study of the process e + e − !� + � − improves the precision on the calculated anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and provides by far the best ]