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ON POSSIBLE EXTRACTION OF ONE PHOTON EXCHANGE IN INELASTIC DIFFRACTIVE PROCESSES.
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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.
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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Multiple Hadron Production in Parton {QCD} Jets
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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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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.
120263136
Higher twist effects in the Drell‐Yan process
We calculate the angular distribution of the lepton produced in the Drell‐Yan reaction taking into account pion bound state effects. We work in the kinematic region where one of the pion constituents goes far off shell, which allows us to treat the bound state problem pertubatively. We show that the angular distribution is very sensitive to the shape of the pion distribution amplitude. The model we discuss fits the data if we choose a two‐humped pion distribution amplitude suggested by QCD sum rules.
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A Brief history of the stringy instanton
The arcane ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons can be very naturally understood in the framework of D-brane dynamics in string theory. In this point-of-view, the mysterious auxiliary symmetry of the ADHM construction arises as a gauge symmetry and the instantons are modified at short distances where string effects become important. By decoupling the stringy effects, one can recover all the instanton formalism, including the all-important volume form on the instanton moduli space. We describe applications of the instanton calculus to the AdS/CFT correspondence and higher derivative terms in the D3-brane effective action. In these applications, there is an interesting relation between instanton partition functions, the Euler characteristic of instanton moduli space and modular symmetry. We also describe how it is now possible to do multi-instanton calculations in gauge theory and we resolve an old puzzle involving the gluino condensate in supersymmetric QCD.
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Instantons, three-dimensional gauge theory, and the Atiyah-Hitchin manifold
Abstract We investigate quantum effects on the Coulomb branch of three-dimensional N = 4 super-symmetric gauge theory with gauge group SU (2). We calculate perturbative and one-instanton contributions to the Wilsonian effective action using standard weak-coupling methods. Unlike the four-dimensional case, and despite supersymmetry, the contribution of non-zero-modes to the instanton measure does not cancel. Our results allow us to fix the weak-coupling boundary conditions for the differential equations which determine the hyper-Kahler metric on the quantum moduli space. We confirm the proposal of Seiberg and Witten that the Coulomb branch is equivalent, as a hyper-Kahler manifold, to the centered moduli space of two BPS monopoles constructed by Atiyah and Hitchin.
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RG invariants, unification and the role of the messenger scale in General Gauge Mediation
In General Gauge Mediation (GGM) all MSSM soft sfermion masses at a high scale Mmess can be parameterised by three a priori independent scales ΛS; 1,2,3(Mmess). (Similarly the gaugino masses are given by ΛG; 1,2,3(Mmess).) For the first two generations this parameterisation in terms of a set of running ΛS; 1,2,3(μ) — conveniently obtained from appropriate RG invariants — continues to hold all the way down to the electroweak scale. This is not the case for the third generation because of the large Yukawa couplings. Together these two observations imply that the messenger scale is an additional parameter of GGM models.In models where all messengers are in complete GUT multiplets (without significant mass splittings), all ΛS,r are equal at Mmess. Starting from the observable mass spectrum at the electroweak scale we present a strategy to determine if this unification occurs and at which scale. This approach uses data accessible at colliders to gain insight into high scale unification physics beyond the unification of gauge couplings.
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Uplifting amplitudes in special kinematics
A bstractWe consider scattering amplitudes in planar $ \mathcal{N} $ = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in special kinematics where all external four-dimensional momenta are restricted to a (1+1)-dimensional subspace. The amplitudes are known to satisfy non-trivial factorisation properties arising from multi-collinear limits, which we further study here. We are able to find a general solution to these multi-collinear limits. This results in a simple formula which represents an n-point superamplitude in terms of a linear combination of functions Sm which are constrained to vanish in all appropriate multi-collinear limits. These collinear-vanishing building blocks, Sm, are dual-conformally-invariant functions which depend on the reduced m-point kinematics with 8 ≤ m ≤ 4ℓ. For MHV amplitudes they can be constructed directly using, for example, the approach in ref. [1]. This procedure provides a universal uplift of lower-point collinearly vanishing building blocks Sm to all higher-point amplitudes. It works at any loop-level ℓ ≥ 1 and for any MHV or NkMHV amplitude. We compare this with explicit examples involving n-point MHV amplitudes at 2-loops and 10-point MHV amplitudes at 3-loops. Tree-level superamplitudes have different properties and are treated separately from loop-level amplitudes in our approach. To illustrate this we derive an expression for n-point tree-level NMHV amplitudes in special kinematics.