118735285
Central exclusive quarkonium production with tagged forward protons at RHIC
We study the Central Exclusive Production (CEP) of χcJ and ηc mesons at RHIC in proton–proton collisions. We consider the χcJ→J/ψ + γ decay channels and, recalling that the Jz=0 suppression of the J=1,2 states can be compensated by their larger branchings to J/ψ + γ, present predictions of rates and distributions for χc(0,1,2) production. Particular attention is paid to the impact of p⊥ cuts applied to the outgoing protons, which can influence the relative rates significantly. The distribution in the azimuthal angle difference between the outgoing protons and the proton $p_{\perp}^{2}$ is also studied, and shown to depend sensitively on the spin and parity of the centrally produced meson, as well as being affected by the soft-survival factors, S2. Two- and four-body decays, which are particularly relevant for χc0 production, are also considered. We show that in the two-body case, backgrounds from ‘direct’ QCD production based on both perturbative and non-perturbative models are expected to be under control.
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.
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.
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
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.
118711313
Multiparticle Higgs and vector boson amplitudes at threshold
A bstractIn a spontaneously broken gauge theory we consider (sub)-processes in which one virtual intermediate state (it can be a Higgs or a gauge field) produces many on-shell Higgses and massive vector bosons. In the kinematic regime where all final states are produced on their mass threshold, we show how to compute iteratively all tree-level amplitudes A1→n+m$$ {\mathcal{A}}_{1\to n+ m} $$ involving an arbitrary number n of Higgs bosons and m of longitudinal vector bosons in the final state, and list the amplitudes coefficients for up to n=32 and m=32. Wefindthattheseamplitudesexhibitfactorialgrowthnotonlyinthenumberof scalar fields, but also in the number of longitudinal gauge fields, A1→n+m$$ {\mathcal{A}}_{1\to n+ m} $$ ~ n! m!. This growth is not expected to disappear at loop-level in the fixed-order perturbation theory. We conclude that at energies accessible at the next generation of hadron colliders, such as the 50-100 TeV FCC, where s^$$ \sqrt{\widehat{s}} $$ is sufficient to produce ≫1/αW of W, Z and H, perturbation theory breaks down when applied to the multiparticle electroweak production, at least near the kinematic multiparticle mass threshold where the electroweak gauge-Higgs sector becomes strongly coupled.
9926951
The D instanton partition function
The D-instanton partition function is a fascinating quantity because in the presence of N D3-branes, and in a certain decoupling limit, it reduces to the functional integral of = 4 U(N) supersymmetric gauge theory for multi-instanton solutions. We study this quantity as a function of non-commutativity in the D3-brane theory, VEVs corresponding to separating the D3-branes and α'. Explicit calculations are presented in the one-instanton sector with arbitrary N, and in the large-N limit for all instanton charge. We find that for general instanton charge, the matrix theory admits a nilpotent fermionic symmetry and that the action is -exact. Consequently the partition function localizes on the minima of the matrix theory action. This allows us to prove some general properties of these integrals. In the non-commutative theory, the contributions come from the ``Higgs Branch'' and are equal to the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern integral of the resolved instanton moduli space. Separating the D3-branes leads to additional localizations on products of abelian instanton moduli spaces. In the commutative theory, there are additional contributions from the ``Coulomb Branch'' associated to the small instanton singularities of the instanton moduli space. We also argue that both non-commutativity and α'-corrections play a similar role in suppressing the contributions from these singularities. Finally we elucidate the relation between the partition function and the Euler characteristic of the instanton moduli space.
17672320
Wilsonian effective actions and the IR/UV mixing in noncommutative gauge theories
Using background field perturbation theory we study wilsonian effective actions of noncommutative gauge theories with an arbitrary matter content. We determine the wilsonian coupling constant and the gauge boson polarization tensor as functions of the momentum scale k at the one-loop level and study their short-distance behaviour as θ k→0, where θ is the noncommutativity parameter. The mixing between the short-distance and the long-distance degrees of freedom characteristic of noncommutative field theories violates the universality of the wilsonian action and leads to IR-singularities. We find, in agreement with known results, that the quadratic IR divergences cancel in supersymmetric gauge theories. The logarithmic divergences disappear in mass-deformed = 4 theories, but not in other finite = 2 theories. We next concentrate on finite = 2 and mass-deformed = 4 supersymmetric U(1) gauge theories with massive hypermultiplets. The wilsonian running coupling exhibits a non-trivial threshold behaviour at and well below the noncommutativity scale 1/√θ, eventually becoming flat in the extreme infrared in = 4 theories, but not in = 2 theories. This is interpreted as the (non)-existence of a non-singular commutative limit where the theory is described by a commutative = 2 pure U(1) theory. We expect that our analysis of finite theories is exact to all orders in perturbation theory.
121305872
Instanton vacuum in thermal QCD
The effects of instanton-anti-instanton interactions in high-temperature QCD with colour SU(2) are studied with and without quarks. The instanton potential proves to have no repulsive core, thus creating troubles with the definition of nonperturbative contributions to physical quantities. Also the chiral condensate is calculated, and it is shown to vanish if number of quark flavoursNf≧2, whereas forNf=1 it is nonzero for the arbitrary high temperature.
9965376
Telltale traces of U(1) fields in noncommutative standard model extensions
Restrictions imposed by gauge invariance in noncommutative spaces together with the effects of ultraviolet/infrared mixing lead to strong constraints on possible candidates for a noncommutative extension of the Standard Model. In this paper, we study a general class of 4-dimensional noncommutative models consistent with these restrictions. Specifically we consider models based upon a gauge theory with the gauge group U(N1) × U(N2) × ... × U(Nm) coupled to matter fields transforming in the (anti)-fundamental, bi-fundamental and adjoint representations. Noncommutativity is introduced using the Weyl-Moyal star-product approach on a continuous space-time. We pay particular attention to overall trace-U(1) factors of the gauge group which are affected by the ultraviolet/infrared mixing. We show that, in general, these trace-U(1) gauge fields do not decouple sufficiently fast in the infrared, and lead to sizable Lorentz symmetry violating effects in the low-energy effective theory. Making these effects unobservable in the class of models we consider would require pushing the constraint on the noncommutativity mass scale far beyond the Planck mass (MNC10100 MP) and severely limits the phenomenological prospects of such models.