118457882
Towards a warped inflationary brane scanning
We present a detailed systematics for comparing warped brane inflation with the observations, incorporating the effects of both moduli stabilization and ultraviolet bulk physics. We explicitly construct an example of the inflaton potential governing the motion of a mobile D3 brane in the entire warped deformed conifold. This allows us to precisely identify the corresponding scales of the cosmic microwave background. The effects due to bulk fluxes or localized sources are parametrized using gauge/string duality. We next perform some sample scannings to explore the parameter space of the complete potential, and first demonstrate that without the bulk effects there can be large degenerate sets of parameters with observationally consistent predictions. When the bulk perturbations are included, however, the observational predictions are generally spoiled. For them to remain consistent, the magnitudes of the additional bulk effects need to be highly suppressed.
118687033
Moduli space and wall-crossing formulae in higher-rank gauge theories
A bstractWe study the interplay between wall-crossing in four-dimensional gauge theory and instanton contributions to the moduli space metric of the same theory on $\mathbb{R}^{3}\times S^{1}$. We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ SUSY Yang-Mills with gauge group SU(n) and focus on walls of marginal stability which extend to weak coupling. By comparison with explicit field theory results we verify the Kontsevich-Soibelman formula for the change in the BPS spectrum at these walls and check the smoothness of the metric in the corresponding compactified theory. We also verify in detail the predictions for the one instanton contribution to the metric coming from the non-linear integral equations of Gaiotto, Moore and Nietzke.
17544914
Precision test of AdS/CFT in Lunin-Maldacena background
We obtain the solutions and explicitly calculate the energy for a class of two-spin semiclassical string states in the Lunin-Maldacena background. These configurations are the β-deformed versions of the folded string solutions in AdS5 × S5 background. They correspond to certain single trace operators in the = 1 superconformal β deformation of = 4 Yang-Mills. We calculate the one loop anomalous dimension for the dual single trace operators from the associated twisted spin chain with a general two-cut distribution of Bethe roots. Our results show a striking match between the two calculations. We demonstrate the natural identification of parameters on the two sides of the analysis, and explain the significance of the Virasoro constraint associated with the winding motion of semiclassical strings from the perspective of the spin chain solution.
17995666
On the scattering of magnon boundstates
We study the scattering of magnon boundstates in the spin-chain description of planar = 4 SUSY Yang-Mills. Starting from the conjectured exact S-matrix for magnons in the SU(2) sector, we calculate the corresponding S-matrix for boundstates with an arbitrary number of constituent magnons. The resulting expression has an interesting analytic structure with both simple and double poles. We also calculate the semiclassical S-matrix for the scattering of the corresponding excitations on the string worldsheet known as Dyonic Giant Magnons. We find precise agreement with the magnon boundstate S-matrix in the limit of large 't Hooft coupling.
119200064
Notes on wall crossing and instanton in compactified gauge theory with matter
We study the quantum effects on the Coulomb branch of $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ SU(2) super-symmetric Yang-Mills with fundamental matters compactified on $ {\mathbb{R}^3} \times {S^1} $, and extract the explicit perturbative and leading non-perturbative corrections to the moduli space metric predicted from the recent work of Gaiotto, Moore and Neitzke on wall-crossing [1]. We verify the predicted metric by computing the leading weak coupling instanton contribution to the four fermion correlation using standard field theory techniques, and demonstrate perfect agreement. We also demonstrate how previously known three dimensional quantities can be recovered in appropriate small radius limit, and provide a simple geometric picture from brane construction.
119213771
A 5d/3d duality from relativistic integrable system
A bstractWe propose and prove a new exact duality between the F-terms of supersymmetric gauge theories in five and three dimensions with adjoint matter fields. The theories are compactified on a circle and are subject to the Ω deformation. In the limit proposed by Nekrasov and Shatashvili, the supersymmetric vacua become isolated and are identified with the eigenstates of a quantum integrable system. The effective twisted superpotentials are the Yang-Yang functional of the relativistic elliptic Calogero-Moser model. We show that they match on-shell by deriving the Bethe ansatz equation from the saddle point of the five-dimensional partition function. We also show that the Chern-Simons terms match and extend our proposal to the elliptic quiver generalizations.
119277497
Meson exchange effects in elastic ep scattering at loop level and the electromagnetic form factors of the proton
A new form of two-photon exchange (TPE) effect is studied to explain the discrepancy between unpolarized and polarized experimental data in elastic ep scattering. The mechanism is based on a simple idea that apart from the usual TPE effects from box and crossed-box diagrams, the mesons may also be exchanged in elastic ep scattering by two-photon coupling at loop level. The detailed study shows such contributions to reduced unpolarized cross section (sigma(un)) and polarized observables (P-t, P-l) at fixed Q(2) are only dependent on proton's electromagnetic form factors G(E,M) and a new unknown universal parameter g. After combining this contribution with the usual TPE contributions from box and crossed-box diagrams, the ratio mu(p)G(E)/G(M) extracted from the recent precise unpolarized and polarized experimental data can be described consistently.
121288070
A strategy for the precision measurement of MW at the threshold of the W-pair production☆
Abstract A data-driven maximum likelihood scanning strategy (BES method), which has been successfully used to measure the τ mass, is proposed to measure M W near the threshold of the W + W − production at LEP phase II. The Monte Carlo study has shown that with about 45 pb −1 per experiment, and combining the number of W + W − events from the 4 LEP experiments, one could obtain an accuracy on M W of 77 MeV (statistical error only) with the data-driven maximum likelihood search. With the proposed luminosity at the threshold, the statistical error is dominant in the uncertainties of the measurement.
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PROSPECT OF PARTICLE PHYSICS IN CHINA
The nuclear physics and particle physics researches in China have a long tradition. BEPC is a milestone of the particle physics in China. The many interesting physics results were obtained from BEPC. Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility based on BEPC became the major synchrotron radiation facility in China. The upgrade of BEPC, which will increase the luminosity by two orders of magnitude, is going smoothly. The nonaccelerator based experiments were promoted also. Professor Yang made very important contribution to Chinese physics, especially to promote the large science facilities for the multiple discipline researches. The particle physics faces the great challenges, and meets the great opportunities in the 21st century. The medium-term plan of the particle physics in China was discussed.
119226323
Connecting mirror symmetry in 3D and 2D via localization
We explicitly apply localization results to study the interpolation between three- and two-dimensional mirror symmetries for Abelian gauge theories with four supercharges. We first use the ellipsoid partition functions to verify the mirror symmetry between a pair of general three-dimensional 𝒩 = 2 Abelian Chern–Simons quiver gauge theories. These expressions readily factorize into holomorphic blocks and their antiholomorphic copies, so we can also obtain the partition functions on S1×S2 via fusion procedure. We then demonstrate S1×S2 partition functions for the three-dimensional Abelian gauge theories can be dimensionally reduced to the S2 partition functions of 𝒩 = (2, 2) GLSM and Landau–Ginzburg model for the corresponding two-dimensional mirror pair, as anticipated previously in M. Aganagic et al., J. High Energy Phys.0107, 022 (2001). We also comment on the analogous interpolation for the non-Abelian gauge theories and compute the K-theory vortex partition function for a simple limit to verify the prediction from holomorphic block.
209930395
Extraction of the structure functions in tau -> 3 pi nu decay using Li model
The structure functions in the tau --> 3 pi nu decay are extracted using the model proposed by Li. The predictions of Li model are compared with KS ones and the data from OPAL experiment. It is found that predictions by the model for w(A)(Q(2)) are consistent with the data except for in the high energy region (Q(2) > 1.2 GeV2), and w(C), w(D), w(E) normalized to w(A) are in reasonable agreement with the experimental results. Correction factors to the Breit-Wigner distribution of a(1) and the Lagrangian of this decay are proposed to the model.