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1997-07-25
Single top quark production as a probe of R-parity-violating SUSY at pp and p\bar p colliders
We investigate the ability of single top quark production via qq'-> squark->tb and q \bar q'->slepton->t\bar b at the LHC and Tevatron to probe the strength of R-parity violating couplings in the minimal supersymmetric model. We found that given the existing bounds on R-parity violating couplings, single top quark prod...
9707477v1
1998-01-20
Suppression of Pi NN* Coupling and Chiral Symmetry
Meson-baryon couplings between positive and negative parity nucleons are investigated using two point correlation functions in the soft meson and the chiral limit. We find that the pi NN* coupling vanishes due to chiral symmetry, while the eta NN* coupling remains finite. We perform an analysis based on the algebraic m...
9801354v1
1998-04-21
Probing anomalous top quark couplings at eγcolliders
We study in the effective Lagrangian approach the possibility of probing anomalous top quark charged current couplings in the single top production at a high energy e\gamma collider. We analyzed all possible dimension-six CP-conserving operators which can give rise to an anomalous Wtb coupling which represent new physi...
9804343v2
1998-04-21
CP Violation, Higgs Couplings, and Supersymmetry
Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model generically contain additional sources of CP violation. We discuss how at one loop a potentially large CP violating coupling of the lightest Higgs, h^0, to leptons is induced in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). The CP violating couplings of h^0 in extensi...
9804355v2
1998-04-28
The effect of Yukawa couplings on Unification Predictions and the non-perturbative limit
We investigate the effects of Yukawa couplings on the phenomenological predictions for a class of supersymmetric models which allows for the presence of complete SU(5) multiplets in addition to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model spectrum. We develop a two loop analytical approach to quantify the predictions for ...
9804437v2
1998-06-12
Triple Gauge Boson Couplings in Rare B and K Decays
We examine the sensitivity of flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) processes to anomalous triple gauge boson couplings. We show that in the non-linear realization of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector these processes are very sensitive to two CP conserving anomalous couplings. A clean separation of their effect...
9806360v3
1998-06-25
Single Top Quark Production via FCNC Couplings at Hadron Colliders
We calculate single top-quark production at hadron colliders via the chromo-magnetic flavor-changing neutral current couplings $\bar tcg$ and $\bar tug$. We find that the strength for the anomalous $\bar tcg$ ($\bar tug$) coupling may be probed to $\kappa_c / \Lambda = 0.092 {TeV}^{-1}$ ($\kappa_u / \Lambda = 0.026 {Te...
9806486v1
1998-09-01
CP-violating Z-gamma-gamma and top-quark electric dipole couplings in gamma gamma -> t bar{t}
An effective anomalous CP-violating Z-gamma-gamma coupling can give rise to observable CP-odd effects in gamma gamma -> t bar{t}. We study certain asymmetries in the decay lepton distributions in gamma gamma -> t bar{t} arising from top decay in the presence of a CP-violating Z-gamma-gamma coupling as well as a top-qua...
9809203v2
1999-03-19
Yukawa coupling corrections to stop, sbottom, and stau production in e+ e- annihilation
We calculate within the MSSM the one-loop Yukawa coupling corrections to the processes e+ e- \to stops, sbottoms, and staus in order of Yukawa coupling squared. These corrections are due to the exchange of charginos, neutralinos, charged and neutral Higgs bosons, and charged and neutral Higgs ghosts. We give the comple...
9903413v1
1999-07-06
String theoretic axion coupling and the evolution of cosmic structures
We examine the effects of the axion coupling to $R\tilde{R}$ on the evolution of cosmic structures. It is shown that the evolutions of the scalar- and vector-type perturbations are not affected by this axion coupling. However the axion coupling causes an asymmetric evolution of the two polarization states of the tensor...
9907244v1
1999-07-29
Dimensionless supersymmetry breaking couplings, flat directions, and the origin of intermediate mass scales
The effects of supersymmetry breaking are usually parameterized by soft couplings of positive mass dimensions. However, realistic models also predict the existence of suppressed, but non-vanishing, dimensionless supersymmetry-breaking couplings. These couplings are technically hard, but do not lead to disastrous quadra...
9907550v1
1999-08-31
Anomaly-Induced Gauge Unification and Brane/Bulk Couplings in Gravity-Localized Theories
It has recently been proposed that gravity-localized compactifications can generate the required gauge hierarchy without the need for hierarchically large extra spacetime dimensions. In this paper, we show that gauge coupling unification arises naturally in such scenarios as a result of the anomaly induced by the resca...
9908530v1
1999-09-06
Masses and Couplings of the Lightest Higgs Bosons in the (M+1)SSM
We study the upper limits on the mass of the lightest and second lightest CP even Higgs bosons in the (M+1)SSM, the MSSM extended by a gauge singlet. The dominant two loop contributions to the effective potential are included, which reduce the Higgs masses by 10 GeV. Since the coupling R of the lightest Higgs scalar to...
9909260v2
1999-10-05
Dynamical generation of the gauged SU(2) linear sigma model
The fermion and meson sectors of the quark-level SU(2) linear sigma model are dynamically generated from a meson-quark Lagrangian, with the quark (q) and meson ($\sigma,\pi$) fields all treated as elementary, having neither bare masses nor expectation values. In the chiral limit, the masses are predicted to be $m_q = f...
9910242v1
2000-02-03
Prospects of Measuring General Higgs Couplings at e^+e^- Linear Colliders
We examine how accurately the general HZV couplings, with V=Z,gamma, may be determined by studying e^+e^- --> Hff-bar processes at future e^+e^- linear colliders. By using the optimal-observable method, which makes use of all available experimental information, we find out which combinations of the various HZV coupling...
0002043v1
2000-02-09
Yukawa hierarchy from extra dimensions and infrared fixed points
We discuss the existence of hierarchy of Yukawa couplings in the models with extra spatial dimensions. The hierarchical structure is induced by the power behavior of the cutoff dependence of the evolution equations which yield large suppressions of couplings at the compactification scale. The values of coupling constan...
0002102v2
2000-02-16
A method for determining anomalous gauge boson couplings from e^{+}e^{-} experiments
We present a model-independent method for determining anomalous gauge boson couplings from ongoing and future e^{+}e^{-} -> W^{+} W^{-} experiments. First we generalize an already existing method, which relies on the study of four observables constructed through appropriate projections of the unpolarized differential c...
0002176v1
2000-02-28
Right-Handed Vector V and Axial A Couplings in Weak Interactions
In this paper a scenario admitting the participation of right-handed vector V and axial A couplings with the conservation of the left-handed standard (V, A) couplings is considered. The research is based on the muon capture by proton. We consider muon capture at the level of the Fermi theory (four-fermion point interac...
0002289v2
2000-03-03
On the $η$ and f$_1$(1420) Couplings to the Nucleon
We consider neutral pseudoscalar, $\eta $, and axial vector, $f_1(1420)$, mesons in the OZI-rule-respecting flavor basis, $\lbrace (\bar s s), {1\over \sqrt{2}}(\bar u u + \bar d d)\rbrace$, and suggest a scenario for their coupling to the nucleon. Within this framework, the non--strange parts of the $\eta N$ and f$_1 ...
0003023v1
2000-03-15
New and Standard Physics contributions to anomalous Z and gamma self-couplings
We examine the Standard and the New Physics (NP) contributions to the ZZZ, ZZgamma and Zgammagamma neutral gauge couplings. At the one-loop level, if we assume that there is no CP violation contained in NP beyond the Standard Model one, we find that only CP conserving neutral gauge couplings are generated, either from ...
0003143v1
2000-06-19
Higgs masses and couplings in the NMSSM
We give the upper bounds on the masses of the lightest and second lightest CP even Higgs bosons in the NMSSM, the MSSM extended by a gauge singlet. The dominant two loop corrections are included. Since the coupling R of the lightest Higgs scalar to gauge bosons can be small, we study in detail the relation between mass...
0006222v1
2000-08-11
Couplings of a Light Dilaton and Violations of the Equivalence Principle
Experimental discovery of the dilaton would provide strong evidence for string theory. A light dilaton could show up in current tests of the inverse square law for gravity at sub-millimeter distances. In the large extra dimension scenario, Kaluza-Klein excitations of the dilaton can also contribute to the cooling of su...
0008116v1
2001-04-05
Probing anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings via e+e- --> 4fermions+gamma
All lowest-order amplitudes for e+e- --> 4f+gamma are calculated including five anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings that are allowed by electromagnetic gauge invariance and the custodial SU(2)_c symmetry. Three of these anomalous couplings correspond to the operators L_0, L_c, and L_n that have been constrained by ...
0104057v2
2001-06-06
Computing the perturbative gluon condensate
The normalization of the gluon condensate and of renormalon-related power corrections in QCD is computed under the assumption that their ``perturbative'' part dominates over any eventual extra contribution from the non-trivial vacuum. The calculation is performed in the infrared finite coupling framework, assuming an i...
0106070v2
2001-06-13
On Testing for New Couplings in Top Quark Decay
To quantitatively assay future measurements of competing observables in t --> W b decay, we consider the g_{V-A} coupling values of the helicity decay parameters versus those for "(V-A)+ Single Additional Lorentz Structures". There are 2 dynamical phase-type ambiguities. Associated with the latter (f_M + f_E) ambiguity...
0106137v1
2001-06-27
Extracting the Flavour Structure of a Baryon-Number R-parity Violating Coupling at the LHC
The detection of the flavour content of jets produced from R-parity violating neutralino decays is investigated in the case where one baryon-number violating coupling dominates. Simulations are performed of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC for all couplings, other than lambda"_tjk since neutralino decays through these c...
0106304v1
2001-09-20
Factorization and Resummation of Small x Scaling Violations with Running Coupling
We discuss the inclusion of running coupling effects in perturbative small x evolution equations. We show that a running coupling BFKL-like x-evolution equation is fully compatible, up to higher twist corrections, with the standard factorized perturbative evolution of parton distributions. We then use this result, comb...
0109178v1
2001-09-28
Loop induced Higgs and Z boson couplings to Neutralinos and implications for collider and Dark Matter searches
We calculate the one-loop induced couplings of two gaugino-like neutralinos to the $Z$ and Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. These couplings, which vanish at the tree level, can be generated through loops involving fermions and sfermions. We show that, while the neutralino contribution to the i...
0109283v2
2001-10-28
Infrared quasi-fixed solutions in the NMSSM
The considerable part of the parameter space in the MSSM corresponding to the infrared quasi fixed point scenario is almost excluded by LEP II bounds on the lightest Higgs boson mass. In the NMSSM the mass of the lightest Higgs boson reaches its maximum value in the strong Yukawa coupling limit when Yukawa couplings ar...
0110363v1
2001-11-08
Couplings between pion and charmed mesons
We compute the couplings $DD^*\pi$,$D_1D^*\pi$,$D^*D^*\pi$, $D_1 D_1\pi$ using QCD sum rules. These couplings are important inputs in the meson exchange model calculations used to estimate the amount of $J/\psi$ absorption due to pions and rho mesons in heavy ion collisions. Our sum rules are constructed at the first o...
0111087v1
2001-12-24
Triple Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings in Noncommutative Standard Model
It has been shown recently that the triple neutral gauge boson couplings are not uniquely determined in noncommutative extension of the Standard Model (NCSM). Depending on specific schemes used, the couplings are different and may even be zero. To distinguish different realizations of the NCSM, additional information e...
0112320v1
2001-12-28
Infrared Quasi Fixed Point Structure in Extended Yukawa Sectors and Application to R-parity Violation
We investigate one-loop renormalization group evolutions of extended sectors of Yukawa type couplings. It is shown that Landau Poles which usually provide necessary low energy upper bounds that saturate quickly with increasing initial value conditions, lead in some cases to the opposite behaviour: some of the low energ...
0112353v1
2002-03-01
Constraining the variation of the coupling constants with big bang nucleosynthesis
We consider the possibility of the coupling constants of the $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ gauge interactions at the time of big bang nucleosynthesis having taken different values from what we measure at present, and investigate the allowed difference requiring the shift in the coupling constants not violate the succe...
0203006v1
2002-03-18
Neutrino masses and unification of the gauge and Yukawa couplings
There is a convincing experimental evidence that neutrinos are massive. Therefore we investigate the influence of the neutrino masses on the unification of gauge and Yukawa couplings in the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We estimate the contribution of the neutrino Yukawa coupling to the gauge ...
0203168v3
2002-04-19
The Coupling of eta Mesons to Quarks and Baryons from D_s^* -> D_s pi^0 Decay
The known ratio of the branching fractions for D_s^* --> D_s pi^0 and D_s^* --> D_s gamma may be used to extract the coupling of eta mesons to strange quarks once the value of the pi^0-eta mixing angle is known. This requires that realistic models for the spectra as well as the magnetic dipole (M1) decays of the heavy-...
0204230v2
2002-04-26
Probing anomalous right-handed top quark couplings in rare B decays
We explore the anomalous right-handed $\bar{t}sW$ and $\bar{t}bW$ couplings using $ B \to X_s \gamma$ and $B \to X_s l^+ l^-$ decays induced by the flavour-changing penguin diagrams. The anomalous $\bar{t}sW$ coupling can yield 10% enhancement of the $B \to X_s l^+ l^-$ decay rate under the constraint from the present ...
0204303v4
2002-05-08
Yukawa Hierarchy Transfer Based on Superconformal Dynamics and Geometrical Realization in String Models
We propose a scenario that leads to hierarchical Yukawa couplings and degenerate sfermion masses at the same time, in the context of extra-dimensional models, which can be naturally embedded in a wide class of string models. The hierarchy of Yukawa couplings and degeneracy of sfermion masses can be realized thanks to s...
0205071v1
2002-05-22
Phenomenology of A Three-Family Standard-like String Model
We discuss the phenomenology of a three-family supersymmetric Standard-like Model derived from the orientifold construction, in which the ordinary chiral states are localized at the intersection of branes at angles. In addition to the Standard Model group, there are two additional U(1)' symmetries, one of which has fam...
0205252v2
2002-07-01
Radius-dependent gauge unification in AdS5
We examine the relation of the 4-dimensional low energy coupling of bulk gauge boson in a slice of AdS5 to the 5-dimensional fundamental couplings as a function of the orbifold radius R. This allows us to address the gauge coupling unification in AdS5 by means of the radius running as well as the conventional momentum ...
0207013v3
2002-08-09
Phenomenological tests for the freezing of the QCD running coupling constant
We discuss phenomenological tests for the frozen infrared behavior of the running coupling constant and gluon propagators found in some solutions of Schwinger-Dyson equations of the gluonic sector of QCD. We verify that several observables can be used in order to select the different expressions of alpha_s found in the...
0208095v2
2002-09-12
Time Variations in the Scale of Grand Unification
We study the consequences of time variations in the scale of grand unification, $M_U$, when the Planck scale and the value of the unified coupling at the Planck scale are held fixed. We show that the relation between the variations of the low energy gauge couplings is highly model dependent. It is even possible, in pri...
0209134v2
2002-10-07
Decoupling behaviour of O(m_t^4) corrections to the h^0 self-couplings
The decoupling behaviour of the leading one-loop Yukawa-coupling contributions of O(m_t^4) to the lightest MSSM Higgs boson self-couplings, when the top-squarks are heavy as compared to the electroweak scale, are discussed. As shown analytically and numerically, the large corrections can almost completely be absorbed i...
0210108v3
2002-10-08
Calculating the pion decay constant from α_s(M_Z)
We revisit the analysis of the improved ladder Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation for the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in QCD with emphasizing the importance of the scale ambiguity. Previous calculation done so far naively used one-loop MSbar coupling in the improved ladder SD equation without examining the scale ambi...
0210115v1
2002-11-24
Bounds on the Coupling of the Majoron to Light Neutrinos from Supernova Cooling
We explore the role of Majoron ($J$) emission in the supernova cooling process, as a source of upper bound on neutrino-Majoron coupling. We show that the strongest upper bound on the coupling to $\nu_e$ comes from the $\nu_e\nu_e \to J $ process in the core of a supernova. We also find bounds on diagonal couplings of...
0211375v3
2003-01-15
Nuclear A-dependence near the Saturation Boundary
The A-dependence of the saturation momentum and the scaling behavior of the scattering of a small dipole on a nuclear target are studied in the McLerran-Venugopalan model, in fixed coupling BFKL dynamics and in running coupling BFKL dynamics. In each case, we find scaling not too far from the saturation boundary, altho...
0301109v1
2003-01-24
Excited Baryons in Large N_c QCD Revisited: The Resonance Picture Versus Single-Quark Excitations
We analyze excited baryon properties via a 1/N_c expansion from two perspectives: as resonances in meson-nucleon scattering, and as single-quark excitations in the context of a simple quark model. For both types of analysis one can derive novel patterns of degeneracy that emerge as N_c --> \infty, and that are shown to...
0301219v1
2003-09-30
Lower limits on R-parity-violating couplings in supersymmetric models with light squarks
We interpret the results of searches for strongly interacting massive particles to place absolute lower limits on R-parity-violating couplings for squarks with mass (m_\tilde{q}) below 100 GeV. Recent searches for anomalous isotopes require that there be a baryon-number-violating or lepton-number-violating coupling lar...
0310001v2
2003-10-14
Probing Anomalous Top-Quark Couplings Induced by Dim.6 Operators at Photon Colliders
Possible anomalous top-quark couplings induced by SU(2) x U(1) gauge-invariant dimension-6 effective operators were studied in the process of t t-bar productions and decays at polarized gamma gamma colliders. Two CP-violating asymmetries, a linear-polarization asymmetry and a circular-polarization asymmetry, were compu...
0310159v3
2003-12-03
Toward understanding the lattice QCD results from the strong coupling analysis
This is a review of strong coupling approaches to grasp the nature of the phase transition in finite temperature and density QCD. We commence with classics of the center symmetry and the Polyakov loop in pure gauge theories. The effective action derived in the strong coupling limit gives qualitatively plausible behavio...
0312057v1
2003-12-16
Why does the Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC behave as a nearly ideal fluid ?
The lecture is a brief review of the following topics: (i) collective flow phenomena in heavy ion collisions. The data from RHIC indicate robust collective flows, well described by hydrodynamics with expected Equation of State. The transport properties turned out to be unexpected, with very small viscosity; (ii) phys...
0312227v2
2004-01-22
Instantons and the Spin of the Nucleon
Motivated by measurements of the flavor singlet axial coupling constant of the nucleon in polarized deep inelastic scattering we study the contribution of instantons to OZI violation in the axial-vector channel. We consider, in particular, the f_1-a_1 meson splitting, the flavor singlet and triplet axial coupling of a ...
0401165v2
2004-03-31
The NuTeV Anomaly, Lepton Universality, and Non-Universal Neutrino-Gauge Couplings
In previous studies we found that models with flavor-universal suppression of the neutrino-gauge couplings are compatible with NuTeV and Z-pole data. In this paper we expand our analysis to obtain constraints on flavor-dependent coupling suppression by including lepton universality data from W, tau, pi and K decays in ...
0403306v2
2004-07-16
Dimensionless Coupling of Bulk Scalars at the LHC
We identify the lowest-dimension interaction which is possible between Standard Model brane fields and bulk scalars in 6 dimensions. The lowest-dimension interaction is unique and involves a trilinear coupling between the Standard Model Higgs and the bulk scalar. Because this interaction has a dimensionless coupling, i...
0407196v1
2004-08-08
Bounds on the Higgs Mass in Variations of Split Supersymmetry
We investigate the limits on the higgs mass in variations of Split Supersymmetry, where the boundary value of the Higgs quartic coupling at the SUSY breaking scale ($m_s$) is allowed to deviate from its value in the minimal model of Arkani-Hamed and Dimopoulos. We show that it is possible for $\lambda(m_s)$ to be negat...
0408096v1
2004-11-22
Large Mass Scale by Strong Gauge Dynamics with Infrared Fixed Point
We consider a mechanism for realizing the desired decoupling of strongly-coupled sector which is supposed to generate hierarchical structure of the Yukawa couplings. In our mechanism, the same strongly-coupled sector is responsible for generating a sufficiently flat potential and a large vacuum expectation value (VEV) ...
0411288v1
2005-02-17
Small Yukawa Couplings from Type I String Theory and the Inflationary Solution to the Strong CP and $μ$ Problems
We investigate the origin of phenomenologically interesting small Yukawa couplings in Type I string theory. Utilising the framework of intersecting sets of D9 and orthogonal D5 branes we demonstrate the connection between extra dimensional volumes and Yukawa couplings. For example, we show that extra dimensions with in...
0502156v1
2005-03-23
Synthetic Running Coupling of QCD
Based on a study of the analytic running coupling obtained from the standard perturbation theory results up to four-loop order, the QCD ``synthetic'' running coupling \alpha_{syn} is built. In so doing the perturbative time-like discontinuity is preserved and nonperturbative contributions not only remove the nonphysica...
0503242v3
2005-07-04
New physics in e+ e- -> Z gamma with polarized beams
We present a complete description of angular distributions in the presence of new interactions for the process e+ e- -> Z gamma with polarized beams at future linear colliders, by considering the most general form-factors allowed by gauge invariance. We include the possibility of CP violation, and classify the coupling...
0507037v2
2005-08-09
Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Beyond Leading Logarithms
The top-quark Yukawa coupling is too large to permit radiative electroweak symmetry breaking to occur for small values of y, the Higgs self-coupling, to leading-logarithm order. However, a large y solution leading to a viable Higgs mass of approximately 220 GeV does exist, and differs from conventional symmetry breakin...
0508107v1
2005-08-11
Effective-Lagrangian approach to gamma gamma --> WW; I: Couplings and amplitudes
We consider the gauge-boson sector of a locally SU(2) x U(1) invariant effective Lagrangian with ten dimension-six operators added to the Lagrangian of the Standard Model. These operators induce anomalous three- and four-gauge-boson couplings and an anomalous gamma gamma H coupling. In the framework of this effective L...
0508132v2
2005-10-10
The entropy of hot QCD at large N_f: Successfully testing weak coupling techniques
It has been known for some time that the entropy of hot QCD is well reproduced by weak coupling techniques. These do not identify with perturbation theory, known to have poor convergence properties, but involve resumming the physics of hard thermal loops in the non-perturbative Phi-derivable two-loop approximation. We ...
0510115v1
2005-12-27
Stable perturbative QCD predictions at moderate energies with a modified couplant
The problem of precise evaluation of perturbative QCD predictions at moderate energies is addressed. In order to improve stability of the predictions with respect to change of the renormalization scheme it is proposed to replace the sequence of conventional renormalization group improved approximants by a sequence of m...
0512339v1
2006-02-16
Disguising the Oblique Parameters
We point out a set of operator identities that relate the operators corresponding to the oblique corrections to operators that modify fermion couplings to the gauge bosons as well as operators that modify triple gauge boson couplings. Such identities are simple consequences of the equations of motion. Therefore the con...
0602154v2
2006-03-17
Evidence for infrared finite coupling in Sudakov resummation
New arguments are presented in favor of the infrared finite coupling approach to power corrections in the context of Sudakov resummation. The more regular infrared behavior of some peculiar combinations of Sudakov anomalous dimensions, free of Landau singularities at large Nf, is pointed out. A general conflict between...
0603135v3
2006-04-13
Tests of the naturalness of the coupling constants in ChPT at order p^6
We derive constraints on combinations of O(p^6) chiral coupling constants by matching a recent two-loop calculation of the pi-K scattering amplitude with a set of sum rules. We examine the validity of the natural expectation that the values of the chiral couplings can be associated with physics properties of the light ...
0604125v2
2006-04-13
Lepton Flavor Violation in Intersecting D-brane Models
We investigate lepton flavor violation in the context of intersecting D-brane models. We point out that these models have a source to generate flavor violation in the trilinear scalar couplings while the geometry of the construction leads to degenerate soft scalar masses for different generations (as in the minimal sup...
0604126v1
2006-04-26
Constraints on flavor-changing Z' models by B_s mixing, Z' production, and B_s -> μ^+ μ^-
Certain string-inspired Z' models have non-universal interactions to three families of fermions and induced tree-level flavor-changing couplings. We use recent results on B_s-anti-B_s mixing to constrain the size of the flavor-changing couplings in the b-s sector. In some highly predictive Z' models, such a constraint ...
0604223v1
2006-07-09
U-boson detectability, and Light Dark Matter
The possible existence of a new gauge boson U, light and very weakly coupled, allows for Light Dark Matter particles, which could also be at the origin of the 511 keV line from the galactic bulge. Independently of dark matter, and taking into account possible Z-U mixing effects, we show that, even under favorable circu...
0607094v1
2006-09-04
Meson-octet-baryon couplings using light cone QCD sum rules
The coupling constants of K and pi mesons with the octet baryons are studied in light cone QCD sum rules taking into account SU(3)f flavor symmetry breaking effects, but keeping the SU(2) isospin symmetry intact. It is shown that, in the SU(3)f flavor symmetry breaking case, all of the couplings can be written in terms...
0609026v2
2006-10-17
Four-loop beta function and mass anomalous dimension in Dimensional Reduction
Within the framework of QCD we compute renormalization constants for the strong coupling and the quark masses to four-loop order. We apply the DR-bar scheme and put special emphasis on the additional couplings which have to be taken into account. This concerns the epsilon-scalar--quark Yukawa coupling as well as the ve...
0610206v2
2006-11-01
Self Interacting Dark Matter in the Solar System
Weakly coupled, almost massless, spin 0 particles have been predicted by many extensions of the standard model of particle physics. Recently, the PVLAS group observed a rotation of polarization of electromagnetic waves in vacuum in the presence of transverse magnetic field. This phenomenon is best explained by the exis...
0611006v2
2006-11-14
Gauge Coupling Unification in Six Dimensions
We compute the one-loop gauge couplings in six-dimensional non-Abelian gauge theories on the T^2/Z_2 orbifold with general GUT breaking boundary conditions. For concreteness, we apply the obtained general formulae to the gauge coupling running in a 6D SO(10) orbifold GUT where the GUT group is broken down to the standa...
0611196v4
2006-12-15
Radiative Yukawa Couplings for Supersymmetric Higgs Singlets at Large tan(beta)
Singlet Higgs bosons present in extensions of the MSSM can have sizable Yukawa couplings to the b quark and the tau lepton for large values of tan(beta) at the 1-loop level. We present an effective Lagrangian which incorporates these tan(beta)-enhanced Yukawa couplings and which enables us to study their effect on sing...
0612188v2
2007-01-22
Successful Yukawa structures in Warped Extra Dimensions
For a RS model, with SM fields in the bulk and the Higgs boson on the TeV-brane, we suggest two specific structures for the Yukawa couplings, one based on a permutation symmetry and the other on the Universal Strength of Yukawa couplings hypothesis (USY). In USY, all Yukawa couplings have equal strength and the differe...
0701180v2
1992-07-22
Quantum Kinks: Solitons at Strong Coupling
We examine solitons in theories with heavy fermions. These ``quantum'' solitons differ dramatically from semi-classical (perturbative) solitons because fermion loop effects are important when the Yukawa coupling is strong. We focus on kinks in a $(1+1)$--dimensional $\phi^4$ theory coupled to fermions; a large-$N$ expa...
9207074v1
1994-02-01
Strong-Weak Coupling Duality in Four Dimensional String Theory
We present several pieces of evidence for strong-weak coupling duality symmetry in the heterotic string theory, compactified on a six dimensional torus. These include symmetry of the 1) low energy effective action, 2) allowed spectrum of electric and magnetic charges in the theory, 3) allowed mass spectrum of particles...
9402002v2
1994-02-03
A renormalization group approach to Hamiltonian light-front field theory
A perturbative renormalization group is formulated for the study of Hamiltonian light-front field theory near a critical Gaussian fixed point. The only light-front renormalization group transformations found that can be approximated by dropping irrelevant operators and using perturbation theory near Gaussian fixed volu...
9402015v1
1994-02-14
Scattering of Vortices at near-critical coupling
The scattering of vortices at a critical value of the coupling constant in the Lagrangian can be approximated by a geodesic motion in the moduli space of classical static configurations of vortices. In this paper we give a scheme for generalising this idea to couplings that are near to the critical value. By perturbing...
9402075v2
1994-02-16
Extreme Domain Wall--Black Hole Complementarity in N=1SUPERGRAVITY with a General Dilaton Coupling
We study supersymmetric (extreme) domain walls in four-dimensional (4d) N=1 supergravity theories with a general dilaton coupling $\alpha > 0$. Type I walls, which are static, planar (say, in ($x,y$) plane) configurations, interpolate between Minkowski space-time and a vacuum with a varying dilaton field. We classify t...
9402089v2
1994-03-21
Fermions Coupled to a Conformal Boundary: A Generalization of the Monopole-Fermion System
We study a class of models in which $N$ flavors of massless fermions on the half line are coupled by an arbitrary orthogonal matrix to $N$ rotors living on the boundary. Integrating out the rotors, we find the exact partition function and Green's functions. We demonstrate that the coupling matrix must satisfy a certain...
9403125v1
1994-10-19
BRS symmetry for Yang-Mills theory with exact renormalization group
In the exact renormalization group (RG) flow in the infrared cutoff $\Lambda$ one needs boundary conditions. In a previous paper on $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory we proposed to use the nine physical relevant couplings of the effective action as boundary conditions at the physical point $\Lambda=0$ (these couplings are defi...
9410138v1
1994-12-02
2d Gravity Coupled to Topological Minimal Models
We discuss the properties of the large phase space of the genus-0 topological minimal $A_{k + 1}$ model coupled to 2d topological gravity. The minimal action is perturbed by adding all possible gravitational descendants with non-trivial couplings which form the infinite-dimensional large phase space. Some general ident...
9412024v1
1995-12-14
Supersymmetric Wilson Loops, Superstring-Like Observables, and the Natural Coupling of Superstrings to Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
We obtain an explicit expression for the supersymmetric Wilson loop in terms of chiral superfields and supercurrents in superspace. The result turns out to be different from what one would expect from the simple replacement of Lie algebra valued connection in the exponent with the corresponding super-Lie algebraic one....
9512098v1
1996-01-31
Truly Strong Coupling and Large Radius in String Theory
String theory, if it describes nature, is probably strongly coupled. In light of recent developments in string duality, this means that the ``real world'' should correspond to a region of the classical moduli space which admits no weak coupling description. We exhibit, in the heterotic string, one such region of the mo...
9601175v3
1996-02-13
Strong Coupling Expansion Of Calabi-Yau Compactification
In a certain strong coupling limit, compactification of the $E_8\times E_8$ heterotic string on a Calabi-Yau manifold $X$ can be described by an eleven-dimensional theory compactified on $X\times \S^1/\Z_2$. In this limit, the usual relations among low energy gauge couplings hold, but the usual (problematic) prediction...
9602070v2
1996-05-15
Solving the strongly coupled 2D gravity III: String susceptibility and topological N-point functions
We spell out the derivation of novel features, put forward earlier in a letter, of two dimensional gravity in the strong coupling regime, at $C_L=7$, 13, 19. Within the operator approach previously developed, they neatly follow from the appearence of a new cosmological term/marginal operator, different from the standar...
9605105v1
1997-02-18
Clifford Algebras in Finite Quantum Field Theories, I. Irreducible Yukawa Finiteness Condition
Finite quantum field theories may be constructed from the most general renormalizable quantum field theory by forbidding, order by order in the perturbative loop expansion, all ultraviolet-divergent renormalizations of the physical parameters of the theory. The relevant finiteness conditions resulting from this require...
9702137v1
1997-05-26
The Yukawa Coupling in Three Dimensions
We consider several renormalizable, scale free models in three space-time dimensions which involve scalar and spinor fields. The Yukawa couplings are bilinear in both the spinor and scalar fields and the potential is of sixth order in the scalar field. In a model with a single scalar field and a complex Fermion field i...
9705198v1
1997-11-10
Duality-Symmetric Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity and its Coupling to M-Branes
The standard eleven-dimensional supergravity action depends on a three-form gauge field and does not allow direct coupling to five-branes. Using previously developed methods, we construct a covariant eleven-dimensional supergravity action depending on a three-form and six-form gauge field in a duality-symmetric manner....
9711055v2
1997-11-27
Gaugino Condensation in M-theory on S^1/Z_2
In the low energy limit of for M-theory on S^1/Z_2, we calculate the gaugino condensate potential in four dimensions using the background solutions due to Horava. We show that this potential is free of delta-function singularities and has the same form as the potential in the weakly coupled heterotic string. A general ...
9711197v1
1997-12-23
Transmission of Supersymmetry Breaking from a 4-Dimensional Boundary
In the strong-coupling limit of the heterotic string theory constructed by Horava and Witten, an 11-dimensional supergravity theory is coupled to matter multiplets confined to 10-dimensional mirror planes. This structure suggests that realistic unification models are obtained, after compactification of 6 dimensions, as...
9712214v2
1998-04-01
The Non-Abelian Coulomb Phase of the Gauged Vector Model at Large N
The renormalization group flows of the coupling constants for the gauged U(N) vector model, with N_f massless fermions in the defining representation, are studied in the large N limit, to all orders in the scalar coupling lambda, leading order in 1/N, and lowest two orders in the gauge coupling g^2. It is shown that th...
9804008v2
1998-08-10
Reduction of Dual Theories
In view of the presence of a superpotential, the dual of a gauge theory like SQCD contains two coupling parameters. The method of the Reduction of Couplings is used in order to express the parameter of the superpotential in terms of the dual gauge coupling. In the conformal window and above it, a unique, isolated solut...
9808054v2
1999-01-04
Strong coupling expansion and Seiberg-Witten-Whitham equations
We study the Seiberg-Witten-Whitham equations in the strong coupling regime of the N=2 super Yang-Mills theory in the vicinity of the maximal singularities. In the case of SU(2) the Seiberg-Witten-Whitham equations fix completely the strong coupling expansion. For higher rank SU(N) they provide a set of non-trivial con...
9901006v2
1999-02-03
On Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensional Abelian Gauge Theories
We present an identity relating the partition function of N=4 supersymmetric QED to that of its dual under mirror symmetry. The identity is a generalized Fourier transform. Many known properties of abelian theories can be derived from this formula, including the mirror transforms for more general gauge and matter conte...
9902033v2
1999-02-17
On running couplings in gauge theories from type-IIB supergravity
We construct an explicit solution of type-IIB supergravity describing the strong coupling regime of a non-supersymmetric gauge theory. The latter has a running coupling with an ultraviolet stable fixed point corresponding to the N=4 SU(N) super-Yang-Mills theory at large N. The running coupling has a power law behaviou...
9902125v3
1999-07-29
The spectrum of coupled random matrices
The study of the spectrum of coupled random matrices has received rather little attention. To the best of our knowledge, coupled random matrices have been studied, to some extent, by Mehta. In this work, we explain how the integrable technology can be brought to bear to gain insight into the nature of the distribution ...
9907213v2
1999-10-01
Approximations for strongly-coupled supersymmetric quantum mechanics
We advocate a set of approximations for studying the finite temperature behavior of strongly-coupled theories in 0+1 dimensions. The approximation consists of expanding about a Gaussian action, with the width of the Gaussian determined by a set of gap equations. The approximation can be applied to supersymmetric system...
9910001v2
1999-10-01
Gauging Yang-Mills Symmetries In 1+1-Dimensional Spacetime
We present a systematic and 'from the ground up' analysis of the 'minimal coupling' type of gauging of Yang-Mills symmetries in (2,2)-supersymmetric 1+1-dimensional spacetime. Unlike in the familiar 3+1-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric case, we find several distinct types of minimal coupling symmetry gauging, and so seve...
9910007v2
1999-11-30
The Mass Spectrum of N=1 SYM(2+1) at Strong Coupling
We consider supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on R x S^1 x S^1. In particular, we choose one of the compact directions to be light-like and another to be space-like. Since the SDLCQ regularization explicitly preserves supersymmetry, this theory is totally finite, and thus we can solve for bound state wave functions and ...
9911243v1