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hep-ph/9209225
Angular Diameters as a Probe of a Cosmological Constant and $\Omega$
The lensing effect of curved space, which can cause the angular diameter of a fixed reference length seen on the sky to reach a minimum and then increase with redshift, depends sensitively on the value of the cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, in a flat universe. The redshift of an observed minimum and the asymptotic sl...
1992-09-10
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph" ]
Lawrence M. Krauss and David Schramm
hep-ph/9209224
Grand Unification in Non-Commutative Geometry
The formalism of non-commutative geometry of A. Connes is used to construct models in particle physics. The physical space-time is taken to be a product of a continuous four-manifold by a discrete set of points. The treatment of Connes is modified in such a way that the basic algebra is defined over the space of matric...
1992-09-10
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
A. H. Chamseddine, G. Felder and J. Fr\"ohlich
hep-ph/9209222
Loops, Cutoffs and Anomalous Gauge Boson Couplings
We discuss several issues regarding analyses which use loop calculations to put constraints on anomalous trilinear gauge boson couplings (TGC's). Many such analyses give far too stringent bounds. This is independent of questions of gauge invariance, contrary to the recent claims of de Rujula et. al., since the lagrangi...
1992-09-09
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
David London and C.P. Burgess
hep-ph/9209223
Z', new fermions and flavor changing processes, constraints on E$_6$ models from $\mu$ --> eee
We study a new class of flavor changing interactions, which can arise in models based on extended gauge groups (rank $>$4) when new charged fermions are present together with a new neutral gauge boson. We discuss the cases in which the flavor changing couplings in the new neutral current coupled to the $Z^\prime$ are t...
1992-09-09
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
E. Nardi
hep-ph/9209218
A Quantitative Investigation of the Pomeron
A comparative investigation of various Pomeron models is carried out through the study of their predicted values of $ \sigma_{tot}$, B, and $\frac{\sigma_{el}}{\sigma_{tot}}$ in high energy pp and p$\bar{p}$ scattering. Our results strongly support a picture of the Pomeron in which we have both moderate blackening and ...
1992-09-07
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
E. Gotsman, E.M. Levin and U. Maor
hep-ph/9209219
QCD and QED Corrections to Higgs Boson Production in Charged Current $ep$ Scattering
First order QCD and leading QED corrections to Higgs boson production in the channel $e^-p \to \nu H^0 X; H^0 \to b\bar{b}$ are calculated for the kinematical conditions at LEP $\otimes$ LHC ($\sqrt{s} = 1360 \GeV$) and the interesting mass range $80 < M_H < 150 \GeV$. In the DIS scheme the QCD corrections (not includi...
1992-09-07
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
J. Bl\"umlein, G. J. van Oldenborgh and R. R\"uckl
hep-ph/9209220
Proton Decay and Cosmology Strongly Constrain the Minimal SU(5) Supergravity Model
We present the results of an extensive exploration of the five-dimensional parameter space of the minimal $SU(5)$ supergravity model, including the constraints of a long enough proton lifetime ($\tau_p>1\times10^{32}\y$) and a small enough neutralino cosmological relic density ($\Omega_\chi h^2_0\le1$). We find that th...
1992-09-07
2011-06-08
[ "hep-ph" ]
J. Lopez, D. Nanopoulos, and H. Pois
hep-ph/9209221
Possible Finiteness of the Higgs-Boson Mass Renormalization
It is shown by explicit calculation that the one-loop mass renormalization of the Higgs boson in the standard model is gauge-independent. It could even be rendered finite if the following mass relationships were satisfied: $m_t^2 \simeq m_H^2 = (2 M_W^2 + M_Z^2)/3$. Numerically, this would imply $m_t \simeq 84~GeV$ whi...
1992-09-07
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Ernest Ma
hep-ph/9209217
Vacuum Polarization and the Electric Charge of the Positron
We show that higher-order vacuum polarization would contribute a measureable net charge to atoms, if the charges of electrons and positrons do not balance precisely. We obtain the limit $|Q_e+Q_{\bar e}| < 10^{-18} e$ for the sum of the charges of electron and positron. This also constitutes a new bound on certain viol...
1992-09-05
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
B. Mueller and M.H. Thoma
hep-ph/9209212
Dynamical Approach to Pair Production from Strong Fields
Lectures Given at the Nato Advanced Study Institute-Particle Production in Highly Excited Matter Il Ciocco, Italy July 1992 figure available on request. Input harvmac.tex
1992-09-04
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
Fred Cooper
hep-ph/9209215
Predictive Neutrino Spectrum in Minimal $SO(10)$ Grand Unification
We show that minimal SO(10) Grand Unification models where the fermions have Yukawa couplings to only one (complex) {\bf 10} and one {\bf 126} of Higgs scalars lead to a very predictive neutrino spectrum. This comes about since the standard model doublet contained in the {\bf 126} of Higgs (needed for the see--saw mech...
1992-09-04
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph" ]
K.S. Babu and R.N. Mohapatra
hep-ph/9209214
From Fermion Mass Matrices to Neutrino Oscillations
We present an ansatz for the quark and lepton mass matrices, derivable from SO(10) type GUTs, which accommodates a heavy $(> 92 GeV)$ top quark and permits large mixings in the $\nu_\mu \leftrightarrow \nu_\tau$ sector (as suggested by the recent Kamiokande and IMB data on the atmospheric neutrinos). The well known asy...
1992-09-04
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
K.S. Babu and Q. Shafi
hep-ph/9209213
Next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the Gross-Llewellyn Smith sum rule and the higher twist effects
We present the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the Gross-Llewellyn Smith (GLS) sum rule in deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering, taking into account dimension-two, twist-four power correction. We discuss in detail the renormalization scheme dependence of the perturbative QCD approximations, propose a ...
1992-09-04
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
J.Chyla and A.Kataev
hep-ph/9209216
A Comparison of the Use of Binary Decision Trees and Neural Networks in Top Quark Detection
The use of neural networks for signal vs.~background discrimination in high-energy physics experiment has been investigated and has compared favorably with the efficiency of traditional kinematic cuts. Recent work in top quark identification produced a neural network that, for a given top quark mass, yielded a higher s...
1992-09-04
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
David Bowser-Chao and Debra L. Dzialo
hep-ph/9209208
Discrete Gauge Symmetries in Axionic Extensions of the SSM
We examine discrete gauge symmetries in axionic extensions of the SSM which provide a solution of the $\mu$-problem. Automatic-PQ symmetry and proton stability are shown to be guaranteed by certain discrete symmetries. Focusing on the L-violating discrete symmetries we discuss two sources of neutrino masses and their r...
1992-09-03
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
E. J. Chun and A. Lukas
hep-ph/9209211
Loop Calculations with Anomalous Gauge Boson Couplings
Analyses which use loop calculations to put constraints on anomalous trilinear gauge boson couplings (TGC's) often give bounds which are much too stringent. The reason has nothing to do with gauge invariance, in contrast to the recent claims of de Rujula et. al., since the lagrangians used in these calculations ARE gau...
1992-09-03
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
David London and C.P. Burgess
hep-ph/9209210
Decay of Metastable Topological Defects
We systematically analyze the decay of metastable topological defects that arise from the spontaneous breakdown of gauge or global symmetries. Quantum-mechanical tunneling rates are estimated for a variety of decay processes. The decay rate for a global string, vortex, domain wall, or kink is typically suppressed compa...
1992-09-03
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
John Preskill and Alexander Vilenkin
hep-ph/9209209
The Large Scale Structure of the Universe: Theory {\it vs.} Observations
Invited talk delivered at the International Conference on General Relativity and Cosmology (ICGC), Ahmedabad, India; 13 - 18 December 1991. To appear in its proceedings.
1992-09-03
2008-02-03
[ "hep-ph" ]
Varun Sahni
hep-ph/9209206
17 keV neutrino and large magnetic moment solution of the solar neutrino puzzle
Zee-type models with Majorons naturally incorporate the 17 keV neutrino but in their minimal version fail to simultaneously solve the solar neutrino puzzle. If there is a sterile neutrino state, we find a particularly simple solution to the solar neutrino problem, which besides $\nu_{17}$ predicts a light Zeldovich-Kon...
1992-09-02
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
Eugeni Akhmedov, Zurab Berezhiani, Goran Senjanovic and Zhijian Tao
hep-ph/9209207
The Production of $Z'$ Associated With Photons or Jets as a Probe of New Gauge Boson Couplings
We examine the production of a new $Z'$ gauge boson in association with photons or jets at future hadron supercolliders as a probe of its couplings to fermions. Associated jet production is found to be rather insensitive to these couplings and suffers from large uncertainties as well as substantial backgrounds. On the ...
1992-09-02
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Thomas G. Rizzo
hep-ph/9209205
Total cross sections
Regge theory provides a very simple and economical description of all total cross sections
1992-09-02
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
A Donnachie and P V Landshoff
hep-ph/9209202
Compact Lattice QED and the Coulomb Potential
The potential energy of a static charge distribution on a lattice is rigorously computed in the standard compact quantum electrodynamic model. The method used follows closely that of Weyl for ordinary quantum electrodynamics in continuous space-time. The potential energy of the static charge distribution is independent...
1992-09-01
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Y.N. Srivstava, A. Widom, M.H. Friedman, O.Panella
hep-ph/9209201
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Extended by One Additional Higgs Singlet and its Influence on the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
We present the results of the influence of the minimal supersymmetric standard model extended by an additional Higgs singlet N, with vacuum expectation value $v_N$, on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. This gives different mass matrices for the charginos and neutralinos, which are taken into account within...
1992-09-01
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
Heinz K\"onig
hep-ph/9209204
Electromagnetic Polarisability of the Nucleon in Chiral Perturbation Theory
We compute the polarisability of the nucleon to leading order in chiral perturbation theory. The contributions from kaons and baryon resonances as intermediate states are included in addition to the contribution from pions and nucleons that had been previously computed. The isoscalar operators are dominated by the infr...
1992-09-01
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Malcolm N. Butler and Martin J. Savage
hep-ph/9209203
Summing tree graphs at threshold
The solution of the classical field equation generates the sum of all tree graphs. We show that the classical equation reduces to an easily solved ordinary differential equation for certain multiparticle threshold amplitudes and compute these amplitudes.
1992-09-01
2009-12-30
[ "hep-ph" ]
Lowell S. Brown
hep-ph/9208262
New Neutrino Physics Without Fine Tuning
We show how a 17 keV neutrino, the solar neutrino problem, and the atmospheric muon-neutrino deficit could all be the low-energy residues of the same pattern of lepton-number breaking at and above the weak scale, with no requirement for fine-tuning a symmetry-breaking scale at lower energies. Talk given at ``Beyond the...
1992-08-31
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
C.P. Burgess, James M. Cline and Markus Luty
hep-ph/9208261
Bilocal Field Approach and Semileptonic Heavy Meson Decays
In this paper we consider the bilocal field approach for $QCD$. We obtain a bilocal effective meson action with a potential kernel given in relativistic covariant form. The corresponding Schwinger--Dyson and Bethe--Salpeter equations are investigated in detail. By introducing weak interactions into the theory we study ...
1992-08-31
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
Yu. L. Kalinovsky, L. Kaschluhn
hep-ph/9208260
Bounds on mini-charged neutrinos in the minimal standard model
In the minimal Standard Model (MSM) with three generations of quarks and leptons, neutrinos can have tiny charges consistent with electromagnetic gauge invariance. There are three types of non-standard electric charge, given by $Q_{st} + \epsilon(L_i - L_j)$, where $i, j = e, \mu, \tau$ $(i \neq j)$, $Q_{st}$ is standa...
1992-08-31
2009-12-30
[ "hep-ph" ]
K. S. Babu and R. R. Volkas
hep-ph/9208258
Parton-Hadron duality in event generators
The validity of local parton-hadron duality within the framework of HERWIG and JETSET event generators is investigated. We concentrate on ${\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-}$ annihilations in LEP 2 energy range as these interactions provide theoretically the cleanest condition for the discussion of this concept.
1992-08-28
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
J.Chyla and J.Rames
hep-ph/9208259
Extended Technicolor Corrections to the $Z b\bar b$ Vertex
Extended technicolor theories generate potentially large corrections to the $\Zbb$ vertex. These can be observed in current experiments at LEP.
1992-08-28
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
E.H. Simmons, R.S. Chivukula and S.B. Selipsky
hep-ph/9208256
Response of nucleons to external probes in hedgehog models: I. Electromagnetic polarizabilities
Electromagnetic polarizabilities of the nucleon are analyzed in a hedgehog model with quark and meson degrees of freedom.
1992-08-27
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph" ]
W. Broniowski and T. D. Cohen
hep-ph/9208257
Response of nucleons to external probes in hedgehog models: II. General formalism
Linear response theory for SU(2) hedgehog soliton models is developed.
1992-08-27
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
W. Broniowski and T. D. Cohen
hep-ph/9208255
Searching for TeV dark matter by atmospheric Cerenkov techniques
There is a growing interest in the possibility that dark matter could be formed of weakly interacting particles with a mass in the 100 GeV - 2 TeV range, and supersymmetric particles are favorite candidates. If they constitute the dark halo of our Galaxy, their mutual annihilations produce energetic gamma rays that cou...
1992-08-27
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph" ]
M. Urban, A. Bouquet, B. Degrange, P. Fleury, J. Kaplan, A.L.Melchior and E. Par\'e
hep-ph/9208252
The structure of the pion and effective electroweak currents in soliton models of the nucleon
Nonminimal substitution terms in electroweak currents are studied in effective chiral soliton models. It is found that the terms describing the structure of the pion lead to sizable effects in form factors and polarizabilities of the nucleon.
1992-08-26
2011-07-19
[ "hep-ph" ]
W. Broniowski and T. D. Cohen
hep-ph/9208248
The Baryon Isgur-Wise Function in the Large $N_c$ Limit
In the large $N_c$ limit, the $\Lambda_b$ and $\Lambda_c$ can be treated as bound states of chiral solitons and mesons containing a heavy quark. We show that the soliton and heavy meson are bound in an attractive harmonic oscillator potential. The Isgur-Wise function for $\Lambda_b\rightarrow\Lambda_c\, e^-\,\bar\nu_e$...
1992-08-26
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
Elizabeth Jenkins, Aneesh V. Manohar, and Mark B. Wise
hep-ph/9208251
Coannihilation Effects and Relic Abundance of Higgsino-Dominant LSPs
We calculate the relic abundance of Higgsino-dominant lightest superparticles, taking account of coannihilations with the superparticles which are almost degenerate with the lightest one. We show that their relic abundance is reduced drastically by the coannihilation processes and hence they are cosmologically of no in...
1992-08-26
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
Satoshi Mizuta and Masahiro Yamaguchi
hep-ph/9208253
The role of the Delta isobar in chiral perturbation theory and hedgehog soliton models
Hedgehog model predictions for the leading nonanalytic behavior (in $m^{2}_{\pi }$) of certain observables are shown to agree with the predictions of chiral perturbation theory up to an overall factor which depends on the operator. This factor can be understood in terms of contributions of the $\Delta$ isobar in chiral...
1992-08-26
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Thomas D. Cohen and Wojciech Broniowski
hep-ph/9208249
Large Jets at Hadron Colliders at Order $\alpha_s^3$: A Look Inside
Results from the study of hadronic jets in hadron-hadron collisions at order $\alpha_s^3$ in perturbation theory are presented. The focus is on various features of the internal structure of jets. The numerical results of the calculation are compared with data where possible and exhibit reasonable agreement.
1992-08-26
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Stephen D. Ellis, Zoltan Kunszt and Davison E. Soper
hep-ph/9208250
Spin-Spin Asymmetries in Large Transverse Momentum Higgs Boson Production
We examine the spin-dependence of standard model Higgs boson production at large transverse momentum via the processes $gg \rightarrow gH^0$, $qg \rightarrow qH^0$, and $q\overline{q} \rightarrow gH^0$. The partonic level spin-spin asymmetries ($\hat{a}_{LL}$) for these processes are large at SSC/LHC energies.
1992-08-26
2016-09-01
[ "hep-ph" ]
M. A. Doncheski, R. W. Robinett and L. Weinkauf
hep-ph/9208254
P-Wave Charmonium Production in B-Meson Decays
We calculate the decay rates of $B$ mesons into P-wave charmonium states using new factorization formulas that are valid to leading order in the relative velocity of the charmed quark and antiquark and to all orders in the running coupling constant of QCD. We express the production rates for all four P states in terms ...
1992-08-26
2009-12-30
[ "hep-ph" ]
Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Eric Braaten, Tzu Chiang Yuan, G. Peter Lepage
hep-ph/9208245
Metastable Cosmic Strings in Realistic Models
We investigate the stability of the electroweak Z-string at high temperatures. Our results show that while finite temperature corrections can improve the stability of the Z-string, their effect is not strong enough to stabilize the Z-string in the standard electroweak model. Consequently, the Z-string will be unstable ...
1992-08-25
2011-07-19
[ "hep-ph" ]
R. Holman, S.D.H. Hsu, T. Vachaspati and R. Watkins
hep-ph/9208246
Gravitationally Induced Scalar Field Fluctuations in the Radiation Dominated R-W Universe
It is shown that quantum fluctuations due to a nontrivial gravitational background in the flat radiation dominated universe can play an important cosmological role generating nonvanishing cosmological global charge, e.g. baryon number, asymmetry. The explicit form of the fluctuations at vacuum and at finite temperature...
1992-08-25
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
Zygmunt Lalak, Krzysztof Meissner, Jacek Pawe{\l}czyk
hep-ph/9208247
COBE vs Cosmic Strings: An Analytical Model
We construct a simple analytical model to study the effects of cosmic strings on the microwave background radiation. Our model is based on counting random multiple impulses inflicted on photon trajectories by the string network between the time of recombination and today. We construct the temperature auto-correlation f...
1992-08-25
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph" ]
Leandros Perivolaropoulos
hep-ph/9208244
Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory
The formalism and applications of chiral perturbation theory for hadrons containing a single heavy quark are discussed. We emphasize the utility of working directly with the velocity dependent ``super'' fields which appear in the chiral Lagrangian and whose interactions manifestly preserve heavy quark spin symmetry rat...
1992-08-24
2011-07-19
[ "hep-ph" ]
Peter Cho
hep-ph/9208243
Neutrino masses and mixings in a predictive theory of fermion masses
A framework for predicting charged fermion masses in supersymmetric grand unified theories is extended to make predictions in the neutrino sector. Eight new predictions are made, and their relevance to neutrino oscillation experiments and the solar neutrino problem are discussed.
1992-08-24
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
S. Dimopoulos, L. J. Hall and S. Raby
hep-ph/9208242
Composite Vector Leptoquarks in $e^+ e^-$, $\gamma e$, and $\gamma\gamma$ Colliders
We study the signals for composite vector leptoquarks in $e^+ e^-$ colliders (LEP II, NLC, and CLIC) through their effects on the production of jet pairs, as well as their single and pair productions. We also analyze their production in $\gamma e$ and $\gamma\gamma$ collisions.
1992-08-24
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
J.E. Cieza Montalvo and O.J.P. Eboli
hep-ph/9208237
Renormalization Group Coefficients for the Un-Truncated Derivative Expansion in Effective Field Theory
We investigate the renormalization of ``nonlocal" interactions which arise as an infinite sum of higher derivative interactions in an effective field theory. Using dimensional regularization with minimal subtraction in a general scalar field theory, we write an integro-differential renormalization group equation for th...
1992-08-21
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Vineer Bhansali (Harvard University)
hep-ph/9208236
The Generational Seesaw Mechanism in [SU(6)]$^{3}\times$Z$_{3}$}
In the context of the left-right symmetric gauge group [SU(6)]$^3\times$ Z$_3$ which unifies nongravitational forces with flavors, we analyze the generational seesaw mechanism. At tree level we get m$_{\nu_\tau}\sim$m$_{\nu_\mu}\sim$M$^2_L$/M$_H$, m$_{\nu_e}=0$, where M$_L\sim10^2$ GeVs and M$_H\ge 100$ TeVs is the mas...
1992-08-21
2009-08-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
William A. Ponce, Arnulfo Zepeda and Ricardo Gaitan Lozano
hep-ph/9208238
Hyperfine Splittings of Baryons Containing a Heavy Quark in the Skyrme Model
The $\Sigma_c^*-\Sigma_c$ and $\Sigma_b^*-\Sigma_b$ hyperfine mass splittings are computed in the Skyrme model. The hyperfine splittings are suppressed by both $1/N_c$ and by $1/m_Q$, where $N_c$ is the number of colors and $m_Q$ is the mass of the heavy quark. The $\Sigma_c$, $\Sigma_c^*$, $\Sigma_b$, $\Sigma_b^*$, an...
1992-08-21
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
Elizabeth Jenkins and Aneesh V. Manohar
hep-ph/9208239
Large- and Small-Scale Constraints on Power Spectra in $\Omega=1$ Universes
The cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation, normalized on large scales, leads to excessive pairwise velocity dispersions on small scales. In an attempt to circumvent this problem, we study three scenarios (all with $\Omega=1$) which have more large-scale power and less small-scale power than the CDM model:...
1992-08-21
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph" ]
James. M. Gelb, Ben-Ami Gradwohl, and Joshua A. Frieman
hep-ph/9208240
On the QCD corrections to the charged Higgs decay of a heavy quark
Using dimensional regularization for both infrared and ultraviolet divergences, we confirm that the QCD corrections to the decay width $\Gamma(t\to H^+b)$ are equal to those to $\Gamma(t\to W^+b)$ in the limit of a large $t$ quark mass.
1992-08-21
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Andrzej Czarnecki and Sacha Davidson
hep-ph/9208235
E6 GUT and Large Neutrino Mixing
All experimental results concerning possible neutrino oscillations are naturally and simultaneously accounted for in an $E_6$ GUT model. The fermionic mass matrices are dictated by the symmetry breaking and specific radiative corrections and not by the use of ``Ans\"atze'' or discrete symmetries.
1992-08-20
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Y. Achiman and A. Lukas
hep-ph/9208234
On the Infrared Behavior of the Pressure in Thermal Field Theories
We study non-perturbatively, via the Schwinger-Dyson equations, the leading infrared behavior of the pressure in the ladder approximation. This problem is discussed firstly in the context of a thermal scalar field theory, and the analysis is then extended to the Yang-Mills theory at high temperatures. Using the Feynman...
1992-08-19
2013-11-13
[ "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
A. P. de Almeida and J. Frenkel
hep-ph/9208231
Critical Behavior in the Electroweak Phase Transition
We examine the behavior of the standard-model electroweak phase transition in the early Universe. We argue that close to the critical temperature it is possible to estimate the {\it effective} infrared corrections to the 1-loop potential using well known $\varepsilon$-expansion results from the theory of critical pheno...
1992-08-19
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Marcelo Gleiser and Edward W. Kolb
hep-ph/9208233
The Cosmological Kibble Mechanism in the Laboratory: String Formation in Liquid Crystals
We have observed the production of strings (disclination lines and loops) via the Kibble mechanism of domain (bubble) formation in the isotropic to nematic phase transition of a sample of uniaxial nematic liquid crystal. The probablity of string formation per bubble is measured to be $0.33 \pm 0.01$. This is in good ag...
1992-08-19
2011-07-19
[ "hep-ph", "cond-mat", "hep-th" ]
M.J. Bowick, L. Chandar, E.A. Schiff, and A.M. Srivastava
hep-ph/9208232
Effects of Collective Potentials on Pion Spectra in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
The effect of collective potentials on pion spectra in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is investigated. We find the effect of these potential to be very small, too small to explain the observed enhancement at low transverse momenta. (7 figures, bill be send on request)
1992-08-19
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Volker Koch and George Bertsch
hep-ph/9208230
Planck scale effects in neutrino physics
We study the phenomenology and cosmology of the Majoron (flavon) models of three active and one inert neutrino paying special attention to the possible (almost) conserved generalization of the Zeldovich-Konopinski-Mahmoud lepton charge. Using Planck scale physics effects which provide the breaking of the lepton charge,...
1992-08-18
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
Eugeni Akhmedov, Zurab Berezhiani Goran Senjanovic and Zhijian Tao
hep-ph/9208228
Prospect of Heavy Right-Handed Neutrino Search at SSC/LHC Energies
Right-handed neutrinos with large Majorana mass occur naturally in the left-right symmetric model. We explore the prospect of such heavy Right-handed Neutrino search Via $W_R$ decay in the Like Sign Dilepton channel at SSC/LHC. The standard model background can be effectively eliminated by suitable lepton $p_T$ and iso...
1992-08-17
2008-11-26
[ "hep-ph" ]
Amitava Dattta, Manoranjan Guchait and D.P. Roy
hep-ph/9208229
Decay of the Z Boson into Scalar Particles
In extensions of the standard model, light scalar particles are often possible because of symmetry considerations. We study the decay of the Z boson into such particles. In particular, we consider for illustration the scalar sector of a recently proposed model of the 17-keV neutrino which satisfies all laboratory, astr...
1992-08-17
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
T. V. Duong and Ernest Ma
hep-ph/9208227
Two Stage Phase Transition in Two Higgs Models
We present a mechanism in which models with two Higgs fields can undergo a two stage phase transition as the temperature falls. The first stage is a conventional second order (or weakly first order) transition in which the symmetry is broken. Shortly thereafter follows a first order transition with barrier penetration,...
1992-08-14
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph" ]
David Land and Eric Carlson
hep-ph/9208226
Higgs boson bounds in non-minimal supersymmetric standard models
In the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), when radiative corrections are included, the mass of the $CP=+1$ lightest Higgs boson is bounded by $\sim 110\ GeV$ for $m_t < 150\ GeV$ and a scale of supersymmetry breaking $\sim\ 1\ TeV$. In non-minimal supersymmetric standard models (NMSSM) upper bounds on the ma...
1992-08-14
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
J. R. Espinosa and M. Quir\'os
hep-ph/9208225
Two- and Three Vector Boson Production in e+ e- Collisions within the BESS Model
The BESS model is the Higgsless alternative to the standard model of electroweak interaction with nonlinear realized spontaneous symmetry breaking. Since it is non-renormalizable new couplings (not existing in the SM) are induced at each loop order. On the basis of the one loop induced gauge boson self-couplings we cal...
1992-08-13
2015-06-25
[ "hep-ph" ]
G. Cveti\v{c} (Santa Maria Univ., Valparaiso, Chile), C. Grosse-Knetter and R. K\"ogerler (Fakult\"at f\"ur Physik, Universit\"at Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)
hep-ph/9208224
Calculating the Critical Temperature for Coleman-Weinberg GUTs
We study the finite temperature effective potential of the Higgs scalar in GUTs with Coleman-Weinberg symmetry breaking. The critical temperature is derived without employing a high temperature approximation to the effective potential, and the limitations of such approximations are discussed.
1992-08-12
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Richard Easther and William Moreau
hep-ph/9208223
Neutrino Helioseismology
The observed deficit of $\rm ^8B$ solar neutrinos may call for an improved standard model of the sun or an expanded standard model of particle physics ({\it e.g.,} with neutrino masses and mixing). In the former case, contemporary fluid motions and thermal fluctuations in the sun's core may modify nuclear reaction rate...
1992-08-11
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
A. De R\'ujula and S.L. Glashow
hep-ph/9208219
Quantum effects near a point mass in 2+1 dimensional gravity
We investigate the behaviour of classical and quantum fields in the conical space-time associated with a point mass in 2+1 dimensions. We show that the presence of conical boundary conditions alters the electrostatic field of a point charge leading to the presence of a finite self-force on the charge from the direction...
1992-08-11
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Tarun Souradeep and Varun Sahni
hep-ph/9208218
On the Stability of Electroweak Strings (New Version)
We map the parameter space that leads to stable Z-vortices in the electroweak model. For $sin^2 \theta_W = 0.23$, we find that the strings are unstable for a Higgs mass larger than 24 GeV. Given the latest constraints on the Higgs mass from LEP, this shows that, if the standard electroweak model is realized in Nature, ...
1992-08-11
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
M. James, L. Perivolaropoulos and T. Vachaspati
hep-ph/9208222
Quaternions and the heuristic role of mathematical structures in physics
One of the important ways development takes place in mathematics is via a process of generalization. On the basis of a recent characterization of this process we propose a principle that generalizations of mathematical structures that are already part of successful physical theories serve as good guides for the develop...
1992-08-11
2008-02-03
[ "hep-ph" ]
Ronald Anderson and Girish C. Joshi
hep-ph/9208220
Study of gamma gamma -> W_L W_L and gamma gamma -> Z_L Z_L reactions with Chiral Lagrangians
We analyze the effects of a strongly interacting symmetry breaking sector of the Standard Model in $\gamma \gamma -> W_L^+ W_L^-$ and $\gamma \gamma -> Z_L Z_L$ reactions at TeV energies by using Chiral Lagrangians and Chiral Perturbation Theory. We find significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions for th...
1992-08-11
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Maria Herrero and Ester Ruiz-Morales
hep-ph/9208221
Properties of Baryons Containing a Heavy Quark in the Skyrme Model
The properties of baryons containing one heavy quark are studied in the Skyrme model, where they are treated as bound states of a heavy meson with an $SU(2)$ chiral soliton. In the large $N_c$ limit, the baryon spectrum is an infinite tower of degenerate states with isospin and spin of the light degrees of freedom $I=s...
1992-08-11
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Zachary Guralnik, Michael Luke and Aneesh V. Manohar
hep-ph/9208217
Density Perturbations,Gravity Waves and the Cosmic Microwave Background
We asses the contribution to the observed large scale anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, arising from both gravity waves as well as adiabatic density perturbations, generated by a common inflationary mechanism in the early Universe. We find that for inflationary models predicting power law primo...
1992-08-10
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph" ]
Tarun Souradeep and Varun Sahni
hep-ph/9208216
Multiple photon effects in $pp$ scattering at SSC energies
The Monte Carlo program SSCYFS2 is used in conjunction with available parton distribution functions to calculate the effects of multiple photon radiation on pp scattering at SSC energies. Effects relevant to precision SSC physics such as Higgs discovery and exploration are illustrated.
1992-08-10
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
D. B. DeLaney, S. Jadach, C. Shio, G. Siopsis, and B. F. L. Ward
hep-ph/9208215
On the Possibility of Second-Order Phase Transitions in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories
In the ``Type-II'' regime, $m_{\rm Higgs}\gap m_{\rm gauge}$, the finite-temperature phase transition in spontaneously-broken gauge theories (including the standard model) must be be studied using a renormalization group treatment. Previous studies within the $(4-\ep)$-expansion suggest a 1st-order transition in this r...
1992-08-08
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "hep-lat", "hep-th" ]
John March-Russell
hep-ph/9208214
The gravitational wave contribution to CMB anisotropies and the amplitude of mass fluctuations from COBE results
A stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves may substantially contribute, via the Sachs--Wolfe effect, to the large--scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies recently detected by COBE. This implies a {\it bias} in any resulting determination of the primordial amplitude of density fluctuations....
1992-08-07
2011-07-19
[ "hep-ph" ]
F. Lucchin, S. Matarrese and S. Mollerach
hep-ph/9208212
Black Holes from Nucleating Strings
We evaluate the probability that a loop of string that has spontaneously nucleated during inflation will form a black hole upon collapse, after the end of inflation. We then use the observational bounds on the density of primordial black holes to put constraints on the parameters of the model. Other constraints from th...
1992-08-06
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "gr-qc", "hep-th" ]
Jaume Garriga and Alexander Vilenkin
hep-ph/9208213
Fragmentation of Transversely Polarized Quarks Probed in Transverse Momentum Distributions
It is shown that the azimuthal dependence of the distribution of hadrons in a quark jet is a probe of the transverse spin of the quark initiating the jet. This results in a new spin-dependent fragmentation function that acts at the twist-2 level. One example of a process where it contributes is semi-inclusive deeply in...
1992-08-06
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
John Collins
hep-ph/9208211
Soft dilepton production in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Production of electron-positron pairs with invariant masses less than 300 MeV from thermalized hadronic matter in relativistic heavy ion collisions is calculated using a soft virtual photon approximation. The general theoretical framework is reviewed and extended to include arbitrarily massed and charged reaction partn...
1992-08-06
2010-01-15
[ "hep-ph" ]
K. Haglin, C.Gale and V. Emel'yanov
hep-ph/9208210
Gauge Model of Generation Nonuniversality Reexamined
A gauge model of generation nonuniversality proposed in 1981 is reexamined in the light of present precision electroweak measurements. Two necessary features of this model are that the tau lifetime should be longer than predicted by the standard model and that the rho parameter measured at the Z peak should have an add...
1992-08-05
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Xiaoyuan Li and Ernest Ma
hep-ph/9208209
Breakdown of Dimensional Regularization in the Sudakov Problem
An explicit example is presented (a one-loop triangle graph) where dimensional regularization fails to regulate the infra-red singularities that emerge at intermediate steps of studying large-$Q^2$ Sudakov factorization. The mathematical nature of the phenomenon is explained within the framework of the theory of the $A...
1992-08-05
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
J.C. Collins and F.V. Tkachov
hep-ph/9208208
Can Polarised Drell-Yan Shed More Light On The Proton Spin?
We analyse polarised Drell-Yan process using the factorisation method and derive operator definitions for polarised parton distribution functions. We demonstrate that a factorisation analogous to that in the unpolarised Drell-Yan case holds in this process. We study the leading order gluonic contribution to the first m...
1992-08-05
2015-06-25
[ "hep-ph" ]
Prakash Mathews and V. Ravindran
hep-ph/9208206
Photon production through $A_1$ resonance in high energy heavy ion collisions
Electromagnetic radiation from excited hadronic matter is one of the best ways to study the properties of the matter. Considering various processes in the hadronic gas, Kapusta et al \cite{Kapusta_photons} have found a $\pi\rho \rightarrow \pi\gamma$ reaction with intermediate virtual pion or rho to be the main sourc...
1992-08-04
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph" ]
L. Xiong, E. Shuryak and G. E. Brown
hep-ph/9208205
Spontaneous CP violation in Supersymmetric theories
We study the minimal version of the supersymmetric standard model with spontaneous CP breaking. In this model, the KM matrix is real and contributions to $\varepsilon$ arise from box diagrams involving squarks. We analyze the region of the parameter space which corresponds to values for $\varepsilon$, $\varepsilon^\pri...
1992-08-04
2010-11-01
[ "hep-ph" ]
Alex Pomarol
hep-ph/9208207
Radiative Rare B Decays into Higher K-Resonances
We estimate the contributions of higher K-resonances to the radiative rare decays b -> s gamma. We use the spin symmetry for heavy quarks to reduce the number of independent form factors to four Isgur-Wise functions, which are estimated from the wave function model of Isgur, Scora, Grinstein, and Wise. Our results sugg...
1992-08-04
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Ahmed Ali, Thomas Mannel, and Thorsten Ohl
hep-ph/9208202
Instability and Subsequent Evolution of Electroweak Bubbles
Bubbles in a first-order electroweak phase transition are nucleated with radii $R_0$ and expand with velocity $v$. If $v$ is subsonic, a bubble becomes unstable to non-spherical perturbations when its radius is roughly $10^4\, R_0$. These perturbations accelerate the transition, and the effective velocity of bubble gro...
1992-08-04
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "astro-ph" ]
Marc Kamionkowski and Katherine Freese
hep-ph/9208203
Topological phase due to electric dipole moment and magnetic monopole interaction
We show that there is an anologous Aharonov-Casher effect on a neutral particle with electric dipole moment interacting with a magnetic filed produced by magnetic monopoles.
1992-08-04
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Xiao-Gang He and B.H.J. McKellar
hep-ph/9208204
Semileptonic Kaon Decays in Chiral Perturbation Theory
We present the matrix elements for the semileptonic kaon decays $K_{l2\gamma}$, $K_{l2l^+l^-}$, $K_{l2l'^+l'^-}$, $K_{l3}$, $K_{l3\gamma}$ and $K_{l4}$ at next-to-leading order in chiral perturbation theory and compare the predictions with experimental data. Monte Carlo event generators are used to calculate the corres...
1992-08-04
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
J. Bijnens, G. Ecker and J. Gasser
hep-ph/9208201
Current correlators to all orders in the quark masses
The contributions to the coefficient functions of the quark and the mixed quark-gluon condensate to mesonic correlators are calculated for the first time to all orders in the quark masses, and to lowest order in the strong coupling constant. Existing results on the coefficient functions of the unit operator and the glu...
1992-08-03
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
M. Jamin, M. Muenz
hep-ph/9207279
Nucleon Decay in the Minimal Supersymmetric $SU(5)$ Grand Unification
We make a detailed analysis on the nucleon decay in the minimal supersymmetric $SU(5)$ grand unified model. We find that a requirement of the unification of three gauge coupling constants leads to a constraint on a mass $M_{H_C}$ of color-triplet Higgs multiplet as $2 \times 10^{13}~\GeV \leq M_{H_C} \leq 2 \times 10^{...
1992-08-01
2009-09-29
[ "hep-ph" ]
J. Hisano, H. Murayama, and T. Yanagida
hep-ph/9207276
Gaussian Effective Potential for the U(1) Higgs Model
In order to investigate the Higgs mechanism nonperturbatively, we compute the Gaussian effective potential (GEP) of the U(1) Higgs model ("scalar electrodynamics"). We show that the same simple result is obtained in three different formalisms. A general covariant gauge is used, with Landau gauge proving to be optimal. ...
1992-07-31
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
R. Ibanez-Meier, I. Stancu, and P. M. Stevenson
hep-ph/9207277
Production of Three Vector Bosons in e+e- Annihilation as a Test of W+-, Z, gamma Self-Interactions
We study the vector-boson production processes e+e- --> WWZ and e+e- -->WWgamma which are directly affected by the trilinear and quadrilinear self couplings of the W, Z and gamma. Our analysis is based upon a single-parameter effective-Lagrangian model for these self interactions which contains the standard model as a ...
1992-07-31
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
C. Grosse-Knetter and D. Schildknecht (Universitaet Bielefeld, Fakutaet fuer Physik, W-4800 Bielefeld, 1 Germany)
hep-ph/9207278
Generalized Dimensional Analysis
I describe a version of so-called naive dimensional analysis, a rule for estimating the sizes of terms in an effective theory below the scale of chiral symmetry breaking induced by a strong gauge interaction. The rule is simpler and more general than the original, which it includes as a special case. I also give a simp...
1992-07-31
2009-09-11
[ "hep-ph" ]
Howard Georgi
hep-ph/9207272
Vector Meson Dominance and Free Quarks
We study the electromagnetic pion form factor and the VV - AA two point function for momenta -(600 MeV)^2 < q^2 < (600 MeV)^2 and we note the similarity between vector meson dominance and two versions of the free constituent quark model. The similarity is more striking when the momentum dependence of the quark mass is ...
1992-07-30
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
B. Holdom
hep-ph/9207273
Oblique Corrections in Technicolor with a Scalar
We study a model in which the electroweak symmetry is dynamically broken by technicolor interactions and the symmetry-breaking is communicated to the quarks and leptons by a weak doublet of scalar fields. The scalars may be regarded as elementary or as light bound states arising from strong extended technicolor interac...
1992-07-30
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
C.D. Carone and E.H. Simmons
hep-ph/9207271
Final-State-Interaction Simulation of T-Violation in the Top-Quark Semileptonic Decay
The standard electroweak final-state interaction induces a false T-odd correlation in the top-quark semileptonic decay. The correlation parameter is calculated in the standard model and found to be considerably larger than those that could be produced by genuine T-violation effects in a large class of theoretical model...
1992-07-30
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Jiang Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
hep-ph/9207274
The Nucleon ``Tensor Charges'' and the Skyrme Model
The lowest moment of the twist-two, chiral-odd parton distribution $h_1(x)$ of the nucleon can be related to the so-called ``tensor charges'' of the nucleon. We consider the tensor charges in the Skyrme model, and find that in the large-$N_c$, SU(3)-symmetric limit, the model predicts that the octet isosinglet tensor c...
1992-07-30
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
James M. Olness
hep-ph/9207275
Test of an Equivalence Theorem at One-Loop
We show that the equivalence theorem approximating one-loop gauge sector diagrams by including only Goldstone bosons in the loop gives a remarkably poor approximation to the amplitude for the decay $H\rightarrow \gamma \gamma $ and for the process $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow HH$. At one loop, large logarithms can arise ...
1992-07-30
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
M. S. Berger
hep-ph/9207270
Recent Developments in the Theory of Heavy-Quark Decays
I report on recent developments in the heavy-quark effective theory and its application to $B$ meson decays. The parameters of the effective theory, the spin-flavor symmetry limit, and the leading symmetry-breaking corrections to it are discussed. The results of a QCD sum rule analysis of the universal Isgur-Wise funct...
1992-07-29
2007-05-23
[ "hep-ph" ]
Matthias Neubert
hep-ph/9207269
New Higgs Signatures in Supersymmetry with Spontraneously Broken R Parity"
Higgs production from $Z$ decay in supersymmetry with spontaneous broken R parity proceeds mostly by the Bjorken process as in the standard model. However, the corresponding production rates can be weaker than in the standard model (SM), especially in the low mass region. This will substantially weaken the Higgs boson ...
1992-07-29
2009-09-17
[ "hep-ph" ]
J Romao, F de Campos and J W F Valle
hep-ph/9207268
Testing Quantum Mechanics in the Neutral Kaon System
The neutral kaon system is a sensitive probe of quantum mechanics. We revive a parametrization of non-quantum-mechanical effects that is motivated by considerations of the nature of space-time foam, and show how it can be constrained by new measurements of $K_L \rightarrow 2\pi$ and $K_{L,S}$ semileptonic decays at LEA...
1992-07-29
2009-07-09
[ "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
John Ellis, N.E. Mavromatos and D.V. Nanopoulos
hep-ph/9207267
Constraints from Global Symmetries on Radiative Corrections to the Higgs Sector
We discuss the implications of global symmetries on the radiative corrections to the Higgs sector. We focus on two examples: the charged Higgs mass in the minimal supersymmetric model and the Higgs couplings to vector boson pairs. In the first case, we find that in the absence of squark mixing a global SU(2)$\times$SU(...
1992-07-29
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph" ]
Howard E. Haber and Alex Pomarol
hep-ph/9207266
Navigating Around the Algebraic Jungle of QCD: Efficient Evaluation of Loop Helicity Amplitudes
A method is developed whereby spinor helicity techniques can be used to simplify the calculation of loop amplitudes. This is achieved by using the Feynman-parameter representation where the offending off-shell loop momenta do not appear. Background Feynman gauge also helps to simplify the calculations. This method is a...
1992-07-28
2009-10-22
[ "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
C.S. Lam