Charm physics — A field full of challenges and opportunities

In this review, we discuss some interesting issues in charm physics, which is full of puzzles and challenges. So far in this field, there exist many problems which have not obtained satisfactory answers yet as more unexpected phenomena Continue to be observed at the current facilities of high energy physics. Charm physics may become an ideal place for searching new resonances and studying non-perturbative QCD effects, moreover it is probably an area for exploring new physics beyond the Standard Model. More data will be available at the BE-SIII, B-factories, LHC and even the future ILC, which may open a wide window to a better understanding of its nature.      

Determination of new electroweak parameters at the ILC – sensitivity to new physics

We present a study of the sensitivity of the International Linear Collider (ILC) to electroweak parameters in the absence of a light Higgs boson. In particular, we consider those parameters that have been inaccessible at previous colliders, quartic gauge couplings. Within a generic effective-field theory context we analyze all processes that contain quasi-elastic weak-boson scattering, using complete six-fermion matrix elements in unweighted event samples, fast simulation of the ILC detector, and a multi-dimensional parameter fit of the set of anomalous couplings. The analysis does not rely on simplifying assumptions such as custodial symmetry or approximations such as the equivalence theorem. We supplement this by a similar new study of triple weak-boson production, which is sensitive to the same set of anomalous couplings. Including the known results on triple gauge couplings and oblique corrections, we thus quantitatively determine the indirect sensitivity of the ILC to new physics in the electroweak symmetry-breaking sector, conveniently parameterized by real or fictitious resonances in each accessible spin/isospin channel. PACS 11.30.Qc; 12.39.Fe; 12.60.Fr; 13.66.Jn     

Partially composite two-Higgs doublet model

In the extra dimensional scenarios with gauge fields in the bulk, the Kaluza-Klein (KK) gauge bosons can induce Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type attractive fourfermion interactions, which can break electroweak symmetry dynamically with accompanying composite Higgs fields. We consider a possibility that electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is triggered by both a fundamental Higgs and a composite Higgs arising in a dynamical symmetry breaking mechanism induced by a new strong dynamics. The resulting Higgs sector is a partially composite two-Higgs doublet model with specific boundary conditions on the coupling and mass parameters originating at a compositeness scale Λ. The phenomenology of this model is discussed including the collider phenomenology at LHC and ILC.      

物理学新技术与生命科学前沿研究

物理学新技术对现代生命科学取得的巨大成就发挥了极其重要的作用；生命科学和医学的需要又促进了物理新技术和仪器的发展。本文介绍了在生命科学一些前沿研究领域中应用物理学新技术取得的成果，并展望了21世纪的发展前景，包括：单分子动力学、结构生物学、纳米技术和生物技术、分子细胞信息学、脑科学和神经信息学。     

Software for the international linear collider: Simulation and reconstruction frameworks

Software plays an increasingly important role already in the early stages of a large project like the ILC. In international collaboration a data format for the ILC detector and physics studies has been developed. Building upon this software frameworks are made available which ease the event reconstruction and analysis.      

Low-scale gravity mediation in warped extra dimension and collider phenomenology on hidden sector

We propose a new scenario of gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking (gravity mediation) in a supersymmetric Randall-Sundrum model, where the gravity mediation takes place at a low scale due to the warped metric. We investigate collider phenomenology involving the hidden sector field, and find a possibility that the hidden sector field can be produced at the LHC and the ILC. The hidden sector may no longer be hidden. Talk presented by N Okada. The talk is based on the work of H Itoh, N Okada and T Yamashita, hep-ph/0606156.     

SUSY at the ILC and solving the LHC inverse problem

Recently a large-scale study of points in the MSSM parameter space which are problematic at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been performed. This work was carried out in part to determine whether the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) could be used to solve the LHC inverse problem. The results suggest that while the ILC will be a valuable tool, an energy upgrade may be crucial to its success, and that, in general, precision studies of the MSSM are more difficult at the ILC than has generally been believed.     

Single scale factor for the universe from the creation of radiation and matter till the present

For a long time, global fits of the electroweak sector of the standard model (SM) have been used to exploit measurements of electroweak precision observables at lepton colliders (LEP, SLC), together with measurements at hadron colliders (Tevatron, LHC) and accurate theoretical predictions at multi-loop level, to constrain free parameters of the SM, such as the Higgs and top masses. Today, all fundamental SM parameters entering these fits are experimentally determined, including information on the Higgs couplings, and the global fits are used as powerful tools to assess the validity of the theory and to constrain scenarios for new physics. Future measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International Linear Collider (ILC) promise to improve the experimental precision of key observables used in the fits. This paper presents updated electroweak fit results using the latest NNLO theoretical predictions and prospects for the LHC and ILC. The impact of experimental and theoretical uncertainties is analysed in detail. We compare constraints from the electroweak fit on the Higgs couplings with direct LHC measurements, and we examine present and future prospects of these constraints using a model with modified couplings of the Higgs boson to fermions and bosons.     

Measuring supersymmetry

If new physics is found at the LHC (and the ILC) the reconstruction of the underlying theory should not be biased by assumptions about high-scale models. For the mapping of many measurements onto high-dimensional parameter spaces we introduce SFitter with its new weighted Markov chain technique. SFitter constructs an exclusive likelihood map, determines the best-fitting parameter point and produces a ranked list of the most likely parameter points. Using the example of the TeV-scale supersymmetric Lagrangian we show how a high-dimensional likelihood map will generally include degeneracies and strong correlations. SFitter allows us to study such model-parameter spaces employing Bayesian as well as frequentist constructions. We illustrate in detail how it should be possible to analyze high-dimensional new-physics parameter spaces like the TeV-scale MSSM at the LHC. A combination of LHC and ILC measurements might well be able to completely cover highly complex TeV-scale parameter spaces.     

SUSY-QCD Effects in Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Gluon at the ILC

Given the null results of searches for new physics at the LHC, we investigate the one-loop effects SUSY QCD in the process e⁺e^-→ttg at the ILC in Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We find that the relative SUSY-QCD corrections to the cross section of e⁺e^-→ttg can maximally reach 6.5%(3.2%) at the ILC with √s=1000 GeV when m=313:4 GeV and m=500(1500) GeV.     

The road towards the international linear collider: Higgs,top/quantum chromodynamics,loops

The international linear e ⁺ e ⁻ collider (ILC) could go into operation in the second half of the upcoming decade. Experimental analyses and theory calculations for the physics at the ILC are currently performed. We review recent progress, as presented at the LCWS06 in Bangalore, India, in the fields of Higgs boson physics and top/QCD. Also the area of loop calculations, necessary to achieve the required theory precision, is included.      

Performance of GLD detector

Most of the important physics processes to be studied in the international linear collider (ILC) experiment have multi-jets in the final state. In order to achieve better jet energy resolution, the so-called particle flow algorithm (PFA) will be employed and there is a general consensus that PFA derives overall ILC detector design. Four detector concepts for the ILC experiment have been proposed so far in the world; the GLD detector that has a large inner calorimeter radius, which is considered to have an advantage for a PFA, is one of them. In this paper, general scheme and performance of the GLD-PFA will be presented.      

Associated productions of the new gauge boson BH in the Littlest Higgs model with a SM gauge boson via e+e- collision

With the high energy and luminosity, the planned ILC has the considerable capability to probe the new heavy particles predicted by the new physics models. In this paper, we study the potential to discover the lightest new gauge boson BH of the Littlest Higgs model via the processes e+e- →γ(Z)BH at the ILC. The results show that the production rates of these two processes are large enough to detect BH in a wide range of the parameter spaces, specially for the process e+e- →γBH. Furthermore, there exist some decay modes for BH which can provide the typical signal and clean backgrounds. Therefore, the new gauge boson BH should be observable via these production processes with the running of the ILC if it exist.     

The associated productions of the new gauge boson B_H in the littlest Higgs model with a SM gauge boson via e^+e^- collision

With the high energy and luminosity, the planned ILC has the considerable capability to probe the new heavy particles predicted by the new physics models. In this paper, we study the potential to discover the lightest new gauge boson B_H of the littlest Higgs model via the processes e^+e^- ->r(Z)B_H at the ILC. The results show that the production rates of these two processes are large enough to detect B_H in a wide range of the parameter space, specially for the process e^+e^-->rB_H. Furthermore, there exist some decay modes for B_H which can provide the typical signal and clean background. Therefore, the new gauge boson B_H should be observable via these production processes with the running of the ILC if it exists indeed.     

国际直线对撞机研究现状及未来发展

文章介绍了国际直线对撞机(ILC)的科学目标及直线对撞机(LC)与强子对撞机(LHC)的关系.结合对正负电子直线对撞机历史的回顾及国际直线对撞机方案的选择,对国际直线对撞机的发展现状及未来发展趋势进行了介绍.对中国科学家在国际直线对撞机中所做的国际合作研究进行了简要的回顾,并强调了中国抓住国际直线对撞机国际合作机遇对中国科学发展的重要性.     

Application of intense ion beams to planetary physics research at the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research facility

This paper presents detailed 2D hydrodynamic simulations of implosion of a multi‐layered cylindrical target that is driven by an intense uranium beam. The target is comprised of a thick, high‐Z, high‐ρ cylindrical shell that encloses a sample material (Fe in the present case). Two options have been used for the focal spot geometry: an annular form and a circular form. The purpose of this work is to show that an intense heavy‐ion beam can induce the extreme physical conditions in the sample material similar to those that exist in the planetary cores. In this study, we use parameters of the beam that will be generated at the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR), Darmstadt, in a few years' time. Production of these high‐energy‐density (HED) samples will allow us to study planetary physics in the laboratory. It is to be noted that planetary physics research is an important part of the FAIR HED physics program. A dedicated experiment named LAboratory PLAnetary Sciences (LAPLAS) has been proposed for this purpose. These simulations show that in such experiments an Fe sample can be imploded to the Earth's core conditions and to those in more massive rocky planets called Super‐Earths. Similarly, implosion of hydrogen and water samples will generate the core conditions of solar and extrasolar hydrogen‐rich gas giants and water‐rich icy planets, respectively. The LAPLAS experiments will thus provide very valuable information on the equation of state and transport properties of matter under extreme physical conditions, which will help scientists understand the structure and evolution of the planets in our solar system as well as of the extrasolar planets.     

From the LHC to future colliders

Discoveries at the LHC will soon set the physics agenda for future colliders. This report of a CERN Theory Institute includes the summaries of Working Groups that reviewed the physics goals and prospects of LHC running with 10 to 300 fb^?1 of integrated luminosity, of the proposed sLHC luminosity upgrade, of the ILC, of CLIC, of the LHeC and of a muon collider. The four Working Groups considered possible scenarios for the first 10 fb^?1 of data at the LHC in which (i) a state with properties that are compatible with a Higgs boson is discovered, (ii) no such state is discovered either because the Higgs properties are such that it is difficult to detect or because no Higgs boson exists, (iii) a missing-energy signal beyond the Standard Model is discovered as in some supersymmetric models, and (iv) some other exotic signature of new physics is discovered. In the contexts of these scenarios, the Working Groups reviewed the capabilities of the future colliders to study in more detail whatever new physics may be discovered by the LHC. Their reports provide the particle physics community with some tools for reviewing the scientific priorities for future colliders after the LHC produces its first harvest of new physics from multi-TeV collisions.     

On the perturbation theory in spatially closed background

Recent studies have shown that searches in the mono-photon and missing energy final state can be used to discover dark matter candidates at the ILC. While an excess in this final state over the Standard Model background would indicate the existence of a dark sector, no detailed information about the internal structure of this sector can be inferred. Here, we demonstrate how just a few observables can discriminate between various realisations of dark sectors, including e.g. the spin of mediators.     

太空物理学当代前沿及其交叉特点

文章对21世纪太空物理学的发展趋势及其与物理学交叉的特点作了论述，主要内容包括：（1）太空物理学的地位和作用；（2）21世纪太空物理学的发展趋势和前沿问题；（3）物理学与太空物理学交叉的特点（包括太空物理探测与物理学的交叉，太空物理与等离子体物理的交叉，太空物理与高能物理的交叉，太空开发利用与物理学的交叉）。