Singlet vector-like T quark production in association with Wb at the CLIC

In a simplified model including an SU(2) singlet vector-like top quark T(VLT) with charge 2/3,we investigate the associated production of Wb with VLT at a Compact Linear Collider(CLIC).Focusing on the T →Wb decay channel, we discuss two decay models:e⁺e^-→■W⁺b→(l^-■)(jjb) and e⁺e^-→■W+b→(jj■)(l⁺ νb). In this paper, we consider recent experimental limits including the electroweak precision observables, the width of the top ...     

Single Production of Vector-Like Top Quark in the Littlest Higgs Model at TeV Energy e-γ Colliders

The existence of a new coloured vector-like heavy fermion T is a crucial prediction in little Higgs models, which play a key role in breaking the electroweak symmetry. The littlest Higgs model is the most economical one among various little Higgs models. In the context of the littlest Higgs model, we study single production of the new heavy vector-like quark and discuss the possibility of detecting this new particle in the future LC experiment. It is found thai, the production cross section is in the range of 1.7× 10^-3 - 30 fb at TeV energy electron-photon collider with √s- 3 TeV and a yearly integrated luminosity of ,￡ = 500 fb^-1.     

Single Production of Top Quark via e-γ Collision in Left-Right Twin Higgs Model

In the context of the left-right twin Higgs （LRTH） model, we fist study single production of the standard model （SM） top quark via e-γ collisions. We find that the corrections of the LRTH model to the cross section of the process e-γ→vebt might be observed only for f ≤750 GeV and the heavy top quark mass scale M ≥500 GeV in future high energy linear e^＋e^- collider （LC） experiment with the center-of-mass （CM） energy √s = 500 GeV and a yearly integrated luminosity of ￡ = 100 fb^-1. We also consider single production of the heavy top quark T via e-γ collisions. Our numerical results show that the possible signals of the heavy top quark T might be observed via the decay channel T →Ф^＋b→tbb in future LC experiment with √s = 3 TeV and ￡ = 500 fb^-1.     

Detecting Toppion via a Flavor－Changing Single Top Quark Production Process

In the framework of topcolor-assisted technicolor(TC2) theory,we study a flavor changing single top quark production process pp(pp)→∏t^0→tc(tc)at upgraded Tevatron and LHC.The results show that with the flavor changing coupling of neutral toppion to top and chamr quark,toppion provides a large tc-channel resonance effect.The signal of single top production could be detected at LHC.Otherwise,the narrow peak in the invariant mass distribution could be clearly detected both at upgraded tevatron and LHC.Therefore,such single top production process provides a unique way to test TC2 model via the detection of tc-channel neutral toppion contribution.     

Mono-top signature from stop decay at the HE-LHC

Searching for the top squark(stop)is a key task to test the naturalness of SUSY.Different from stop pair production,single stop production relies on its electroweak properties and can provide some unique signatures.Following the single production process pp→t^~1X(~)1→tX^~1⁰X^~1^-,the top quark has two decay channels:leptonic channel and hadronic channel.In this paper,we probe the observability of these two channels in a simplified minimal supersymmetric standard model scenario.We find that,at the 27 TeV LHC with the integrated luminosity of L=15 ab^-1,mt^-1<1900 GeV andμ<750 GeV can be excluded at 2σthrough the leptonic mono-top channel,while m_t^-1<1200 GeV andμ<350 GeV can be excluded at 2σthrough the hadronic channel.     

Single vector-like top partner production in the left-right twin Higgs model at TeV energy eγ colliders

The left-right twin Higgs model contains a new vector-like heavy top quark, which mixes with the SM-like top quark. In this work, we studied the single vector-like top partner production via process e^-γ→v_eTb at the International Linear Collider. We calculated the production cross section at tree level and displayed the relevant di erential distributions. The result shows that there will be 125 events produced each year with √s=2 TeV and the integrated luminosity L_int≈500 fb^-1, and the b-quark tagging and the relevant missing energy E/T cut will be helpful to detect this new e ect.     

Detecting Toppion via a Flavor-Changing Single Top Quark Production Process

In the framework of topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) theory, we study a flavor changing single top quarkproduction process pp(pp) →Ⅱ0t → tc(tc) at upgraded Tevatron and LHC. The results show that with the flavor changingcoupling of neutral toppion to top and charm quark, toppion provides a large te-channel resonance effect. The signal ofsingle top production could be detected at LHC. Otherwise, the narrow peak in the invariant mass distribution could beclearly detected both at upgraded Tevatron and LHC. Therefore, such single top production process provides a uniqueway to test TC2 model via the detection of tc-channel neutral toppion contribution.     

The single neutral top-higgs production at LHC and ILC in the Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor Model

In this paper, we study the single neutral top-higgs (h0t) production processes at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International Linear Collider (ILC). At the LHC, the production rates of processes pp→Z(W)h0t are too small to detect h0t . However, with the reasonable parameter values, the cross sections can reach the level of 102 fb for qq→qqh0t process and 103 fb for top quark associated production process pp→th0t+X, respectively. At the ILC, we study the single top-higgs production processes e-γ→νeW-h0t and γγ→W+W-h0t in e-γ and γγ collisions. It is found that the production cross sections can reach the level of a few fb with reasonable parameter values. Furthermore, such processes with the flavor-changing decay mode h0t→tc might provide typical signatures to detected the top-higgs. Therefore, it is hopeful to find the signal of top-higgs at the LHC and ILC experiments via theses processes and test the TC2 model directly.     

Ratio of a strange quark mass ms to up or down quark mass mu,d predicted by a quark propagator in the framework of the chiral perturbation theory

Based on the fully dressed quark propagator and chiral perturbation theory, we study the ratio of the strange quark mass ms to up or down quark mass mu,d . The ratio is related to the determination of quark masses which are fundamental input parameters of QCD Lagrangian in the Standard Model of particle physics and can not be directly measured since the quark is confined within a hadron. An accurate determination of these QCD free parameters is extremely important for both phenomenological and theoretical applications. We begin with a brief introduction to the non-perturbation QCD theory, and then study the mass ratio in the framework of the chiral perturbation theory (χPT) with a parameterized fully dressed quark propagator which describes confining fully dressed quark propagation and is analytic everywhere in the finite complex p2-plane and has no Lehmann representation so there are no quark production thresholds in any theoretical calculations of observable data. Our prediction for the ratio ms/mu,d is consistent with other model predictions such as Lattice QCD, instanton model, QCD sum rules and the empirical values used widely in the literature. As a by-product of this study, our theoretical results, together with other predictions of physical quantities that used this quark propagator in our previous publications, clearly show that the parameterized form of the fully dressed quark propagator is an applicable and reliable approximation to the solution of the Dyson-Schwinger Equation of quark propagator in the QCD.     

Constituent quark number scaling from strange hadron spectra in pp collisions at ■=13 TeV

We show that the p_T spectra of Ω~- and φ at midrapidity in the inelastic events in pp collisions at ■=13 TeV exhibit a constituent quark number scaling property,which is a clear signal of quark combination mechanism at hadronization.We use a quark combination model with equal velocity combination approximation to systematically study the production of identified hadrons in pp collisions at ■=13 TeV.The midrapidity spectra for protons,∧,Ξ~-,Ω~-,φ and K~* in the inelastic events are simultaneously fitted by the model.The multiplicity dependence of the yields of these hadrons are also well understood.The strong p_T dependence of the p/φ ratio is well explained by the model,which further suggests that the production of two hadrons with similar masses is determined by their quark content at hadronization.The p_T spectra of strange hadrons at midrapidity in different multiplicity classes in pp collisions at ■=13 TeV are predicted for further tests of the model.The midrapidity p_T spectra of soft (p_T 2 GeV/c)strange quarks and up/down quarks at hadronization in pp collisions at ■=13 TeV are extracted.     

Associated Production of a Photon with Dark Matter Pair at the ILC within the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity

Within the context of the Littlest Higgs model with T -parity, the heavy photon (AH) is supposed to be an ideal dark matter (DM) candidate. One direct proof of validity of the model is to produce the heavy photon at collider. In this paper, we investigate the associated production of a photon with heavy photon pair at the planned international e+e- linear collider (ILC),i.e., e+e-→ AHAHγ and show the distributions of the transverse momenta of the photon. The numerical results indicate that the heavy photon production rate could reach several fb at the low mass parameter space and the characteristic signal is a single high energetic photon and missing energy, carried by the heavy photons. All in all, it can be a good chance to observe the heavy photon via this process with the high yearly luminosity of the ILC.     

A general analysis of Wtb anomalous couplings

We investigate new physics effects on the Wtb effective couplings in a model-independent framework.The new physics effects can be parametrized by four independent couplings, f_1~L, f_1~R, f_2~L and f_2~R. We further introduce a set of parameters x_0, x_m, x_p and x_5 which exhibit a linear relation to the single top production cross sections.Using recent data for the t-channel single top production cross section σ_t, t W associated production cross sectionσt W, s-channel single top production cross section σs, and W-helicity fractions F_0, F_L and F_R collected at the 8 Te V LHC and Tevatron, we perform a global fit to impose constraints on the top quark effective couplings. Our global fitting results show that the top quark effective couplings are strongly correlated. We show that(i) improving the measurements of σt and σt W is important in constraining the correlation of(f_1~R, f_2~R) and(f_2~L, f_2~R);(ii) f_1~L and f_2~R are anti-correlated, and are sensitive to all the four experiments;(iii) f_1~R and f_2~Lare also anti-correlated, and are sensitive to the F_0 and FL measurements;(iv) the correlation between f_2~L and f_2~R is sensitive to the precision of the σ_t, σ_t W and F_0 measurements. The effective Wtb couplings are studied in three kinds of new physics models:the G(221) = SU(2)_1?SU(2)_2?U(1)_X models, the vector-like quark models and the Littlest Higgs model with and without T-parity. We show that the Wtb couplings in the left-right model and the un-unified model are sensitive to the ratio of gauge couplings when the new heavy gauge boson's mass(MW) is less than several hundred Ge V, but the constraint is loose if M_W 1 TeV. Furthermore, the Wtb couplings in vector-like quark models and the Littlest Higgs models are sensitive to the mixing angles of new heavy particles and SM particles.     

Higgs and Single Top Associated Production at the LHC in the Left-Right Twin Higgs Model

In the framework of the left-right twin Higgs(LRTH) model, we study the Higgs boson and single top quark associated production at the LHC. We investigate the processes pp → thj, pp → thˉb and pp → th W at the 8(14) Te V LHC and find that the production cross sections of the three processes can be enhanced at different levels. Among them,the production cross section of the process pp → thˉb is enhanced significantly due to the contribution of the new particles predicted by the LRTH model.     

Transition magnetic moments of J~P=3/2~+ decuplet to J~P=1/2~+ octet baryons in the chiral constituent quark model

In light of the developments of the chiral constituent quark model(χ~(CQM)) in studying low energy hadronic matrix elements of the ground-state baryons, we extend this model to investigate their transition properties.The magnetic moments of transitions from the J~P=3/2~+ decuplet to J~P=1/2~+ octet baryons are calculated with explicit valence quark spin, sea quark spin and sea quark orbital angular momentum contributions. Since the experimental data is available for only a few transitions, we compare our results with the results of other available models. The implications of other complicated effects such as chiral symmetry breaking and SU(3) symmetry breaking arising due to confinement of quarks are also discussed.     

The mass effect of the quark phase transition in supernova core

Constituent quark mass model is adopted as a tentative one to study the phase transition between two-flavour quark matter and more stable three-flavour quark matter in the core of supernovae. The result shows that the transition has a significant influence on the increasing of the core temperature, the neutrino abundance and the neutrino energies, which contributes to the enhancement of the successful probability of supernova explosion. However, the equilibrium values of these parameters （except the temperature） from the constituent quark mass model in this work are slightly bigger than those obtained from the other model. And we find that the constituent quark mass model is also applicable to describing the transition in the supernova core.     

Can X(5568) be a tetraquark state?

Very recently, the D0 collaboration has reported the observation of a narrow structure, X(5568), in the decay process X(5568)→ B_s~0π±using the 10.4fb~(-1) data of pp collision at 8~(1/2) = 1.96 TeV. This structure is of great interest since it is the first hadronic state with four different valence quark flavors, b, s, u, d. In this work,we investigate tetraquarks with four different quark flavors. Based on the diquark-antidiquark scheme, we study the spectroscopy of the tetraquarks with one heavy bottom/charm quark and three light quarks. We find that the lowest-lying S-wave state, a tetraquark with the flavor [su][bd] and the spin-parity JP= 0~+, is about 150 MeV higher than the X(5568). Further detailed experimental and theoretical studies of the spectrum, production and decays of tetraquark states with four different flavors are vital to gain a better understanding of the nature and classification of hadron exotic states.     

Designability of Protein Structures on the Hexagonal Lattice Model

In view of the bonding angle and the number of neighbouring sites, the hexagonal lattice model is preferred to investigate the designability of protein structures. Here we simulate the designable structures by the simplified HP model in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with an unrestricted boundary. The result shows that the structures with a large number of core sites correspond to the high designability and have circular-like profiles. The maximum and average designabilities for the hexagonal lattice model are much higher than those for thesquare lattice mode, and the maximum and average designabilities for the square lattice model are much higher than those for the triangle lattice model.     

Investigation of Z-boson decay into Ξbc and Ξbb baryons within the NRQCD factorization approach

Z-boson decay provides a good opportunity to search for the Ξ_bQ baryon because a large number of its events can be collected at high energy colliders.In this paper,we perform a complete investigation of the indirect production of the Ξ_bc and Ξ_bb baryons via the Z-boson decay process Z→Ξ_bQ+■+■ with a Q=(c,b) quark under the NRQCD factorization approach.After considering the contribution from the diquark states ■,■ and ■,the calculated branching fraction...     

An explanation for deviations from the quark number scaling of elliptic flows in low PT region

We carry out a systematic study of the different contributions to the deviations of the elliptic flows from the quark number scaling in high energy heavy ion collision in a quark combination model.The effects that we considered are:the resonance decay,the flavor dependence of the quark elliptic flow and the combination of quarks/antiquarks with slightly different transverse momenta.Our results show that the deviations observed in experiments can be well reproduced within the combination framework if all the three effects are considered. We make a detailed analysis of the different contributions using a Monte-Carlo program and suggest measuring the quark number scaling in intermediate P_T range more precisely.