First $\gamma$-rays from radioactive beams at REX-ISOLDE

In order to demonstrate a novel scheme to accelerate radioactive ions and to provide radioactive ion beams for physics experiments, the radioactive beam experiment (REX) was installed at ISOLDE, CERN. One of the main experimental devices that will use these beams is the newly commissioned HPGe array MINIBALL featuring an excellent granularity, energy resolution, and rate capability. First experiments have been performed using beams of neutron-rich Na and Mg isotopes.Received: 8 November 2002, Published online: 24 February 2004PACS: 41.75.Lx Other advanced accelerator concepts - 29.30.Kv X- and -ray spectroscopy - 25.60.Je Transfer reactionsH. Scheit: For the REX-ISOLDE-MINIBALL Collaboration     

Search for resonant $\tilde\nu$ production at $\sqrt{s} = $ 183 to 208 GeV

Searches for resonant production in e ⁺ e ^- collisions under the assumption that R-parity is not conserved and that the dominant R-parity violating coupling is or used data recorded by DELPHI in 1997 to 2000 at centre-of-mass energies of 183 to 208 GeV. No deviation from the Standard Model was observed. Upper limits are given for the and couplings as a function of the sneutrino mass and total width. The limits are especially stringent for sneutrino masses equal to the centre-of-mass energies with the highest integrated luminosities recorded. Received: 14 January 2003 / Published online: 14 March 2003     

Momentum-Kick Model Application to High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at s = 13 $\sqrt {s}=13$ TeV at the LHC

International Journal of Theoretical Physics - In this study, the momentum-kick model is used to understand the ridge behaviour in dihadron Δη–Δφ correlations recently...     

Quasi-normal Modes of AdS5 Black Hole at $\mathcal{N}=2$ Supergravity

In this paper we consider the AdS ₅ black hole at the \(\mathcal{N}=2\) supergravity background. By using the AdS/CFT correspondence we discuss about the quasi-normal modes of the scalar field in the black hole, which is dual of the scalar glueballs spectrum on the boundary. We obtain phase transition conditions from stable to unstable theory, which interpreted as confinement and deconfinement states in the QCD. We obtain the specific heat in terms of the temperature and charge of black hole, we find the temperature where the black hole is stable. Also we rewrite the equation of motion in the Schrödinger form and discuss the effective potential.     

The $\eta_{c}(2980)$ formation in two-photon collisions at LEP energies

production in interactions has been detected via its decays into ,K ⁺ K ^- K ⁺ K ^- and in the data taken with the DELPHI detector at LEP1 and LEP2 energies. The two-photon radiative width averaged over all observed decay channels is = 13.9 2.0 (stat.) 1.4(syst.) 2.7 (BR) keV. No direct decay channel has been observed. An upper limit < 5.5 keV at 95% confidence level has been evaluated for this decay mode.Received: 3 July 2003, Published online: 7 November 2003     

Diffractive $\gamma \gamma$ production at hadron colliders

We compute the cross section for exclusive double-diffractive production at the Tevatron, , and the LHC. We evaluate both the gg and -channel exchange contributions to the process. The observation of exclusive production at the Tevatron will provide a check on the model predictions and offer an opportunity to confirm the expectations for exclusive double-diffractive Higgs production at the LHC.Received: 10 September 2004, Revised: 8 October 2004, Published online: 1 December 2004     

Double-diffractive $\chi$ meson production at the hadron colliders

The double-diffractive production of and mesons, with a rapidity gap on either side, is studied, using both the Regge formalism and the perturbative QCD approach. Due to the rather low scale, the exclusive double-diffractive process is predicted to dominate, whereas the probability that the incoming protons dissociate is expected to be relatively small. We evaluate the corresponding production cross sections at the Tevatron and LHC energies. For the double-diffractive process with proton dissociation, it is possible to select events with large transverse momenta transferred through the rapidity gaps, by measuring the transverse energy, , flows in the proton fragmentation regions. Then the large provides a scale to justify the use of perturbative QCD, and to allow a spin-parity analysis of the centrally produced system to be performed, by studying the azimuthal angular correlations between the directions of the forward and backward flows. The central production of the new X(3872) charmonium state is considered.Received: 24 March 2004, Published online: 11 May 2004     

Double Diffractive Process Factorization from ηc and γ Associated Production at Tevatron and LHC

We present a study of associated ηc and γ double diffractive production in pp^- collision based on Ingelman-Schlein model, and the framework of non-relativistic QOD factorization formalism for quarkonia production. The prediction of ηc and γ is more reliable than J/ψ production, because the associated ηc and γ production is a pure color-octet process, and the dominant contribution comes from color octet ^1S0^(8) subprocess, which is related to the color octet matrix element of ^1S0(8) of J/ψ by the heavy quark spin symmetry and the large PT J/ψ production data. We find that the ratio of diffractive to inclusive cross sections is independent of the values of color octet matrix elements, but is sensitive to the gluon factor of the Pomeron and renormalized Pomeron flux factors. So experimental measurement of this ratio can give us more information of the nature of Pomeron and test the assumption of hard diffractive factorization in hadron-hadron collisions.     

Search for single leptoquark and squark production in electron-photon scattering at $\sqrt{s_{\rm ee}}=189$ GeV at LEP

A search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks (LQ) as well as for squarks () in R-parity violating SUSY models with the direct decay of the into Standard Model particles has been performed using ee collisions collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at an ee centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 160 pb. The dominant process for this search is , where a photon, which has been radiated by one of the beam electrons, serves as a source of quarks. The numbers of selected events found in the two decay channels are in agreement with the expectations from Standard Model processes. This result allows to set lower limits at the 95% confidence level on the mass of first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks, and of squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models. For Yukawa couplings to fermions larger than , the mass limits range from 121 GeV to GeV ( GeV to GeV) depending on the branching ratio of the scalar (vector) leptoquark state. Furthermore, limits are set on the Yukawa couplings for leptoquarks and for squarks, and on as a function of the scalar leptoquark/squark mass. Received: 22 May 2001 / Published online: 25 January 2002     

Impact of ${\cal O}(\alpha)$ radiative corrections on CC03 physics at LEP

In this work we report about the effect that the improved knowledge of electroweak radiative corrections, via the recent calculations of four-fermion processes with corrections in double pole approximation, has on WW physics at LEP2. Particular emphasis is given to the effects on differential distributions and their impact on the experimental observables. This study is based on generator comparisons using the new codes from the 2000 LEP2 Montecarlo workshop and allows new, important insights on the effects full radiative corrections have on W physics observables. The results presented here explain why it is so important to take these new calculations into account for precision measurements at LEP2. Received: 3 August 2001 / Revised version: 20 November 2001 / Published online: 18 January 2002     

Single- and multi-photon production in ee collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ up to 209 GeV

Events containing only energetic photons are analysed in a sample of of data recorded from collisions at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV by the ALEPH detector at LEP. The and cross sections are measured and found to be in agreement with the standard model predictions. The number of light neutrino generations is determined to be . Upper limits are derived on the cross sections for photon production in the context of several supersymmetric models. Limits are also set on the parameters of models with extra spatial dimensions, with contact interactions and with excited electrons. Received: 27 May 2002 / Published online: 14 March 2003     

Measurement of event shape and inclusive distributions at ${sqrt s} = 130$ and 136 GeV

Inclusive charged particle and event shape distributions are measured using 321 hadronic events collected with the DELPHI experiment at LEP at effective centre of mass energies of 130 to 136 GeV. These distributions are presented and compared to data at lower energies, in particular to the precise Z data. Fragmentation models describe the observed changes of the distributions well. The energy dependence of the means of the event shape variables can also be described using second order QCD plus power terms. A method independent of fragmentation model corrections is used to determine α_s from the energy dependence of the mean thrust and heavy jet mass. It is measured to be: $$←pha _s(133 {? GeV})={0.116}pm {0.007}_{exp-0.004theo}^{+0.005}$$ from the high energy data.     

The radiative return at $\phi$- and B-factories: small-angle photon emission at next-to-leading order

The radiative return offers the unique possibility for a measurement of the cross section of electron-positron annihilation into hadrons over a wide range of energies. The large luminosity of present - and B-factories easily compensates for the additional factor of due to the emission of a hard photon. Final states with photons at large angles can be easily identified. The rate for events with collinear photons, however, is enhanced by a large logarithm and allows, in particular at lower energies, for a complementary measurement. The Monte Carlo generator PHOKHARA, which includes next-to-leading order corrections from virtual and real photon emission, has been extended from large photon angles into the collinear region, using recent results for the virtual corrections. In addition, the present version includes final state radiation for muon and pion pair production and final states with four pions. Implications for the experimental analysis at three typical energies, 1.02, 4 and 10.6 GeV, are presented: the magnitude of these new corrections is studied, possibilities for the separation of initial and final state radiation are proposed, and the differences with respect to the previous treatment based on structure functions are investigated. Received: 16 December 2002 / Published online: 26 February 2003 RID="a" ID="a" e-mail: czyz@us.edu.pl RID="b" ID="b" e-mail: grzel@joy.phys.us.edu.pl, Supported in part by "Marie Curie Training Site" at Karlsruhe University RID="c" ID="c" e-mail: jk@particle.uni-karlsruhe.de RID="d" ID="d" e-mail: german.rodrigo@cern.ch, Supported in part by E.U. TMR grant HPMF-CT-2000-00989     

Atomic scale models of $\mathsf{Co{-}Ag}$ mixed nanoclusters at thermodynamic equilibrium

The configurations at thermodynamic equilibrium of Co_xAg_201-x nanoparticles are explored for 0 < x < 201 by means of Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations with a semi-empirical embedded atom potential at temperatures from 100 K to 1000 K. Remarkable configurations are predicted in this temperature range. As a consequence of a competition between strain and Co binding at low temperature, for x < 20, Co is distributed just below the cluster surface layer into groups of no more than 5 atoms, favouring well-defined positions, and the cluster central area is avoided. To increase the temperature favours the clustering of these small groups. Their dissolution is predicted at temperatures higher than the melting temperature of the cluster. For x > 50, Co regroups at the centre of the cluster and intersects {111}-facets when Ag atoms are not numerous enough to form an entire surface shell. At these stoechiometries, temperature is not sufficient to mix Ag and Co, even above the melting point. At still smaller Ag concentrations, the Ag atoms are distributed at lowest coordination sites, along the edges of the cluster, avoiding the cluster facets as well as inner sites. At intermediate stoechiometries (20 < x < 50), either oblate Co groups below the surface or a compact group at the centre of the cluster are possible.Received: 1 October 2003, Published online: 27 January 2004PACS: 61.46. + w Nanoscale materials: clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanocrystals - 61.43.Bn Structural modeling: serial-addition models, computer simulation     

Thermal evolution of cluster assembled $\mathsf{Ni_3Al}$ materials modelled at the atomic scale

Diffusion properties of Ni₃Al cluster assembled nanostructured materials are investigated at the atomic scale. Two different model samples are considered, at equilibrium at 300 K. One is obtained by modelling cluster compaction under 2 GPa external pressure and the second by accumulating low energy deposited clusters on a Ni surface. They differ essentially by their density, the latter sample presenting an interconnected network of nanopores, which is not observed in the former. At elevated temperatures, cluster coalescence is observed in both, as well as an intense atomic diffusion at the internal surfaces and nanograin interfaces. A method is presented which allows, in a good approximation, to distinguish between the two phenomena and to estimate diffusion coefficients. At temperatures above 400 K, it is found for both samples, irrespective to their density, that the diffusion activation energy at the internal surfaces and interfaces is as low as in a liquid while the grain cores remain crystalline.Received: 20 June 2003, Published online: 16 September 2003PACS: 61.43.Bn Structural modeling: serial-addition models, computer simulation - 36.40.-c Atomic and molecular clusters - 61.46. + w Nanoscale materials: clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanocrystals     

The radiative return at $\boldsymbol{\Phi}$- and B-factories: FSR at next-to-leading order

The measurement of the pion form factor and, more generally, of the cross section for electron-positron annihilation into hadrons through the radiative return has become an important task for high luminosity colliders such as the - or B-meson factories. For a detailed understanding and analysis of this reaction, the construction of a Monte Carlo program, PHOKHARA, has been undertaken. Version 2.0 was based on a next-to-leading order (NLO) treatment of the corrections from initial-state radiation (ISR). In the present paper a further extension of PHOKHARA (version 3.0) is described, which incorporates NLO corrections to final-state radiation (FSR). The impact of combined ISR and FSR on various distributions is investigated and methods are presented which will allow the extraction of the form factor, and even give access to inclusive photon emission due to FSR. The dependence of the results on the model for FSR is discussed and the impact of this contribution on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is evaluated.Received: 1 September 2003, Revised: 22 December 2003, Published online: 18 February 2004A. Grzeliska: Supported in part by Marie Curie Training Site at Universität Karlsruhe.G. Rodrigo: Supported by EC 5th Framework Programme under contract HPMF-CT-2000-00989.Work supported in part by BMBF under grant number 05HT9VKB0, EC 5th Framework Programme under contracts HPRN-CT-2000-00149, and HPRN-CT-2002-00311 (EURIDICE network), KBN under contract 2 P03B 017 24, Generalitat Valenciana under grant CTIDIB/2002/24, and MCyT under grants FPA-2001-3031 and BFM2002-00568.     

Radiative return at $\Phi$ - and B-factories: FSR for muon pair production at next-to-leading order

Muon pair production through the radiative return is of importance for a measurement of the hadronic production cross section in two ways: it provides an independent calibration and it may give rise to an important background for the measurement of the pion form factor. With this motivation the Monte Carlo event generator PHOKHARA is extended to include next-to-leading order radiative corrections to the reaction . Furthermore, virtual ISR corrections to FSR from pions are introduced, which extends the applicability of the generator into a new kinematical regime. Finally, the effect of photon vacuum polarization is introduced into this new version of the generator.Received: 8 April 2004, Revised: 3 December 2004, Published online: 25 January 2005Work supported in part by BMBF under grant number 05HT9VKB0, EC 5th Framework Programme under contract HPRN-CT-2002-00311 (EURIDICE network), TARI project HPRI-CT-1999-00088, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) under contract 2 P03B 017 24, BFM2002-00568, Generalitat Valenciana under grant GRUPOS03/013, and MCyT under grant FPA-2001-3031.