Monte Carlo simulation of carbon fragmentation at high energies

The dominating decay channels of fragmenting carbon nuclei in high-energy proton-carbon collisions were studied by means of a Monte Carlo simulation. We study the influence of the Coulomb interaction on the energy spectra and two-fragment (energy and angular) correlations between the various fragments in the context of a statistical model. We show that the Coulomb interaction between the fragments strongly affects their energy and angular correlation functions. Qualitative predictions for the exclusive analysis of the various final states are given. Comparison with experiments of this type should soon be possible.     

Sterile neutrinos in lepton number and lepton flavor violating decays

We study the contribution of massive dominantly sterile neutrinos, N, to the lepton number and lepton flavor violating semileptonic decays of τ and B, D, K-mesons. We focus on special domains of sterile neutrino masses mN where it is close to its mass-shell. This leads to an enormous resonant enhancement of the decay rates of these processes. This allows us to derive stringent limits on the sterile neutrino mass mN and its mixing UαN with active flavors. We apply a joint analysis of the existing experimental bounds on the decay rates of the studied processes. In contrast to other approaches in the literature our limits are free from ad hoc assumptions on the relative size of the sterile neutrino mixing parameters. We analyze the impact of this sort of assumptions on the extraction of the limits on mN and UαN, and discuss the effect of finite detector size. Special attention was paid to the limits on meson decays with e^±e^± in final state, derived from non-observation of 0νββ-decay. We point out that observation of these decays may, in particular, shed light on the Majorana phases of the neutrino mixing matrix.     

Rate of anomalous electroweak baryon and lepton number violation at finite temperature

Using Langer's statistical theory of the decay of metastable states we calculate the rate of the anomalous electroweak baryon and lepton number violating processes in the case that the electroweak phase transition is of second order. Our formulas are valid in a temperature range between M_w and the critical temperature T_c. We get a dissipation of the baryon and lepton number of the order of exp(4.6×10⁹).     

Completing Lorentz violating massive gravity at high energies

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - Theories with massive gravitons are interesting for a variety of physical applications, ranging from cosmological phenomena to holographic modeling...     

Systematic analysis of lepton family number violating processes in the framework of local gauge theories

General unified electroweak gauge theories with neutral lepton mixing are reexamined with regard to processes that change lepton family numbers L_f. The most general allowed mass sectors of models based on SU(2) × U(1) and SU(2)_L × SU(2)_R × U(1) are studied and the consequences for L_f changing processes such as μ → eγ, ν_f′ → ν_f + γ are worked out. We discuss models that break individual lepton family numbers but still conserve total lepton number L, as well as models in which L is broken too.     

Search for lepton flavour number violating Z0- decays

A search for lepton flavour number violating Z⁰ decays in the channels Z ⁰ → μτ, Z ⁰ → eτ, Z ⁰ → eμ, using the DELPHI detector with data collected during the 1991–94 LEP runs, is described. No signal was found. Upper limits at 95% confidence level for the respective branching fractions of 1.2 × 10^?5, 2.2 × 10^?5, and 0.25 × 10^?5, were obtained.     

Monte Carlo simulation of polymers at interfaces

Polymers at interfaces pose challenging problems to statistical physics because their configurations often differ greatly from the bulk. Computer simulation of coarse-grained models then gives valuable insight and allows stringent tests of various theoretical predictions. Three examples are briefly treated: chain configurations of B-chains in the surface-enriched B-rich layer of an (AB) binary polymer mixture; “frustrated” lamellar ordering in ultra-thin block-copolymer films; and the collapse of polymer brushes in bad solvents.     

Polarized deep inelastic scattering at high energies and parity violating structure functions

Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields - A comprehensive analysis of deep inelastic scattering of polarized charged leptons on polarized nucleons is presented; weak interaction...     

Two-photon processes at very high energies

Formulae are presented by which a numerically stable computer program for two-photon processes above $\text{s}\text{= 100}\text{GeV}$ can be constructed. For this purpose a new method for evaluating matrix elements is introduced. It is then shown that two-photon processes should be no background to Drell-Yan signals in pp collisions. A comparison is made between two-photon physics at e⁺e^?, ep and pp collisions.     

Saddle-point energies and Monte Carlo simulation of the long-range order relaxation in CoPt

We present atomic-scale computer simulations in equiatomic L1₀-CoPt where Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo techniques have both been applied to study the vacancy-atom exchange and kinetics relaxation. The atomic potential is determined using a Tight-Binding formalism within the Second-Moment Approximation. It is used to evaluate the different saddle-point energies involved in a vacancy-atom exchange between nearest-neighbour sites. The potential and the saddle-point energies have been used to simulate the relaxation of the long-range order in CoPt using a Monte Carlo technique. A vacancy migration energy of 0.73±0.15 eV and an order-disorder transition temperature of 935 K have been found.     

Transverse energy flow in lepton and hadron induced reactions at high energies

We show that correlations betweenx- andy-components of the secondary particle momenta together with an amount of stochasticity and coherency account for the transverse energy (momentum) spectra observed recently in high energy collisions of leptons and hadrons. Relations obtained within the framework of quantum statistics involving the coherent state expansions are applied to e⁺e^– (at s 14 GeV), pp (26 GeV), ¯pp (900 GeV) and p + Au (200 GeV proton beam) collisions. The comparison of theoretical relations with data leads to sufficiently accurate conclusions. However, more experimental results of the same collision are needed as far as the values of the parameters involved should be determined uniquely.One of the authors (M. B.) acknowledges with pleasure the fruitful discussions with Drs. J. Peina, L. Kubáek, D. Krupa, J. Piút and M. Seman.     

Towards a complete QFT treatment of monopole induced baryon number violating transitions

By showing that the radially reduced QCD of s-wave fermions outside the core of a GUT monopole can be treated in a way analogous to 't Hofft's QCD₂ in the large N_climit, we are able to give a complete QFT treatment of all the relevant long-range gauge fields outside the monopole core. We prove that the original cluster argument for the existence of baryon number violating fermion “condensates” around the core, gives in fact, the correct result, despite the neglect of QCD strong interactions, which prevent the propagation of isolated quarks. We discuss briefly how a complete computational framework for a monopole induced hadron-lepton transition might be derived.     

Peripherical processes in QED at high energies

In this review we consider the high energy processes in QED frames in peripherical kinematics. The key feature of this kinematics is that processes have a large cross section which do not decrease with the increasing of the initial center of mass energy. Two purposes to study peripheral processes are: the background processes with large total cross sections and the structure of jets in the fragmentation region.We describe the various QED peripherical processes in terms of Impact Factors and give the explicit expressions for the differential distributions and spin correlation effects, as well as estimates of the total cross section of peripheral processes in photon-photon, photon-lepton and lepton-lepton collisions.A special attention is paid to the small-angle Bhabha scattering process which is relevant for beam monitoring at LEP I, LEP II.Based on analytical properties of the amplitudes some relations (QED sum rules) between the high energy asymptotic of the cross sections of inelastic processes in e ⁺ e ^? collisions and higher order perturbative contributions to the electron Dirac and Pauli form-factors are derived.For practical using we present some loop momentum integrals.