Gauge coupling unification and light exotica in string theory

In this Letter we consider the consequences for the CERN Large Hadron Collider of light vectorlike exotica with fractional electric charge. It is shown that such states are found in orbifold constructions of the heterotic string. Moreover, these exotica are consistent with gauge coupling unification at one loop, even though they do not come in complete multiplets of SU(5).     

A new interpretation of the Ψ-resonances

Recent experimental discoveries favor speculations that there may be several new “flavors” of tricolored quarks. We interpret the Ψ(3095) and Ψ′(3684) resonances as bound states composed of the two new quark flavors of electric charge 2/3 required by the minimal vectorlike theory of the weak interactions. Implications for e⁺e^?-annihilation and neutrino production are discussed.     

Search for single vectorlike quarks in pp ̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

We present a search for hypothetical vectorlike quarks in pp ? collisions at √s=1.96 TeV. The data were collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb(-1). We select events with a final state composed of a W or Z boson and a jet consistent with a heavy object decay. We observe no significant excess in comparison to the background prediction and set limits on production cross sections for vectorlike quarks decaying to W+jet and Z+jet. These are the most stringent limits to date for electroweak single vectorlike quark production at hadron colliders.     

Neutrino and antineutrino new data and vectorlike models

A detailed assessment of recently reported neutrino and antineutrino new physics data at high energies is carried out in a strictly vectorlike quark-parton model. The model is found to be in very good agreement with the data, with a sea quark contribution as little as 10% or less, relative to the valence contribution. Various other advantageous features of the vectorlike model, compared to the standard four-quark model, are pointed out. The implication is that besides the charmed quarkc, other heavy quarks could exist, and are probably already being excited at the presently available high neutrino energies.     

The C-theorem and chiral symmetry breaking in asymptotically free vectorlike gauge theories

We confront Cardy's suggested c-function for four-dimensional field theories with the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetries in asymptotically free vectorlike gauge theories with fermions transforming according to different representations under the gauge group. Assuming that the infrared limit of the c-function is determined by the dimension of the associated Goldstone manifold, we find that this c-function always decreases between the ultraviolet and infrared fixed points.     

New realizations of Lie algebra kappa-deformed Euclidean space

We study Lie algebra κ-deformed Euclidean space with undeformed rotation algebra SO_a(n) and commuting vectorlike derivatives. Infinitely many realizations in terms of commuting coordinates are constructed and a corresponding star product is found for each of them. The κ-deformed noncommutative space of the Lie algebra type with undeformed Poincaré algebra and with the corresponding deformed coalgebra is constructed in a unified way.     

Vectorlike weak currents and new elementary fermions

Recent experimental discoveries encourage speculation that there may be more than four “flavors” of tricolored quarks and/or new flavors of leptons. A vectorlike gauge theory of the weak, electromagnetic, and associated neutral current interactions is then an attractive possibility. We present as an illustrative example a minimal theory based on six quark flavors and six lepton flavors and on the group SU₂ × U₁ (presumably a subgroup of a larger gauge group).     

Electroweak baryogenesis from late neutrino masses

Electroweak baryogenesis, given a first-order phase transition, does not work in the standard model because the quark Yukawa matrices are too hierarchical. On the other hand, the neutrino mass matrix is apparently not hierarchical. In models with neutrino mass generation at low scales, the neutrino Yukawa couplings lead to large CP violation in the reflection probability of heavy leptons by the expanding Higgs bubble wall, and can generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. The mechanism predicts new vectorlike leptons below the TeV scale and sizable mu --> e processes.     

Vectorlike weak currents,massive neutrinos,and neutrino beam oscillations

If the weak currents are vectorlike, the neutrinos will not be massless, and there will exist weak mixing angles for leptons, analogous to the Cabibbo angle for hadrons. Neutrino beams will oscillate in a similar way as K_o-beams. The failure to observe a solar neutrino flux at the theoretically predicted rate can be interpreted as the consequence of these oscillations.     

Measuring Dirac CP-violating phase with intermediate energy beta beam facility

We find that spontaneously broken parity ( $P$ ) or left–right symmetry stabilizes dark matter in a beautiful way. If dark matter has a non-real intrinsic parity $\pm i$ (e.g. if it entails Majorana fermions), parity can ensure that it cannot decay to all normal particles with real intrinsic parities. However, if Majorana couplings are absent either in the lepton or the dark sector, $P$ symmetry can be redefined to remove relative non-real intrinsic phases. It is therefore predicted that neutrinos and dark matter fermions must have Majorana masses if dark matter is stable due to parity. The strong CP problem is solved by additionally imposing CP and including vectorlike fermions that help generate CP violation. If leptonlike heavy fermions are provided purely imaginary intrinsic parity phase, they do not couple to the usual leptons, and leptonic CP phases are not generated, which is a testable prediction. Experimentally if leptonic CP phases are not found (if they are consistent with $0$ or $\pi $ ) it can be evidence for the type of models in this work where CP is spontaneously or softly broken and there is also a second hidden or softly broken symmetry such as $P$ , $Z_2$ or $Z_4$ . However, leptonic CP violation can be present in closely related or some non-minimal versions of these models, such as by also including vectorlike leptons with real intrinsic parities.     

Dark matter and LHC phenomenology of a scale-invariant scotogenic model

We study the phenomenology of a model that addresses the neutrino mass, dark matter, and generation of the electroweak scale in a single framework. Electroweak symmetry breaking is realized via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism in a classically scale invariant theory, while the neutrino mass is generated radiatively through interactions with dark matter in a typically scotogenic manner. The model introduces a scalar triplet and singlet and a vectorlike fermion doublet that carry an odd parity of Z_2, and an even parity scalar singlet that helps preserve classical scale invariance. We sample over the parameter space by taking into account various experimental constraints from the dark matter relic density and direct detection, direct scalar searches, neutrino mass, and charged lepton flavor violating decays. We then examine by detailed simulations possible signatures at the LHC to find some benchmark points of the free parameters. We find that the future high-luminosity LHC will have a significant potential in detecting new physics signals in the dilepton channel.     

Search for a vectorlike quark with charge 2/3 in t+Z events from pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

A search for pair-produced heavy vectorlike charge-2/3 quarks, T, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the flavor-changing-neutral-current decay of a T quark to a top quark and a Z boson are selected by requiring two leptons from the Z-boson decay, as well as an additional isolated charged lepton. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 fb(-1), the number of observed events is found to be consistent with the standard model background prediction. Assuming a branching fraction of 100% for the decay T→tZ, a T quark with a mass less than 475 GeV/c(2) is excluded at the 95% confidence level.     

Are dimuonic events with the same sign an indication that heavy leptons are produced in neutrino experiments?

The recent observation in neutrino experiments of dimuonic events with the same charge of the muons is interpreted as an indication that single charged and neutral heavy leptons are produced in these experiments. A simple phenomenological model based on quark-lepton analogy makes it possible to explain the strong suppression of trimuonic events compared with the dimuonic events of the same sign, the amount of the suppression depending only on the mass of the neutral muon. A natural possibility is discussed for including the block of the muon family of leptons (2) introduced here into the minimal vectorlike model of Fritzsch, Gell-Mann, and Minkowski with six quarks; the list of good properties of this model is then augmented by an effective mechanism of generation of dimuonic events with the same sign of the muon charge and trimuonic events.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 37–41, August, 1977.I thank N. V. Mikheev for discussions.     

New fermions at the LHC and mass of the Higgs boson

Unification at MGUT∼3×¹⁰¹⁶ GeV$M_{\mathrm{GUT}}\sim 3\times {10}^{16}\text{GeV}$ of the three Standard Model (SM) gauge couplings can be achieved by postulating the existence of a pair of vectorlike fermions carrying SM charges and masses of order 300 GeV–1 TeV. The presence of these fermions significantly modifies the vacuum stability and perturbativity bounds on the mass of the SM Higgs boson. The new vacuum stability bound in this extended SM is estimated to be 117 GeV, to be compared with the SM prediction of about 128 GeV. An upper bound of 190 GeV is obtained based on perturbativity arguments. The impact on these predictions of type I seesaw physics is also discussed. The discovery of a relatively ‘light’ Higgs boson with mass ∼117 GeV$\sim 117\text{GeV}$ could signal the presence of new vectorlike fermions within reach of the LHC.     

Dimensional reduction and flavor chirality

We show that phenomenologically realistic flavor-chiral Yang-Mills-Higgs theories in 4 dimensions can be derived by dimensional reduction of 10-dimensional vectorlike and gauge theories, where the extra 6 dimensions form a compact coset space with scale size r. The dimensional reduction often implies a symmetry breaking pattern like that of the electroweak theory, in which case it is natural to propose $\text{r ? G}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>F</mtext>}}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>1</mtext><mtext>2</mtext>}}$. Quantum effects then determine the short-distance behavior of the theory, including any additional symmetry breaking.     

Singlet-Higgs-Boson signals at hadron colliders

Many extensions of the Standard Model includeSU(2) _L ×U(1) _Y singlet higgs bosons,h ⁰, and also vector-like fermions which couple to it. The production and detection possibilities of such singlet neutral scalars at hadron colliders are considered for different scenarios of vectorlike fermions. We find that for some values of masses and couplings, detection at the CERN large hadron collider (LHC) appears to be a distinct possibility, while at the Fermilab Tevatron upgrade theh ⁰ might be observed only in very favourable circumstances.     

On the theory of metastable states

It is shown that the stationary states of stochastic systems are stable. Therefore one cannot use the stationary probability distributions for describing the stochastic systems in metastable states. It is shown that the nonstationary stochastic processes can have sample paths with stationary parts. It is proposed to consider these stationary parts as the metastable states.     

偶奇qs相干态的非经典特性

利用数值计算方法研究了ｑ和ｓ畸变对双参数形变偶奇ｑｓ相干态量子统计特性的委现偶奇ｑｓ相干态与通常的偶奇相干态有着显著不同的量子统计性质，压缩效应和反聚束效应均可在一定条件下的两种双参数畸变态中出现，偶奇ｑｓ相干态和通常偶奇相干态的差异随ｑ值偏离１越大和ｓ的取值越小而越大。     

Properties of Amplitude N th-power Squeezing of Even and Odd qs-Coherent States

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腔场QED与量子点系统激子纠缠态的制备及消纠缠研究

利用量子点与单模腔场共振相互作用模型提出了激子Bell类和W类纠缠态的制备方案.借助于超算符方法和态的保真度考察了所制备的激子纠缠态的消相干特性,结果表明:激子Bell类和W态的纠缠特性非常脆弱,在极短的时间里演变为消纠缠态.基于腔场与两量子点共振相互作用模型设计了一个量子交换门.