寻找顶夸克的漫长过程

本文描述寻找顶夸克的漫长过程。从70年代末开始,美国的PEP,德国的PETRA,80年代日本的TRISTAN,欧洲核子中心CERN的SP PS质子反质子对撞机,90年代的CERN的LEP大型电子正电子对撞机,最后于1997年才由美国费米国家实验室的D0和CDF国际合作组找到了顶夸克存在的证据,并给出了顶夸克的质量为:174.3±3.2±4.0GeV。人们可以从这段历史获得有益的启示。     

Metallic nanosieves formed by ultra-short-pulse laser ablation

The formation of free-standing gold nanosieves by ablation with ultra-short laser pulses is demonstrated. Macroscopic areas are generated fast and efficiently by the application of a parallel production technique. The technique is based on a lens array formed by self-assembling quartz microspheres on a thin metal foil. The evaporated foils have a final thickness of 400 nm, and the hole spacing is set by the diameter of the microspheres (∼7 m) while the pore size is ∼700 nm. The characteristic spacing of the generated hole structure is verified by an optical diffraction technique.     

BEPCⅡ: construction and commissioning

This is a status report of the project on befalf of the BEPCⅡ team. BEPCⅡ is a major upgrade of the BEPC (Beijing Electron-Positron Collider). It is a double-ring e⁺-e^－ collider as well as a synchrotron radiation (SR) source with its outer ring, or SR ring. As a collider, BEPCⅡ operates in the beam energy region of 1—2.3 GeV with design luminosity of 1×10³³ cm^－2s^－1 at 1.89 GeV. As a light source, the SR ring operates at 2.5 GeV and 250 mA. Construction of the project started in the beginning of 2004. Installation of the storage ring components was completed in October 2007. Commissioning is in progress. There are still many issues for further studies before reach to 3×10³² cm^－2s^－1.     

Some aspects in accelerator structure studies at SLAC

Recent progress in the accelerator structure studies at SLAC is reported. This paper covers the room temperature accelerator structures for the ILC e⁺/e^－ sources; RF structures for some photon science projects including RF deflectors and the LCLS RF gun; the high gradient accelerator R &; D in a global CLIC collaboration for the future multi-TeV linear colliders.     

Strongly indexable graphs and applications

In 1990, Acharya and Hegde introduced the concept of strongly k-indexable graphs: A (p,q)-graph G=(V,E) is said to be strongly k-indexable if its vertices can be assigned distinct numbers 0,1,2,…,p−1 so that the values of the edges, obtained as the sums of the numbers assigned to their end vertices form an arithmetic progression k,k+1,k+2,…,k+(q−1). When k=1, a strongly k-indexable graph is simply called a strongly indexable graph. In this paper, we report some results on strongly k-indexable graphs and give an application of strongly k-indexable graphs to plane geometry, viz; construction of polygons of same internal angles and sides of distinct lengths.     

Light dark sector searches at low-energy high-luminosity e+e− colliders

Although the standard model (SM) is extremely successful, there are various motivations for considering the physics beyond the SM. For example, the SM includes neither dark energy nor dark matter, which has been confirmed through astrophysical observations. Examination of the dark sector, which contains new, light, weakly-coupled particles at the GeV scale or lower, is well motivated by both theory and dark-matter detection experiments. In this mini-review, we focus on one particular case in which these new particles can interact with SM particles through a kinematic mixing term between U(1) gauge bosons. The magnitude of the mixing can be parameterized by a parameter ϵ. Following a brief overview of the relevant motivations and the constraints determined from numerous experiments, we focus on the light dark sector phenomenology at low-energy high-luminosity e⁺e⁻ colliders. These colliders are ideal for probing the new light particles, because of their large production rates and capacity for precise resonance reconstruction. Depending on the details of a given model, the typical observed signatures may also contain multi lepton pairs, displaced vertices, and/or missing energy. Through the use of extremely large data samples from existing experiments, such as KLOE, CLEO, BABAR, Belle, and BESIII, the ϵ<10⁻⁴–10⁻³ constraint can be obtained. Obviously, future experiments with larger datasets will provide opportunities for the discovery of new particles in the dark sector, or for stricter upper limits on ϵ. Once the light dark sector is confirmed, the particle physics landscape will be changed significantly.     

Unparticle Effects on Top Quark Pair Production at Photon Collider

The unparticle effects on tt^- production at the future photon collider are investigated. Distributions of tt^- invariant mass and that for transverse momentum of top quark with respect to Standard Model and unparticle production are predicted. An odd valley with scalar unparticle contribution appears for some values of du, which is due to the big cancellation between the contribution from SM and that from unparticle. This character may be used to study the properties of scalar unparticle. Our investigations also show that scalar unparticle may play a significant role in tt^- production at the photon collider if it exists.     

On the topology of the Kasparov groups and its applications

In this paper we establish a direct connection between stable approximate unitary equivalence for *-homomorphisms and the topology of the KK-groups which avoids entirely C^*-algebra extension theory and does not require nuclearity assumptions. To this purpose we show that a topology on the Kasparov groups can be defined in terms of approximate unitary equivalence for Cuntz pairs and that this topology coincides with both Pimsner's topology and the Brown-Salinas topology. We study the generalized Rørdam group , and prove that if a separable exact residually finite dimensional C^*-algebra satisfies the universal coefficient theorem in KK-theory, then it embeds in the UHF algebra of type 2^∞. In particular such an embedding exists for the C^*-algebra of a second countable amenable locally compact maximally almost periodic group.