Open-closed superstring amplitudes using vertex operators in AdS(5) x S-5

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Searching for Elko dark matter spinors at the CERN LHC

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Infinite tension limit of the pure spinor superstring

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Perspectives for an Elko phenomenology using monojets at the 14 TeV LHC

The aim of this work is to explore the possibility to discover a fermionic field with mass dimension one, the Elko field, in the 14 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in processes with missing energy and one jet. We explore the possibility of a triple coupling with the Higgs field, generating also a contribution to the Elko mass term, and suggest some possibilities for future studies in this field.

A new limit of the AdS(5) x S-5 sigma model

Using the pure spinor formalism, a quantizable sigma model has been constructed for the superstring in an AdS(5) X S-5 background with manifest PSU(2,2 vertical bar 4) invariance. The PSU(2,2 vertical bar 4) metric g(AB) has both vector components gab and spinor components g, 3, and in the limit where the spinor components g, 3 are taken to infinity, the AdS5 X S5 sigma model reduces to the worldsheet action in a flat background. In this paper, we instead consider the limit where the vector components g(ab) are taken to infinity. In this limit, the AdS5 X S5 sigma model simplifies to a topological A-model constructed from fermionic N=2 superfields whose bosonic components transform like twistor variables. Just as d=3 Chern-Simons theory can be described by the open string sector of a topological A-model, the open string sector of this topological A-model describes d=4 N=4 super-Yang-Mills. These results might be useful for constructing a worldsheet proof of the Maldacena conjecture analogous to the Gopakumar-Vafa-Ooguri worldsheet proof of Chern-Simons/conifold duality.

Tópicos em teoria das perturbações cosmológicas

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Integrable Models: from Dynamical Solutions to String Theory

We review the status of integrable models from the point of view of their dynamics and integrability conditions. A few integrable models are discussed in detail. We comment on the use it is made of them in string theory. We also discuss the SO(6) symmetric Hamiltonian with SO(6) boundary. This work is especially prepared for the 70th anniversaries of Andr, Swieca (in memoriam) and Roland Koberle.

All-loop finiteness of the two-dimensional noncommutative supersymmetric gauge theory

Within the superfield approach, we discuss the two-dimensional noncommutative super-QED. Its all-order finiteness is explicitly shown. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2012

Minimal Landau background gauge on the lattice

We present the first numerical implementation of the minimal Landau background gauge for Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. Our approach is a simple generalization of the usual minimal Landau gauge and is formulated for the general SU(N) gauge group. We also report on preliminary tests of the method in the four-dimensional SU(2) case, using different background fields. Our tests show that the convergence of the numerical minimization process is comparable to the case of a null background. The uniqueness of the minimizing functional employed is briefly discussed.

Standard model cross-over on the lattice

With the physical Higgs mass the standard model symmetry restoration phase transition is a smooth cross-over. We study the thermodynamics of the cross-over using numerical lattice Monte Carlo simulations of an effective SU(2)×U(1) gauge+Higgs theory, significantly improving on previously published results. We measure the Higgs field expectation value, thermodynamic quantities like pressure, energy density, speed of sound and heat capacity, and screening masses associated with the Higgs and Z fields. While the cross-over is smooth, it is very well defined with a width of only ∼5  GeV. We measure the cross-over temperature from the maximum of the susceptibility of the Higgs condensate, with the result Tc=159.5±1.5  GeV. Outside of the narrow cross-over region the perturbative results agree well with nonperturbative ones.

Influence of topology on the scale setting

Recently a new method to set the scale in lattice gauge theories, based on the gradient flow generated by the Wilson action, has been proposed, and the systematic errors of the new scales t0 and w0 have been investigated by various groups. The Wilson flow provides also an interesting alternative smoothing procedure particularly useful for the measurement of the topological charge as a pure gluonic observable. We show the viability of this method for N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory by analysing the configurations produced by the DESY-Muenster Collaboration. The relation between the scale and the topological charge has been investigated showing a strong correlation. We have found that the scale has a linear dependence on the topological charge, the slope of which increases decreasing the volume and the gluino mass. Moreover we have investigated this dependence as a function of the reference parameter used to define the scale: the tuning of this parameter turns out to be fundamental for a more reliable scale setting. Similar conclusions hold for the Sommer parameter r0.

Cuerdas y no conmutatividad

Los conceptos geométricos clásicos que usan las ecuaciones de Einstein para describir el espacio, el tiempo y la gravedad no son compatibles con los principios de la mecánica cuántica. A distancias muy cortas, cercanas o por debajo de la longitud de Planck lp 10−36m, se espera que la estructura del espacio-tiempo se haga difusa, con un principio de incertidumbre asociado a las propias coordenadas espacio temporales. Tal principio de incertidumbre podría derivarse de relaciones de conmutación no triviales [xμ, x ] 6= 0 entre operadores asociados a la posición en el espacio-tiempo. Conmutadores de este tipo aparecen de manera natural en teoría de cuerdas, que, por otra parte, contiene y generaliza las ecuaciones de Einstein. Constituye por ello un escenario idóneo para el estudio de la naturaleza no determinista del espacio-tiempo. En efecto, Chu y Ho [4] demostraron que la cuantización canónica de la cuerda abierta en espacio-tiempo de Minkowski con 2-forma B y dilatón constantes conduce a conmutadores no triviales entre los operadores de posición de los extremos de la cuerda. Este hecho sugiere la interpreción de la D-brana sobre la que pueden moverse dichos extremos como un espacio no conmutativo. Seiberg y Witten [5] dieron un paso más y encontraron un límite de baja energía bien definido en el cual la dinámica de los extremos de la cuerda se desacopla de la de los modos internos y se describe como una teoría de Yang-Mills no conmutativa sobre la D-brana. Es díficil trasladar estos resultados a backgrounds más generales para la cuerda. Los modelos de Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) [6] constituyen los backgrounds no triviales mejor conocidos, pero no se conoce una caracterización completa de las D-branas en estos modelos. El objetivo de esta tesis es mejorar la comprensión del origen de no conmutatividad a partir de (i) el estudio de la cuerda abierta en backgrounds no triviales y (ii) la caracterización de las D-branas sobre las que pueden moverse sus extremos. El trabajo de esta tesis ha dado lugar a las publicaciones [I], [II] y [III]...

Combination of Tevatron Searches for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the W+W- Decay Mode

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Combined Tevatron upper limit on gg -> H -> W+W- and constraints on the Higgs boson mass in fourth-generation fermion models

We combine results from searches by the CDF and D0 collaborations for a standard model Higgs boson (H) in the process gg -> H -> W+W- in p (p) over bar collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at root s = 1.96 TeV. With 4.8 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity analyzed at CDF and 5.4 fb(-1) at D0, the 95% confidence level upper limit on sigma(gg -> H) x B(H -> W+W-) is 1.75 pb at m(H) = 120 GeV, 0.38 pb at m(H) = 165 GeV, and 0.83 pb at m(H) = 200 GeV. Assuming the presence of a fourth sequential generation of fermions with large masses, we exclude at the 95% confidence level a standard-model-like Higgs boson with a mass between 131 and 204 GeV.

Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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