We study thermal corrections to the dispersion relations of massive fundamental particles immersed in weakly coupled non-Abelian plasmas. The cases covered include quarks in the QCD (quark-gluon) plasma, as well as N = 2 quarks and scalars in an N = 4 Super Yang-Mills plasma. We perform the calculations to leading order in a weak coupling expansion, and consider all mass scales of the fundament...

Similar to the electron, the muon is an elementary particle classified as a lepton with a negative charge and half-spin. Naturally-occurring muons are created due to cosmic rays and travel at relativistic speeds and thus feel the effects of time dilation. Due to this the lifetime of the muon is heavily dependent on the speed at which it is moving. We will discuss the lifetime and decay of the m...

Padé/renormalization-group improvement of inclusive semileptonic B decay rates M. R. Ahmady, F. A. Chishtie, V. Elias, ∗ A. H. Fariborz, D.G.C. McKeon, † T. N. Sherry and T. G. Steele Department of Physics, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB E4L 1E6, Canada F. R. Newman Laboratory of Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical ...

The project, aimed at the theoretical support of experiments at modern and future accelerators — TEVATRON, LHC, electron Linear Colliders (TESLA, NLC, CLIC) and muon factories, is presented. Within this project a four-level computer system is being created, which must automatically calculate, at the one-loop precision level the pseudoand realistic observables (decay rates and event distribution...

Neutrino oscillation was discovered through studies of neutrinos produced by cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere. These neutrinos are called atmospheric neutrinos. They are produced as decay products in hadronic showers resulting from collisions of cosmic rays with nuclei in the atmosphere. Electron-neutrinos and muon-neutrinos are produced mainly by the decay chain of charged pions to mu...

Spacetime is modelled by binary relations by the classes of the automorphisms GL( I C) of a complex 2-dimensional vector space with respect to the definite unitary subgroup U(2). In extension of Feynman propagators for particle quantum fields representing only the tangent spacetime structure, global spacetime representations are given, formulated as residues using energy-momentum distributions ...

How massive elementary particles get their mass is one of the greatest open questions in physics. Two of the major goals of the current LEP2 physics program that help to address this question are (a) to measure as precisely as possible the W Boson mass m W and (b) to exclude or discover the Higgs Boson within the available kinematic region. The reconstruction of invariant masses with jets from ...

To embed the seesaw mechanism in the MSSM, two or three right-handed neutrino supermultiplets, Ni, have to be added to the model. In this framework, the supersymmetry breaking potential will include a new term called neutrino B-term: MBνÑÑ/2. In this talk, we present a toy model that generates a large neutrino B-term keeping other supersymmetry breaking parameters small. We then review the cons...

Let (H,B) be an abstract Wiener space and let μs be the Gaussian measure on B with variance s. Let ∆ be the Laplacian (not the number operator), that is, a sum of squares of derivatives associated to an orthonormal basis of H. I will show that the heat operator exp(t∆/2) is a contraction operator from L2(B,μs) to L2(B,μs−t), for all t < s. More generally, the heat operator is a contraction from...

The first motivation1 for yq collisions was indeed the study of C = +l resonances. After the pioneer works listed in Ref. 1, one can trace back from the four preceeding 7~ workshops2-5 and other high energy physics conference8 how the subject developed since this time. The theoretical concern progressively evolved from kinematical considerations (properties of the eSe+ e+e-X processes) to dynam...