A search for new physics is performed in events with two same-sign isolated leptons, hadronic jets, and missing transverse energy in the final state. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4:98... more
We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z boson cross sections times the corresponding leptonic branching ratios for pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV based on the decays of the W and Z bosons into electrons and muons. The data... more
Bose-Einstein correlations between same charge particles are measured in samples of proton-proton collisions at 0.9 and 7 TeV centre-of-mass energies, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The signal is observed in the form of an... more
Results are reported from a search for new physics processes in events containing a single isolated high-transverse-momentum lepton (electron or muon), energetic jets, and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a 4.98... more
The top-quark mass is measured in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7 TeV using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb -1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurement is performed in the dilepton... more
The first LHC pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 0.9 and 2.36 TeV were recorded by the CMS detector in December 2009. The trajectories of charged particles produced in the collisions were reconstructed using the all-silicon... more
This paper presents a groundbreaking discovery in atomic physics, where atoms are directly visualized through photonic projections using high-intensity LED illumination and smartphone camera sensors. This technique provides unprecedented... more
The full exploitation of the physics potential of an International Linear Collider (ILC) requires the development of a polarized positron beam. New concepts of polarized positron sources are based on the development of circularly... more
We present results on the nucleon scalar, axial, and tensor charges as well as on the momentum fraction, and the helicity and transversity moments. The pion momentum fraction is also presented. The computation of these key observables is... more
Re-weighting is a useful tool that has been employed in Lattice QCD in different contexts including, tuning the strange quark mass, approaching the light quark mass regime, and simulating electromagnetic fields on top of QCD gauge... more
This chapter examines symmetries in the physical universe from the perspective of a geometry based on spheres of 4D space with a diameter equal to the Planck length. Through these spheres, a connection is proposed between the fundamental... more
A core level of basic information for physics is identified, based on an analysis of the characteristics of the parameters space, time, mass and charge. At this level, it is found that certain symmetries operate, which can be used to... more
A brief history is given of the factor 2, starting in the most elementary considerations of geometry and the kinematics of uniform acceleration, and moving to relativity, quantum mechanics and particle physics. The basic argument is that... more
Vacuum can be defined with exact mathematical precision as the state which remains when a fermion, with all its special characteristics, is created out of absolutely nothing. The definition leads to a special form of relativistic quantum... more
The nilpotent Dirac formalism has been shown, in previous publications, to generate new physical explanations for aspects of particle physics, with the additional possibility of calculating some of the parameters involved in the Standard... more
It is shown that Schrödinger’s equation may be derived from three postulates. The first is a kind of statistical metamorphosis of classical mechanics, a set of two relations which are obtained from the canonical equations of particle... more
Analytic formulas are derived for the energy, longitudinal-, and transverse-momentum distributions of "soft" radiation for e+e qq+ gluons in a Bloch-Nordsieck approach to quantum chromodynamics.
A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC is reported. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1 and 19.4 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector in pp collisions at $... more
The paper presents studies of Bose-Einstein Correlations (BEC) for pairs of like-sign charged particles measured in the kinematic range [Formula: see text] 100 MeV and [Formula: see text] 2.5 in proton collisions at centre-of-mass... more
Using the Thomas–Fermi quark model, a collective, spherically symmetric density of states is created to represent a gas of interacting fermions with various degeneracies at zero temperature. Over a family of pentaquarks, uudc c ¯ , color... more
We show that a simple and reasonable generalization of the anomalous interaction between the neutral pion and two photons can induce the C-violating three photon decay of the neutral pion in noncommutative quantum electrodynamics. We find... more
A short note on what may have happened to get here. Making stuff from nothing.
But with intent.
But with intent.
We describe a systematic procedure for deriving the Wess-Zumino-Witten action in two dimensions, using chiral anomaly as an input. The actual calculation is carried out with a homotopy operator technique.
In this talk, we report our recent studies for the chiral magnetic effect, which signals the P -and CP -violations at heavy ion collisions. We compute the electric current and its correlations, induced by the external magnetic field,... more
Within the framework of the two-Higgs-doublet model, we attempt to find some discrete, non-Abelian flavor symmetry that could provide an explanation for the masses and mixing matrix elements of leptons. Unlike the Standard Model,... more
In order to explain the fermions' masses and mixing parameters appearing in the lepton sector of the Standard Model, one proposes the extension of its symmetry. A discrete, non-abelian subgroup of U (3) is added to the gauge group Apart... more
The Standard Model does not explain the hierarchy problem. Before the discovery of nonzero lepton mixing angle θ 13 high hopes in explanation of the shape of the lepton mixing matrix were combined with non abelian symmetries. Nowadays,... more
In the framework of a two Higgs doublet model, we try to explain lepton masses and mixing matrix elements assuming that neutrinos are Dirac particles. Discrete family symmetry groups, which are subgroups of U(3) up to the order of 1025... more
The K3 quantity, introduced in a context of the Leggett-Garg inequality violation, is studied for the neutrino oscillations in matter with phenomenologically modelled dissipative environment. It is shown that the K3 function acquires... more
Recent high-energy collider data reveal anomalous pre-collision trajectory deviations in subatomic particles. These deviations, which resist explanation via Standard Model dynamics or localized field influence, suggest the presence of... more
Several experiments which are performing precision measurements of CP parameters in hopes of shedding new light on the origins of CP violation are discussed . Two are measuring the ratio
We report a new measurement of the B-meson semileptonic decay momentum spectrum that has been made with a sample of 9.4 fb -1 of e + e -data collected with the CLEO II detector at the Υ(4S) resonance. Electrons from primary semileptonic... more
A search for the lepton family number violating decay Do + tie is reported. No signal is observed in a data sample of 9.3 pb-l collected at the $(3770) resonance with the Mark III detector, where 0.18 f 0.06 f 0.05 background events are... more
A search for the decay K S → π 0 γγ has been made using the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS. Using data collected in 1999 during a 40-hour run with a high-intensity K S beam, an upper limit for the branching ratio BR K S → π 0 γγ, z ≥ 0.2 <... more
We report on a search for D 0 -D 0 mixing made by studying the 'wrong-sign' process D 0 → K + π -. The data come from an integrated luminosity of 9.0 fb -1 of e + e -collisions at √ s ≈ 10 GeV recorded with the CLEO II.V detector. We... more
Using data collected at the ψ(3770) resonance with the CLEO-c detector at the Cornell e + e - storage ring, we present improved measurements of the absolute branching fractions of D + decays to K0 e + ν e , π 0 e + ν e , K * 0 e + ν e ,... more
Using a sample of 9.6 × 10 6 BB meson pairs collected with the CLEO detector, we have fully reconstructed 135 B 0 → ψ (′) K 0 S and 526 B + → ψ (′) K + candidates with very low background. We fitted the ψ (′) K invariant mass... more
Fermi lab have yielded more than 8xl0 4 e'vents with two muons in the final state. After reconstruction and cuts, the data contain 20 072 events with (81±10)% attributed to the diffractive production of charmed states decaying to muons.... more
Using the CLEO II detector operating at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring ͑CESR͒ e ϩ e Ϫ collider, we have measured the structure functions in the decay ϯ → ϯ 0 0 , based on a sample corresponding to 4ϫ10 6 produced -pair events. We... more
We have searched for CP -violating asymmetries in neutral charm meson decays in 13.7 fb -1 of e + e -collision data at √ s ≈ 10.6 GeV with the CLEO detector. The measured asymmetries in the rate of D 0 and D 0 decays to K 0 S π 0 , π 0 π... more
We measure the primary lepton momentum spectrum in B → Xℓν decays, for p ℓ ≥ 1.5 GeV/c in the B rest frame. From this, we calculate various moments of the spectrum. In particular, we find R 0 ≡ 1.7 GeV (dΓ/dE sl )dE ℓ / 1.5 GeV (dΓ/dE sl... more
National Laboratory -Utilizing a ppm level of xenon dopant in the gas region of a dual-phase argon time projection chamber (TPC) presents the enticing prospect of enhanced electroluminescence with xenon, and low-mass particle detection... more
This paper unveils a profound connection between Ramanujan's mock theta functions and the fundamental structure of quantum spacetime.. We obtain new possible mathematical connections with some topics concerning the Number Theory, the... more
In anomaly free gauged three-flavor SU (3) f × SU (2)L × U (1)Y model of Yanagida with fermion and gauge boson masses described by conveniently chosen elementary scalar Higgs fields the neutrino mass matrix comes out in the seesaw form.... more