http://prd.aps.org/ Accepted Papers for Physical Review D hourly 1 2012-02-09T21:06:24-05:00 rss@aps.org assocpub@aps.org 2012-02-09T21:06:24-05:00 en Copyright © 2012 the American Physical Society. Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Copyright © 2012 the American Physical Society assocpub@aps.org http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/39078Q51Aa018f0cb9795841300a5810ed1cfaadc I use the Nicolai map and ensuing (super)locality of appropriate correlation functions to prove the existence of an infinite number of degeneracies in the mass spectra and decay coupling constants in supersymmetric gluodynamics and its daughter orientifold theory at large N. Degeneracies in supersymmetric gluodynamics and its orientifold daughters at large $N$ 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/39078Q51Aa018f0cb9795841300a5810ed1cfaadc http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/7c07fQ52Z4f10318b00286e9b451a133a6e01229a We present equations of motion for charged particles using balanced equations, and without introducing explicitly divergent quantities. This derivation contains as particular cases some well known equations of motion, as the Lorentz-Dirac equations. An study of our main equations in terms of order o... New derivation for the equations of motion for particles in electromagnetism 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/7c07fQ52Z4f10318b00286e9b451a133a6e01229a http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/67076Q0aZ0c15d1250d936852520d541a235115e0 We construct an analytical model for two channel, two-body scattering amplitudes, and then apply it in the description of the three-body J/y K+K-p0 decay. In the construction of the partial wave amplitudes, we combine the low energy resonance region with the Regge asymptotic behavior determined from... Amplitudes for the analysis of the decay $J/\psi \rightarrow K^{+} K^{-} \pi^0$ 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/67076Q0aZ0c15d1250d936852520d541a235115e0 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/40074Qd4Z4d1451ff08152039859d26084848177c In the presence of a background supergravity flux, N M2-branes will expand via the Myers effect into M5-branes wrapped on a fuzzy three-sphere. In previous work the fluctuations of the M2-branes were shown to be described by the five-dimensional Yang-Mills gauge theory associated to D4-branes. We sh... 5D Yang-Mills instantons from Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena monopoles 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/40074Qd4Z4d1451ff08152039859d26084848177c http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8f07bQ2eZ181500508f753f6bcb32c6f8b58bffa1 We consider top quark pair production in association with a hard jet through next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Top quark decays are treated in the narrow width approximation and spin correlations are retained throughout the computation. We include hard jet radiation by top quark decay produ... Top quark pair production in association with a jet: QCD corrections and jet radiation in top quark decays 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8f07bQ2eZ181500508f753f6bcb32c6f8b58bffa1 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8607dQ1bA1e1f30f78120755780ac16ba44dfe60f The new MEG bound on BR(m eg) provides the strongest upper bound on the scale of gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking. If, in the future, this decay is observed by MEG, the mediation scale will become known to within one order of magnitude, and the seesaw scale will be constrained. In such a ca... Probing the seesaw and gauge mediation scales with BR($\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$) and $|U_{e3}|$ 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8607dQ1bA1e1f30f78120755780ac16ba44dfe60f http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/ed072Q6dYd015a1941ad84a4d37e478c9fa134da2 Classical electrodynamics in flat 3+1 space-time has a very special retarded propagator ~ d(x2) localized on the light cone, so that a particle does not interact with its past field. However, this is an exception, and in flat odd-dimensional space-times as well as generic curved spaces this is not s... Self-force and synchrotron radiation in odd space-time dimensions 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/ed072Q6dYd015a1941ad84a4d37e478c9fa134da2 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/ff074Q39X861ca1dc14906d0829d3f4d21f212e1f The VERITAS array of Cherenkov telescopes has carried out a deep observational program on the nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy Segue 1. We report on the results of nearly 48 hours of good quality selected data, taken between January 2010 and May 2011. No significant g-ray emission is detected at the n... VERITAS deep observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Segue 1 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/ff074Q39X861ca1dc14906d0829d3f4d21f212e1f http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8807dQ9aZc915a0d68e39ff263b50402bfaf8dedd The standard models of inflation predict statistically homogeneous and isotropic primordial fluctuations, which should be tested by observations. In this paper we illustrate a method to test the statistical isotropy of the mean of the CMB temperature fluctuations in the spherical harmonic space and ... Test for anisotropy in the mean of the CMB temperature fluctuation in spherical harmonic space 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8807dQ9aZc915a0d68e39ff263b50402bfaf8dedd http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/78074Q07Yf118f1ef12417c2ba1320faca3cb7d53 The mixing mechanism of axial-vectors Ds1(2460) and Ds1(2536) is studied via intermediate hadron loops, e.g. D* K, to which both states have strong couplings. By constructing the two-state mixing propagator matrix that respects the unitarity constraint and calculating the vertex coupling form factor... Mixing of $D_{s1}(2460)$ and $D_{s1}(2536)$ 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/78074Q07Yf118f1ef12417c2ba1320faca3cb7d53 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/a907cQd3A5b1570e08b82207049f4b46fc302684a We attempt a critical reconsideration of "detailed balance" as a principle that can be used to restrict the proliferation of couplings in Horava-Lifshitz gravity. We re-examine the shortcomings that have been usually associated with it in the literature and we argue that easy remedies can be found f... Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity: Detailed balance revisited 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/a907cQd3A5b1570e08b82207049f4b46fc302684a http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/6b070Q94Z8e1880c799d54f5de14103104cebb184 We consider the six dimensional brane world model, where the brane is described by a localized solution to the baby-Skyrme model extending in the extradimensions. The branes have a cosmological constant modeled by inflating four dimensional slices and we further consider a bulk cosmological constant... Localizing modes of massive fermions and a U(1) gauge field in the inflating baby-Skyrmion branes 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/6b070Q94Z8e1880c799d54f5de14103104cebb184 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/b3078Q01Zce1990189454c15e2530caf8b89bccc9 Recently the ATLAS and CMS collaborations reported their search for a new heavy gauge boson W with one lepton plus missing transverse momentum. We find that W(2), the second Kaluza-Kelin (KK) state of the W boson in the minimal Universal Extra Dimension (mUED) model, can be a good candidate for this... Implications on the minimal universal extra dimension model from the early LHC data on $\ell +\not{E}_T$ signal 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/b3078Q01Zce1990189454c15e2530caf8b89bccc9 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/b7077Q66Yd21b305a9502ea98afe2e306658407d9 We determine the strangeness and light quark fractions of the nucleon mass by computing the quark line connected and disconnected contributions to the matrix elements mqN|[`q]q|N in lattice QCD, using the non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert Wilson Fermionic action. We simulate nF=2 ma... Strange and light quark contributions to the nucleon mass from lattice QCD 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/b7077Q66Yd21b305a9502ea98afe2e306658407d9 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/c8075Q21Ye11f617b1949270f258273f05cabe0e2 A beautiful understanding of the smallness of the neutrino masses may be obtained via the seesaw mechanism, whereby one takes advantage of the key qualitative distinction between the neutrinos and the other fermions: right-handed neutrinos are gauge singlets, and may therefore have large Majorana ma... Large mixing angles from many right-handed neutrinos 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/c8075Q21Ye11f617b1949270f258273f05cabe0e2 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/04075Q8fZ4214f15f03f440321e7fed88cbf631fb Recent measurement of the gg* form factor of the neutral pion in the high Q2 region disagrees with a priori predictions of QCD-based calculations. We comment on existing explanations, and analyze a possibility that this discrepancy is not due to poorly understood QCD effects, but is a result of some... Pion-photon transition form factor and new physics in the $\tau$ sector 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/04075Q8fZ4214f15f03f440321e7fed88cbf631fb http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/28070Y02Zc810c2e770f69596b8b1cfbb11aefd25 We examine the bound state and scattering problem of a spin-one-half particle undergone to an Aharonov-Bohm potential in a conical space in the non-relativistic limit. The crucial problem of the d-function singularity coming from Zeeman spin interaction with the magnetic flux tube is solved through ... Physical regularization for the spin-1/2 Aharonov-Bohm problem in conical space 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/28070Y02Zc810c2e770f69596b8b1cfbb11aefd25 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/7f07dQcdZe217d1581073c373168649f89070e35a A theory of position of massive bodies is proposed that results in an observable quantum behavior of geometry at the Planck scale, tP. Departures from classical world lines in flat spacetime are described by Planckian noncommuting operators for position in different directions, as defined by interac... Interferometers as probes of Planckian quantum geometry 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/7f07dQcdZe217d1581073c373168649f89070e35a http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8107dQcfW161a70d59bf625124c9ae53328a36c77 Results of a high-statistics, multi-volume Lattice QCD exploration of the deuteron, the di-neutron, the H-dibaryon, and the X-X- system at a pion mass of mp ~ 390 MeV are presented. Calculations were performed with an anisotropic nf=2+1 Clover discretization in four lattice volumes of spatial e... Deuteron and exotic two-body bound states from lattice QCD 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8107dQcfW161a70d59bf625124c9ae53328a36c77 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/ae075Q23Z5915c10f00599120a923ebd38c9f399b We present an exact solution to the 5D Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton equations describing a static black hole on Taub-NUT instanton. By construction the solution does not possess a charge, but is magnetized along the compact dimension. As a limit we obtain a new regular solution representing a magnetized... Magnetized black hole on the Taub-NUT instanton 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/ae075Q23Z5915c10f00599120a923ebd38c9f399b http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/09077Q8bZa510e1d40334e4741dc367488b3bd3e1 This paper reports a measurement of D* meson production in jets from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=7\tev at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on a data sample recorded with the ATLAS detector with an integrated luminosity of 0.30 \ipb for jets w... Measurement of $D\ast ^{\pm}$ meson production in jets from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/09077Q8bZa510e1d40334e4741dc367488b3bd3e1 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/e5070Q10Ye11021d70845ad4ffb704da084ce15fd The eta-photon transition form factor is evaluated in a formalism based on a phenomenological description at low values of the photon virtuality, and a QCD-based description at high photon virtualities, matching at a scale Q02. The high photon virtuality description makes use of a Distribution Ampli... Eta-photon transition form factor 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/e5070Q10Ye11021d70845ad4ffb704da084ce15fd http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/e9079Q91Y6319b1991a60e0505ecd7715ed23d61b In second-order scalar-tensor theories we study how the Vainshtein mechanism works in a spherically symmetric background with a matter source. In the presence of the field coupling F(f)=e-2Qf with the Ricci scalar R we generally derive the Vainshtein radius within which the General Relativistic beha... Vainshtein mechanism in second-order scalar-tensor theories 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/e9079Q91Y6319b1991a60e0505ecd7715ed23d61b http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/f6076Q7eYed1f614211e7ca0f6d90d342cca40f51 We propose two 3-3-1 models (with either neutral fermions or right-handed neutrinos) based on S3 flavor symmetry responsible for fermion masses and mixings. The models can be distinguished upon the new charge embedding (L) relevant to lepton number. The neutrino small masses can be given via a coope... $S_{3}$ flavor symmetry in 3-3-1 models 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/f6076Q7eYed1f614211e7ca0f6d90d342cca40f51 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/f4077Q12Zb81cd15b11948a7b766b6c8dcdda8f08 We present a new fully first order strongly hyperbolic representation of the BSSN formulation of Einstein's equations with optional constraint damping terms. We describe the characteristic fields of the system, discuss its hyperbolicity properties, and present two numerical implementations and simul... Numerical simulations with a first order Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation of Einstein's field equations 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/f4077Q12Zb81cd15b11948a7b766b6c8dcdda8f08 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8d073Q75Af316f0f89063db67b15d8319231097cc Galileon models arise in certain braneworld scenarios as modifications to General Relativity, and are also interesting as field theories in their own right. We show how the galileon model can be naturally generalized to include local gauge symmetries, by allowing for couplings to Yang-Mills fields. ... Galileons with gauge symmetries 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8d073Q75Af316f0f89063db67b15d8319231097cc http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/7c079Q4fAc71ab08687083e12b7276a6ee888975f Exclusive diffractive production of real photons and vector mesons in ep collisions has been studied at HERA in a wide kinematic range. Here we present and discuss a Regge-type model of real photon production (Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering), as well as production of vector mesons (VMP) treated o... Exclusive diffractive production of real photons and vector mesons in a factorized Regge-pole model with nonlinear Pomeron trajectory 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/7c079Q4fAc71ab08687083e12b7276a6ee888975f http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/58073QefZf21030059888ed9204171b62bf81cff2 Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of new neutral spin-1 resonances associated to the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. Using the data from ATLAS (with integrated luminosity of L=1.02 fb-1) and CMS (with integrated luminosity of L=1.55 fb-1) on the productio... Present bounds on new neutral vector resonances from electroweak gauge boson pair production at the LHC 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/58073QefZf21030059888ed9204171b62bf81cff2 http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/1a07fQ80Xe41f619705b1d04e7d9680effb21762f We present a measurement of the inclusive jet cross section using the Run II cone algorithm and data collected by the D0 experiment in p[`p] collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=1.96 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.70 fb-1. The jet energy calibration and the method u... Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in $p \bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV 2012-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/1a07fQ80Xe41f619705b1d04e7d9680effb21762f http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8807dQ10W7f1e706c95e90414a506e6dc014636c5 We study the equivalence principle and its violations by quantum effects in scalar-tensor theories that admit a conformal frame in which matter only couples to the spacetime metric. These theories possess Ward identities that guarantee the validity of the weak equivalence principle to all orders in ... Quantum equivalence principle violations in scalar-tensor theories 2012-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. D article Physical Review D http://prd.aps.org/accepted/D/8807dQ10W7f1e706c95e90414a506e6dc014636c5