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Synthetic nonconservative systems with parity-time (PT) symmetric gain-loss structures can exhibit unusual spontaneous symmetry breaking that accompanies spectral singularity. Recent studies on PT symmetry in optics and weakly interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-12 Yuto Ashida , Shunsuke Furukawa , Masahito Ueda

In this paper we consider CP-violating new-physics contributions to the decay $t \to b \bar b c$. We examine the prospects for detecting such new physics at the LHC, which requires studying the process $gg \to t (\to b \bar b c) \bar t (\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-25 Pratishruti Saha , Ken Kiers , Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , David London , Alejandro Szynkman , Jordan Melendez

While $CP$ violation has never been observed in the strong interactions, the QCD Lagrangian admits a $CP$-odd topological interaction proportional to the so called $\theta$ angle, which weighs the contributions to the partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-19 Wen-Yuan Ai , Juan S. Cruz , Bjorn Garbrecht , Carlos Tamarit

In this thesis, we explore the critical phenomena in the presence of extended objects, which we call defects, aiming for a better understanding of the properties of non-local objects ubiquitous in our world and a more practical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-30 Yoshitaka Okuyama

We propose a new method to define anomaly scores and apply this to particle physics collider events. Anomalies can be either rare, meaning that these events are a minority in the normal dataset, or different, meaning they have values that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Rob Verheyen

The capability of the LHC to study the electromagnetic dipole moments of the top quark is discussed. In particular, the process $pp\to p\gamma\gamma p\to pt\bar{t}p$, which is supposed to be tagged by the forward/backward detectors at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-15 Sh. Fayazbakhsh , S. Taheri Monfared , M. Mohammadi Najafabadi

The nature of phase boundaries in the QCD phase diagram has not been satisfactorily explored by experiments. Based on the Ginzburg-Landau free energy with a spatially inhomogeneous term as a function of a scalar order parameter, it is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Kensuke Homma , the PHENIX collaboration

I discuss how anomalies affect classical symmetries and how, in turn, the non-trivial nature of the gauge theory vacuum makes these quantum corrections troublesome. Although no solution seems in sight for the cosmological constant problem,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. D. Peccei

We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to obtain controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the controllable electromechanical subsystem is close to its quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xin-You Lü , Wei-Min Zhang , Sahel Ashhab , Ying Wu , Franco Nori

Chiral theories of constituent quarks interacting with bosons and photons at high temperatures are studied. In the expected chirally symmetric phase effective electromagnetic anomalous couplings for e.g. $\pi \sigma \to \gamma \gamma, ~…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Baier , M. Dirks , O. Kober

The complete analysis of the CP violation in the process $\gamma \gamma \to t \bar{t}$ in frame of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model(MSSM) is presented. The CP-odd observables for describing the CP violating effects in polarized and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhou Mian-Lai , Ma Wen-Gan , Han Liang , Jiang Yi , Zhou Hong

Symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in modern physics. Although self-similarity is also a symmetry and appears ubiquitously in nature, a fundamental question is whether self-similarity breaking makes sense or not. Here, by identifying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-05 Weilun Yuan , Shuai Yin , Fan Zhong

Conformal Prediction (CP) serves as a robust framework that quantifies uncertainty in predictions made by Machine Learning (ML) models. Unlike traditional point predictors, CP generates statistically valid prediction regions, also known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 A. A. Balinsky , A. D. Balinsky

The CP parameters $\epsilon$ and $\epsilon'/\epsilon$ are calculated in the aspon model of spontaneous CP violation, a model which solves the strong CP problem. A new range for the scale of spontaneous breaking of CP is found. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Paul H. Frampton , Masayasu Harada

The prospects of experimental detection of $CP$ violation at $e^+e^-$ and $pp/p\overline{p}$ colliders are reviewed. After a general discussion on the quantities which can measure $CP$ violation and on the implications of the $CPT$ theorem,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Saurabh D. Rindani

I discuss several aspects of CP non-invariance in the strongly interacting theory of quarks and gluons. I use a simple effective Lagrangian technique to map out the region of quark masses where CP symmetry is spontaneously broken. I then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Creutz

Intermittency analysis of factorial moments is a promising method used for the detection of power-law scaling in high-energy collision data. In particular, it has been employed in the search of fluctuations characteristic of the critical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-07-03 Nikolaos Davis

As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and surprising simplicity. Universality, power-law scaling of the black hole mass, and scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Carsten Gundlach , David Hilditch , José M. Martín-García

Interacting fixed points in four-dimensional gauge theories coupled to matter are investigated using perturbation theory up to three loop order. It is shown how fixed points, scaling exponents, and anomalous dimensions are obtained as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-28 Andrew D. Bond , Daniel F. Litim , Gustavo Medina Vazquez , Tom Steudtner

Solutions of the Strong CP Problem based on the spontaneous breaking of CP must feature a non-generic structure and simultaneously explain a coincidence between a priori unrelated CP-even and CP-odd mass scales. We show that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Alessandro Valenti , Luca Vecchi