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The correlation energy of the homogeneous three-dimensional interacting electron gas is calculated using the variational and fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo methods, with trial functions that include backflow and three-body correlations.…
Extra spatial dimensions are proposed by recent theories that postulate the scale of gravity to be of the same order as the electroweak scale. A sizeable interaction between gravitons and Standard Model particles is then predicted. Effects…
Associated production of a dark particle and a photon, represented as a mono-$\gamma$ event, is a promising channel to probe particle contents and dynamics in the dark sector. In this paper we study properties of the mono-$\gamma$…
We study the sensitivity of $ e \gamma$ colliders to physics beyond the Standard Model, when such interactions are natural and their scale lies below the collider energy. Using the reaction $ e \gamma \to b t \nu$ as a specific example, we…
The process e+e- to gamma gamma (gamma) is studied using data recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP. The data sample corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 56.2 pb-1 taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. The measured…
With the aid of large-scale three-dimensional QED-PIC simulations, we describe a realistic experimental configuration to measure collective effects that couple strong field quantum electrodynamics to plasma kinetics. For two counter…
Several key observables of the high-precision physics program at future lepton colliders will critically depend on the knowledge of the absolute machine luminosity. The determination of the luminosity relies on the precise knowledge of some…
We study predictions for the reaction $e^+e^- \to {\bar \nu} \nu (n \gamma)$. The complete one-loop corrections are taken into account and higher order contributions, in particular those for the observed real photons, are added whenever…
If extra gauge bosons are observed at the LHC or at a linear e+e- collider, the reaction e+e- --> nu nubar gamma can give information on the couplings (W' nu l) and (Z' nu nubar). The total cross section and polarization asymmetries are the…
In this Report, QCD results obtained from a study of hadronic event structure in high energy e^+e^- interactions with the L3 detector are presented. The operation of the LEP collider at many different collision energies from 91 GeV to 209…
The lowest-dimensional representation of the group E$_6$ contains both the standard quarks and leptons and a set of exotic quarks and leptons whose decays can involve a series of chains ending in radiative decay of one light neutrino…
The differential and total cross sections for the d+p->3He+eta reaction have been measured in a high precision high statistics COSY-ANKE experiment near threshold using a continuous beam energy ramp up to an excess energy Q of 11.3 MeV with…
Gravity can become strong at the TeV scale in the theory of extra dimensions. An effective Lagrangian can be used to describe the gravitational interactions below a cut-off scale. In this work, we study the associated production of the…
We show that the Higgs production in $e\gamma$ collisions, through the one-loop reaction $e\gamma\to eH$ at large transverse momentum, can provide a precise determination of the $Z\gamma H$ vertex. We concentrate on the analysis of signal…
Results on LEP 2 e+e-->ffbar and gamma gamma (gamma) production are presented. These are compared with Standard Model predictions, and then used to set limits on various New Physics models, including Low Scale Gravity. Finally the status of…
Cross-sections and angular distributions for hadronic and lepton pair final states in e+e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy near 189 GeV, measured with the OPAL detector at LEP, are presented and compared with the predictions of the…
The interaction of virtual photons is investigated using double tagged gammagamma events with hadronic final states recorded by the ALEPH experiment at e^+e^- centre-of-mass energies between 188 and 209 GeV. The measured cross section is…
We show that neutrino-photon reactions above $m_e$ are dominated by the reaction $\nu \gamma \to \nu e^+ e^-$. We calculate its cross-section and see that it is larger by several orders of magnitude than the cross-sections of other…
We study the production of composite scalar leptoquarks in $e\gamma$ colliders, and we show that an $e^+e^-$ machine operating in its $e\gamma$ mode is the best way to look for these particles in $e^+e^-$ collisions, due to the hadronic…
The search for new physics in single- and multi-photon final states with large missing energy at LEP and future e^+ e^- colliders requires precise predictions for the Standard Model irreducible background. While at LEP1 the theoretical…