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Xiao-Feng Zhang

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Unambiguous cancellation of divergences of $H \to γγ$ process via one W loop in unitary gauge: Gauge invariance in Dyson scheme and physical boundary condition

Following the thread of R. Gastmans, S. L. Wu and T. T. Wu, the calculation in the unitary gauge for the $H \to γγ$ process via one W loop is repeated, but without the specific choice of the independent loop momentum for the Feynman diagrams. This is based on the original 'Dyson scheme' provided in Dyson's classical paper. I.e., the original integrations on all propagator momenta are kept, not expressed by the specified independent loop momentum. Correspondingly, the 4-dimension $δ$ function at each vertex in which the 4-momentum conservation is embedded, is retained. Together with the Ward identity of the W-W-photon vertex, the 4-momentum conservation of each vertex guarantee the cancellation of all divergent integrals worse than logarithmic without any uncertainty or ambiguity, with any shift of integrated momentum eschewed. The calculation is in 4-dimension Minkowski phase space and without any help of regularization. The resulting integrals are to the most logarithmically divergent, hence is invariant for various setting of the independent loop momentum and any of its shift. At last the logarithmically divergent symmetric (tensor) integration is determined by the boundary condition at infinity in momentum space inherent of the free Feynman propagator, and the gauge (both $SU(2)\times U_Y(1)$ and $U_{em}(1)$) invariant finite result can be obtained without the introduction of the 'Dyson subtraction'. The physical boundary conditions at infinity of phase space can make sense in many problems.

hep-ph

Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts

Gamma-ray bursts are the strongest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang, believed to be produced either in forming black holes at the end of massive star evolution or merging of compact objects. Spectral and timing properties of gamma-ray bursts suggest that the observed bright gamma-rays are produced in the most relativistic jets in the Universe; however, the physical properties, especially the structure and magnetic topologies in the jets are still not well known, despite several decades of studies. It is widely believed that precise measurements of the polarization properties of gamma-ray bursts should provide crucial information on the highly relativistic jets. As a result there have been many reports of gamma-ray burst polarization measurements with diverse results, see, however many such measurements suffered from substantial uncertainties, mostly systematic. After the first successful measurements by the GAP and COSI instruments, here we report a statistically meaningful sample of precise polarization measurements, obtained with the dedicated gamma-ray burst polarimeter, POLAR onboard China's Tiangong-2 spacelab. Our results suggest that the gamma-ray emission is at most polarized at a level lower than some popular models have predicted; although our results also show intrapulse evolution of the polarization angle. This indicates that the low polarization degrees could be due to an evolving polarization angle during a gamma-ray burst.

astro-ph.HE

Hidden-charm Pentaquark Production at $e^+e^-$ Colliders

We study one possible production mechanism for hidden charm pentaquark in e+e- collision, where it is produced via a color-octet c \bar c pair fragmentation. The pentaquark production at B factory energy is dominated by e+e- to c \bar c g to Pc + X. At Z^0 pole, for the pentaquark production, there are several partonic processes playing significant role. Our results show that it is possible to search for the direct pentaquark production signal at e+e- colliders, which is important to understand the properties of pentaquark.

hep-ph

Exotic Hadron Bound State Production at Hadronic Colliders

The non-relativistic wave function framework is applied to study the production and decay of the exotic hadrons which can be effectively described as bound states of other hadrons. Employing the factorized formulation, we investigate the production of exotic hadrons in the multiproduction processes at high energy hadronic colliders with the help of event generators. This study provides crucial information for the measurements of the relevant exotic hadrons.

hep-ph