SO(8) Colour as possible origin of generations
A possible connection between the existence of three quark-lepton generations and the triality property of SO(8) group (the equality between 8-dimensional vectors and spinors) is investigated.
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Z. K. Silagadze
Publications and source records attributed to Z. K. Silagadze.
Study of the process e+e-\to μ+μ- in the energy region \sqrt{s}=980, 1040 -- 1380 MeV
The cross section of the process e+e-\toμ+μ- was measured in the SND experiment at the VEPP-2M e+e- collider in the energy region \sqrt{s}=980, 1040 -- 1380 MeV. The event numbers of the process e+e-\toμ+μ- were normalized to the integrated luminosity measured using e+e-\to e+e- and e+e-\toγγprocesses. The ratio of the measured cross section to the theoretically predicted value is 1.006\pm 0.007 \pm 0.016 and 1.005 \pm 0.007 \pm 0.018 in the first and second case respectively. Using results of the measurements, the electromagnetic running coupling constant αin the energy region \sqrt{s}=1040 -- 1380 MeV was obtained <1/α> = 134.1\pm 0.5 \pm 1.2 and this is in agreement with theoretical expectation.
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Mirror dark matter discovered?
Recent astrophysical data indicates that dark matter shows a controversial behaviour in galaxy cluster collisions. In case of the notorious Bullet cluster, dark matter component of the cluster behaves like a collisionless system. However, its behaviour in the Abell 520 cluster indicates a significant self-interaction cross-section. It is hard for the WIMP based dark matter models to reconcile such a diverse behaviour. Mirror dark matter models, on the contrary, are more flexible and for them diverse behaviour of the dark matter is a natural expectation.
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Investigation of the $e^+e^- \to ωπ^0 \to π^0 π^0 γ$ reaction in the energy domain near the $ϕ$-meson
The $e^+e^- \to ωπ^0 \to π^0 π^0 γ$ process was investigated in the SND experiment at the VEPP-2M collider. A narrow energy interval near the $ϕ$-meson was scanned. The observed cross-section reveals, at the level of three standard deviation, the interference effect caused by $ϕ\to π^0π^0γ$ decay. The cross-section parameters, as well as the real and imaginary parts of the $ϕ$-meson related amplitude, were measured.
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Remark on orbital precession due to central-force perturbations
This is a comment on the recent paper by G. S. Adkins and J. McDonnell ``Orbital precession due to central-force perturbations'' published in Phys. Rev. D75 (2007), 082001 [arXiv:gr-qc/0702015]. We show that the main result of this paper, the formula for the precession of Keplerian orbits induced by central-force perturbations, can be obtained very simply by the use of Hamilton's vector.
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SETI and muon collider
Intense neutrino beams that accompany muon colliders can be used for interstellar communications. The presence of multi-TeV extraterrestrial muon collider at several light-years distance can be detected after one year run of IceCube type neutrino telescopes, if the neutrino beam is directed towards the Earth. This opens a new avenue in SETI: search for extraterrestrial muon colliders.
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Relativity without tears
Special relativity is no longer a new revolutionary theory but a firmly established cornerstone of modern physics. The teaching of special relativity, however, still follows its presentation as it unfolded historically, trying to convince the audience of this teaching that Newtonian physics is natural but incorrect and special relativity is its paradoxical but correct amendment. I argue in this article in favor of logical instead of historical trend in teaching of relativity and that special relativity is neither paradoxical nor correct (in the absolute sense of the nineteenth century) but the most natural and expected description of the real space-time around us valid for all practical purposes. This last circumstance constitutes a profound mystery of modern physics better known as the cosmological constant problem.
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Measurement of the e+e- -> K+K- cross section in the energy range s**(1/2) = 1.04 - 1.38 GeV with the SND detector in the experiment at the VEPP-2M e+e- collider
The cross section of the process $e^+e^- \to K^+K^-$ was measured in the energy range $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.04--1.38 GeV in the SND experiment at the VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider. The measured cross section is described by the model of vector meson dominance with contributions from the light vector mesons $ρ$, $ω$, $ϕ$ and their lowest excitations. The mean statistical accuracy of the measurement is 4.4 %, and the systematic uncertainty is 5.2 %.
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Reanalysis of the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ reaction cross section
In the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider measuring the $e^+e^-\to ηγ$ cross section in the energy range $0.6<\sqrt{s}<1.38 \mathrm{GeV}$ the reanalysis of data is performed. The goal is to improve the accuracy of the previous results by analysing ambiguities in the approximation of energy dependence of the $e^+e^-\to ηγ$ cross section, which were not taken into account in our previous study. We report new results on the approximation of the $e^+e^-\to ηγ$ cross section based on Vector Dominance Model under new model parameter assumptions.
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Maxwell's demon through the looking glass
Mechanical Maxwell's demons, such as Smoluchowski's trapdoor and Feynman's ratchet and pawl need external energy source to operate. If you cease to feed a demon the Second Law of thermodynamics will quickly stop its operation. Nevertheless, if the parity is an unbroken symmetry of nature, it may happen that a small modification leads to demons which do not need feeding. Such demons can act like perpetuum mobiles of the second kind: extract heat energy from only one reservoir, use it to do work and be isolated from the rest of ordinary world. Yet the Second Law is not violated because the demons pay their entropy cost in the hidden (mirror) sector of the world by emitting mirror photons.
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On the two-photon contributions to $e^+e^-\toηγ$ and $e^+e^-\toη^\primeγ$
Motivated by recent BABAR measurements of the $γ^*\toγη$ and $γ^*\toγη^\prime $ transition form factors, we estimate two-photon exchange contributions to the corresponding cross sections. By using a phenomenological model, based on the vector meson dominance, it is argued that the expected contributions are small enough not to effect the BABAR results. As a by product we predict $Br(η^\prime\toμ^+μ^-)= (1.4\pm 0.2)\times 10^{-7}$. Our results might be useful also in high precision calculations of radiative corrections to the Dalitz decays of pseudoscalar mesons.
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Study of the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ process with SND detector at the VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider
In experiment with the SND detector at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section was measured in the energy range $E$=0.60--1.38 GeV with the integrated luminosity of 27.8 pb$^{-1}$. The measured cross section is well described by the vector meson dominance model with contributions from the $ρ(770)$, $ω(783)$, $ϕ(1020)$, $ρ^{\prime}(1465)$ resonances and agrees with results of previous measurements. The decay probabilities $\BR(ϕ\toηγ)$, $\BR(ω\toηγ)$ and $\BR(ρ\toηγ)$ were measured with the accuracies better than or comparable to the world averages.
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Experimental Study of the Reaction $e^+e^-\to K_SK_L$ in the Energy Range $\sqrt{s}=1.04 ÷1.38$ GeV
We present a measurement of the $e^+e^-\to K_SK_L$ cross section in the energy range $\sqrt{s}=1.04 ÷1.38$ GeV. For the energy $\sqrt{s}\geq 1.2$ GeV the cross section exceeds vector meson dominance model predictions with only $ρ(770)$, $ω(783)$, and $ϕ(1020)$ mesons taken into account. Measured cross section agrees well with previous measurements.
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Update of the e^+e^-\toπ^+π^- cross section measured by SND detector in the energy region 400<\sqrt{s}<1000 MeV
The corrected cross section of the e^+e^-\toπ^+π^- process measured in the SND experiment at the VEPP-2M e^+e^- collider is presented. The update is necessary due to a flaw in the e^+e^-\toπ^+π^- and e^+e^-\toμ^+μ^- Monte Carlo events generators used previously in data analysis.
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Pion Form Factor at SND (new edition)
The update of the e^+e^-\toπ^+π^- process cross section, measured in the energy region \sqrt{s}<1 GeV with SND detector at VEPP-2M collider is presented.
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New results on e+e- -> hadrons exclusive cross sections from experiments with SND detector at VEPP-2M e+e- collider in the energy range sqrt(s)=0.4-1.4 GeV
New results of the e+e- -> pi+pi-, K+K-, K_SK_L, pi0/gamma, eta0/gamma processes cross section measurements are presented. The results are based on the 30 pb^-1 data, accumulated by SND detector at VEPP-2M e+e- collider in the energy range sqrt(s)=0.4-1.4 GeV during 1995-2000 years. The comparison with existing experimental data shows that the measurement accuracy is close to or better than the world average. For the e+e- -> pi+pi- process the accuracy is about 0.01. This is important for calculation of hadronic contribution into the muon anomalous magnetic moment.
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Study of the process $e^+e^- \to π^+π^-$ in the energy region 400<\sqrt[]{s}<1000 MeV
The cross section of the process e^+e^-\to π^+π^- was measured in the SND experiment at the VEPP-2M collider in the energy region 400<\sqrt[]{s}<1000 MeV. This measurement was based on about 12.4 \times 10^6 selected collinear events, which include 7.4\times 10^6 e^+e^-\to e^+e^-, 4.5\times 10^6 e^+e^-\toπ^+π^- and 0.5\times 10^6 e^+e^-\toμ^+μ^- selected events. The systematic uncertainty of the cross section determination is 1.3 %. The ρ-meson parameters were determined: m_ρ=774.9\pm 0.4\pm 0.5 MeV, Γ_ρ=146.5\pm 0.8\pm 1.5 MeV, σ(ρ\toπ^+π^-)=1220\pm 7\pm 16 nb as well as the parameters of the G-parity suppressed decay ω\toπ^+π^-: σ(ω\toπ^+π^-)=29.9\pm 1.4\pm 1.0 nb and ϕ_{ρω} = 113.5\pm 1.3\pm 1.7 degree.
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Zeno meets modern science
``No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him''. We will not refute Zeno in this paper. Instead we review some unexpected encounters of Zeno with modern science. The paper begins with a brief biography of Zeno of Elea followed by his famous paradoxes of motion. Reflections on continuity of space and time lead us to Banach and Tarski and to their celebrated paradox, which is in fact not a paradox at all but a strict mathematical theorem, although very counterintuitive. Quantum mechanics brings another flavour in Zeno paradoxes. Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects are really paradoxical but now experimental facts. Then we discuss supertasks and bifurcated supertasks. The concept of localization leads us to Newton and Wigner and to interesting phenomenon of quantum revivals. At last we note that the paradoxical idea of timeless universe, defended by Zeno and Parmenides at ancient times, is still alive in quantum gravity. The list of references that follows is necessarily incomplete but we hope it will assist interested reader to fill in details.
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