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Conformal Regge theory

We generalize Regge theory to correlation functions in conformal field theories. This is done by exploring the analogy between Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT and S-matrix elements. In the process, we develop the conformal partial wave expansion in Mellin spa ...

Springer2012

Capturing EELS in the reciprocal space

Cécile Hébert, Audrius Alkauskas

In this work two aspects of momentum-dependent electron energy loss spectrometry are studied, both in the core-loss and in the low-loss region. In the case of core losses, we focus on the demonstration and the interpretation of an unexpected non-Lorentzian ...

2011

Deep inelastic scattering in conformal QCD

We consider the Regge limit of a CFT correlation function of two vector and two scalar operators, as appropriate to study small-x deep inelastic scattering in N = 4 SYM or in QCD assuming approximate conformal symmetry. After clarifying the nature of the R ...

Springer2010

Metastable supersymmetry breaking in N=2 non-linear sigma-models

Claudio Scrucca, Jean-Claude Jacot

We perform a general study of the issue of metastability for supersymmetry-breaking vacua in theories with N=1 and N=2 global supersymmetry. This problem turns out to capture all the important qualitative features of the corresponding question in theories ...

Elsevier2010

Discontinuous Galerkin method for computing gravitational waveforms from extreme mass ratio binaries

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

Gravitational wave emission from extreme mass ratio binaries (EMRBs) should be detectable by the joint NASA-ESA LISA project, spurring interest in analytical and numerical methods for investigating EMRBs. We describe a discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method fo ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2009

IMEX Evolution of Scalar Fields on Curved Backgrounds

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

Inspiral of binary black holes occurs over a time-scale of many orbits, far longer than the dynamical time-scale of the individual black holes. Explicit evolutions of a binary system therefore require excessively many time-steps to capture interesting dyna ...

GLOBAL SCIENCE PRESS2009

Eikonal approximation in AdS/CFT: Conformal partial waves and finite N four-point functions

We introduce the impact parameter representation for conformal field theory correlators of the form A similar to (O1O2O1O2). This representation is appropriate in the eikonal kinematical regime, and approximates the conformal partial wave decomposition in ...

Elsevier Science Bv2007

Gravitating field-theoretical branes and their excitations

Katarzyna Zuleta Estrugo

This thesis is devoted to studying field-theoretical branes in warped geometries, with emphasis on brane excitations and properties of background solutions. Firstly, we examine the features of a model in which our universe is represented by a local string- ...

EPFL2005

Transplanckian collisions at the LHC and beyond

Riccardo Rattazzi

Elastic collisions in the transplanckian region, where the center-of-mass energy is much larger than the fundamental gravity mass scale, can be described by linearized general relativity and known quantum-mechanical effects as long as the momentum transfer ...

2002

Optical spectral probing for epithelial tissue characterisation

Philippe Thueler

In this thesis, a new method has been developed, which determines the optical coefficients spectra (absorption and scattering) of small volumes of tissue (1 mm3) by the measurement of spatially resolved reflectance between 480 and 950 nm. Firstly, an algor ...

EPFL2001