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Chiral Asymmetry from a 5D Higgs Mechanism

An intriguing feature of the Standard Model is that the representations of the unbroken gauge symmetries are vector-like whereas those of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries are chiral. Here we provide a toy model which shows that a natural explanati ...

2007

Anomalous Abelian solitons

Matthias Schmid

The chiral Abelian Higgs model contains an interesting class of solitons found by Rubakov and Tavkhelidze. These objects carry non-zero fermion number NF (or Chern-Simons number NCS, what is the same because of the chiral anomaly) and are stable for suffic ...

2007

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

Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion

Riccardo Rattazzi, Arthur Adams

We argue that certain apparently consistent low-energy erective field theories described by local, Lorentz-invariant Lagrangians, secretly exhibit macroscopic non-locality and cannot be embedded in any UV theory whose S-matrix satisfies canonical analytici ...

2006

Dynamics of the quantum dimer model on the triangular lattice: Soft modes and local resonating valence-bond correlations

Frédéric Mila, Dmitri Ivanov

We report on an exhaustive investigation of the dynamical dimer-dimer correlations in imaginary time for the quantum dimer model on the triangular lattice using the Green’s function Monte Carlo method. We show in particular that soft modes develop upon red ...

2006

Electroweak symmetry breaking after LEP1 and LEP2

Riccardo Rattazzi

In a generic "universal" theory of electroweak symmetry breaking, simple symmetry considerations and absence of tuning imply that heavy new physics affects the low-energy data through four parameters. These include and properly extend the generally insuffi ...

2004

Gauge-Higgs unification in orbifold models

Claudio Scrucca, Andrea Wulzer

Six-dimensional orbifold models where the Higgs field is identified with some internal component of a gauge field are considered. We classify all possible T-2/Z(N) orbifold constructions based on a SU(3) electroweak gauge symmetry. Depending on the orbifol ...

2004

Anomalies in field theories with extra dimensions

Claudio Scrucca

We give an overview of the issue of anomalies in field theories with extra dimensions. We start by reviewing in a pedagogical way the computation of the standard perturbative gauge and gravitational anomalies on noncompact spaces, using Fujikawa's approach ...

2004

Antiaromaticity in Bare Deltahedral Silicon Clusters Satisfying Wade's and Hirsch's Rules: An Apparent Correlation of Antiaromaticity with High Symmetry

Entirely unlike the arom. closo B6H62- and B12H122- borane dianions, isoelectronic Si62- and Si122- are antiarom. Their Oh and Ih symmetries are responsible, as the other deltahedral silicon dianion clusters do not exhibit this behavior. These high symmetr ...

2004

Polaron formation and symmetry breaking

Libero Zuppiroli, Marie-Noëlle Bussac, François Gygi, Giulia Galli Gygi

In a molecular semiconductor, a charged molecule experiences a lattice relaxation which reorganizes it into a cation or an anion-radical. This species is not, in general, a polaron. By using calculations of the geometry and the electronic structure both ab ...

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