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[S8.002] The Quest for the Higgs Boson and the Planck Black Hole Production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Nassim Haramein, E.A. Rauscher (The Resonance Project)
When the CERN 7 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) comes on line in the next few years, hypothesis is that significant experimental discoveries may verify the Higgs boson and the production of short lived Planck size mini Schwarzchild black holes, both of which are fundamental to a unified particle and cosmological standard and supersymmetry model. The Higgs mechanism relates to particle mass in the standard model and the mini black holes may relate to the cosmological mini mass problem as well as yield clues as to the structure of the vacuum. These points are of particular interest to our research [1,2], and the discovery and identification of mini black holes (mbh) is basic to our scaling law model [1]. Hawking radiation from the production of mini black holes from accelerated Hadrons are expected to be observed from x – and \gamma – ray lepton production from subcomponents of quarks or partons. Our model [1,2] and Hawking’s picture [3] may demonstrate that mbh hold basic clues about the very nature of the fabric of spacetime itself. We examine the Kerr-Newman black hole production cross section in detail at the energies of the LHC.
(1) N. Haramein, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. AB006, 1154 (2001),
(2) E.A. Rauscher, lett. Nuovo Cimento 3, 661 (1972), (3)
S.W. Hawking, Phys. Rev. D53, 3099 (1996).
[S8.003] Puzzles and Prospects in String Thermodynamics
Michael Lennek (University of Arizona)
One of the most intriguing features of string thermodynamics
is the phenomenon of thermal duality, which relates the
physics at temperature T to the physics at inverse
temperature 1/T. Unfortunately, the classical definitions
of thermodynamic quantities such as entropy and specific
heat are not invariant under thermal duality
transformations. In this talk, I will discuss several novel
approaches towards dealing with this issue. One of these
involves extending the usual definition of entropy by
introducing additional terms that are suppressed by powers
of the string scale. At high temperatures, however, these
terms become significant and lead to a variety of surprising
new phenomena. This talk reports on work done in
collaboration with my Ph.D. advisor, Keith Dienes.
[S8.004] A QCD Generated Mass Spectrum
Burra Gautam Sidharth (Centre for App. Math.amp; Comp. Sc., B.M.Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad 500063)
We deduce a mass formula for all known elementary particles,
using the interquark interaction.The error in about 63
percent of the cases is less than one percent while in 93
percent of the cases is less than two percent and in all
cases less than three percent with a single exceptional case
where the error is 3.6 percent. The recently discovered
Ds(2317) meson and the 1.5 Gev pentaquark are also included.
[S8.005] Effective Field Theory Approach to Nucleon Compton Scattering
William Hockings (University of Arizona)
I derive the cross section for Compton scattering on the
nucleon at energies below the pion mass. In the first step I
write down the most general Lagrangian for nucleon-photon
interactions which obeys Lorentz invariance, gauge
invariance, parity, time reversal, hermiticity, and
reparameterization invariance. This Lagrangian gives Feynman
rules which are used to obtain the Compton scattering
amplitude as an expansion in powers of ømega/M, where
ømega is the photon momentum and M is one of the two
mass scales in the theory, either the nucleon mass m_N
or the pion mass m_\pi. I compare the cross section in
the first two orders to experimental data, and obtain values
for the electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the
proton.
[S8.006] Patching Up the Lithium Problem - Neutrino Degeneracy to the Rescue?
Thomas Topel (Colorado State University), George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)
Recent measurements of the primordial deuterium abundance in
high-redshift clouds toward several several QSOs allow the
baryon-to-photon ratio to be accurately pegged. With the
baryon-to-photon ratio in hand, standard BBN theory can now
make tight predictions for the light element abundances
coming out of big bang nucleosynthesis. At the deuterium-set
baryon-to-photon ratio, the predicted primeval Li-7
abundance is arguably a factor of three to four larger than
that observed in metal-poor halo stars. At present, it is
unclear if lithium depletion in these old Population II
stars can account for the wide disparity. In this work, we
consider how the gap between predicted and observed Li-7
abundances may be narrowed by allowing for neutrino
degeneracy. Using the BBN code of Kawano, we find that a
positive and equal degeneracy in each of the neutrino
species can lower the predicted Li-7/H yield, thus patching
up the lithium problem.
[S8.007] Neutrino Mass Search with Single Ba+ Ion Detection
Kendy Hall, Shie-Chang Jeng, Wade Taylor, William M Fairbank (Department of Physics, Colorado State University), Mitsuhiro Miyajima (Department of Applied Physics, Fukui University, Japan)
A new method to search for the neutrino mass is being
developed: zero neutrino double beta decay efficient 136Ba+
daughter ion tagging by laser induced fluorescence in a
liquid Xe time-projection chamber. We report new
measurements of the fluorescence spectrum of Ba+ in liquid
Xe using a spectrometer with liquid nitrogen cooled CCD
camera. We also use the CCD camera to capture a real time
fluorescence image of the Ba+ ion cloud and determine the
survival time of the Ba+ ions. New results are presented for
the mobility of Ba+, Tl+, Mg+, Ca+, and Sr+ in liquid Xe.
[S8.008] Finding signatures of direct cherenkov radiation in Utah7 telescope array data samples
Daniel Allen, David Kieda (University of Utah), University of Utah Gammaray Team
We discuss the possibility of detecting cherenkov radiation
emitted by the primary particle in an extensive air shower.
By measuring the characteristics of this radiation, the
energy and charge of the primary particle can be determined.
Data gathered by the japaneses Utah7 telescope array were
analyzed in order to determine if such events have been
recorded. Results of this study and possibilities for future
study are discussed.
[S8.009] Systematic Errors in Particle Lifetime Measurements
Steve Wasserbaech, Eric Brown (Utah Valley State College)
We studied the systematic uncertainties in measurements of the mean lifetime of the \tau lepton. Different analysis methods are compared, and briefly described. The effects resulting from uncertainties in the positioning of sensitive elements in the detector are explored. These effects are investigated with the use of a simulation of e^+e^- collisions in the ALEPH detector at CERN. Preliminary results of this investigation are reviewed.