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Schwinger pair production from Pade-Borel reconstruction

In this work, we show how the knowledge of the first few terms of the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian's weak-field expansion in a magnetic field background is enough to reconstruct the pair-production rate in a strong electric field background. To this end, we ...

American Physical Society2020

Goldstone equivalence and high energy electroweak physics

Andrea Wulzer, Gabriel Francisco Cuomo, Luca Vecchi

The transition between the broken and unbroken phases of massive gauge theories, namely the rearrangement of longitudinal and Goldstone degrees of freedom that occurs at high energy, is not manifestly smooth in the standard formalism. The lack of smoothnes ...

2020

Thermal origin of quasilocalized excitations in glasses

Matthieu Wyart, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Wencheng Ji, Marko Popovic

Key aspects of glasses are controlled by the presence of excitations in which a group of particles can rearrange. Surprisingly, recent observations indicate that their density is dramatically reduced and their size decreases as the temperature of the super ...

2020

Lagrangian Discretization Of Crowd Motion And Linear Diffusion

Federico Stra

We study a model of crowd motion following a gradient vector field, with possibly additional interaction terms such as attraction/repulsion, and we present a numerical scheme for its solution through a Lagrangian discretization. The density constraint of t ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020

Interacting Dirac materials

Gabriel Aeppli

We investigate the extent to which the class of Dirac materials in two-dimensions provides general statements about the behavior of both fermionic and bosonic Dirac quasiparticles in the interacting regime. For both quasiparticle types, we find common feat ...

2020

Aspects of Gauge Theories Vacua

Adrien Florio

This thesis is concerned with gauge theories, their complicated vacuum and resulting effects. After an introduction to the subject, it is divided into four parts. Firstly, we treat the problem of chiral charge dynamics at finite temperature. Quantum field ...

EPFL2020

Schwinger production of scalar particles during and after inflation from the first principles

Oleksandr Sobol

By using the first-principles approach, we derive a system of three quantum kinetic equations governing the production and evolution of charged scalar particles by an electric field in an expanding universe. Analyzing the ultraviolet asymptotic behavior of ...

American Physical Society2020

Strong constraints on the b -> s gamma photon polarisation from B-0 -> K(*0)e(+)e(-) decays

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, François Fleuret, Pietro Marino, Federico Leo Redi, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Maxime Schubiger, Guido Andreassi, Renato Quagliani, Violaine Bellée, Federico Betti, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Tara Nanut, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Vladimir Macko, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Sebastian Schulte, Zhirui Xu, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Brice Emile Maurin, Yi Zhang, Vincenzo Battista, Lei Zhang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Zhipeng Tang

An angular analysis of the B-0 -> K*(0)e(+)e(-) decay is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1) of pp collisions collected with the LHCb experiment. The analysis is conducted in the very low dielectron mass squa ...

Springer Nature2020

Out-of-equilibrium dynamical equations of infinite-dimensional particle systems. II. The anisotropic case under shear strain

Elisabeth Agoritsas

As an extension of the isotropic setting presented in the companion paper Agoritsas et al (2019 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52 144002), we consider the Langevin dynamics of a many-body system of pairwise interacting particles in d dimensions, submitted to an ...

2019