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Virtual photon

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Nuclear Excitation by Free Muon Capture

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Simone Gargiulo

Efficient excitation of nuclei via exchange of a real or virtual photon has a fundamental importance for nuclear science and technology development. Here, we present a mechanism of nuclear excitation based on the capture of a free muon into the atomic orbi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Gravitational causality and the self-stress of photons

Brando Bellazzini

We study causality in gravitational systems beyond the classical limit. Using on-shell methods, we consider the 1-loop corrections from charged particles to the photon energy-momentum tensor - the self-stress - that controls the quantum interaction between ...

Springer Nature2022

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

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Thi Dung Nguyen, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Vincenzo Battista, Brice Emile Maurin

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

Strongly correlated Fermions strongly coupled to light

Jean-Philippe Brantut, Victor Youri Helson, Kevin Etienne Robert Roux, Hideki Konishi

Strong quantum correlations in matter are responsible for some of the most extraordinary properties of materials, from magnetism to high-temperature superconductivity, but their integration in quantum devices requires a strong, coherent coupling with photo ...

Nature Research2020

First Experimental Study of Photon Polarization in Radiative B-s(0) Decays

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin

The polarization of photons produced in radiative B-s(0) decays is studied for the first time. The data are recorded by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1) at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. A ...

2017

Polarization of photons emitted by decaying dark matter

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Anna Tokareva

Radiatively decaying dark matter may be searched through investigating the photon spectrum of galaxies and galaxy clusters. We explore whether the properties of dark matter can be constrained through the study of a polarization state of emitted photons. St ...

Elsevier2017

One-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in a microtube

Oleksandr Kriuchkov

This paper introduces a quasiequilibrium one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation of photons trapped in a microtube. Light modes with a cutoff frequency (a photon's "mass") interact through different processes of absorption, emission, and scattering on m ...

2016

Observation of Photon Polarization in the b -> s gamma Transition

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Pierre Jaton, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Joël Bressieux, Songmei Wu, Raluca Anca Muresan

This Letter presents a study of the flavor-changing neutral current radiative B-+/- -> K-+/-pi(-/+)pi(+/-)gamma decays performed using data collected in proton-proton collisions with the LHCb detector at 7 and 8 TeV center-of-mass energies. In this sample, ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Four-lepton production at hadron colliders: aMC@NLO predictions with theoretical uncertainties

Paolo Torrielli, Valentin Hirschi

We use aMC@NLO to study the production of four charged leptons at the LHC, performing parton showers with both HERWIG and PYTHIA6. Our underlying matrix element calculation features the full next-to-leading order O(alpha(S)) result and the O(alpha(2)(S)) c ...

Springer Nature2012

Measurement of gamma gamma* -> pi(0) transition form factor at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Jun Yong Kim, Remi Léandre Albert Louvot

We report a measurement of the process gamma gamma* -> pi(0) with a 759 fb(-1) data sample recorded with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. The pion transition form factor, F(Q(2)), is measured for the kinematical region 4 ...

American Physical Society2012

Microscopic theory of the Casimir force at thermal equilibrium: Large-separation asymptotics

We present an entirely microscopic calculation of the Casimir force f(d) between two metallic plates in the limit of large separation d. The models of metals consist of mobile quantum charges in thermal equilibrium with the photon field at positive tempera ...

2008

Cavity optomechanics: Back-action at the mesoscale

Tobias Kippenberg

The coupling of optical and mechanical degrees of freedom is the underlying principle of many techniques to measure mechanical displacement, from macroscale gravitational wave detectors to microscale cantilevers used in scanning probe microscopy. Recent ex ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2008

Effect of interface disorder on quantum well excitons and microcavity polaritons

Vincenzo Savona

The theory of the linear optical response of excitons in quantum wells and polaritons in planar semiconductor microcavities is reviewed, in the light of the existing experiments. For quantum well excitons, it is shown that disorder mainly affects the excit ...

2007

Engineering the spatial confinement of exciton polaritons in semiconductors

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Vincenzo Savona, Jean-Daniel Ganière, François Morier-Genoud, Ounsi El Daïf, Taofiq Paraïso, Pierre Bernard Henri Lugan, Reda Idrissi Kaitouni

We demonstrate three-dimensional spatial confinement of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity. Polaritons are confined within a micron-sized region of slightly larger cavity thickness, called mesa, through lateral trapping of their photon compo ...

2006

Measurement of exclusive ρ+ρ- production in mid-virtuality two-photon interactions and study of the γγ* → ρρ process at LEP

Qian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Aurelio Bay, Liang Sun, Horst Arthur Vogel, Jian Zhao, Eduardo Sanchez

Exclusive ρ+ρ- production in two-photon collisions between a quasi-real photon, γ, and a mid-virtuality photon, γ*, is studied with data collected at LEP at centre-of-mass energies 183 GeV≤√s≤209 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 684.8 pb-1. The cr ...

2005