In this paper we present a model of confinement based on an analogy with the confinement mechanism of the Schwarzschild solution of general relativ-ity. Using recently discovered exact, Schwarzschild-like solutions of the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs equations we study the behaviour of a scalar, SU(2) charged test particle placed in the gauge fields of this solution. We find that this test particle i...

Fermion compositeness and other new physics can be signalled by the presence of a strong four-fermion contact interaction. Here we present a study of leqq and !&?e’ contact interactions using the reactions: et!? --f e’+e’-, b&, CC at future e+elinear colliders with fi = 0.5 5 TeV and p+pcolliders with 4 = 0.5,4 TeV. We find that very large compositeness scales can be probed at these machines an...

The self-consistent theory of the fermion condensation, a specific phase transition which results in a rearrangement of the single particle degrees of freedom in strongly correlated Fermi systems is developed. Beyond the phase transition point, the single particle spectra are shown to be flat. The interplay between the flattening and the damping of the single particle spectra at T → 0 is invest...

We describe a geometric picture for the pattern of fermion masses of the three generations which is invariant with respect to the renormalization group below the electroweak scale. Moreover, we predict the upper limit for the ratio between the Dirac masses of the μ and τ neutrinos, ( mνμ/mντ ) ≤ (9.6 ± 0.6) × 10. The Standard Model [1, 2] of strong and electroweak interactions describes accurat...

We assessed North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) seasonal and daily calling patterns in the southeastern Bering Sea (SEBS) using long-term hydrophone recordings from October 2000 through January 2006. We detected right whale calls on the SEBS middle shelf (<100 m depth) as early as May, intermittently throughout summer and fall, and as late as December. Calls also were detected on one...

Abstract. We propose a new class of primal-dual Fejér monotone algorithms for solving systems of composite monotone inclusions. Our construction is inspired by a framework used by Eckstein and Svaiter for the basic problem of finding a zero of the sum of two monotone operators. At each iteration, points in the graph of the monotone operators present in the model are used to construct a half-spa...

According to the composite fermion theory, the interacting electron system at filling factor ν is equivalent to the non-interacting composite fermion system at ν = ν/(1 − 2mν), which in turn is related to the non-interacting electron system at ν. We show that several eigenstates of non-interacting electrons at ν do not have any partners for interacting electrons at ν, but, upon composite fermio...

We study the applicability of composite fermion theory to electrons in twodimensional parabolically-confined quantum dots in a strong perpendicular magnetic field in the limit of low Zeeman energy. The non-interacting composite fermion spectrum correctly specifies the primary features of this system. Additional features are relatively small, indicating that the residual interaction between the ...

A recently developed model of interacting composite fermions, is used to investigate different composite-fermion phases. Their interaction potential allows for the formation of both solid and new quantum-liquid phases, which are interpreted in terms of second-generation composite fermions and which may be responsible for the fractional quantum Hall states observed at unusual filling factors, su...

The graphene-inspired fermion actions recently proposed by Creutz and Boriçi have sparked interest in the use of non-orthogonal lattices in lattice QCD. These fermion actions have the desired chiral symmetry and have the minimal doubling required by the Nielsen-Ninomiya no-go theorem. However, due to the lack of discrete symmetries, radiative corrections in the gauged lattice theory will lead t...