I introduce the critical pomeron theory (“white pomeron”) proposed by Alan White, with its prediction of excessive WW and ZZ production at the LHC especially by double pomeron exchange (DPE), which is a crucial test. This theory implies dramatic effects in cosmic rays, possibly explaining the knee and high ET jet excesses. Some of the Ultra High Energy (UHE) cosmic rays may be “Superbaryons” ma...

We analyze the effects of finite chemical potential on spontaneous breaking of internal symmetries within the class of relativistic field theories described by the linear sigma model. Special attention is paid to the emergence of “abnormal” Goldstone bosons with quadratic dispersion relation. We show that their presence is tightly connected to nonzero density of the Noether charges, and formula...

The importance of caterpillar trees in the topological theory of benzenoid systems lies in the following. Let B be a non-branched cata-condensed benzenoid hydrocarbon (that is a hydrocarbon containing linearly and angularly condensed rings). If we associate a symbol L to each linearly condensed ring (and also to the two terminal ones) and a symbol A to each angularly condensed ring, then the so...

We discuss a recent lattice study of charmonium-like mesons with JPC = 1++ and three quark contents c̄cd̄u, c̄c(ūu+ d̄d) and c̄cs̄s, where the latter two can mix with c̄c. In this quantum channel, the long known exotic candidate, X(3872), resides. This simulation employs N f = 2, mπ = 266 MeV and a large basis of c̄c, two-meson and diquark-antidiquark interpolating fields, with diquarks in both anti-tr...

m BG(X) = ~ r(G, k) Xk (1) k=O wihere r(G, k) is the number of ways i:n which k dlsoonnected ibrut mutually resonant sextets are chosen from molecular graiph G and is called the res'Onant sextet number; 11(G, 0) is defined as unity. The parameter m is the m:aximall ipossible value of kin G. This ipolynomial, has so far attracted the attention of organic chemists as welil as of graph theorists. ...

Abstract The electromagnetic properties of baryons containing a heavy quark are calculated at next-toleading order in partially quenched heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory. Calculations are performed for three light flavors in the isospin limit and additionally for two light non-degenerate flavors. We use partially-quenched charge matrices that are easy to implement on the lattice. The res...