2012 Journal Club Schedule

Every Friday: 12:20~13:15

For enquiries please email to shimon@hetmail... or naylor@hetmail... Note that the current schedule assumes that the journal club is on every Friday throughout both semesters.

Date発表者 (Speaker)紹介文献 など (Journal, etc.)
Apr 13R. Watanabe (postponed from 2011)UTfit group, "2000 CKM-triangle analysis. A critical review with updated experimental inputs and theoretical parameters."JHEP07(2001)013 ; CKM fitter group "A new approach to a global fit of the CKM matrix," Eur.Phys.J.C21(2001)225. [arXiv:hep-ph/0104062]
Apr 20T. Kubota (postponed from 2011)F.P. An et al, "Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay", arXiv: 1203.1669 [hep-ex] ; J.K. Ahn et al, "Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment", arXiv:1204.0626 [hep-ex]
Apr 27I. ArrautAchim Kempf, "On Quantum Field Theory with Nonzero Minimal Uncertainties in Positions and Momenta", J.Math.Phys. 38 (1997) 1347-1372, arXiv:hep-th/9602085 ; Achim Kempf, "Quantum Field Theory with Nonzero Minimal Uncertainties in Positions and Momenta", arXiv:hep-th/9405067 ; Martin Bojowald, Achim Kempf, "Generalized uncertainty principles and localization in discrete space", arXiv:1112.0994
May 11T. EnomotoAnjan Giri, Yuval Grossman, Abner Soffer, and Jure Zupan, "Determining γ using B→DK with multibody D decays", arXiv:hep-ph/0303187 ; Belle collaboration, "First Measurement of phi_3 with a Model-independent Dalitz Plot Analysis of B->DK, D->KsPiPi Decay",arXiv:1204.6561
May 18H. FukayaT. D. Cohen, "QCD inequalities, the high temperature phase of QCD, and U(1)A symmetry", Phys. Rev. D 54, R1867–R1870 (1996) ; D. Cohen, "The Spectral Density of the Dirac Operator above T_c", arXiv:nucl-th/9801061 ; M. Cheng et al. , "Probing UA(1) Restoration with Domain-Wall Fermions", Nucl.Phys. A862-863 (2011) 308-311 ; G. Cossu et al. , "Topological susceptibility and axial symmetry at finite temperature", arXiv:1204.4519
May 25H. HatanakaT. Bringmann et al. , "Fermi LAT Search for Internal Bremsstrahlung Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilation", arXiv:1203.1312 ; C. Weniger, "A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope", arXiv:1204.2797
June 1A. TanakaL. Alvarez-Gaume, "Supersymmetry and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem", Commun.Math.Phys. 90 (1983) 161 ; D. Friedan, P. Windey, "Supersymmetric Derivation of the Atiyah-Singer Index and the Chiral Anomaly", Nucl.Phys. B235 (1984) 395
June 8Y. HosotaniJ. C. Myers, M. C. Ogilvie, "New Phases of SU(3) and SU(4) at Finite Temperature", Phys.Rev.D77:125030,2008, arXiv:0707.1869 ; G. Cossu, M. D'Elia, "Finite size phase transitions in QCD with adjoint fermions", JHEP 0907 (2009) 048, arXiv:0904.1353 ; Y. Hosotani, "Gauge-Higgs Unification Approach", arXiv:1206.0552
June 15K. KikuchiY. Igarashi, K. Itoh, H. Sonoda, "Realization of symmetry in the ERG approach to quantum field theory", arXiv:0909.0327
June 22T. OkazakiD. Gaiotto, E. Witten, "S-Duality of Boundary Conditions In N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory",arXiv:0807.3720v1 ; D. Gaiotto, E. Witten, "Janus Configurations, Chern-Simons Couplings, And The Theta-Angle in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory", arXiv:0804.2907v1 ; D. Gaiotto, E. Witten, "Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory",arXiv:0804.2902v2
Priority Slot
June 29H. NagataniT. D. Lee, C. N. Yang, "Statistical Theory of Equations of State and Phase Transitions. I. Theory of Condensation", Phys. Rev. 87, 404–409 (1952) ; T. D. Lee, C. N. Yang, "Statistical Theory of Equations of State and Phase Transitions. II. Lattice Gas and Ising Model", Phys. Rev. 87, 410–419 (1952)
July 6N. OkudaT. Bringmann, M. Eriksson, M. Gustafsson, "Cosmological Evolution of Homogeneous Universal Extra Dimensions", arXiv:astro-ph/0303497, Phys. Rev. D 68, 063516 (2003)
July 13N. ShibaF. Costa, F. Piazza, "Modelling a Particle Detector in Field Theory", arXiv:0805.0806, New J.Phys. 11 (2009) 113006.
July 20T. HoritaW. Buchmuller, R. D. Peccei, T. Yanagida, "Leptogenesis as the origin of matter", arXiv:hep-ph/0502169v2
Priority Slot Finishes
July 27 Holiday String Workshop (YITP)
夏休みSummer VacationNo journal club
Priority Slot
Oct 5R. WatanabeW. Altmannshofer, P. Paradisi, and D. M. Straub, "Model-independent constraints on new physics in b -> s transitions", JHEP 04 (2012) 008 ,arXiv:1111.1257
Oct 12S. FunatsuAdam Falkowski "About the holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson" Phys. Rev. D 75, 025017 (2007) arXiv:hep-ph/0610336
Oct 19M. KitagawaJ. Heitger et al, "A strategy to compute the b-quark mass with non-perturbative accuracy", arXiv:hep-lat/0110016, J. Heitger et al, "Non-perturbative Heavy Quark Effective Theory ", arXiv:hep-lat/0310035
Oct 26A. SonodaN. Seiberg & E. Witten " Electric-Magnetic Duality, Monopole Condensation, And Confinement In N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory " arXiv:hep-th/9407087
Nov 2No journal club
Nov 9T. SuzukiJ.J.M. Verbaarschot & T. Wettig "Random Matrix Theory and Chiral Symmetry in QCD" arXiv:hep-ph/0003017v2
Nov 16K. YamamotoD. BESSISC, C. ITZYKSON, AND J. B. ZUBER "Quantum Field Theory Techniques in Graphical Enumeration" Adv.Appl.Math. 1 (1980) 109-157
Nov 23HolidayLabor Thanksgiving Day
Nov 30K. YuchiThe Kerr/CFT Correspondence(2008) Monica Guica, Thomas Hartman, Wei Song, and Andrew Strominger arXiv:0809.4266
Priority Slot Finishes
Dec 7N. Misumi"Violation of non-Gaussianity consistency relation in a single field inflationary model" Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, Hassan Firouzjahi and Misao Sasaki arXiv:1210.3692
Dec 14K. Nagasaki"N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals" Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Juan Maldacena arXiv:0806.1218 [hep-th]
Dec 21No journal club
冬休みWinter VacationNo journal club
Jan 11W. Naylor"Quantum radiation in time-dependent dielectric media", Xiao-Min Bei and Zhong-Zhu Liu, http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-4075/44/20/205501/
Jan 18No journal club
Jan 25Y. OrikasaM. Nemevsek, G. Senjanovic and Y. Zhang,``Warm Dark Matter in Low Scale Left-Right Theory,''JCAP 1207, 006 (2012)
Feb 1T. OnogiS. El-Showk, M. Paulos, D. Poland, S. Rychkov, D. Simmons-Duffin, A. Vichi "Solving the 3D Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap",arXiv.1203.6064
Feb 8T. ShimotaniKyoungchul Kong, Konstantin T. Matchev "Precise calculation of the relic density of Kaluza-Klein dark matter in universal extra dimensions"JHEP01(2006)038
Feb 15M. Hirotsu``TeV-scale seesaw from a multi-Higgs model,'' Naoyuki Haba and Masaki Hirotsu[arXiv:1005.1372 [hep-ph]] . ``$\nu$-Two Higgs Doublet Model and its Collider Phenomenology,'' Naoyuki Haba and Koji Tsumura[arXiv:1105.1409 [hep-ph]] .
Feb 22M1 studentsJournal club by M1 students
Mar 1A. Tomiya"A precise determination of the \bar{ψ}ψ anomalous dimension in conformal gauge theories"arXiv:1204.4432v3 [hep-lat]"Walking in the SU(N)"arXiv:hep-ph/0611341v1"Hyperscaling relations in mass-deformed conformal gauge theories"arXiv:1005.2371v2 [hep-ph]"Chiral symmetry breaking and the Banks-Casher relation in lattice QCD with Wilson quarks"arXiv:0812.3638v1 [hep-lat]"Numerical techniques for lattice QCD in the ε-regime"arXiv:hep-lat/0212012v1
Mar 8S.-W. KimPaul McFadden, Kostas Skenderis"Holography for Cosmology"arXiv:0907.5542"The Holographic Universe"arXiv:1001.2007
Mar 15No journal club
Mar 22S. YamaguchiH. Jockers, V. Kumar, J. M. Lapan, D. R. Morrison and M. Romo, ``Two-Sphere Partition Functions and Gromov-Witten Invariants,''arXiv:1208.6244 [hep-th] .
Mar 29No journal club
Apr 5T. Kubota ``New Boundary Conditions for AdS_3" by G. Compere, Wei Song and A. Strominger arXiv:1303.2662 [hep-th] ``Chiral Liouville Gravity" by G. Compere, Wei Song and A. StromingerarXiv:1303.2660 [hep-th]
Apr 12M. Tanaka"Octave-Spanning Raman Comb with Carrier Envelope Offset Control" Takayuki Suzuki, Masataka Hirai, and Masayuki Katsuragawa Published in PRL101, 243602(2008)

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