Yuko Urakawa, Nagoya University
Recent progress on infrared issues in inflationary universe
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
It has been known that a naive computation of loop corrections in inflationary universe gives rise to a pathologically large enhancement of the infrared (IR) contributions. In this talk, I will overview the recent progress on the IR issues during inflation. In particular, for the adiabatic and tensor perturbations, we can show that the IR pathology goes away, as far as we preserve the invariance under the large gauge transformations, which diverge at the spatial infinity. I also show a couple of other consequence of the invariance under the large gauge transformation; 1) the consistency relations, which connect (n+1)-point functions with one soft leg and n-point functions 2) the conservation of the curvature perturbation at large scales in the presence of the radiative corrections of heavy fields.
Kazuya Yonekura, IPMU
Gauge interactions and topological phases of matter
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only) We initiate the study of the effects of strong gauge interactions on the properties of the topological phases of matter.
We initiate the study of the effects of strong gauge interactions on the properties of the topological phases of matter.
In particular, we discuss fermionic systems with three spatial dimensions, protected by time reversal symmetry.
We first derive a sufficient condition for the introduction of a dynamical Yang-Mills field to preserve the topological phase of matter,
and then show how the massless pions capture in the infrared the topological properties of the fermions in the ultraviolet.
Finally, we show how the S-duality of N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory with Nf=4 flavors can be used to show the
mod 16 behavior of topological superconductors.
青木秀夫, 東大理学系・産総研
[理論センター・構造物性研究センター共催セミナー] 超伝導の最近の進展
4号館1F セミナーホール 最近でも様々に発展している超伝導をoverviewする。先ず物質としては、高温超伝導銅酸化物は、最近高圧下でゼロ抵抗として観測されたようにTcは150Kを超えるが、相図については未だに混沌としている。鉄系超伝導は様々なファミリーがあり、100K程度のTcをもつ単原子層も報告されており、多彩な相図が議論されている。軽元素系超伝導体では、硫化水素において最近超高圧下でTcが200Kを超えたが、従来型超伝導とされる。
最近でも様々に発展している超伝導をoverviewする。先ず物質としては、高温超伝導銅酸化物は、最近高圧下でゼロ抵抗として観測されたようにTcは150Kを超えるが、相図については未だに混沌としている。鉄系超伝導は様々なファミリーがあり、100K程度のTcをもつ単原子層も報告されており、多彩な相図が議論されている。軽元素系超伝導体では、硫化水素において最近超高圧下でTcが200Kを超えたが、従来型超伝導とされる。
グラフェンでも超伝導が観測されている。非平衡（レーザー照射下）では10 ps程度では室温超伝導も報告されている。
理論としては、電子間多体相互作用による非従来型超伝導という描像はおおむね確立しているが、電子相関をより正しく扱う方法論の開発もふくめて、進展が続いている。トポロジカル超伝導、ボソン交換機構を超えた機構、非平衡超伝導機構などのエキゾチックな超伝導についても触れる。
Roberto Franceschini, CERN
What is X(750)? and what to do with that?
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F, slides (kek.jp only)
In this talk I will review the experimental results about hints of significant deviation from SM predictions in the diphoton mass spectrum. I will also discuss the interpretation of this putative signal in relation to other searches for new phenomena carried out at the LHC. After this phenomenological characterization, I will motivate how new strong interactions at the TeV scale are a leading candidate to explain the putative signal and I will discuss a few examples of Goldstone bosons and related degrees of freedom that can account for the putative signal. Furthermore I will discuss key observations to be carried out in the future to test the nature of the theory behind the putative signal, *e.g.* the CP parity of the new states and their pair production.
Vladimir Gudkov, University of South Carolina
Time-Reversal Invariance Violation in Neutron Nuclei Interactions
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
Time Reversal Invariance Violating (TRIV) effects in neutron transmission through a nuclei target are discussed. We explore the possibility to search TRI violation using two important advantages of neutron nuclei interactions: the possibility of the enhancement of TRIV observables by many orders of magnitude, and the relatively large number of the nuclear targets, which provides the assurance of avoiding possible “accidental” cancelations of TRIV effects due to unknown structural factors related to the strong interactions. The absence of final state interactions for the set of specific observables makes these neutron experiments complementary to electric dipole moment (EDM) measurements. The comparison of expected results in neutron scattering at new high flux Spallation Neutron Sources with the existing limits on neutron, nuclear and atomic electric dipole moments (EDMs) shows that TRIV observables in neutron scattering can essentially improve the current limits on the TRIV interactions.
Masatoshi Yamada, Kanazawa University
Non-perturbatively renormalizable quantum gravity and hierarchy problem
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
We discuss the possibility of the non-perturbatively renormalizable quantum gravity which is called asymptotically safe gravity. The functional renormalization group method is used to analyze the system. I first review the basic ideas of the asymptotically safe gravity and the functional renormalization group. After that, we consider the asymptotic safety scenarios of the scalar-gravity system and the Higgs-Yukawa one coupled to quantum gravity. It is shown that the fermionic fluctuation makes the scalar mass and non-minimal coupling irrelevant. With this in mind, we discuss the hierarchy problem and the possibility of large non-minimal coupling.
Yuki Yokokura, RIKEN
Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant (in Japanese)
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F We study a classical many-particle system with an external control represented by a time-dependent extensive parameter in a Lagrangian. We show that thermodynamic entropy of the system is uniquely characterized as the Noether invariant associated with a symmetry for an infinitesimal non-uniform time translation $t\to t+\eta\hbar \beta$, where $\eta$ is a small parameter, $\hbar$ is the Planck constant, $\beta$ is the inverse temperature that depends on the energy and control parameter, and trajectories in the phase space are restricted to those consistent with quasi-static processes in thermodynamics.
We study a classical many-particle system with an external control represented by a time-dependent extensive parameter in a Lagrangian. We show that thermodynamic entropy of the system is uniquely characterized as the Noether invariant associated with a symmetry for an infinitesimal non-uniform time translation $t\to t+\eta\hbar \beta$, where $\eta$ is a small parameter, $\hbar$ is the Planck constant, $\beta$ is the inverse temperature that depends on the energy and control parameter, and trajectories in the phase space are restricted to those consistent with quasi-static processes in thermodynamics.
（References)
・Shin-ichi Sasa,Yuki Yokokura:Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140601 (2016)
Sukanta Dutta, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi
Constraints on Anomalous Couplings from Perturbative Unitarity
Meeting Room 3, Kenkyu Honkan 1F
We perform a model independent analysis of the helicity amplitudes at high energy for all the 2 $\to$ 2 scattering processes involving gauge and Higgs bosons in the presence of anomalous $WWV, WWVV, VVH, VVHH$ ($V \equiv Z, gamma$ and $W^\pm$), $HHHH$ and $HHH$ interactions. Further, assuming all anomalous couplings to have arisen only from dimension six operators, we show that the per- turbative unitarity violation can be evaded up to $\sim$ 9 TeV corresponding to the best fit values of $f_{WW}/\Lambda^2$ and $f_{BB}/\Lambda^2$ from the combined analysis of Tevatron and LHC data.
Seng Pei Liew, Univ. of Tokyo, Hongo
Bound-state effects on dark matter phenomenology: from cosmology to the LHC
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
We consider the case where dark matter is accompanied by an almost mass-degenerate colored particle. The colored particle is typically long-lived and can, in pair, form a QCD bound state which have interesting implications on cosmology and LHC physics. Bound state formation enhances the effective annihilation cross section significantly. For the stop-bino coannihilation scenario, we find that the bino dark matter mass can be as heavy as 2.5 TeV. Meanwhile, at the LHC, a 750 GeV quarkonium can accommodate the recently observed diphoton excesses. We show with explicit model building that other LHC excesses may be accommodated simultaneously in this framework.
Yuji Kato, KMI, Nagoya University
Charmed hadron spectroscopy at Belle and Belle II
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F
