Submitted by Biblioteca do Instituto de Física (bif@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-07-04T18:29:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Guilherme Silva de Araújo Sadovski - Dissertação.pdf: 806650 bytes, checksum: 333998d8c772954dd2891f36903361eb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-04T18:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guilherme Silva de Araújo Sadovski - Dissertação.pdf: 806650 bytes, checksum: 333998d8c772954dd2891f36903361eb (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo principal desta dissertação é o de testarmos a consistência em larga-escala de um modelo de gravidade quântica. Este modelo consiste de uma teoria de YangMills para o grupo de calibre SO(m, n) escrita em um espaço-tempo euclidiano quadridimensional. Ao tomarmos o limite infravermelho, a álgebra do grupo SO(m, n) sofre uma contra¸c˜ao de Inönü-Wigner e é deformada na álgebra de Poincaré, quebrando, assim, a simetria de calibre. Como consequências, temos o surgimento das simetrias locais de Lorentz e a identificação dos campos de calibre com a vierbein, e(x), e a conexão de spin, ω(x). A gravidade resultante é uma teoria efetiva tipo-Einstein-Cartan que contém termos de correção ultravioleta e campo de torção propagante. Uma vantagem deste modelo de gravidade induzida é o surgimento natural de uma constante cosmológica gravitacional que, junto com a constante de Newton, G, pode ser calculada perturbativamente. Utilizamos a métrica FLRW e o ansatz de um espaço-tempo riemanniano para demonstramos que esta gravidade efetiva possui o Modelo Cosmológico Padrão como seu limite infravermelho. Além disso, o setor ultravioleta de teoria prevê uma fase de Sitter hiper-acelerada que pode vir a ser associada à inflação e prevê também a presença de matéria exótica no Universo primordial. / Our main go in this thesis is to test the large-scale consistency of a quantum gravity model. This model consists of a Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SO(m, n) written in a four-dimensional euclidean space-time. In the infrared limit, the SO(m, n) algebra undergoes an In¨on¨u-Wigner contraction to Poincaré algebra and the gauge symmetry is broken. As consequence, Lorentz local symmetries arise and the gauge fields can be identified with a vierbein field, e(x), and a spin connection field, ω(x). The resulting gravity is an effective Einstein-Cartan-like theory with ultraviolet correction terms and propagating torsion field. An advantage of this model is the natural appearance of a gravitational cosmological constant that, along with Newton’s gravitational constant, G, can be calculated perturbatively. Making use of the FLRW metric and the ansatz of a riemannian spacetime we demonstrate that this effective gravity has the Standard Cosmological Model in its infrared sector. Furthermore, the ultraviolet regime foresee a hyper-accelerated de Sitter phase that may prove to be inflationary and also foresee the presence of exotic matter in the early Universe.

La théorie de cordes unifie de façon naturelle les théories de jauge, qui décrivent les interactions entre les particules élémentaires, avec une théorie quantique de la gravitation. Ces dernières années ont apporté de grands progrès dans la compréhension des états non-perturbatifs de la théorie, ses aspects holographiques, ainsi que la construction de modèles proches du Modèle Standard. Néanmoins, il reste des défis pour la théorie de cordes, qui incluent une définition non-perturbative, une meilleure compréhension de l'holographie, et le problème de la constante cosmologique. Ma recherche s'est concentrée sur des aspects formels des théories de gravitation quantique, qui incluent les trous noirs, la dépendance du temps, et l'holographie. Gr^ace à de nouveaux résultats dans le domaine de la théorie conforme avec spectre continu, mes collaborateurs et moi-m^eme avons avancé dans la compréhension de l'holographie dans des fonds avec dilaton linéaire, ainsi que dans le plongement de théories de jauge supersymétriques dans la théorie de cordes. En particulier, on a étudié des théories conformes supersymétriques avec spectre continu que l'on utilise pour construire des fonds de théories de cordes non-compacts et courbés. Les résultats obtenus nous ont permis de décrire des exemples explicites de symétrie miroir pour des fonds non-compacts. En introduisant des bords dans les théories conformes, on a analysé des états non-perturbatifs de la théorie de cordes, les D-branes. A basse énergie, les degrés de liberté sur les D-branes interagissent par des interactions de jauge. Avec ces outils, on a réussi à plonger une dualité infrarouge de théorie de jauge supersymétrique dans la théorie de cordes, et on a montré que la dualité correspond à une monodromie pour les états de bord dans l'espace de modules de la théorie conforme.<br><br> Dans cette thèse, on discute de nombreux autres liens entre la théorie conforme, la théorie de jauge et la gravitation. La plupart des contributions décrites étaient motivées par la théorie de cordes. Des exemples sont l'analyse d'états qui préservent la supersymétrie et leur lien avec les algèbres affines, la dépendance du temps et le dictionnaire holographique, l'analyse directe de la quantification de la gravité en présence d'un trou noir, la réalisation du scenario sans-bord pour la fonction d'onde de l'univers en théorie de cordes, une formule de Verlinde pour les théories conformes non-rationnelles et la construction de solutions non-géometriques à la supergravité. Dans d'autres travaux, je me suis concentré sur des théories qui quantifient la gravité plus directement, mais qui pourraient avoir moins de succès dans le problème de l'unification des forces en quatre dimensions. Ces théories ont quand-m^eme le potentiel de nous apprendre des aspects communs à toute théorie de gravitation quantique. Par exemple, on a analysé les degrés de liberté responsables de l'entropie d'un trou noir en trois dimensions, et nous avons argumenté sur la difficulté de reconcilier l'invariance modulaire avec l'unitarité en dehors de la théorie de cordes. On a aussi discuté la diffusion de ces trous noirs. D'autres contributions à la théorie de jauge non-commutative, la théorie de jauge supersymétrique, la production de paires dans un espace courbe, et cetera, sont aussi relativement indépendantes du cadre de la théorie de cordes.<br><br> Il me semble qu'il reste intéressant d'étudier des questions difficiles sur la théorie de jauge et la gravitation quantique, dans la cadre de la théorie de cordes, et en dehors de ce cadre, et d'^etre guidé par des problèmes ouverts durs qui doivent mener à un progrès concret par incréments ou par sauts.

This dissertation splits into two distinct halves. The first half is devoted to the study of the holography of higher spin gauge theory in AdS$_3$. We present a conjecture that the holographic dual of $W_N$ minimal model in a 't Hooft-like large $N$ limit is an unusual ``semi-local" higher spin gauge theory on AdS$_3\times $S$^1$. At each point on the S$^1$ lives a copy of three-dimensional Vasiliev theory, that contains an infinite tower of higher spin gauge fields coupled to a single massive complex scalar propagating in AdS$_3$. The Vasiliev theories at different points on the S$^1$ are correlated only through the AdS$_3$ boundary conditions on the massive scalars. All but one single tower of higher spin symmetries are broken by the boundary conditions. This conjecture is checked by comparing tree-level two- and three-point functions, and also one-loop partition functions on both side of the duality. The second half focuses on the holography of higher spin gauge theory in AdS$_4$. We demonstrate that a supersymmetric and parity violating version of Vasiliev's higher spin gauge theory in AdS$_4$ admits boundary conditions that preserve ${\cal N}=0,1,2,3,4$ or $6$ supersymmetries. In particular, we argue that the Vasiliev theory with $U(M)$ Chan-Paton and ${\cal N}=6$ boundary condition is holographically dual to the 2+1 dimensional $U(N)_k\times U(M)_{-k}$ ABJ theory in the limit of large $N,k$ and finite $M$. In this system all bulk higher spin fields transform in the adjoint of the $U(M)$ gauge group, whose bulk t'Hooft coupling is $\frac{M}{N}$. Our picture suggests that the supersymmetric Vasiliev theory can be obtained as a limit of type IIA string theory in AdS$_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3$, and that the non-Abelian Vasiliev theory at strong bulk 't Hooft coupling smoothly turn into a string field theory. The fundamental string is a singlet bound state of Vasiliev's higher spin particles held together by $U(M)$ gauge interactions. / Physics

Σε αυτή την διδακτορική διατριβή μελετήσαμε την ευστάθεια δέσμιων καταστάσεων κουάρκ και δυονίων εντός της αντιστοιχίας AdS/CFT. Το κίνητρο για την μελέτη μας ήταν το ότι τα δυναμικά των δέσμιων αυτών καταστάσεων όπως αυτά υπολογίζονται εντός της αντιστοιχίας έχουν μερικές φορές συμπεριφορές οι οποίες είναι σε αντίθεση με τα προσδοκώμενα αποτελέσματα από την θεωρία πεδίου. Συγκεκριμένα συναντούμε: Πλειότιμα δυναμικά, Δυναμικά του οποίου το μήκος θωράκισης εξαρτάται ισχυρώς από τον προσανατολισμό της χορδής σε σχέση με τον άξονα του ζεύγους και Συμπεριφορές εγκλωβισμού κουάρκ στην N=4 SYM και διάφορες άλλες περιπτώσεις. Η ανάλυση της ευστάθειας των κλασσικών λύσεων επιλύει αυτές τις αντιφάσεις, αποδεικνύοντας ότι οι αυτές οι διατάξεις είναι ασταθείς και κατά συνέπεια είναι φυσικώς απαράδεκτες. / In this PhD thesis we studied the stabilty of quarks and dyons bound states within the AdS/CFT Correspondence. The motivation for our study was the fact that bound states potentials as these are calculated within AdS/CFT have in various cases behaviors which contradict the field theory expectations. In particular we find: Multivalued potentials, Potentials whose scrrening length heavily depends on the orientation of the string and quark confinment in N=4 SYM. Stability analysis of the classical solutions resolves these ambiguities between field theory expectations and their dual gravity description, proving that these configurations are unstable and thus they should be disgarded as unphysical.

The idea that we live in a higher-dimensional space was first introduced almost 100 years ago. In the past two decades many extra-dimensional models have been proposed in order to solve fundamental problems of nature such as the hierarchy problem. Most of them need exploration via non-perturbative approaches and Lattice Gauge Theory provides a tool for doing this. In this thesis, we make attempts to find a non-perturbative way to localize gauge fields that arise from five-dimensional SU(2) gauge theories on 3-branes. In 1984, it was proposed that the phase diagram of anisotropic extra-dimensional lattice gauge theories inherits a new phase, called the "layered" phase, where the gauge fields behave as four-dimensional ones. This was shown for the abelian case, but the existence of this new phase for the simplest non-abelian group, SU(2), was still in doubt. We investigated this system in large volumes using Monte Carlo simulations and we could not find a second order phase transition from a five-dimensional to a continuous four-dimensional theory when all directions were kept large. This made the model unattractive for further exploration as nothing suggests that a non-trivial fixed point could exist. The above investigation was done in a flat background metric. We extended the previous work by putting our theory into a slice of AdS5 space, usually called the warped background. The motivation for this is that our SU(2) theory looks like the gauge-sector of the Randall-Sundrum model, which does not have a concrete solution to the problem of localization of the gauge fields on a 3-brane. We carried out our investigation using the Mean-Field Approach and we present novel results for the phase diagram and measurements of important observables. In our implementation we have a finite extent of the extra dimension and one layer (or 3-brane) on each extra-dimensional coordinate. At weak coupling, we observed that each layer decouples one at a time in the transition to the fully layered phase of the system, forming a mixed phase, whereas there is a strong and sharp transition between the fully layered and the strong-coupling phase. Within the mixed phase, close to the transition into the layered phase, we found evidence that the system is four-dimensional acquiring a Yukawa mass and resembling a Higgs-like phase. The mixed phase grows as the curvature increases suggesting that for an infinite extra dimension the entire weak-coupling phase is mixed.

Orientador: Marcelo Moraes Guzzo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T10:36:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ferreira_CesarPeixoto_M.pdf: 5430137 bytes, checksum: 52b53b619a2021426f948ae3c70beb98 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Neste trabalho analisa-se uma das extensões do Modelo Padrão das Partículas Elementares, conhecida como Extensão 3-3-1\', e suas aplicações a Cosmologia. Esta classe de modelos constitui uma das mais enxutas extensões do Modelo Padrão, e possui entre as suas qualidades respostas a problemas deixados em aberto dentro do Modelo Padrão. Entre estes, lista-se o problema do numero de gerações e o problema da assimetria das massas dos quarks, respondidos através de um critério de consistência interna do modelo, a saber, o cancelamento das anomalias quirais. O modelo especifico escolhido para estudo foi o Modelo 3-3-1 com neutrinos de m~ao direita (3-3-1RH), e todas as suas principais características são analisadas. Para aplicações a Cosmologia, o 3-3-1 foi analisado em suas aplicações ao problema da Matéria Escura. Neste caso, analisar-se-~ao candidatos a Matéria Escura em uma extensão do 3-3-1, chamada Modelo 3-3-1 Left-Right (3L3R). Estes candidatos s~ao neutrinos estereis de massa na escala keV, e a eles s~ao aplicados os limites cosmológicos impostos por Decaimento em Raio-X, Neff e Abundância de matéria escura. 3 casos foram analisados: (1) Desacoplamento dos neutrinos estereis anterior a aniquilação dos múons. (2) Desacoplamento anterior a aniquilação dos pons; (3) Desacoplamento anterior a Hadronização. A aplicação dos limites supracitados revelou que estes neutrinos n~ao sofrem de restrições de decaimentos em Raio-X. Para cada um dos 3 casos, o valor de Neff por neutrino estéril foi de 3.69, 3.53 e 3.09, respectivamente. Como experimentalmente, Neff = 3:280:28, conclui-se que em 2 dos casos, apenas 1 neutrino novo e admitido, e no caso restante os 3 neutrinos novos do 3L3R s~ao possíveis. Por m, o calculo de abundância revelou um excesso destes neutrinos, usando-se o método para calculo de abundância de neutrinos ativos. A abundância calculada e maior que a medida experimentalmente em todos os casos posseis para o modelo, mesmo considerando-se um caso limite. Dessa forma, conclui-se que algum mecanismo alternativo de diluição de densidade destes neutrinos e necessário / Abstract: In this dissertation, one of the extensions of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles(SM), known as the '3-3-1 Extension\', and its aplication to Cosmology are analysed. This class of models constitutes one of the most economical extensions of the Standard Model, and have among its qualities answers to open problems within the SM. Among them, we mention the generation problem and the quark mass assymetry problem. Both of these problems are answered trough the use of a internal consistency criterion of the model: The cancelation of chiral anomalies. The model chosen for study was the 3-3-1 Model with right handed neutrinos (3- 3-1RH), and all its main caracteristics are analysed. To aplications to Cosmology, the 3-3-1 was studied within the Dark Matter problem. In this case, we analyse dark matter candidates in one extension of the 3-3-1, known as the Left-Right 3- 3-1 Model (3L3R). These candidates are sterile neutrinos with keV masses, and to them cosmological limits are applied. These limits are the decays into X-Rays, Neff and Dark Matter Abundance. 3 cases were analysed: (1) Decoupling of the sterile neutrinos before muon annihilation; (2) Decoupling before pion annihilation; (3) Decoupling before Hadronization. The application of the limits mentioned above revealed that these neutrinos do not, at the moment, have any restrictions coming from decays into X-Rays, because this kind of decay is forbidden in the 3L3R. For each of the 3 cases, Neff had the value of 3.69, 3.53 e 3.09, respectively. When this is compared with the experimental value, Neff = 3:28 0:28, we conclude that in two cases, only one sterile neutrino is roughly allowed. In the remaining case, all 3 new neutrinos of the 3L3R are possible. The calculation of abundance revelead an excess of these neutrinos, using the method that is used to calculate abundance of active neutrinos. The calculated abundance is bigger than the experimentally determined in all possible cases, even when we consider a limit case. We conclude that some alternative mechanism for density dilution is necessary / Mestrado / Física / Mestre em Física

The presented thesis spans over a number of related topics with a com- mon theme - the so-called universality. Classical fields exhibiting this property serve as exact solutions to virtually any higher-order theory irrespective of the particular form of the field equations, being thus of particular interest in ef- fective field theories. The aim of this work is to study various aspects of such solutions in the context of gravity, electrodynamics, as well as more general nonabelian gauge theories. The results are concentrated in four chapters, the first of which is devoted to what we call the almost universal spacetimes. Due to their nice curvature properties, these spacetimes provide an efficient method for simplifying and solving the field equations of higher-order gravity theories. We illustrate this feature of almost universal metrics by finding new vacuum solutions to quadratic gravity and six-dimensional conformal gravity. In the second chapter, we shift our attention towards electrodynamics. Following up on recent results on universal electromagnetic fields, we deal with Einstein- Maxwell fields which simultaneously solve also any higher-order modification of the Einstein-Maxwell theory. In particular, we identify solutions with this remarkable property as plane-fronted gravitational and...

In this thesis, we explain and illustrate on several examples how to derive supergravity solutions by computing observables in the corresponding dual, lower-dimensional field theory.<p>In particular, no a priori knowledge on the gravitational dual is assumed, including its dimensionality. The basic idea to construct the pre-geometric models is to consider the world-volume theory of probe D-branes in the presence of a large number N of higher-dimensional background branes. In the standard decoupling limit, the probes are moving only in the flat directions parallel to the background D-branes. We show however that the quantum effective action of the probe world-volume theory, obtained at large $N$ using standard vector model techniques, has the required field content to be interpreted as the action describing the probes in a higher-dimensional, curved and classical spacetime. The properties of the emerging supergravity solution are easily found by comparing the quantum effective action of the pre-geometric model with the non-abelian D-brane action. In all the examples we consider, this allows us to derive the metric, the dilaton and various form fields, overall performing exclusively field theoretic computations.<p><p>The first part of the thesis consists of introductory chapters, where we review vector models at large N, aspects of brane physics in supergravity and string theory and the gauge/gravity correspondence. The second part contains the original contributions of this thesis, consisting of various explicit emergent geometry examples.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Simulationen von Gittereichtheorien spielen eine grundlegende Rolle bei First-Principles-Rechnungen im Kontext der Hochenergiephysik. Diese Arbeit zielt darauf ab, aktuelle Simulationsmethoden für First-Principle-Berechnungen zu verbessern und diese Methoden auf relevante physikalische Modelle anzuwenden. Wir gehen dieses Problem mit drei verschiedenen Ansätzen an: maschinelles Lernen, Quantencomputing und Tensornetzwerke. Im Rahmen des maschinellen Lernens haben wir eine Methode zur Schätzung thermodynamischer Observablen in Gitterfeldtheorien entwickelt. Genauer gesagt verwenden wir tiefe generative Modelle, um den absoluten Wert der freien Energie abzuschätzen. Wir haben die Anwendbarkeit unserer Methode durch die Untersuchung eines Spielzeugmodells demonstriert. Unser Ansatz erzeugt genauere Messungen im Vergleich mit dem Standard-Markov-Ketten-Monte-Carlo-Verfahren, wenn wir einen Phasenübergangspunkt überqueren. Im Kontext des Quantencomputings ist es unser Ziel, die aktuellen Algorithmen für Quantensimulationen zu verbessern. In dieser Arbeit haben wir uns mit zwei Themen moderner Quantencomputer befasst: der Quantenrauschunterdrückung und dem Design guter parametrischer Quantenschaltkreise. Wir haben eine Minderungsroutine zum Auslesen von Bit-Flip-Fehlern entwickelt, die Quantensimulationen drastisch verbessern kann. Wir haben auch eine dimensionale Aussagekraftanalyse entwickelt, die überflüssige Parameter in parametrischen Quantenschaltkreisen identifizieren kann. Darüber hinaus zeigen wir, wie man Expressivitätsanalysen mit Quantenhardware effizient umsetzen kann. Im Kontext des Tensornetzwerks haben wir ein Quantenbindungsmodell U(1) und 2+1-Dimensionen in einer Leitergeometrie mit DMRG untersucht. Unser Ziel ist es, die Eigenschaften des Grundzustands des Modells in einem endlichen chemischen Potential zu analysieren. Wir haben unterschiedliche Windungszahlsektoren beobachtet, als wir chemisches Potential in das System eingebracht haben. / Simulations of lattice gauge theories play a fundamental role in first principles calculations in the context of high energy physics. This thesis aims to improve state-of-the-art simulation methods for first-principle calculations and apply those methods to relevant physical models. We address this problem using three different approaches: machine learning, quantum computing, and tensor networks. In the context of machine learning, we have developed a method to estimate thermodynamic observables in lattice field theories. More precisely, we use deep generative models to estimate the absolute value of the free energy. We have demonstrated the applicability of our method by studying a toy model. Our approach produces more precise measurements in comparison with the standard Markov chain Monte Carlo method when we cross a phase transition point. In the context of quantum computing, our goal is to improve the current algorithms for quantum simulations. In this thesis, we have addressed two issues on modern quantum computers: the quantum noise mitigation and the design of good parametric quantum circuits. We have developed a mitigation routine ffor read-out bit-flip errors that can drastically improve quantum simulations. We have also developed a dimensional expressiveness analysis that can identify superfluous parameters in parametric quantum circuits. In addition, we show how to implement expressivity analysis using quantum hardware efficiently. In the context of the tensor network, we have studied a quantum bond model U(1) and 2+1 dimensions in a ladder geometry with DMRG. Our goal is to analyze the properties of the ground state of the model in a finite chemical potential. We have observed different winding number sectors when we have introduced chemical potential in the system.

The scattering of electroweak gauge bosons is closely connected to the electroweak gauge symmetry and its spontaneous breaking through the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. Since it contains triple and quartic gauge boson vertices, the measurement of this scattering process allows to probe the self-interactions of weak bosons. The contribution of the Higgs boson to the weak boson scattering amplitude ensures unitarity of the scattering matrix. Therefore, the scattering of massive electroweak gauge bosons is sensitive to deviations from the Standard Model prescription of the electroweak interaction and of the properties of the Higgs boson. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the scattering of massive electroweak gauge bosons is accessible through the measurement of purely electroweak production of two jets and two gauge bosons. No such process has been observed before. Being the channel with the least amount of background from QCD-mediated production of the same final state, the most promising channel for the first measurement of a process containing massive electroweak gauge boson scattering is the one with two like-charge W bosons and two jets in the final state. This thesis presents the first measurement of electroweak production of two jets and two identically charged W bosons, which yields the first observation of a process with contributions from quartic gauge interactions of massive electroweak gauge bosons. An overview of the most important issues in Monte Carlo simulation of vector boson scattering processes with current Monte Carlo generators is given in this work. The measurement of the final state of two jets and two leptonically decaying same-charge W bosons is conducted based on proton-proton collision data with a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV, taken in 2012 with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The cross section of electroweak production of two jets and two like-charge W bosons is measured with a significance of 3.6 standard deviations to be σ(W± W±jj−EW[fiducial]) = 1.3 ± 0.4(stat.) ± 0.2(syst.) fb in a fiducial phase space region selected to enhance the contribution from W W scattering. The measurement is compatible with the Standard Model prediction of σ(W±W± jj−EW[fiducial]) = 0.95 ± 0.06 fb. Based on this measurement, limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are derived. The effect of anomalous quartic gauge couplings is simulated within the framework of an effective chiral Lagrangian unitarized with the K-matrix method. The limits for the anomalous coupling parameters α4 and α5 are found to be −0.14 < α4 < 0.16 and −0.23 < α5 < 0.24 at 95 % confidence level. Furthermore, the prospects for the measurement of the electroweak production of two same-charge W bosons and two jets within the Standard Model and with additional doubly charged resonances after the upgrade of the ATLAS detector and the LHC are investigated. For a high-luminosity LHC with a center-of-mass energy of √s = 14 TeV, the significance of the measurement with an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb^−1 is estimated to be 18.7 standard deviations. It can be improved by 30 % by extending the inner tracking detector of the atlas experiment up to an absolute pseudorapidity of |η| = 4.0.