Weak interactions - C.E.R.N. work on weak interactions

A review of the present status of weak interactions with particular reference to the implications of a current-current interaction, the Δ Y /Δ Q rule for currents and the Δ I = ½ rule for non-leptonic transitions.

2021 ◽  
pp. 348-387
Author(s):  
J. Iliopoulos ◽  
T.N. Tomaras

We present the phenomenology of the weak interactions in a historical perspective, from Fermi’s four-fermion theory to the V−A current×current interaction. The experiments of C.S. Wu, which established parity violation, and M. Goldhaber, which measured the neutrino helicity, are described. We study in turn the leptonic, semi-leptonic and non-leptonic weak interactions. We introduce the concept of the conserved vector current and the partially conserved axial current and show that the latter is the result of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry with the pion the corresponding pseudo-Goldstone boson. We study Gell–Mann’s current algebra and derive the Adler–Weisberger relation. Strangeness changing weak interactions and the Cabibbo theory are described. We present a phenomenological analysis of CP-violation in the neutral kaon system and we end with the intermediate vector boson hypothesis.


1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (14) ◽  
pp. 1343-1355 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. KOVNER ◽  
P. KURZEPA ◽  
B. ROSENSTEIN

We discuss a possible exact equivalence of the Abelian Higgs model and a scalar theory of a magnetic vortex field in 2 + 1 dimensions. The vortex model has a current-current interaction and can be viewed as a strong coupling limit of a massive vector theory. The fixed point structure of the theory is discussed and mapped into fixed points of the Higgs model.


1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Esteve ◽  
J. Gutierrez ◽  
A. Tiemblo

Author(s):  
Michael E. Peskin

This chapter discusses the representation of the weak interaction as a current-current interaction that violates parity and charge conjugation invariance. It describes the experiments that demonstrate that this violation is maximal. The resulting theory is called the V-A theory of the weak interaction. The chapter works out the predictions of the V-A theory for muon and pion decay and high-energy neutrino scattering and shows the comparison to experiment.


Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Pan ◽  
Torgeir Vada ◽  
Styrk Finne ◽  
Arne Nestegård ◽  
Jan Roger Hoff ◽  
...  

The influence from a current on the relative motions and wave drift forces for moored floater can be quite significant. In this paper, a benchmark study is carried out for three programs, MULDIF, WADAM and WASIM, with the focus on their capability on handling the wave-current interaction problem. A semi-submersible model Troll B and a tanker model KVLCC2 are used for this study. The motions, free surface elevation at specified off-body points and mean drift forces are calculated by the programs in different current or forward speed conditions. Analysis results are compared and discussed, with the aim to evaluate the numerical performance of each programs and their validity range in terms of current speed.


1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Susumu Ohnaka ◽  
Akira Watanabe ◽  
Mashiko Isobe

A numerical computation method for a wave field coexisting with a current is presented to study wave-current interaction on a slowly varying bottom topography. Derivation is given for a new set of time-dependent mildslope equations extended to a wave and current coexisting field, which can deal with wave deformation due to combined refraction, diffraction, reflection and breaking as well as to wave-current interaction. Discussion is made on the numerical computation schemes, boundary conditions and breaking conditions. Some examples of the numerical computations are shown for wave and current coexisting fields.


Author(s):  
Franck Festy ◽  
Laurence Lins ◽  
Gabriel Péranzi ◽  
Jean Noël Octave ◽  
Robert Brasseur ◽  
...  

1990 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 505-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Thomas

The interaction between a regular wavetrain and a current possessing an arbitrary distribution of vorticity, in two dimensions, is considered for waves of finite amplitude. A numerical model is constructed, primarily for use in the finite depth regime, extending the work of Dalrymple (1973, 1977) and this is used to predict the wavelength and the particle velocities under the waves. These predictions agree very well with experimentally obtained data and the importance of the vorticity in the wave–current interaction is clarified. Amplitude and wavelength modulations are considered for finite amplitude waves on a slowly varying irrotational current; moderate agreement is found between theory and experiment.


Author(s):  
Carla Faraci ◽  
Alessia Ruggeri ◽  
Massimiliano Marino ◽  
Rosaria E. Musumeci ◽  
Enrico Foti

This paper reports some results obtained in the framework of the TA WINGS, funded by the EU through the Hydralab+ program. The project was aimed at investigating the hydrodynamic effects of an orthogonal wave onto a current in order to understand the nature of the velocity distribution along the water column over fixed ripples. Velocity profiles were acquired within the DHI shallow water tank by means of several Vectrinos in order to investigate the effects of wave-current interaction. A comparison between wave only case and wave plus current case showed that, when the current overlaps to waves, the recirculating cells formed near the bed are flatter than those formed in wave only. Moreover, the vorticity increases outside the boundary layer and decreases inside it when the current superposes to the wave.


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