Browsing by Author "Lynker, Monika"

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    Complex Multiplication Symmetry of Black Hole Attractors
    (Elsevier, 2003) Lynker, Monika; Periwal, Vipul; Schimmrigk, Rolf
    We show how Moore’s observation, in the context of toroidal compactifications in type IIB string theory, concerning the complex multiplication structure of black hole attractor varieties, can be generalized to Calabi-Yau compactifications with finite fundamental groups. This generalization leads to an alternative general framework in terms of motives associated to a Calabi-Yau variety in which it is possible to address the arithmetic nature of the attractor varieties in a universal way via Deligne’s period conjecture.
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    Landau–Ginzburg Vacua of String, M- and F-Theory at c = 12
    (Elsevier [Commercial Publisher], 1998-12) Lynker, Monika; Schimmrigk, Rolf; Wisskirchen, Andreas
    Theories in more than ten dimensions play an important role in understanding nonperturbative aspects of string theory. Consistent compactifications of such theories can be constructed via Calabi-Yau fourfolds. These models can be analyzed particularly efficiently in the Landau-Ginzburg phase of the linear σ-model, when available. In the present paper we focus on those σ-models which have both a Landau-Ginzburg phase and a geometric phase described by hypersurfaces in weighted projective five-space. We describe some of the pertinent properties of these models, such as the cohomology, the connectivity of the resulting moduli space, and mirror symmetry among the 1,100,055 configurations which we have constructed.
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    Observation and Properties of the X(3872) Decaying to J/ψπ+π− in p¯p Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV
    (American Physical Society, 2004-09) Abazov, V. M.; Luo, C.; Lynker, Monika
    We report the observation of the X(3872) in the J/psi pi+pi- channel, with J/psi decaying to mu+mu- in p-p(bar) collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. Using approximately 230 pb^-1 of data collected with the Run II D0 detector, we observe 522 +/- 100 X(3872) candidates. The mass difference between the X(3872) state and the J/psi is measured to be 774.9 +/- 3.1 (stat.) +/- 3.0 (syst.) MeV/c^2. We have investigated the production and decay characteristics of the X(3872), and find them to be similar to those of the psi(2S) state.