Abstract We consider the Cauchy problem for the logarithmically singular surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation, introduced by Ohkitani,$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \partial _t \theta - \nabla ^\perp \log (10+(-\Delta )^{\frac{1}{2}})\theta \cdot \nabla \theta = 0, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$ and establish local existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions in the scale of Sobolev spaces with exponent decreasing with time. Such a decrease of the Sobolev exponent is necessary, as we have shown in the companion paper (Chae et al. in Illposedness via degenerate dispersion for generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equations with singular velocities,arXiv:2308.02120) that the problem is strongly ill-posed in any fixed Sobolev spaces. The time dependence of the Sobolev exponent can be removed when there is a dissipation term strictly stronger than log. These results improve wellposedness statements by Chae et al. (Comm Pure Appl Math 65(8):1037–1066, 2012). This well-posedness result can be applied to describe the long-time dynamics of the$$\delta $$ -SQG equations, defined by$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \partial _t \theta + \nabla ^\perp (10+(-\Delta )^{\frac{1}{2}})^{-\delta }\theta \cdot \nabla \theta = 0, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$ for all sufficiently small$$\delta >0$$ depending on the size of the initial data. For the same range of$$\delta $$ , we establish global well-posedness of smooth solutions to the dissipative SQG equations. 
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                            Reduction of the electroweak correlation in the PDF updating by using the forward–backward asymmetry of Drell–Yan process
                        
                    
    
            Abstract We propose a new observable for the measurement of the forward–backward asymmetry$$(A_{FB})$$ in Drell–Yan lepton production. At hadron colliders, the$$A_{FB}$$ distribution is sensitive to both the electroweak (EW) fundamental parameter$$\sin ^{2} \theta _{W}$$ , the weak mixing angle, and the parton distribution functions (PDFs). Hence, the determination of$$\sin ^{2} \theta _{W}$$ and the updating of PDFs by directly using the same$$A_{FB}$$ spectrum are strongly correlated. This correlation would introduce large bias or uncertainty into both precise measurements of EW and PDF sectors. In this article, we show that the sensitivity of$$A_{FB}$$ on$$\sin ^{2} \theta _{W}$$ is dominated by its average value around theZpole region, while the shape (or gradient) of the$$A_{FB}$$ spectrum is insensitive to$$\sin ^{2} \theta _{W}$$ and contains important information on the PDF modeling. Accordingly, a new observable related to the gradient of the spectrum is introduced, and demonstrated to be able to significantly reduce the potential bias on the determination of$$\sin ^{2} \theta _{W}$$ when updating the PDFs using the same$$A_{FB}$$ data. 
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                            - Award ID(s):
- 2013791
- PAR ID:
- 10367820
- Publisher / Repository:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The European Physical Journal C
- Volume:
- 82
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 1434-6052
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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