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MINOS anomaly as a signal of Lorentz violation
Recently, the MINUS Collaboration reported an anomaly that the mass-squared difference and mixing angle of (v) over bar (mu) (v) over bar (tau) are both different from that of (v) over bar (mu) (v) over bar (tau) . In this Letter, based on the framework of neutrino oscillations, terms that break the Lorentz symmetry are used as perturbation to explain this anomaly and satisfactory results are got. Remarkably, some surprising conclusions, one of which is that in the high energy limit (hundreds of GeV) neutrino oscillation pattern will be independent of energy, are also arrived. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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A Supersymmetric model with the gauge symmetry SU(3)(1) x SU(2)(1) x U(1)(1) x SU(3)(2) x SU(2)(2) x U(1)(2)
A supersymmetric model with two copies of the Standard Model gauge groups is constructed in the gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario. The supersymmetry breaking messengers axe in a simple form. The Standard Model is obtained after first step gauge symmetry breaking. In the case of one copy of the gauge interactions being strong, a scenario of electroweak symmetry breaking is discussed, and the gauginos are generally predicted to be heavier than the sfermions.
118790054
Phenomenological aspects of R-parity violating supersymmetry with a vectorlike extra generation
Phenomenological analysis to the R-parity violating supersymmetry with a vectorlike extra generation is performed in detail. It is found that, via the trilinear couplings, the correct neutrino spectrum can be obtained. The Higgs mass rises to 125 GeV by new up-type Yukawa couplings of vectorlike quarks with no need of very heavy superpartners. Phenomena of new heavy fermions at LHC are predicted. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.075012
119216988
LHCb $\bigtriangleup A_{CP}$ of $D$ Meson and R-Parity Violation
LHCb collaboration has recently announced a measurement of the difference of time-integrated CP asymmetries between $D\rightarrow K^+K^-$ and $D \rightarrow \pi^+\pi^-$. This result provides the evidence of large direct CP violation in $D$ meson and reveals some important implications on underlying new physics. It is shown that the direct CP violation in $D$ meson can be enhanced by R-parity violating supersymmetry, while CP violations in $K$ and $B$ mesons are suppressed by this new physics, which is in consistence with previous experiments. Constraints on the model parameters and some consequences are also discussed.
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QCD sum rule analysis for the Lambda(b)->Lambda(c) semileptonic decay
Abstract The 1 m c and 1 m b corrections to the Λ b → Λ c semileptonic decay are analyzed by QCD sum rules. Within the framework of heavy quark effective theory, the subleading baryonic Isgur-Wise function of Λ b → Λ c has been calculated. It is shown that the corrections due to the 1 m Lagrangian insertion are negligibly small. The sizable 1 m Q effect to the decay lies only in the weak current. The decay spectrum and the branching ratio are given.
119384069
Supersymmetry for Fermion Masses
It is proposed that supersymmetry (SUSY) maybe used to understand fermion mass hierarchies. A family symmetry Z_{3L} is introduced, which is the cyclic symmetry among the three generation SU(2) doublets. SUSY breaks at a high energy scale ~ 10^{11} GeV. The electroweak energy scale ~ 100 GeV is unnaturally small. No additional global symmetry, like the R-parity, is imposed. The Yukawa couplings and R-parity violating couplings all take their natural values which are about (10^0-10^{-2}). Under the family symmetry, only the third generation charged fermions get their masses. This family symmetry is broken in the soft SUSY breaking terms which result in a hierarchical pattern of the fermion masses. It turns out that for the charged leptons, the tau mass is from the Higgs vacuum expectation value (VEV) and the sneutrino VEVs, the muon mass is due to the sneutrino VEVs, and the electron gains its mass due to both Z_{3L} and SUSY breaking. The large neutrino mixing are produced with neutralinos playing the partial role of right-handed neutrinos. |V_{e3}| which is for nu_e-nu_{tau} mixing is expected to be about 0.1. For the quarks, the third generation masses are from the Higgs VEVs, the second generation masses are from quantum corrections, and the down quark mass due to the sneutrino VEVs. It explains m_c/m_s, m_s/m_e, m_d>m_u and so on. Other aspects of the model are discussed.
119253117
SPACETIME NONCOMMUTATIVE EFFECT ON BLACK HOLE AS PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
We study the spacetime noncommutative effect on black hole as particle accelerators and, find that the particles falling from infinity with zero velocity cannot collide with unbound energy, either near the horizon or on the prograde ISCO when the noncommutative Kerr black hole is exactly extremal. Our results also show that the bigger of the spinning black hole's mass is the higher of center of mass energy that the particles obtain. For small and medium noncommutative Schwarzschild black hole, the collision energy depends on the black hole's mass.
34826696
Lattice study of radiative J/ψ decay to a tensor glueball.
The radiative decay of J/ψ into a pure gauge tensor glueball is studied in the quenched lattice QCD formalism. With two anisotropic lattices, the multipole amplitudes E1(0), M2(0), and E3(0) are obtained to be 0.114(12)(6) GeV, -0.011(5)(1)  GeV, and 0.023(8)(1) GeV, respectively. The first error comes from the statistics, the Q2 interpolation, and the continuum extrapolation, while the second is due to the uncertainty of the scale parameter r0(-1)=410(20)  MeV. Thus, the partial decay width Γ(J/ψ→γG(2++)) is estimated to be 1.01(22)(10) keV, which corresponds to a large branch ratio 1.1(2)(1)×10(-2). The phenomenological implication of this result is also discussed.
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Ultracold-neutron production in a pulsed-neutron beam line
We present the results of an Ultracold neutron (UCN) production experiment in a pulsed neutron beam line at the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center. The experimental apparatus allows for a comprehensive set of measurements of UCN production as a function of target temperature, incident neutron energy, target volume, and applied magnetic field. However, the low counting statistics of the UCN signal expected can be overwhelmed by the large background associated with the scattering of the primary cold neutron flux that is required for UCN production. We have developed a background subtraction technique that takes advantage of the very different time-of-flight profiles between the UCN and the cold neutrons, in the pulsed beam. Using the unique timing structure, we can reliably extract the UCN signal. Solid ortho-D2 is used to calibrate UCN transmission through the apparatus, which is designed primarily for studies of UCN production in solid O2. In addition to setting the overall detection efficiency in the apparatus,UCN production data using solid D2 suggest that the UCN upscattering cross-section is smaller than previous estimates, indicating the deficiency of the incoherent approximation widely used to estimate inelastic cross-sections in the thermal and cold regimes.
15925356
A heavy Higgs particle in the TeV mass range
Abstract The first simulation results are presented on Higgs mass calculations in the spontaneously broken phase of the Higgs sector in the minimal Standard Model with higher derivative regulator. A heavy Higgs particle is found in the TeV mass range in the presence of a complex conjugate ghost pair at higher energies. The ghost pair evades easy experimental detection and a nonperturbative reinterpretation of the triviality Higgs mass bound becomes necessary.
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New experimental limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron in a paramagnetic insulator
We report results of an experimental search for the intrinsic Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of the electron using a solid-state technique. The experiment employs a paramagnetic, insulating gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) that has a large magnetic response at low temperatures. The presence of the eEDM would lead to a small but non-zero magnetization as the GGG sample is subject to a strong electric field. We search for the resulting Stark-induced magnetization with a sensitive magnetometer. Recent progress on the suppression of several sources of background allows the experiment to run free of spurious signals at the level of the statistical uncertainties. We report our first limit on the eEDM of ( 5.57 ± 7.98 ± 0.12)×10 25 e·cm with 5 days of data averaging. The search for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of elementary particles is motivated to test the discrete symmetries assumed in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. An account of the different transformation properties of the EDM (a polar vector) and the spin (a pseudo-vector), the fundamental physical laws governing particles must violate both time-reversal (T) and parity-inversion (P) symmetries for a fermion to acquire an EDM [1]. While the phenomena of P violation is firmly established in numerous experiments, T violation has only been observed directly in the neutral kaon system [2], with more searches in the B system underway [3]. Measurements of EDMs of elementary particles use different experimental techniques, often on low energy systems at Q ≃ 0, to probe the physics of T violation (with no flavor-changing) at energy scales higher than tens of TeV, and could provide information complementary to that from high-energy collider experiments on the nature of symmetry breaking. The physics of T violation is often linked, via the CPT theorem, to the violation of the combined Charge conjugate (C) and P symmetry. The only confirmed source of CP violation in the SM is the complex phase of the CKM matrix (that describes the quark mixing in charged-current weak interactions). With it, the electron EDM (eEDM) manifests through high-order loop couplings that involve flavor-changing quark interactions with the exchange of W ± weak bosons. The resulting size of eEDM predicted within the framework of SM is no larger than 10 −38 e·cm, which is well beyond the reach of current experimental techniques. The current experimental upper bound is established using thallium atomic beams with a sensitivity of 1.6×10 −27 e·cm [4]. New sources of CP violation introduced by theories beyond