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Technicolor contribution to lepton + photon + missing energy events at the Tevatron
Events with one lepton, one photon and missing energy are the subject of
recent searches at the Fermilab Tevatron. We compute possible contributions to
these type of events from the process p pbar --> photon l nu_l nu_tau
nubar_tau, where l=e,mu in the context of a Low Scale Technicolor Model. We
find that with somewhat tighter cuts than the ones used in the CDF search, it
could be possible to either confirm or exclude this model in a small region of
its parameter space.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Improved text and figures, including comments and
new reference
The Effect of Composite Resonances on Higgs decay into two photons
In scenarios of strongly coupled electroweak symmetry breaking, heavy
composite particles of different spin and parity may arise and cause observable
effects on signals that appear at loop levels. The recently observed process of
Higgs to at the LHC is one of such signals. We study the new
constraints that are imposed on composite models from ,
together with the existing constraints from the high precision electroweak
tests. We use an effective chiral Lagrangian to describe the effective theory
that contains the Standard Model spectrum and the extra composites below the
electroweak scale. Considering the effective theory cutoff at TeV, consistency with the and parameters and the newly
observed can be found for a rather restricted range of
masses of vector and axial-vector composites from TeV to TeV and
TeV to TeV, respectively, and only provided a non-standard kinetic
mixing between the and fields is included.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures. Version for publication in European Physical
Journal
Neutrino emission rates in highly magnetized neutron stars revisited
Magnetars are a subclass of neutron stars whose intense soft-gamma-ray bursts
and quiescent X-ray emission are believed to be powered by the decay of a
strong internal magnetic field. We reanalyze neutrino emission in such stars in
the plausibly relevant regime in which the Landau band spacing of both protons
and electrons is much larger than kT (where k is the Boltzmann constant and T
is the temperature), but still much smaller than the Fermi energies. Focusing
on the direct Urca process, we find that the emissivity oscillates as a
function of density or magnetic field, peaking when the Fermi level of the
protons or electrons lies about 3kT above the bottom of any of their Landau
bands. The oscillation amplitude is comparable to the average emissivity when
the Landau band spacing mentioned above is roughly the geometric mean of kT and
the Fermi energy (excluding mass), i. e., at fields much weaker than required
to confine all particles to the lowest Landau band. Since the density and
magnetic field strength vary continuously inside the neutron star, there will
be alternating surfaces of high and low emissivity. Globally, these
oscillations tend to average out, making it unclear whether there will be any
observable effects.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysic
Hadronic structure aspects of decays
As is known from previous studies the lepton number violating decays have good prospects to probe new physics beyond the
Standard Model and provide valuable information on neutrino masses and mixing.
We analyze these processes with an emphasis on their hadronic structure
aspects applying relativistic constituent quark model. We conclude that the
previously ignored contribution associated with the t-channel Majorana neutrino
exchange is comparable with the s-channel one in a wide range of neutrino
masses. We also estimated model independent absolute upper bounds on neutrino
contribution to these decays.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figure. Version to appear in PRD, normalization factor in
Eq. (25) is correcte
RANDOM MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS ON ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES IN SUBSTITUTIONALLY AND TOPOLOGICALLY DISORDERED ALLOYS
We numerically investigate the effects of the random static magnetic field on a variety of electronic properties (localization of electron wavefunctions, spectral correlations and electrical conductance) in substitutionally and topologically disordered alloys. For this, we generate two-dimensional substitutionally disordered alloys and simulate three-dimensional amorphous structures by a molecular dynamics algorithm. As Hamiltonian models, we use the usual Anderson tight-binding model for the substitutional disorder and a tight-binding model with a set of explicit s-type orbitals for the topological disorder. We particularly focus on the effect of the random magnetic field on the localization of electron wavefunctions. In the presence of the substitutional disorder, we establish that the random magnetic field tends to delocalize the electron wavefunctions at the band center less than does the uniform magnetic field and it enhances the localization at the band edges. But, in the presence of the topological disorder, we observe the opposite effect. We show that the random magnetic field tends to delocalize the electron wavefunctions more than does the uniform magnetic field. In this respect, we demonstrate that the effect of the random magnetic field on the electron wavefunctions depends on the nature of the disorder.We numerically investigate the effects of the random static magnetic field on a variety of electronic properties (localization of electron wavefunctions, spectral correlations and electrical conductance) in substitutionally and topologically disordered alloys. For this, we generate two-dimensional substitutionally disordered alloys and simulate three-dimensional amorphous structures by a molecular dynamics algorithm. As Hamiltonian models, we use the usual Anderson tight-binding model for the substitutional disorder and a tight-binding model with a set of explicit s-type orbitals for the topological disorder. We particularly focus on the effect of the random magnetic field on the localization of electron wavefunctions. In the presence of the substitutional disorder, we establish that the random magnetic field tends to delocalize the electron wavefunctions at the band center less than does the uniform magnetic field and it enhances the localization at the band edges. But, in the presence of the topological disorder, we observe the opposite effect. We show that the random magnetic field tends to delocalize the electron wavefunctions more than does the uniform magnetic field. In this respect, we demonstrate that the effect of the random magnetic field on the electron wavefunctions depends on the nature of the disorder
A new signature for color octet pseudoscalars at the LHC
Color octet (pseudo)scalars, if they exist, will be copiously produced at the
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, their detection can become a very
challenging task. In particular, if their decay into a pair of top quarks is
kinematically forbidden, the main decay channel would be into two jets, with a
very large background. In this Brief Report we explore the possibility of using
anomaly-induced decays of the color octet pseudoscalars into gauge bosons to
find them at the LHC.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. New references adde
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