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Reconstruction of the Extended Gauge Structure from Observables at Future Colliders
The discovery of a new neutral gauge boson with a mass in the TeV region
would allow for determination of gauge couplings of the to ordinary quarks
and leptons in a model independent way. We show that these couplings in turn
would allow us to determine the nature of the extended gauge structure. As a
prime example we study the group. In this case two discrete constraints
on experimentally determined couplings have to be satisfied. If so, the
couplings would then uniquely determine the two parameters, and
, which fully specify the nature of the within . If the
is part of the gauge structure, then for TeV and
could be determined to around at the future colliders. The NLC
provides a unique determination of the two constraints as well as of and , though with slightly larger error bars than at the LHC. On
the other hand, since the LHC primarily determines three out of four normalized
couplings, it provides weaker constraints for the underlying gauge structure.Comment: 14 pages LaTeX using RevTeX and psfig.sty. TeX source and 3 PS
figures, tarred, compressed and uuencoded; also available via anonymous ftp
to ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Cvetic/UPR-636-T
Multilepton production via top flavour-changing neutral couplings at the CERN LHC
Zt and gamma t production with Z -> l+ l- and t -> Wb -> l nu b provides the
best determination of top flavour-changing neutral couplings at the LHC. The
bounds on tc couplings eventually derived from these processes are similar to
those expected from top decays, while the limits on tu couplings are better by
a factor of two. The other significant Z and W decay modes are also
investigated.Comment: 30 pages, 23 PS figures. Uses epsfig.sty and elsart.sty. Added some
references and corrected some typos. Added more comments about statistics.
Using elsart.sty reduces the size to 30 pages. Published in Nucl. Phys.
Constraining differential renormalization in abelian gauge theories
We present a procedure of differential renormalization at the one loop level
which avoids introducing unnecessary renormalization constants and
automatically preserves abelian gauge invariance. The amplitudes are expressed
in terms of a basis of singular functions. The local terms appearing in the
renormalization of these functions are determined by requiring consistency with
the propagator equation. Previous results in abelian theories, with and without
supersymmetry, are discussed in this context.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX. Some equations corrected and a reference added.
Complete ps paper also available at http://www-ftae.ugr.es/papiros.html or
ftp://ftae3.ugr.es/pub/rmt/ugft73.p
Lorentz Violation in Extra Dimensions
In theories with extra dimensions it is well known that the Lorentz
invariance of the -dimensional spacetime is lost due to the compactified
nature of the dimensions leaving invariance only in 4d. In such theories
other sources of Lorentz violation may exist associated with the physics that
initiated the compactification process at high scales. Here we consider the
possibility of capturing some of this physics by analyzing the higher
dimensional analog of the model of Colladay and Kostelecky. In that scenario a
complete set of Lorentz violating operators arising from spontaneous Lorentz
violation, that are not obviously Planck-scale suppressed, are added to the
Standard Model action. Here we consider the influence of the analogous set of
operators which break Lorentz invariance in 5d within the Universal Extra
Dimensions picture. We show that such operators can greatly alter the
anticipated Kaluza-Klein(KK) spectra, induce electroweak symmetry breaking at a
scale related to the inverse compactification radius, yield sources of parity
violation in, e.g., 4d QED/QCD and result in significant violations of
KK-parity conservation produced by fermion Yukawa couplings, thus destabilizing
the lightest KK particle. LV in 6d is briefly discussed.Comment: 26 pages, 2 figures; additional references and discussio
Looking for signals beyond the neutrino Standard Model
Any new neutrino physics at the TeV scale must include a suppression
mechanism to keep its contribution to light neutrino masses small enough. We
review some seesaw model examples with weakly broken lepton number, and comment
on the expected effects at large colliders and in neutrino oscillations.Comment: LaTeX 10 pages, 9 PS figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of the
XXXI International School of Theoretical Physics "Matter To The Deepest"
Ustron, Poland, September 5-11, 2007. Typos correcte
Comparison of the effect of locking vs standard screws on the mechanical properties of bone-plate constructs in a comminuted diaphyseal fracture model
The purpose of this study was to compare the mechanical properties of bone-plate constructs with locking compression plates (LCP) used either with standard screws or with locking screws on an experimental model of comminuted fracture
Z' Decays into Four Fermions
If a new is discovered with a mass at LHC/SSC, its (rare)
decays into two charged leptons plus missing transverse energy will probe the
coupling to the lepton doublet and to , allowing
further discrimination among extended electroweak models.Comment: 9 pages plus 1 figure (not included but available), UG-FT-22/9
Signature of heavy Majorana neutrinos at a linear collider: Enhanced charged Higgs pair production
A charged Higgs pair can be produced at an ee collider through a t-channel
exchange of a heavy neutrino (N) via e^+ e^- -> H^+ H^- and, if N is a Majorana
particle, also via the lepton number violating (LNV) like-sign reaction e^\pm
e^\pm \to H^\pm H^\pm. Assuming no a-priori relation between the effective
eNH^+ coupling (\xi) and light neutrino masses, we show that this interaction
vertex can give a striking enhancement to these charged Higgs pair production
processes. In particular, the LNV H^-H^- signal can probe N at the ILC in the
mass range 100 GeV < m_N < 10^4 TeV and with the effective mixing angle, \xi,
in the range 10^{-4} < \xi^2 < 10^{-8} - well within its perturbative unitarity
bound and the neutrinoless double beta decay (\beta\beta_{0\nu}) limit. The
lepton number conserving (LNC) e^+ e^- \to H^+ H^- mode can be sensitive to,
e.g., an O(10) TeV heavy Majorana neutrino at a 500 GeV International Linear
Collider (ILC), if \xi^2 > 0.001.Comment: Latex, 5 pages, 3 figures. V2 as published in PR
Quark mixings and flavor changing interactions with singlet quarks
Aspects of the quark mixings and flavor changing interactions are
investigated in electroweak models with singlet quarks. The effects on the
ordinary quark mixing are determined in terms of the quark masses and the
parameters describing the mixing between the ordinary quarks q and the singlet
quarks Q (q-Q mixing). Some salient features arise in the flavor changing
interactions through the q-Q mixing. The unitarity of the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix within the ordinary quark sector is
violated, and the flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC's) appear both in the
gauge and scalar couplings. The flavor changing interactions are calculated
appropriately in terms of the q-Q mixing parameters and the quark masses, which
really exhibit specific flavor structures. It is found that there are
reasonable ranges of the model parameters to reproduce the ordinary quark mass
hierarchy and the actual CKM structure even in the presence of q-Q mixing. Some
phenomenological effects of the singlet quarks are also discussed. In
particular, the scalar FCNC's may be more important in some cases, if the
singlet quarks as well as the extra scalar particles from the singlet Higgs
fields have masses 100 GeV -- 1 TeV.Comment: 32 pages, 7 figures, added reference
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