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Warped flavor symmetry predictions for neutrino physics
A realistic five-dimensional warped scenario with all standard model fields
propagating in the bulk is proposed. Mass hierarchies would in principle be
accounted for by judicious choices of the bulk mass parameters, while fermion
mixing angles are restricted by a flavor symmetry broken on the
branes by flavon fields. The latter gives stringent predictions for the
neutrino mixing parameters, and the Dirac CP violation phase, all described in
terms of only two independent parameters at leading order. The scheme also
gives an adequate CKM fit and should be testable within upcoming oscillation
experiments.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figue
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking With a Fourth Generation
Adding a fourth generation to the Standard Model and assuming it to be valid
up to some cutoff \Lambda, we show that electroweak symmetry is broken by
radiative corrections due to the fourth generation. The effects of the fourth
generation are isolated using a Lagrangian with a genuine scalar without
self-interactions at the classical level. For masses of the fourth generation
consistent with electroweak precision data (including the B \rightarrow K \pi\
CP asymmetries) we obtain a Higgs mass of the order of a few hundreds GeV and a
cutoff \Lambda\ around 1-2 TeV. We study the reliability of the perturbative
treatment used to obtain these results taking into account the running of the
Yukawa couplings of the fourth quark generation with the aid of the
Renormalization Group (RG) equations, finding similar allowed values for the
Higgs mass but a slightly lower cut-off due to the breaking of the perturbative
regime. Such low cut-off means that the effects of new physics needed to
describe electroweak interactions at energy above \Lambda\ should be measurable
at the LHC. We use the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model
with four generations as an explicit example of models realizing the dynamical
electroweak symmetry breaking by radiative corrections and containing new
physics. Here, the cutoff is replaced by the masses of the squarks and
electroweak symmetry breaking by radiative corrections requires the squark
masses to be of the order of 1 TeV.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures. New section adde
Discovery of 15-second oscillations in Hubble Space Telescope observations of WZ Sagittae following the 2001 outburst
We report the discovery of 15-s oscillations in ultraviolet observations of
WZ Sge obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope approximately one month after
the peak of the 2001 outburst. This is the earliest detection of oscillations
in WZ Sge following an outburst and the first time that a signal near 15 s has
been seen to be dominant. The oscillations are quite strong (amplitude about
5%), but not particularly coherent. In one instance, the oscillation period
changed by 0.7 s between successive observations separated by less than 1 hour.
We have also found evidence for weaker signals with periods near 6.5 s in some
of our data. We discuss the implications of our results for the models that
have been proposed to account for the 28-s oscillations seen in quiescence. If
the periods of the 15-s oscillations can be identified with the periods of
revolution of material rotating about the white dwarf, the mass of the white
dwarf must satisfy M_WD > 0.71 M_sun. The corresponding limit for the 6.5-s
signals is M_WD > 1.03 M_sun.Comment: accepted for publication in ApJ Letters; 13 pages, 4 postscript
figures; new version corrects a few typos and matches version that will
appear in ApJ
Generalized Involution Models for Wreath Products
We prove that if a finite group has a generalized involution model, as
defined by Bump and Ginzburg, then the wreath product also has a
generalized involution model. This extends the work of Baddeley concerning
involution models for wreath products. As an application, we construct a
Gelfand model for wreath products of the form with abelian, and
give an alternate proof of a recent result due to Adin, Postnikov, and Roichman
describing a particularly elegant Gelfand model for the wreath product \ZZ_r
\wr S_n. We conclude by discussing some notable properties of this
representation and its decomposition into irreducible constituents, proving a
conjecture of Adin, Roichman, and Postnikov's.Comment: 29 page
Spin-phonon coupling in Gd(Co1/2Mn1/2)O3 perovskite
We have investigated the temperature-dependent Raman-active phonons and the
magnetic properties of Gd(Co1/2Mn1/2)O3 perovskite ceramics in the temperature
range from 40 K to 300 K. The samples crystallized in an orthorhombic distorted
simple perovskite, whose symmetry belongs to the Pnma space group. The data
reveals spin-phonon coupling near the ferromagnetic transition occurring at
around 120 K. The correlation of the Raman and magnetization data suggests that
the structural order influences the magnitude of the spin-phonon coupling.Comment: 3 Figures, suplementary materia
Base manifolds for fibrations of projective irreducible symplectic manifolds
Given a projective irreducible symplectic manifold of dimension , a
projective manifold and a surjective holomorphic map with
connected fibers of positive dimension, we prove that is biholomorphic to
the projective space of dimension . The proof is obtained by exploiting two
geometric structures at general points of : the affine structure arising
from the action variables of the Lagrangian fibration and the structure
defined by the variety of minimal rational tangents on the Fano manifold
Nano-porosity in GaSb induced by swift heavy ion irradiation
Nano-porous structures form in GaSb after ion irradiation with 185 MeV Au ions. The porous layer formation is governed by the dominant electronic energy loss at this energy regime. The porous layer morphology differs significantly from that previously reported for low-energy, ion-irradiated GaSb. Prior to the onset of porosity, positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy indicates the formation of small vacancy clusters in single ion impacts, while transmission electron microscopy reveals fragmentation of the GaSb into nanocrystallites embedded in an amorphous matrix. Following this fragmentation process, macroscopic porosity forms, presumably within the amorphous phase.The authors thank the Australian Research Council for
support and the staff at the ANU Heavy Ion Accelerator
Facility for their continued technical assistance. R.C.E. acknowledges the support
from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. DOE
(Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER45656)
New country, Brazilian states and host records of the eucalypt shoot psyllid Blastopsylla occidentalis.
O psilídeo das ponteiras do eucalipto, Blastopsylla occidentalis Taylor, 1985 (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) é relatado aqui pela primeira vez para o Burundi, Indonésia (Sumatra), Nicarágua, Filipinas e Iêmen. O registro desta para o Paraguai mostrou ser um erro. Novos registros são dados para os estados brasileiros Bahia, Ceará, Piauí e Rio Grande do Sul. Eucalyptus viminalis é listado pela primeira vez como hospedeiro de B. occidentalis.Nota científica
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