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Lepton flavor violation in muonium decay and muon colliders in models with heavy neutrinos
We study the lepton-flavor-violating reaction within
two extensions of the standard model that include heavy neutrinos. The reaction
is studied in the low energy limit in the form of muonium decay
and in the high energy regime of a muon collider. The two theoretical models we
consider are: model I, a typical see-saw model that violates lepton flavor and
number by inclusion of extra right handed neutrinos, and model II, a variant
where lepton number is conserved and which includes extra right handed as well
as left handed neutrinos, singlets under the gauge group. We find for muonium
decay into the extremely small result in
both scenarios. Alternatively, for collisions up to GeV we find fb, while for energies
above the threshold we find up to 1
fb.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures; new version recalculates the figures and results
using the correlated bound on mu-e mixing from (Eq.34
Charmless Non-Leptonic B Decays and R-parity Violating Supersymmetry
We examine the charmless hadronic B decay modes in the context of R-parity
violating (\rpv) supersymmetry. We try to explain the large branching ratio
(compared to the Standard Model (SM) prediction) of the decay . There exist data for other observed modes and among
these modes, the decay is also found to be large
compared to the SM prediction. We investigate all these modes and find that
only two pairs of \rpv coupling can satisfy the requirements without
affecting the other B\ra PP and B\ra VP decay modes barring the decay
B\ra\phi K. From this analysis, we determine the preferred values of the
\rpv couplings and the effective number of color . We also calculate the
CP asymmetry for the observed decay modes affected by these new couplings.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; revtex; version published in Phys. Lett.
Hadronic B Decays to Charmless VT Final States
Charmless hadronic decays of B mesons to a vector meson (V) and a tensor
meson (T) are analyzed in the frameworks of both flavor SU(3) symmetry and
generalized factorization. We also make comments on B decays to two tensor
mesons in the final states. Certain ways to test validity of the generalized
factorization are proposed, using decays. We calculate the branching
ratios and CP asymmetries using the full effective Hamiltonian including all
the penguin operators and the form factors obtained in the non-relativistic
quark model of Isgur, Scora, Grinstein and Wise.Comment: 27 pages, no figures, LaTe
Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Importance Sampling
The variance reduction established by importance sampling strongly depends on
the choice of the importance sampling distribution. A good choice is often hard
to achieve especially for high-dimensional integration problems. Nonparametric
estimation of the optimal importance sampling distribution (known as
nonparametric importance sampling) is a reasonable alternative to parametric
approaches.In this article nonparametric variants of both the self-normalized
and the unnormalized importance sampling estimator are proposed and
investigated. A common critique on nonparametric importance sampling is the
increased computational burden compared to parametric methods. We solve this
problem to a large degree by utilizing the linear blend frequency polygon
estimator instead of a kernel estimator. Mean square error convergence
properties are investigated leading to recommendations for the efficient
application of nonparametric importance sampling. Particularly, we show that
nonparametric importance sampling asymptotically attains optimal importance
sampling variance. The efficiency of nonparametric importance sampling
algorithms heavily relies on the computational efficiency of the employed
nonparametric estimator. The linear blend frequency polygon outperforms kernel
estimators in terms of certain criteria such as efficient sampling and
evaluation. Furthermore, it is compatible with the inversion method for sample
generation. This allows to combine our algorithms with other variance reduction
techniques such as stratified sampling. Empirical evidence for the usefulness
of the suggested algorithms is obtained by means of three benchmark integration
problems. As an application we estimate the distribution of the queue length of
a spam filter queueing system based on real data.Comment: 29 pages, 7 figure
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