Muon g-2 through a flavor structure on soft SUSY terms

In this work we analyze the possibility to explain the muon anomalous magnetic moment discrepancy within theory and experiment through lepton flavor violation processes. We propose a flavor extended MSSM by considering a hierarchical family structure for the trilinear scalar Soft-Supersymmetric terms of the Lagranagian, present at the SUSY breaking scale. We obtain analytical results for the rotation mass matrix, with the consequence of having non-universal slepton masses and the possibility of leptonic flavour mixing. The one-loop supersymmetric contributions to the leptonic flavour violating process $\tau \to \mu\gamma$ are calculated in the physical basis, with slepton flavour mixed states, instead of using the well known Mass Insertion Method. We present the regions in parameter space where the muon g-2 problem is either entirely solved or partially reduced through the contribution of these flavor violating processes.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures. Changes on version 3: In order to obtain the complete result for muon g-2 in the limit of non-flavor violation we added the terms given in the appendix. We redid the graphics and numerical analysis including these changes. We also corrected some typos and changed the order of figure

Simultaneous observations of haemolymph flow and ventilation in marine spider crabs at different temperatures: a flow weighted MRI study

In vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and angiography were applied to the marine spider crab Maja squinado for a study of temperature effects and thermal tolerance. Ventilation and haemolymph circulation were investigated during progressive cooling from 12°C to 2°C. The anatomical resolution of MR images from Maja squinado obtained with a standard spin echo sequence were suitable to resolve the structures of various internal organs. The heart of the animal could be depicted without movement artifacts. The use of a flow compensated gradient echo sequence allowed simultaneous observations of ventilation, reflected by water flow through the gill chambers as well as of haemolymph flow. Simultaneous investigation of various arteries was possible by use of flow weighted MRI. In addition to those accessible by standard invasive flow sensitive doppler sensors, flow changes in gill, leg arteries and the venous return could be observed. Both ventilation and haemolymph flow decreased during progressive cooling and changes in haemolymph flow varied between arteries. Haemolymph flow through the Arteria sternalis, some gill and leg arteries was maintained at low temperatures indicating a reduced thermal sensitivity of flow in selected vessels. In support of previous invasive studies of haemolymph flow as well as heart and ventilation rates, the results demonstrate that the operation of gills and the maintenance of locomotor activity are critical for cold tolerance. A shift in haemolymph flow between arteries likely occurs to ensure the functioning of locomotion and ventilation in the cold

Chiral Gauge Theory on Lattice with Domain Wall Fermions

We investigate a U(1) lattice chiral gauge theory with domain wall fermions and compact gauge fixing. In the reduced model limit, our perturbative and numerical investigations show that there exist no extra mirror chiral modes. The longitudinal gauge degrees of freedom have no effect on the free domain wall fermion spectrum consisting of opposite chiral modes at the domain wall and at the anti-domain wall which have an exponentially damped overlap.Comment: 16 pages revtex, 5 postscript figures, PRD versio

Emissivity measurements of reflective surfaces at near-millimeter wavelengths

We have developed an instrument for directly measuring the emissivity of reflective surfaces at near-millimeter wavelengths. The thermal emission of a test sample is compared with that of a reference surface, allowing the emissivity of the sample to be determined without heating. The emissivity of the reference surface is determined by one’s heating the reference surface and measuring the increase in emission. The instrument has an absolute accuracy of Δe = 5 x 10^-4 and can reproducibly measure a difference in emissivity as small as Δe = 10^-4 between flat reflective samples. We have used the instrument to measure the emissivity of metal films evaporated on glass and carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composite surfaces. We measure an emissivity of (2.15 ± 0.4) x 10^-3 for gold evaporated on glass and (2.65 ± 0.5) x 10^-3 for aluminum evaporated on carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composite