2,203 research outputs found
A More Flavored Higgs boson in Supersymmetric models
A More flavored Higgs boson arises when the flavor structure encoded in SUSY
extensions of the SM is transmited to the Higgs sector. The flavor-Higgs
transmition mechanism can have a radiative or mixing origin, as it is
illustrated with several examples, and can produce interesting Higgs signatures
that can be probed at future high-energy colliders. Within the MSSM, the flavor
mediation mechanism can be of radiative type, as it is realized trhough
gaugino-slepton loops, which transmit the flavor structture of the
soft-breaking sector to the Higgs bosons. In particular we focus on evaluating
the contributions from the general trilinear terms to the lepton flavor
violating Higgs (LFV) vertices. On the other hand, as an example of flavor
mediation through mixing, we discuss an E_6 inspired multi-Higgs model, with an
abelian flavor symmetry, where LFV as well as lepton flavor conserving Higgs
effects are found to arise, though in this case at tree-level. We find that
Tevatron and LHC can provide information on the flavor structure of these
models through the detection of the LFV higgs mode h-> tau+mu, while NLC can
perform high-precision measurements of the LFC mode h-> tau tau.Comment: 17 pages, 5 tables, 3 figures; corrected mistake in last section,
results changed but conclusions remmai
A phytosociological survey of the boreal forest (Vaccinio-Piceetea) in North America
A survey of syntaxa of vegetation of North American boreal forests (class Vaccinio-Piceetea) is presented. This
phytosociological survey, carried out combining the Braun-Blanquet method with numerical syntaxonomical analyses
(cluster and correspondence analysis), describes the associations of the North American boreal forests, which
have several species, varieties or vicariant species in common with their Eurasian counterparts, and can be placed
in the class Vaccinio-Piceetea. By means of tabular and multivariate analyses, 2084 North American relevés were
compared with 3273 relevés from European, Japanese and Korean boreal forest, to describe and typify 4 orders, 10
alliances and 37 associations. Diagnostic tables, ordination, clustering, and climatic, edaphic and biogeographical data were used to show floristic affinities among these syntaxa and interpret their distribution areas. Syntaxa were briefly characterized by their floristic composition, physiognomy, succession, zonation, and biogeographical distribution
Testing models with non-minimal Higgs sector through the decay t->q+WZ
We study the contribution of charged Higgs boson to the rare decay of the top
quark t->q+WZ (q=d,s,b) in models with Higgs sector that includes doublets and
triplets. Higgs doublets are needed to couple charged Higgs with quarks,
whereas the Higgs triplets are required to generate the non-standard vertex HWZ
at tree-level. It is found that within a model that respect the custodial SU(2)
symmetry and avoids flavour changing neutral currents by imposing discrete
symmetries, the decay mode t->b+WZ, can reach a branching ratio of order
0.0178, whereas the decay modes t->(d,s)+WZ, can reach a similar branching
ratio in models where flavour changing neutral currents are suppressed by
flavour symmetries.Comment: Typeset using REVTEX and EPSF, 5 pag, 2 figure
Mass matrix Ansatz and lepton flavor violation in the THDM-III
Predictive Higgs-fermion couplings can be obtained when a specific texture
for the fermion mass matrices is included in the general two-Higgs doublet
model. We derive the form of these couplings in the charged lepton sector using
a Hermitian mass matrix Ansatz with four-texture zeros. The presence of
unconstrained phases in the vertices phi-li-lj modifies the pattern of
flavor-violating Higgs interactions. Bounds on the model parameters are
obtained from present limits on rare lepton flavor violating processes, which
could be extended further by the search for the decay tau -> mu mu mu and mu-e
conversion at future experiments. The signal from Higgs boson decays phi -> tau
mu could be searched at the large hadron collider (LHC), while e-mu transitions
could produce a detectable signal at a future e mu-collider, through the
reaction e mu -> h0 -> tau tau.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Probing the mechanism of EWSB with a rho parameter defined in terms of Higgs couplings
A definition of the rho parameter based on the Higgs couplings with the gauge
bosons, rho_h= g_{hWW}}/c^2_W g_{hZZ}, is proposed as a new probe into the
origin of the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. While
holds in the SM, deviations from one are predicted in models with extended
Higgs sector.
We derive a general expresion of rho_h for a model with arbitrary Higgs
multiplets, and discuss its size within the context of specific models with
Higgs triplets, including the ``Little Higgs'' models recently proposed. We
find the even for Higgs models that incorporate the custodial symmetry to make
rho=1, one could have rho_h\neq 1, which could be tested at the level of a few
percent, with the precision Higgs meassurements expected at the NLC.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
New Higgs signals induced by mirror fermion mixing effects
We study the conditions under which flavor violation arises in scalar-fermion
interactions, as a result of the mixing phenomena between the standard model
and exotic fermions. Phenomenological consequences are discussed within the
specific context of a left-right model where these additional fermions have
mirror properties under the new SU(2)_R gauge group.
Bounds on the parameters of the model are obtained from LFV processes; these
results are then used to study the LFV Higgs decays (H --> tau l_j, l_j = e,
mu), which reach branching ratios that could be detected at future colliders.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, ReVTex4, graphicx, to be published in Phys. Rev.
H^+ -> W^+ l_i^- l_j^+$ decay in the two Higgs doublet model
We study the lepton flavor violating H^+ -> W^+ l_i^- l_j^+ and the lepton
flavor conserving $H^+ -> W^+ l_i^- l_i^+ (l_i=\tau, l_j=\mu) decays in the
general 2HDM, so called model III. We estimate the decay width \Gamma for LFV
(LFC) at the order of the magnitude of (10^{-11}-10^{-5}) GeV
((10^{-9}-10^{-4}) GeV), for 200 GeV\leq m_{H^\pm}\leq 400
GeV, and the intermediate values of the coupling
\bar{\xi}^{E}_{N,\tau \mu}\sim 5 GeV (\bar{\xi}^{E}_{N,\tau
\tau}\sim 30 GeV). We observe that the experimental result of the process
under consideration can give comprehensive information about the physics beyond
the standard model and the existing free parameters.Comment: 8 pages, 7 Figure
An effective lagrangian description of charged Higgs decays H^+ -> Wg, WZ and Wh
Charged Higgs decays are discussed within an effective lagrangian extension
of the two-higgs doublet model, assuming new physics appearing in the Higgs
sector of this model. Low energy constrains are used to imposse bounds on
certain dimension -six operators that describe the modified charged Higgs
interactions. These bounds are used then to study the decays H^+ -> Wg, WZ and
Wh, which can have branching ratios of order 10^-5, 10^-1 and O(1),
respectively; thse modes are thus sensitive probes of the symmetries of the
Higgs sector that could be tested at future colliders.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
On the optimal demand-side management in microgrids through polygonal composition
This article presents a novel methodology for energy management in microgrids focused on the
demand side. It is inspired by the Tangram puzzle. The energy demand and production profiles are
represented by polygons and managed through computational geometry. Therefore, an optimization
problem is defined to place n energy demand profiles (pieces) to cover the total energy production
profile (target shape). The optimization problem is addressed with a genetic algorithm. It tries to
calculate the optimal positions of the polygons of the demands covering the maximum energy
production. Since the referred production comes from renewable energy sources in the microgrid,
this method allows reducing both the consumption of fossil fuels and energy bills
Coupling between counterpropagating cladding modes in fiber Bragg gratings
We present an experimental demonstration of energy transfer between counterpropagating cladding modes in a fiber Bragg grating (FBG). A strong FBG written in a standard photosensitive optical fiber is illuminated with a single cladding mode, and the power transferred between the forward propagating cladding mode and different backward propagating cladding modes is measured by using two auxiliary long period gratings. Resonances between cladding modes having 30 pm bandwidth and 8 dB rejection have been observed
- âŠ