Static quantities of the W boson in the SU_L(3) X U_X(1) model with right-handed neutrinos

The static electromagnetic properties of the $W$ boson, $\Delta \kappa$ and $\Delta Q$, are calculated in the SU_L(3)} \times U_X(1) model with right-handed neutrinos. The new contributions from this model arise from the gauge and scalar sectors. In the gauge sector there is a new contribution from a complex neutral gauge boson $Y^0$ and a singly-charged gauge boson $Y^\pm$. The mass of these gauge bosons, called bileptons, is expected to be in the range of a few hundreds of GeV according to the current bounds from experimental data. If the bilepton masses are of the order of 200 GeV, the size of their contribution is similar to that obtained in other weakly coupled theories. However the contributions to both $\Delta Q$ and $\Delta \kappa$ are negligible for very heavy or degenerate bileptons. As for the scalar sector, an scenario is examined in which the contribution to the $W$ form factors is identical to that of a two-Higgs-doublet model. It is found that this sector would not give large corrections to $\Delta \kappa$ and $\Delta Q$.Comment: New material included. Final version to apppear in Physical Review

The Clinical Implementation of CYP2C19 Genotyping in Patients with an Acute Coronary Syndrome:Insights From the FORCE-ACS Registry

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend prasugrel or ticagrelor for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. However, these P2Y12 inhibitors increase bleeding risk compared to clopidogrel. Although genotype-guided P2Y12-inhibitor selection has been shown to reduce bleeding risk, data on its clinical implementation is lacking. METHODS: The study included ACS patients receiving genotype-guided antiplatelet therapy, utilising either a point-of-care (POC) device or laboratory-based testing. We aimed to collect qualitative and quantitative data on genotyping, eligibility for de-escalation, physician adherence to genotype results, time to de-escalation and cost reduction. RESULTS: Of the 1,530 patients included in the ACS registry from 2021 to 2023, 738 ACS patients treated with ticagrelor received a CYP2C19 genotype test. The median turnover time of genotyping was 6.3 hours (interquartile range [IQR], 3.2-16.7), with 82.3% of the genotyping results known within 24 hours after admission. POC genotyping exhibited significantly shorter turnaround times compared to laboratory-based testing (with respective medians of 5.7 vs 47.8 hours; P &lt; .001). Of the genotyped patients, 81.7% were eligible for de-escalation which was carried out within 24 hours in 70.9% and within 48 h in 93.0%. The time to de-escalation was significantly shorter using POC (25.4 hours) compared to laboratory-based testing (58.9 hours; P &lt; .001). Implementing this strategy led to a reduction of €211,150.50 in medication costs. CONCLUSIONS: CYP2C19 genotype-guided-de-escalation in an all-comers ACS population is feasible. POC genotyping leads to shorter turnaround times and quicker de-escalation. Time to de-escalation from ticagrelor to clopidogrel in noncarriers was short, with high physician adherence to genotype results.</p

Chaotic differential operators

We give sufficient conditions for chaos of (differential) operators on Hilbert spaces of entire functions. To this aim we establish conditions on the coefficients of a polynomial P(z) such that P(B) is chaotic on the space lp, where B is the backward shift operator. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.This work was partially supported by the MEC and FEDER Projects MTM2007-64222, MTM2010-14909, and by GVA Project GV/2010/091, and by UPV Project PAID-06-09-2932. The authors would like to thank A. Peris for helpful comments and ideas that produced a great improvement of the paper's presentation. We also thank the referees for their helpful comments and for reporting to us a gap in Theorem 1.Conejero Casares, JA.; Martínez Jiménez, F. (2011). Chaotic differential operators. Revista- Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Fisicas Y Naturales Serie a Matematicas. 105(2):423-431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-011-0026-6S4234311052Bayart, F., Matheron, É.: Dynamics of Linear Operators, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 179. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2009)Bermúdez T., Miller V.G.: On operators T such that f(T) is hypercyclic. Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 37(3), 332–340 (2000)Bonet J., Martínez-Giménez F., Peris A.: Linear chaos on Fréchet spaces. Int. J. Bifur. Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. 13(7), 1649–1655 (2003)Chan K.C., Shapiro J.H.: The cyclic behavior of translation operators on Hilbert spaces of entire functions. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 40(4), 1421–1449 (1991)Conejero J.A., Müller V.: On the universality of multipliers on $${\mathcal{H}({\mathbb {C}})}$$ . J. Approx. Theory. 162(5), 1025–1032 (2010)deLaubenfels R., Emamirad H.: Chaos for functions of discrete and continuous weighted shift operators. Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 21(5), 1411–1427 (2001)Devaney, R.L.: An introduction to chaotic dynamical systems, 2nd edn. In: Addison-Wesley Studies in Nonlinearity. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Advanced Book Program, Redwood City (1989)Godefroy G., Shapiro J.H.: Operators with dense, invariant, cyclic vector manifolds. J. Funct. Anal. 98(2), 229–269 (1991)Grosse-Erdmann K.-G.: Hypercyclic and chaotic weighted shifts. Stud. Math. 139(1), 47–68 (2000)Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G., Peris, A.,: Linear chaos. Universitext, Springer, New York (to appear, 2011)Herzog G., Schmoeger C.: On operators T such that f(T) is hypercyclic. Stud. Math. 108(3), 209–216 (1994)Kahane, J.-P.: Some random series of functions, 2nd edn. In: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 5. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1985)Martínez-Giménez F., Peris A.: Chaos for backward shift operators. Int. J. Bifur. Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. 12(8), 1703–1715 (2002)Martínez-Giménez F.: Chaos for power series of backward shift operators. Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 135, 1741–1752 (2007)Müller V.: On the Salas theorem and hypercyclicity of f(T). Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 67(3), 439–448 (2010)Protopopescu V., Azmy Y.Y.: Topological chaos for a class of linear models. Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 2(1), 79–90 (1992)Rolewicz S.: On orbits of elements. Stud. Math. 32, 17–22 (1969)Salas H.N.: Hypercyclic weighted shifts. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347(3), 93–1004 (1995)Shapiro, J.H.: Simple connectivity and linear chaos. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo. (2) Suppl. 56, 27–48 (1998

Supersymmetric Dark Matter and Yukawa Unification

An analysis of supersymmetric dark matter under the Yukawa unification constraint is given. The analysis utilizes the recently discovered region of the parameter space of models with gaugino mass nonuniversalities where large negative supersymmetric corrections to the b quark mass appear to allow $b-\tau$ unification for a positive $\mu$ sign consistent with the $b\to s+\gamma$ and $g_{\mu}-2$ constraints. In the present analysis we use the revised theoretical determination of $a_{\mu}^{SM}$ ($a_{\mu}= (g_{\mu}-2)/2$) in computing the difference $a_{\mu}^{exp}-a_{\mu}^{SM}$ which takes account of a reevaluation of the light by light contribution which has a positive sign. The analysis shows that the region of the parameter space with nonuniversalities of the gaugino masses which allows for unification of Yukawa couplings also contains regions which allow satisfaction of the relic density constraint. Specifically we find that the lightest neutralino mass consistent with the relic density constraint, $b\tau$ unification for SU(5) and $b-t-\tau$ unification for SO(10) in addition to other constraints lies in the region below 80 GeV. An analysis of the maximum and the minimum neutralino-proton scalar cross section for the allowed parameter space including the effect of a new determination of the pion-nucleon sigma term is also given. It is found that the full parameter space for this class of models can be explored in the next generation of proposed dark matter detectors.Comment: 28 pages,nLatex including 5 fig

The effect of vent size and congestion in large-scale vented natural gas/air explosions

A typical building consists of a number of rooms; often with windows of different size and failure pressure and obstructions in the form of furniture and décor, separated by partition walls with interconnecting doorways. Consequently, the maximum pressure developed in a gas explosion would be dependent upon the individual characteristics of the building. In this research, a large-scale experimental programme has been undertaken at the DNV GL Spadeadam Test Site to determine the effects of vent size and congestion on vented gas explosions. Thirty-eight stoichiometric natural gas/air explosions were carried out in a 182 m3 explosion chamber of L/D = 2 and KA = 1, 2, 4 and 9. Congestion was varied by placing a number of 180 mm diameter polyethylene pipes within the explosion chamber, providing a volume congestion between 0 and 5% and cross-sectional area blockages ranging between 0 and 40%. The series of tests produced peak explosion overpressures of between 70 mbar and 3.7 bar with corresponding maximum flame speeds in the range 35 - 395 m/s at a distance of 7 m from the ignition point. The experiments demonstrated that it is possible to generate overpressures greater than 200 mbar with volume blockages of as little as 0.57%, if there is not sufficient outflow through the inadvertent venting process. The size and failure pressure of potential vent openings, and the degree of congestion within a building, are key factors in whether or not a building will sustain structural damage following a gas explosion. Given that the average volume blockage in a room in a UK inhabited building is in the order of 17%, it is clear that without the use of large windows of low failure pressure, buildings will continue to be susceptible to significant structural damage during an accidental gas explosion

Production and Decay of D_1(2420)^0 and D_2^*(2460)^0

We have investigated $D^{+}\pi^{-}$ and $D^{*+}\pi^{-}$ final states and observed the two established $L=1$ charmed mesons, the $D_1(2420)^0$ with mass $2421^{+1+2}_{-2-2}$ MeV/c$^{2}$ and width $20^{+6+3}_{-5-3}$ MeV/c$^{2}$ and the $D_2^*(2460)^0$ with mass $2465 \pm 3 \pm 3$ MeV/c$^{2}$ and width $28^{+8+6}_{-7-6}$ MeV/c$^{2}$. Properties of these final states, including their decay angular distributions and spin-parity assignments, have been studied. We identify these two mesons as the $j_{light}=3/2$ doublet predicted by HQET. We also obtain constraints on {\footnotesize $\Gamma_S/(\Gamma_S + \Gamma_D)$} as a function of the cosine of the relative phase of the two amplitudes in the $D_1(2420)^0$ decay.Comment: 15 pages in REVTEX format. hardcopies with figures can be obtained by sending mail to: [email protected]

Measurement of the branching fraction for Υ(1S)→τ+τ−\Upsilon (1S) \to \tau^+ \tau^-

We have studied the leptonic decay of the $\Upsilon (1S)$ resonance into tau pairs using the CLEO II detector. A clean sample of tau pair events is identified via events containing two charged particles where exactly one of the particles is an identified electron. We find $B(\Upsilon(1S) \to \tau^+ \tau^-) = (2.61~\pm~0.12~{+0.09\atop{-0.13}})$. The result is consistent with expectations from lepton universality.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX, two Postscript figures available upon request, CLNS 94/1297, CLEO 94-20 (submitted to Physics Letters B

Study of the B^0 Semileptonic Decay Spectrum at the Upsilon(4S) Resonance

We have made a first measurement of the lepton momentum spectrum in a sample of events enriched in neutral B's through a partial reconstruction of B0 --> D*- l+ nu. This spectrum, measured with 2.38 fb**-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance by the CLEO II detector, is compared directly to the inclusive lepton spectrum from all Upsilon(4S) events in the same data set. These two spectra are consistent with having the same shape above 1.5 GeV/c. From the two spectra and two other CLEO measurements, we obtain the B0 and B+ semileptonic branching fractions, b0 and b+, their ratio, and the production ratio f+-/f00 of B+ and B0 pairs at the Upsilon(4S). We report b+/b0=0.950 (+0.117-0.080) +- 0.091, b0 = (10.78 +- 0.60 +- 0.69)%, and b+ = (10.25 +- 0.57 +- 0.65)%. b+/b0 is equivalent to the ratio of charged to neutral B lifetimes, tau+/tau0.Comment: 14 page, postscript file also available at http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLN

Measurement of the Decay Asymmetry Parameters in Λc+→Λπ+\Lambda_c^+ \to \Lambda\pi^+ and Λc+→Σ+π0\Lambda_c^+ \to \Sigma^+\pi^0

We have measured the weak decay asymmetry parameters (\aLC ) for two \LC\ decay modes. Our measurements are \aLC = -0.94^{+0.21+0.12}_{-0.06-0.06} for the decay mode $\Lambda_c^+ \to \Lambda\pi^+$ and \aLC = -0.45\pm 0.31 \pm 0.06 for the decay mode $\Lambda_c \to \Sigma^+\pi^0$. By combining these measurements with the previously measured decay rates, we have extracted the parity-violating and parity-conserving amplitudes. These amplitudes are used to test models of nonleptonic charmed baryon decay.Comment: 11 pages including the figures. Uses REVTEX and psfig macros. Figures as uuencoded postscript. Also available as http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/1995/CLNS95-1319.p