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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the -symmetric scalar sector
We present a detailed study of the vacua of the -symmetric
three-Higgs-doublet potential, specifying the region of parameters where these
minimisation solutions occur. We work with a CP conserving scalar potential and
analyse the possible real and complex vacua with emphasis on the cases in which
the CP symmetry can be spontaneously broken. Results are presented both in the
reducible-representation framework of Derman, and in the
irreducible-representation framework. Mappings between these are given. Some of
these implementations can in principle accommodate dark matter and for that
purpose it is important to identify the residual symmetries of the potential
after spontaneous symmetry breakdown. We are also concerned with constraints
from vacuum stability.Comment: 37 pages. v2: Minor changes in the references, matches published
version. v3: Table 6 corrected: two additional cases conserve CP. Related
discussion adapted. Version consistent with JHEP Erratu
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in three-Higgs-doublet -symmetric models
The talk summarises work done by the authors consisting of a detailed study
of the possible vacua in models with three Higgs doublets with symmetry
and without explicit CP violation. Different vacua require special regions of
the parameter space which were analysed in our work. We establish the
possibility of spontaneous CP violation in this framework and we also show
which complex vacua conserve CP. In our work we discussed constraints from
vacuum stability. The results presented here are relevant for model building.Comment: 11 pages, no figures. Prepared for the proceedings of DISCRETE2016:
the Fifth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, 28
November-3 December 2016, University of Warsaw, Poland, to appear in the
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS
K X-Ray Energies and Transition Probabilities for He-, Li- and Be-like Praseodymium ions
Theoretical transition energies and probabilities for He-, Li- and Be-like
Praseodymium ions are calculated in the framework of the multi-configuration
Dirac-Fock method (MCDF), including QED corrections. These calculated values
are compared to recent experimental data obtained in the Livermore SuperEBIT
electron beam ion trap facility
Effective restoration of chiral and axial symmetries at finite temperature and density
The effective restoration of chiral and axial symmetries is investigated
within the framework of the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The topological
susceptibility, modeled from lattice data at finite temperature, is used to
extract the temperature dependence of the coupling strength of the anomaly. The
study of the scalar and pseudoscalar mixing angles is performed in order to
discuss the evolution of the flavor combinations of pairs and its
consequences for the degeneracy of chiral partners. A similar study at zero
temperature and finite density is also realized.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at Strange Quark Matter 2004, Cape
Town, South Africa, 15-20 September, 200
Saber: window-based hybrid stream processing for heterogeneous architectures
Modern servers have become heterogeneous, often combining multicore CPUs with many-core GPGPUs. Such heterogeneous architectures have the potential to improve the performance of data-intensive stream processing applications, but they are not supported by current relational stream processing engines. For an engine to exploit a heterogeneous architecture, it must execute streaming SQL queries with sufficient data-parallelism to fully utilise all available heterogeneous processors, and decide how to use each in the most effective way. It must do this while respecting the semantics of streaming SQL queries, in particular with regard to window handling. We describe SABER, a hybrid high-performance relational stream processing engine for CPUs and GPGPUs. SABER executes windowbased streaming SQL queries in a data-parallel fashion using all available CPU and GPGPU cores. Instead of statically assigning query operators to heterogeneous processors, SABER employs a new adaptive heterogeneous lookahead scheduling strategy, which increases the share of queries executing on the processor that yields the highest performance. To hide data movement costs, SABER pipelines the transfer of stream data between different memory types and the CPU/GPGPU. Our experimental comparison against state-ofthe-art engines shows that SABER increases processing throughput while maintaining low latency for a wide range of streaming SQL queries with small and large windows sizes
Carbon coating of the SPS dipole chambers
The Electron Multipacting (EM) phenomenon is a limiting factor for the
achievement of high luminosity in accelerators for positively charged particles
and for the performance of RF devices. At CERN, the Super Proton Synchrotron
(SPS) must be upgraded in order to feed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with 25
ns bunch spaced beams. At such small bunch spacing, EM may limit the
performance of the SPS and consequently that of the LHC. To mitigate this
phenomenon CERN is developing a carbon thin film coating with low Secondary
Electron Yield (SEY) to coat the internal walls of the SPS dipoles beam pipes.
This paper presents the progresses in the coating technology, the performance
of the carbon coatings and the strategy for a large scale production.Comment: 7 pages, contribution to the Joint INFN-CERN-EuCARD-AccNet Workshop
on Electron-Cloud Effects: ECLOUD'12; 5-9 Jun 2012, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba,
Italy; CERN Yellow Report CERN-2013-002, pp.141-14
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