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Higgsless electroweak symmetry breaking at the LHC
While the Higgs model is the best studied scenario of electroweak symmetry
breaking, a number strongly-coupled models exist, predicting new signatures.
Recent studies of WW and WZ final states at the ATLAS and CMS experiments are
summarized and expected sensitivities are presented within the frameworks of
the technicolor straw-man model and the electroweak chiral Lagrangian.Comment: Proceedings for the EPS HEP 2007 conference, Manchester, U.K., on
behalf of the ATLAS and CMS Collaboration
Will Jets Identify the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae?
We use the fact that a Type Ia supernova has been serendipitously discovered
near the jet of the active galaxy 3C 78 to examine the question of whether jets
can enhance accretion onto white dwarfs. One interesting outcome of such a
jet-induced accretion process is an enhanced rate of novae in the vicinity of
jets. We present results of observations of the jet in M87 which appear to have
indeed discovered 11 novae in close proximity to the jet. We show that a
confirmation of the relation between jets and novae and Type Ia supernovae can
finally identify the elusive progenitors of Type Ia supernovae.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
SURVEY OF THE DEPENDENCE ON TEMPERATURE OF THE COERCIVITY OF GARNET-FILMS
The temperature dependence of the domain-wall coercive field of epitaxial magnetic garnets films
has been investigated in the entire temperature range of the ferrimagnetic phase, and has been found
to be described by a set of parametric exponents. In subsequent temperature regions different slopes
were observed, with breaking points whose position was found to be sample dependent. A survey
ba.ed on literature Data as well as on a large number of our own samples shows the general
existence of this piecewise exponential dependence and the presence of the breaking points. This
type of domain-wall coercive field temperature dependence was found in all samples in the large
family of the epitaxial garnets (about 30 specimens of more than ten chemical compositionsj and
also in another strongly anisotropic material (TbFeCo)
Lattice study of vacuum polarization function and determination of strong coupling constant
We calculate the vacuum polarization functions on the lattice using the
overlap fermion formulation.By matching the lattice data at large momentum
scales with the perturbative expansion supplemented by Operator Product
Expansion (OPE), we extract the strong coupling constant in
two-flavor QCD as =
GeV, where the errors are statistical and systematic, respectively. In
addition, from the analysis of the difference between the vector and
axial-vector channels, we obtain some of the four-quark condensates.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures, enlarged version published in Phys. Rev.
Determinação do número de fêmeas virgens por armadilha e periodicidade de captura de machos de Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: noctuidae).
Avaliou-se em lavouras de milho em fase de liberacao de estilo-estigmas, na EMBRAPA/CNPMS, em Sete Lagoas, MG, a atratividade de diferentes numeros de femeas virgens de Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) em armadilha adesiva, alem de uma formulacao comercial do feromonio sintetico, proveniente dos E.E.U.U. A maior atividade de procura por acasalamento teve inicio nas primeiras horas da noite. Nao houve diferenca significativa ente medias de insetos capturados com uma, tres ou cinco femeas. Cinco femeas por armadilha tornam o monitoramento pouco pratico: uma apenas pode comprometer a captura por disfuncao fisiologica ou mesmo morte. Nao houve captura nas armadilhas contendo feromonio sintetico, que, ao inves, capturou machos de Mythimna, outro Noctuidae. A maior frequencia de captura nas armadilhas ocorreu apos a meia noite, diminuindo proximo do alvorecer. O horario de inicio de chamamento e captura esteve estreitamente relacionado com a temperatura ambiente
Combination Forecasts of Bond and Stock Returns: An Asset Allocation Perspective
We investigate the out-of-sample forecasting ability of the HML, SMB, momentum, short-term and long-term reversal factors along with their size and value decompositions on U.S. bond and stock returns for a variety of horizons ranging from the short run (1 month) to the long run (2 years). Our findings suggest that these factors contain significantly more information for future bond and stock market returns than the typically employed financial variables. Combination of forecasts of the empirical factors turns out to be particularly successful, especially from an an asset allocation perspective. Similar findings pertain to the European and Japanese markets
The Rate and Spatial Distribution of Novae in M101 (NGC 5457)
A new multi-epoch H-alpha imaging study of M101 (NGC 5457) has been carried
out as part of a larger campaign to study the rate and stellar population of
extragalactic novae. The survey yielded a total of 13 nova detections from 10
epochs of M101 observations spanning a three year period. After correcting for
the temporal coverage and survey completeness, a global nova rate of
11.7^{+1.9}_{-1.5} per year is found. This value corresponds to a
luminosity-specific nova rate of 1.23\pm0.27 novae per year per 10^{10}
L_{\sun,K} when the K luminosity is derived from the B-K color, or 1.94\pm0.42
novae per year per 10^{10} L_{\sun,K} when the K magnitude from the Two Micron
All Sky Survey is used. These values are consistent with previous estimates by
Shafter et al. that were based on more limited data. The spatial distribution
of the combined nova sample from the present survey and from the earlier
Shafter et al. survey shows that the specific frequency of novae closely
follows the integrated background light of the galaxy.Comment: 22 pages; 4 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journa
Limits on Low Energy Photon-Photon Scattering from an Experiment on Magnetic Vacuum Birefringence
Experimental bounds on induced vacuum magnetic birefringence can be used to
improve present photon-photon scattering limits in the electronvolt energy
range. Measurements with the PVLAS apparatus (E. Zavattini {\it et al.}, Phys.
Rev. D {\bf77} (2008) 032006) at both nm and 532 nm lead to
bounds on the parameter {\it A}, describing non linear effects in QED, of
T @ 1064 nm and T @ 532 nm, respectively, at 95% confidence level,
compared to the predicted value of T. The
total photon-photon scattering cross section may also be expressed in terms of
, setting bounds for unpolarized light of m and m. Compared to the expected QED scattering cross
section these results are a factor of higher and represent
an improvement of a factor about 500 on previous bounds based on ellipticity
measurements and of a factor of about on bounds based on direct
stimulated scattering measurements
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