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Non-Perturbative Renormalisation using Domain Wall Fermions
The viability of the Non-Perturbative Renormalisation (NPR) method of the
Rome/Southampton group is studied, for the first time, in the context of domain
wall fermions. The procedure is used to extract the renormalisation
coefficients of the various quark bilinears, as well as the four-fermion
operators relevant to the effective Hamiltonian. The
renormalisation of the Hamiltonian is also discussed.Comment: LATTICE99(Improvement and Renormalization),3 pages, LaTeX2e; minor
typos correcte
Non-perturbative Renormalisation with Domain Wall Fermions
We present results from a study of the renormalisation of both quark bilinear
and four-quark operators for the domain wall fermion action, using the
non-perturbative renormalisation technique of the Rome-Southampton group. These
results are from a quenched simulation, on a 16^3 x 32 lattice, with beta=6.0
and L_s=16.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, Lattice 2000 (Improvement and Renormalisation),
RBC collaboration, Typos correcte
Invisible Z decay width bounds on active-sterile neutrino mixing in the (3+1) and (3+2) models
In this work we consider the standard model extended with singlet sterile
neutrinos with mass in the eV range and mixed with the active neutrinos. The
active-sterile neutrino mixing renders new contributions to the invisible Z
decay width which, in the case of light sterile neutrinos, depends on the
active-sterile mixing matrix elements only. We then use the current
experimental value of the invisible Z decay width to obtain bounds on these
mixing matrix elements for both (3+1) and (3+2) models.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Non-Perturbative Renormalisation of the Lattice Four-Fermion Operator
We compute the renormalised four-fermion operator using a
non-perturbative method recently introduced for determining the renormalisation
constants of generic lattice composite operators. Because of the presence of
the Wilson term, mixes with operators of different
chiralities. A projection method to determine the mixing coefficients is
implemented. The numerical results for the renormalisation constants have been
obtained from a simulation performed using the SW-Clover quark action, on a
lattice, at . We show that the use of the constants
determined non-perturbatively improves the chiral behaviour of the lattice kaon
matrix element \_{\latt}.Comment: LaTeX, 16 pages, 2 postscript figure
N=1 Super Yang-Mills on the Lattice in the Strong Coupling Limit
We study the N=1 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice at
strong coupling. We analyse and discuss the recent results obtained at strong
coupling and large N for the mesonic and fermionic propagators and spectrum.Comment: Latex 3 pages. Contribution to the Lattice99 Proceeding
Clone flow analysis for a theory inspired Neutrino Experiment planning
The presence of several clone solutions in the simultaneous measurement of
() has been widely discussed in literature. In this letter
we write the analytical formulae of the clones location in the
() plane as a function of the physical input pair
(). We show how the clones move with changing
. The "clone flow" can be significantly different if computed
(naively) from the oscillation probabilities or (exactly) from the
probabilities integrated over the neutrino flux and cross-section.
Using our complete computation we compare the clone flow of a set of possible
future neutrino experiments: the CERN SuperBeam, BetaBeam and Neutrino Factory
proposals. We show that the combination of these specific BetaBeam and
SuperBeam does not help in solving the degeneracies. On the contrary, the
combination of one of them with the Neutrino Factory Golden and Silver channel
can be used, from a theoretical point of view, to solve completely the
eightfold degeneracy.Comment: 23 pages, using epsfi
Circulating SIRT1 inversely correlates with epicardial fat thickness in patients with obesity
Background and aim: Obesity is increasing worldwide and is related to undesirable cardiovascular outcomes. Epicardial fat (EF), the heart visceral fat depot, increases with obesity and correlates with cardiovascular risk. SIRT1, an enzyme regulating metabolic circuits linked with obesity, has a cardioprotective effect and is a predictor of cardiovascular events. We aimed to assess the relationship of EF thickness (EFT) with circulating SIRT1 in patients with obesity.
Methods and results: Sixty-two patients affected by obesity and 23 lean controls were studied. Plasma SIRT1 concentration was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). EFT was measured by echocardiography. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, heart rate (HR), blood pressure, and laboratory findings (fasting glucose, insulin, HbA1c, cholesterol, and triglycerides) were assessed. SIRT1 was significantly lower (P = 0.002) and EFT was higher (P < 0.0001) in patients with obesity compared with lean controls. SIRT1 showed a negative correlation with EFT and HR in the obesity group (rho = -0.350, P = 0.005; rho = -0.303, P = 0.008, respectively). After adjustment for obesity-correlated variables, multiple linear regression analysis showed that EFT remained the best correlate of SIRT1 (beta = -0.352, P = 0.016).
Conclusions: Circulating SIRT1 correlates with the visceral fat content of the heart. Serum SIRT1 levels might provide additional information for risk assessment of coronary artery disease in patients with obesity. (C) 2016 The Italian Society of Diabetology, the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis, the Italian Society of Human Nutrition, and the Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Non-perturbative scale evolution of four-fermion operators
We apply the Schroedinger Functional (SF) formalism to determine the
renormalisation group running of four-fermion operators which appear in the
effective weak Hamiltonian of the Standard Model. Our calculations are done
using Wilson fermions and the parity-odd components of the operators.
Preliminary results are presented for the operator .Comment: Lattice2002(improve
New interactions: past and future experiments
In this talk I will review the present status and future perspectives of some
popular extensions of the conventional three-neutrino oscillation scenario,
from a purely phenomenological point of view. For concreteness I will focus
only on three specific scenarios: non-standard neutrino interactions with
matters, models with extra sterile neutrinos, and neutrino decay and
decoherence.Comment: LaTeX file using jpconf class, 8 pages, 2 tables. Proceedings of the
"XXIII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics"
(Neutrino 08), Christchurch, New Zealand, May 25-31, 200
Locating the alien chromatin segment in common wheat-Aegilops longissima mildew resistant transfers
By use of the Chinese Spring ph 1b mutant, recombination was induced between the 3S1 short arm telosome of Ae. longissima and its group-3 wheat homoeologues. Transfer was thus obtained of chromosomal segments bearing the alien Pm 13 mildew resistance gene into several common wheat lines. To identify the wheat chromosome involved in each transfer, these were subjected to monosomic and C-banding analyses. Probably due to preferential 3B-3S1 pairing, irrespective of the group-3 wheat chromosome present as monosome in the critical steps of the transfer work, in 2/3 of the cases 3B turned out to be the recipient chromosome, whereas 3D was the one involved in the remaining ones. Assessment of the residual pairing ability of the recombinant chromosomes in F1's between four 3B and three 3D transfer lines and their corresponding wheat ditelosomic as well as 3S1 substitution lines, indicated about coincident values (about 40 % pairing with DT3BS) in three of the 3B recombinants, a significantly different pattern in the fourth one (10 %) and a more continuous variation among the 3D ones. An overall prevailing terminal location of the wheat-alien chromatin exchange points is tentatively hypothesized
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