295 research outputs found
Neutrino Mixing and Leptogenesis in Symmetry
We study the consequences of the -symmetry behind the --
universality in neutrino mass matrix. We then implement this symmetry in the
type-I seesaw mechanism and show how it can accommodate all sorts of lepton
mass hierarchies and generate enough lepton asymmetry to interpret the observed
baryon asymmetry in the universe. We also show how a specific form of a
high-scale perturbation is kept when translated via the seesaw into the low
scale domain, where it can accommodate the neutrino mixing data. We finally
present a realization of the high scale perturbed texture through addition of
matter and extra exact symmetries.Comment: 29 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. Complete re-analysis. Version to appear
in PR
Pure electroweak mechanism for the electric dipole moment of neutron in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model
The pure electroweak three-loop mechanism for the induced electric and
chromoelectric dipole moments of quarks is studied in the Kobayashi-Maskawa
model with three and four generations. In the standard three generation case,
this mechanism is found to produce a negligible contribution to the electric
dipole moment of neutron. In the presence of the fourth heavy generation,
however, pure electroweak corrections are important and might be several times
larger than the corresponding QCD contribution for the masses of heaviest
quarks 500-600 GeV. The resulting electric dipole moment of neutron
naturally arises at the level of . The effects of the
fourth generation physics are parametrized at standard electroweak scale by the
presence of the effective charged right-handed currents.Comment: 6 pages, LATeX file, 4 figures available upon reques
Carcinome parathyroidien
Parathyroid cancer is uncommon and its etiology is largely unknown. It is difficult to diagnose. The preoperative syndrome is unusually severe primary hyperparathyroidism. Intraoperatively, many characteristics of the tumor may be highly suggestive. Confirmation requires pathological analysis of the operative specimens and the diagnosis is strengthened in the presence of associated Shantz and Castelman criteria. Specific immunohistochemical techniques have been shown to be contributive. The diagnosis can be further supported by the clinical course of local recurrence or metastatic spread.Treatment of this tumor is primarly surgical. In some cases, postoperative radiotherapy may improve locoregional control of the tumor. The disease control can be monitored by regula assay of serum calcium and the parathormone. We report a case of parathyroid carcinoma, with special emphasis on the diagnostic modalities of this tumor, its treatmentand its prognosis.Keywords: Hypercalcemia, Primary Hyperparathyroidism, Parathyroid carcinoma, Surgery
Iatrogenic colorectal Kaposi sarcoma complicating a refractory ulcerative colitis in a human immunodeficiency negative-virus patient
Kaposi sarcoma is a mesenchymal tumor associated to a human herpes virus-8. It often occurs in human immunodeficiency virus-positive subjects. Colorectal localization is rare. We report the case of a colorectal Kaposi sarcoma complicating a refractory ulcerative colitis treated with surgery after the failure of immunomodulator therapy in a human immunodeficiency virus-negative heterosexual man.Key words: Kaposi’s Sarcoma, ulcerative colitis, Human Herpes Virus-8, Infliximab, immunosuppressio
Supersymmetric radiative corrections at large tan beta
In the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM), fermion
masses and Yukawa couplings receive radiative corrections at one loop from
diagrams involving the supersymmetric particles. The corrections to the
relation between down-type fermion masses and Yukawa couplings are enhanced by
tan beta, which makes them potentially very significant at large tan beta.
These corrections affect a wide range of processes in the MSSM, including
neutral and charged Higgs phenomenology, rare B meson decays, and
renormalization of the CKM matrix. We give a pedagogical review of the sources
and phenomenological effects of these corrections.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of 30 Years of
Supersymmetry, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 13-27, 2000; references adde
Norepinephrine: more of a neurohormone than a vasopressor
Septic shock causes unpredictable cardiovascular responses through adrenoreceptor-mediated changes in cardiac function and vascular responsiveness. The use of norepinephrine should be regarded as neurohormonal augmentation therapy to defend decompensating haemodynamic function rather than as a rescue therapy to treat shock. Recent trials represent a perceptible change in clinical practice to preferentially use norepinephrine early in resuscitation to defend the mean arterial pressure and to use norepinephrine as a neurohormone rather than as a vasopressor
Viability of MSSM scenarios at very large tan(beta)
We investigate the MSSM with very large tan(beta) > 50, where the fermion
masses are strongly affected by loop-induced couplings to the "wrong" Higgs,
imposing perturbative Yukawa couplings and constraints from flavour physics.
Performing a low-energy scan of the MSSM with flavour-blind soft terms, we find
that the branching ratio of B->tau nu and the anomalous magnetic moment of the
muon are the strongest constraints at very large tan(beta) and identify the
viable regions in parameter space. Furthermore we determine the scale at which
the perturbativity of the Yukawa sector breaks down, depending on the
low-energy MSSM parameters. Next, we analyse the very large tan(beta) regime of
General Gauge Mediation (GGM) with a low mediation scale. We investigate the
requirements on the parameter space and discuss the implied flavour
phenomenology. We point out that the possibility of a vanishing Bmu term at a
mediation scale M = 100 TeV is challenged by the experimental data on B->tau nu
and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures. v2: discussion in sections 1 and 4 expanded,
conclusions unchanged. Matches version published in JHE
Universal Texture of Quark and Lepton Mass Matrices and a Discrete Symmetry Z_3
Recent neutrino data have been favourable to a nearly bimaximal mixing, which
suggests a simple form of the neutrino mass matrix. Stimulated by this matrix
form, a possibility that all the mass matrices of quarks and leptons have the
same form as in the neutrinos is investigated. The mass matrix form is
constrained by a discrete symmetry Z_3 and a permutation symmetry S_2. The
model, of course, leads to a nearly bimaximal mixing for the lepton sectors,
while, for the quark sectors, it can lead to reasonable values of the CKM
mixing matrix and masses.Comment: 24 pages, RevTEX, no figure, some references and comments were adde
Leptogenesis and neutrino parameters
We calculate the baryonic asymmetry of the universe in the
baryogenesis-via-leptogenesis framework, assuming first a quark-lepton symmetry
and then a charged-neutral lepton symmetry. We match the results with the
experimentally favoured range. In the first case all the oscillation solutions
to the solar neutrino problem, except the large mixing matter solution, can
lead to the allowed range, but with fine tuning of the parameters. In the
second case the general result is quite similar. Some related theoretical hints
are discussed.Comment: RevTex, 21 pages with 8 figure
Neutrino Mass, Sneutrino Dark Matter and Signals of Lepton Flavor Violation in the MRSSM
We study the phenomenology of mixed-sneutrino dark matter in the Minimal
R-Symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model (MRSSM). Mixed sneutrinos fit
naturally within the MRSSM, as the smallness (or absence) of neutrino Yukawa
couplings singles out sneutrino A-terms as the only ones not automatically
forbidden by R-symmetry. We perform a study of randomly generated sneutrino
mass matrices and find that (i) the measured value of is well
within the range of typical values obtained for the relic abundance of the
lightest sneutrino, (ii) with small lepton-number-violating mass terms
for the right-handed sneutrinos, random
matrices satisfying the constraint have a decent probability of
satisfying direct detection constraints, and much of the remaining parameter
space will be probed by upcoming experiments, (iii) the terms radiatively generate appropriately small Majorana neutrino
masses, with neutrino oscillation data favoring a mostly sterile lightest
sneutrino with a dominantly mu/tau-flavored active component, and (iv) a
sneutrino LSP with a significant mu component can lead to striking signals of
e-mu flavor violation in dilepton invariant-mass distributions at the LHC.Comment: Revised collider analysis in Sec. 5 after fixing error in particle
spectrum, References adde
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