Right-handed Sneutrino Dark Matter in Supersymmetric B-L Model

We show that the lightest right-handed sneutrino in TeV scale supersymmetric B-L model with inverse seesaw mechanism is a viable candidate for cold dark matter. We find that it accounts for the observed dark matter relic abundance in a wide range of parameter space. The spin-independent cross section of B-L right-handed sneutrino is consistent with the recent results CDMS II and XENON experiments and it is detectable in future direct detection experiments. Although the B-L right-handed sneutrinos annihilate into leptons, the PAMELA results can not be explained in this model unless a huge boost factor is considered. Also the muon flux generated by B-L right-handed sneutrino in the galactic center is smaller than Super-Kamiokande's upper bound.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures; version accepted for publication in Journal of High Energy Physic

Produção de melão Cantaloupe influenciado por coberturas do solo, agrotêxtil e lâminas de irrigação Melon yield and fruit quality as influenced by soil coverages, agrotextile and irrigation depth in dry season

Dois experimentos foram conduzidos simultaneamente em uma mesma área, no município de Baraúna (RN), de outubro a dezembro de 2003, com o objetivo de estudar o uso de cobertura do solo com filmes plásticos e lâminas de irrigação, bem como o uso de agrotêxtil, na produção de melão Cantaloupe. Em um experimento foi utilizado o agrotêxtil, enquanto no outro não. Em cada experimento estudou-se o efeito de cinco coberturas (solo descoberto, cobertura com plástico preto, prateado, amarelo e marrom) e três lâminas de irrigação (100%, 84% e 67% da lâmina padrão de 270 mm, L1), em esquema fatorial 5 x 3, no delineamento de blocos casualizados completos com duas repetições. Foram avaliados o número, massa média e produtividade de frutos comercializáveis (mercados interno e externo), refugos e totais. O uso do agrotêxtil aumentou o número de frutos e produtividade. Na ausência do agrotêxtil, a cobertura do solo com plástico amarelo aumentou a produtividade comercial em relação ao solo descoberto, enquanto que, na presença do agrotêxtil o plástico preto foi superior ao marrom, mas não diferiu do solo descoberto. A produção diminuiu com a redução da lâmina de irrigação. O uso do agrotêxtil associado ao uso de cobertura do solo com plástico preto ou solo descoberto apresentou maior viabilidade econômica.<br>Two experiments were carried out at the same time in Baraúna, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil, from October to December 2004, to evaluate different soil coverages and irrigation depth as well as the use of agrotextile on the melon yield. In the first experiment the agrotextile was used, but not in the second one. Both experiments were designed in a 5 x 3 factorial scheme in randomized complete blocks with two replications. The treatments of the factorial consisted of the combination of five soil coverages (films of yellow, brown, black and silvered polyethylene, and no soil coverages) with three irrigation depths (100%, 84% and 67% of the standard water amount). The fruit number, mean fruit mass, marketable fruit yield, refused and total fruit yield were evaluated. The treatments with film of yellow polyethylene increased the marketable fruit yield in the absence of agrotextile. The fruit yield decreased with decreasing irrigation depths. The treatments with black polyethylene film or with nude soil associated with agrotextile had the best economic results

Search for high-mass resonances decaying to dilepton final states in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for high-mass resonances decaying to an electron-positron pair or a muon-antimuon pair. The search is sensitive to heavy neutral Z' gauge bosons, Randall-Sundrum gravitons, Z* bosons, techni-mesons, Kaluza-Klein Z/gamma bosons, and bosons predicted by Torsion models. Results are presented based on an analysis of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9/fb in the dielectron channel and 5.0/fb in the dimuon channel. A Z' boson with Standard Model-like couplings is excluded at 95 percent confidence level for masses below 2.22 TeV. A Randall-Sundrum graviton with coupling k/Mbar = 0.1 is excluded at 95 percent confidence level for masses below 2.16 TeV. Limits on the other models are also presented, including Technicolor and Minimal Z' Models.Comment: 31 pages plus author list (53 pages total), 10 figures, 16 tables, submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics Revision corresponds to published versio