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Dynamical completions of generalized O'Raifeartaigh models
We present gauge theory completions of Wess-Zumino models admitting
supersymmetry breaking vacua with spontaneously broken R-symmetry. Our models
are simple deformations of generalized ITIY models, a supersymmetric theory
with gauge group Sp(N), N+1 flavors plus singlets, with a modified tree level
superpotential which explicitly breaks (part of) the global symmetry. Depending
on the nature of the deformation, we obtain effective O'Raifeartaigh-like
models whose pseudomoduli space is locally stable in a neighborhood of the
origin of field space, or in a region not including it. Hence, once embedded in
direct gauge mediation scenarios, our models can give low energy spectra with
either suppressed or unsuppressed gaugino mass.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure; v3: reference adde
Goldstones in Diphotons
We study the conditions for a new scalar resonance to be observed first in
diphotons at the LHC Run-2. We focus on scenarios where the scalar arises
either from an internal or spacetime symmetry broken spontaneously, for which
the mass is naturally below the cutoff and the low-energy interactions are
fixed by the couplings to the broken currents, UV anomalies, and selection
rules. We discuss the recent excess in diphoton resonance searches observed by
ATLAS and CMS at 750 GeV, and explore its compatibility with other searches at
Run-1 and its interpretation as Goldstone bosons in supersymmetry and composite
Higgs models. We show that two candidates naturally emerge: a Goldstone boson
from an internal symmetry with electromagnetic anomalies, and the scalar
partner of the Goldstone of supersymmetry breaking: the sgoldstino. The dilaton
from conformal symmetry breaking is instead disfavoured by present data, in its
minimal natural realization.Comment: 18 pages + refs, 2 figures. v2: typos corrected, references added,
discussions extended and three new plots. Conclusion unchanged. v3: published
versio
Cross-sectional associations between air pollution and chronic bronchitis: an ESCAPE meta-analysis across five cohorts
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to assess associations of outdoor air pollution on prevalence of chronic bronchitis symptoms in adults in five cohort studies (Asthma-E3N, ECRHS, NSHD, SALIA, SAPALDIA) participating in the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE) project. METHODS: Annual average particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5, PMabsorbance, PMcoarse), NO2, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and road traffic measures modelled from ESCAPE measurement campaigns 2008-2011 were assigned to home address at most recent assessments (1998-2011). Symptoms examined were chronic bronchitis (cough and phlegm for ≥3 months of the year for ≥2 years), chronic cough (with/without phlegm) and chronic phlegm (with/without cough). Cohort-specific cross-sectional multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted using common confounder sets (age, sex, smoking, interview season, education), followed by meta-analysis. RESULTS: 15 279 and 10 537 participants respectively were included in the main NO2 and PM analyses at assessments in 1998-2011. Overall, there were no statistically significant associations with any air pollutant or traffic exposure. Sensitivity analyses including in asthmatics only, females only or using back-extrapolated NO2 and PM10 for assessments in 1985-2002 (ECRHS, NSHD, SALIA, SAPALDIA) did not alter conclusions. In never-smokers, all associations were positive, but reached statistical significance only for chronic phlegm with PMcoarse OR 1.31 (1.05 to 1.64) per 5 µg/m(3) increase and PM10 with similar effect size. Sensitivity analyses of older cohorts showed increased risk of chronic cough with PM2.5abs (black carbon) exposures. CONCLUSIONS: Results do not show consistent associations between chronic bronchitis symptoms and current traffic-related air pollution in adult European populations
A new measurement of the neutron detection efficiency for the NaI Crystal Ball detector
We report on a measurement of the neutron detection efficiency in NaI
crystals in the Crystal Ball detector obtained from a study of single p0
photoproduction on deuterium using the tagged photon beam at the Mainz
Microtron. The results were obtained up to a neutron energy of 400 MeV. They
are compared to previous measurements made more than 15 years ago at the pion
beam at the BNL AGS
Construction of Precision sMDT Detector for ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Upgrade
This paper describes the small-diameter monitored drift-tube detector
construction at the University of Michigan as a contribution to the ATLAS Muon
Spectrometer upgrade for the high-luminosity Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Measurements of the first 30 chambers built at Michigan show that the drift
tube wire position accuracy meets the specification of 20 microns. The
positions of the platforms for alignment and magnetic field sensors are all
installed well within the required precision. The cosmic ray test measurements
show single wire tracking resolution of 100 +- 7 microns with an average
detection efficiency above 99 %. The infrastructure, tooling, techniques, and
procedures for chamber production are described in detail. The results from the
chamber quality control tests of the first 30 constructed chambers are
reported.Comment: 35 pages, 41 figure
Patterns of Soft Masses from General Semi-Direct Gauge Mediation
We give a general formulation of semi-direct gauge mediation of supersymmetry
breaking where the messengers interact with the hidden sector only through a
weakly gauged group. Using this general formulation, we provide an explicit
proof that the MSSM gaugino masses are vanishing to leading order in the gauge
couplings. On the other hand, the MSSM sfermion masses have, generically, a
non-vanishing leading contribution. We discuss how such a mechanism can
successfully be combined with other mediation schemes which give tachyonic
sfermions, such as sequestered anomaly mediation and some direct gauge
mediation models.Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures; v2: refs added; v3: minor corrections,
clarifications added, mainly in section
Extended Aharonov-Bohm period analysis of strongly correlated electron systems
The `extended Aharonov-Bohm (AB) period' recently proposed by Kusakabe and
Aoki [J. Phys. Soc. Jpn (65), 2772 (1996)] is extensively studied numerically
for finite size systems of strongly correlated electrons. While the extended AB
period is the system length times the flux quantum for noninteracting systems,
we have found the existence of the boundary across which the period is halved
or another boundary into an even shorter period on the phase diagram for these
models. If we compare this result with the phase diagram predicted from the
Tomonaga-Luttinger theory, devised for low-energy physics, the halved period
(or shorter periods) has a one-to-one correspondence to the existence of the
pairing (phase separation or metal-insulator transition) in these models. We
have also found for the t-J model that the extended AB period does not change
across the integrable-nonintegrable boundary despite the totally different
level statistics.Comment: 26 pages, RevTex, 16 figures available on request from
[email protected], to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 66 No.
7(1997), We disscus the extended AB period of strongly correlated systems
more systematically by performing numerical calculation for the t-J-J' model
and the extended Hubbard model in addition to the 1D t-J model and the t-J
ladde
Helicity-dependent cross sections and double-polarization observable E in η photoproduction from quasifree protons and neutrons
Precise helicity-dependent cross sections and the double-polarization observable E were measured for η
photoproduction from quasifree protons and neutrons bound in the deuteron. The η → 2γ and η → 3π0 → 6γ
decay modes were used to optimize the statistical quality of the data and to estimate systematic uncertainties. The
measurement used the A2 detector setup at the tagged photon beam of the electron accelerator MAMI in Mainz.
A longitudinally polarized deuterated butanol target was used in combination with a circularly polarized photon
beam from bremsstrahlung of a longitudinally polarized electron beam. The reaction products were detected with
the electromagnetic calorimeters Crystal Ball and TAPS, which covered 98% of the full solid angle. The results
show that the narrow structure observed earlier in the unpolarized excitation function of η photoproduction off
the neutron appears only in reactions with antiparallel photon and nucleon spin (σ1/2). It is absent for reactions
with parallel spin orientation (σ3/2) and thus very probably related to partial waves with total spin 1/2. The
behavior of the angular distributions of the helicity-dependent cross sections was analyzed by fitting them with Legendre polynomials. The results are in good agreement with a model from the Bonn-Gatchina group, which
uses an interference of P11 and S11 partial waves to explain the narrow structure
Analytical Bethe Ansatz for closed and open gl(n)-spin chains in any representation
We present an "algebraic treatment" of the analytical Bethe Ansatz. For this
purpose, we introduce abstract monodromy and transfer matrices which provide an
algebraic framework for the analytical Bethe Ansatz. It allows us to deal with
a generic gl(n)-spin chain possessing on each site an arbitrary
gl(n)-representation. For open spin chains, we use the classification of the
reflection matrices to treat all the diagonal boundary cases. As a result, we
obtain the Bethe equations in their full generality for closed and open spin
chains. The classifications of finite dimensional irreducible representations
for the Yangian (closed spin chains) and for the reflection algebras (open spin
chains) are directly linked to the calculation of the transfer matrix
eigenvalues. As examples, we recover the usual closed and open spin chains, we
treat the alternating spin chains and the closed spin chain with impurity
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