The Higgs Legacy of the LHC Run I

Based on Run I data we present a comprehensive analysis of Higgs couplings. For the first time this SFitter analysis includes independent tests of the Higgs-gluon and top Yukawa couplings, Higgs decays to invisible particles, and off-shell Higgs measurements. The observed Higgs boson is fully consistent with the Standard Model, both in terms of coupling modifications and effective field theory. Based only on Higgs total rates the results using both approaches are essentially equivalent, with the exception of strong correlations in the parameter space induced by effective operators. These correlations can be controlled through additional experimental input, namely kinematic distributions. Including kinematic distributions the typical Run I reach for weakly interacting new physics now reaches 300 to 500 GeV.Comment: 29 pages, 15 figure

Diseño y programación de un equipo de adquisición de datos

Esta memoria recoge el proyecto realizado en la empresa Nissan (Barcelona) a raíz de la necesidad de incorporar un equipo de adquisición de datos basado en PC para diferentes sensores (desplazamiento, acelerómetros, células de carga, etc.) con la finalidad de cubrir la totalidad de los ensayos de suspensión y chasis que se hacen. Así pues, se describen los requisitos necesarios del equipo en función de la instrumentación empleada y de la naturaleza de los ensayos a realizar. Aprovechando la programabilidad del equipo al estar basado en PC, se desarrolla en un software de entorno gráfico llamado LabVIEW una aplicación para un ensayo de resistencia llamado strength definido en las normas de ensayo de la empresa. Dicha aplicación automatiza el ensayo ejerciendo el control del actuador, un cilindro hidráulico, y al mismo tiempo realizando la adquisición de los datos de los sensores. Así pues, en esta memoria se explica el diseño del equipo a través del análisis de los requisitos y una vez presentada la configuración, se profundiza en el desarrollo del código que permite automatizar el ensayo. Finalmente se describe la puesta en marcha y experimentación para la validación del equipo y del código. La realización de este código es el comienzo de la explotación de un equipo que, por su programabilidad, ofrece mejoras tanto en la ejecución de los ensayos como en la gestión de datos obtenidos. A partir del programa realizado se harán mejoras y nuevas aplicaciones para nuevos ensayos

Development of a PCR‐based method to monitor arthropod dispersal in agroecosystems: Macrolophus pygmaeus (Hemiptera: Miridae) from banker plants to tomato crops

Development of conservation biological control programs requires the identification of sources that contribute to predator colonization of crops. Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is an efficient polyphagous predator used in biological control programs in vegetable crops in Europe. We have developed a marking method based on spraying with a solution of the brine shrimp Artemia spp. (Anostraca: Artemiidae) cysts, followed by a PCR detection of Artemia DNA to monitor M. pygmaeus dispersal from banker plants to tomato crops. Experiments conducted in climatic chambers show that the topical application of this marking solution on M. pygmaeus does not significantly reduce adult longevity and that it is detected up to 6 d after the application. When this Artemia solution was applied on Calendula officinalis L. banker plants harboring M. pygmaeus and maintained outdoors, Artemia DNA was still detected on 62% of the insects after 6 d. The conducted field applications in commercial greenhouses have confirmed the usefulness of this method to monitor M. pygmaeus dispersal from banker plants to a newly planted tomato crop. This method can be used to assess arthropod movement, being an interesting molecular approach for further improving future pest management strategies.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Análisis estratégico de Banco Pichincha España

Análisis de la situación estratégica de Banco Pichincha España, sus fortalezas, sus debilidades, cómo afrontar los retos del futuro y cómo seguir creciendo bajo un contexto de crisis

Magnetic nanoparticles: from the nanostructure to the physical properties

Some of the synthesis methods and physical properties of iron-oxide based magnetic nanoparticles such as Fe3-xO4 and CoxFe3-xO4 are reviewed because of their interest in health, environmental applications, and ultra-high-density magnetic recording. Unlike high crystalline quality nanoparticles larger than a few nanometers that show bulk-like magnetic and electronic properties, nanostructures with increasing structural defects yield a progressive worsening of their general performance due to frozen magnetic disorder and local breaking of their crystalline symmetry. Thus, it is shown that single-crystal, monophasic nanoparticles do not exhibit significant surface or finite-size effects, such as spin canting, reduced saturation magnetization, high closure magnetic fields, hysteresis-loop shift or dead magnetic layer features which are mostly associated with crystallographic defective systems. Besides, the key role of the nanoparticle coating, surface anisotropy, and inter-particle interactions are discussed. Finally, the results of some single particle techniques -- magnetic force microscopy, X-ray photoemission electron microscopy, and electron magnetic chiral dichroism -- that allow studying individual nanoparticles down to sub-nanometer resolution with element, valence and magnetic selectivity, are presented. All in all, the intimate, fundamental correlation of the nanostructure (crystalline, chemical, magnetic) to the physical properties of the nanoparticles is ascertained

Robust determination of the Higgs couplings: Power to the data

We study the indirect effects of new physics on the phenomenology of the recently discovered "Higgs-like" particle. In a model-independent framework these effects can be parametrized in terms of an effective Lagrangian at the electroweak scale. In a theory in which the S U ( 2 ) L × U ( 1 ) Y gauge symmetry is linearly realized they appear at lowest order as dimension-six operators, containing all the standard model fields including the light scalar doublet, with unknown coefficients. We discuss the choice of operator basis which allows us to make better use of all the available data to determine the coefficients of the new operators. We illustrate our present knowledge of those by performing a global five-parameter fit to the existing data which allows simultaneous determination of the Higgs couplings to gluons, electroweak gauge bosons, bottom quarks, and tau leptons. We find that for all scenarios considered the standard model predictions for each individual Higgs coupling and observable are within the corresponding 90% C.L. allowed range, the only exception being the Higgs branching ratio into two photons for the scenario with standard couplings of the Higgs to fermions. We finish by commenting on the implications of the results for unitarity of processes at higher energies

Constraining anomalous Higgs boson interactions

The recently announced Higgs boson discovery marks the dawn of the direct probing of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. Sorting out the dynamics responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking now requires probing the Higgs boson interactions and searching for additional states connected to this sector. In this work, we analyze the constraints on Higgs boson couplings to the standard model gauge bosons using the available data from Tevatron and LHC. We work in a model-independent framework expressing the departure of the Higgs boson couplings to gauge bosons by dimension-six operators. This allows for independent modifications of its couplings to gluons, photons, and weak gauge bosons while still preserving the Standard Model (SM) gauge invariance. Our results indicate that best overall agreement with data is obtained if the cross section of Higgs boson production via gluon fusion is suppressed with respect to its SM value and the Higgs boson branching ratio into two photons is enhanced, while keeping the production and decays associated to couplings to weak gauge bosons close to their SM prediction

Determining Triple Gauge Boson Couplings from Higgs Data

In the framework of effective Lagrangians with the S U ( 2 ) L × U ( 1 ) Y symmetry linearly realized, modifications of the couplings of the Higgs field to the electroweak gauge bosons are related to anomalous triple gauge couplings (TGCs). Here, we show that the analysis of the latest Higgs boson production data at the LHC and Tevatron give rise to strong bounds on TGCs that are complementary to those from direct TGC analysis. We present the constraints on TGCs obtained by combining all available data on direct TGC studies and on Higgs production analysis