466 research outputs found
General Gauge Mediation with Gauge Messengers
We generalize the General Gauge Mediation formalism to allow for the
possibility of gauge messengers. Gauge messengers occur when charged matter
fields of the susy-breaking sector have non-zero F-terms, which leads to
tree-level, susy-breaking mass splittings in the gauge fields. A classic
example is that SU(5) / SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) gauge fields could be gauge
messengers. We give a completely general, model independent, current-algebra
based analysis of gauge messenger mediation of susy-breaking to the visible
sector. Characteristic aspects of gauge messengers include enhanced
contributions to gaugino masses, (tachyonic) sfermion mass-squareds generated
already at one loop, and also at two loops, and significant one-loop A-terms,
already at the messenger scale.Comment: 79 pages, 5 figure
Yeasts associated with the production of distilled alcoholic beverages
Distilled alcoholic beverages are produced firstly by fermenting sugars emanating from cereal starches (in the case of whiskies), sucrose-rich plants (in the case of rums), fructooligosaccharide-rich plants (in the case of tequila) or from fruits (in the case of brandies). Traditionally, such fermentations were conducted in a spontaneous fashion, relying on indigenous microbiota, including wild yeasts. In modern practices, selected strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are employed to produce high levels of ethanol together with numerous secondary metabolites (eg. higher alcohols, esters, carbonyls etc.) which greatly influence the final flavour and aroma characteristics of spirits following distillation of the fermented wash. Therefore, distillers, like winemakers, must carefully choose their yeast strain which will be very important in providing the alcohol content and the sensory profiles of spirit beverages. This Chapter discusses yeast and fermentation aspects associated with the production of selected distilled spirits and highlights similarities and differences with the production of wine
Using Small Punch tests in environment under static load for fracture toughness estimation in hydrogen embrittlement
In this paper, the response of three medium and high-strength steels to hydrogen embrittlement is analyzed by means of the quasi-non-destructive test known as the Small Punch Test (SPT). SPT tests on notched specimens under static load are carried out, applying Lacaclle's methodology to estimate the fracture toughness for crack initiation, comparing the results to KIEAC fracture toughness obtained from C(T) precracked specimens tested in the same environment; SPT showed good correlation to standard tests. A novel expression was proposed to define the parameter KIEAC-SP as the suitable one to estimate the fracture toughness for crack initiation in hydrogen embrittlement conditions by Small Punch means, obtaining good accuracy in its estimations. Finally, Slow Rate Small Punch Tests (SRSPT) are proposed as a more efficient alternative, introducing an order of magnitude for the adequate rate to be employed
Anisotropy dependence of the fluctuation spectroscopy in the critical and gaussian regimes in superconducting NaFe1-xCoxAs single crystals
We investigate thermal fluctuations in terms of diamagnetism and magnetotransport in superconducting NaFe1-xCoxAs single crystals with different doping levels. Results show that in the case of optimal doped and lightly overdoped (x= 0.03, 0.05) crystals the analysis in the critical as well as in the Gaussian fluctuation regions is consistent with the Ginzburg-Landau 3D fluctuation theory. However, in the case of strongly overdoped samples (x >= 0.07) the Ullah-Dorsey scaling of the fluctuation induced magnetoconductivity in the critical region confirms that thermal fluctuations exhibit a 3D anisotropic nature only in a narrow temperature region around T-c(H). This is consistent with the fact that in these samples the fluctuation effects in the Gaussian region above T-c may be described by the Lawrence-Doniach approach. Our results indicate that the anisotropy of these materials increases significantly with the doping level
A Profile Likelihood Analysis of the Constrained MSSM with Genetic Algorithms
The Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) is one of the
simplest and most widely-studied supersymmetric extensions to the standard
model of particle physics. Nevertheless, current data do not sufficiently
constrain the model parameters in a way completely independent of priors,
statistical measures and scanning techniques. We present a new technique for
scanning supersymmetric parameter spaces, optimised for frequentist profile
likelihood analyses and based on Genetic Algorithms. We apply this technique to
the CMSSM, taking into account existing collider and cosmological data in our
global fit. We compare our method to the MultiNest algorithm, an efficient
Bayesian technique, paying particular attention to the best-fit points and
implications for particle masses at the LHC and dark matter searches. Our
global best-fit point lies in the focus point region. We find many
high-likelihood points in both the stau co-annihilation and focus point
regions, including a previously neglected section of the co-annihilation region
at large m_0. We show that there are many high-likelihood points in the CMSSM
parameter space commonly missed by existing scanning techniques, especially at
high masses. This has a significant influence on the derived confidence regions
for parameters and observables, and can dramatically change the entire
statistical inference of such scans.Comment: 47 pages, 8 figures; Fig. 8, Table 7 and more discussions added to
Sec. 3.4.2 in response to referee's comments; accepted for publication in
JHE
Allosteric Analysis of Glucocorticoid Receptor-DNA Interface Induced by Cyclic Py-Im Polyamide: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
Background: It has been extensively developed in recent years that cell-permeable small molecules, such as polyamide, can be programmed to disrupt transcription factor-DNA interfaces and can silence aberrant gene expression. For example, cyclic pyrrole-imidazole polyamide that competes with glucocorticoid receptor (GR) for binding to glucocorticoid response elements could be expected to affect the DNA dependent binding by interfering with the protein-DNA interface. However, how such small molecules affect the transcription factor-DNA interfaces and gene regulatory pathways through DNA structure distortion is not fully understood so far. Methodology/Principal Findings: In the present work, we have constructed some models, especially the ternary model of polyamides+DNA+GR DNA-binding domain (GRDBD) dimer, and carried out molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations for them to address how polyamide molecules disrupt the GRDBD and DNA interface when polyamide and protein bind at the same sites on opposite grooves of DNA. Conclusions/Significance: We found that the cyclic polyamide binding in minor groove of DNA can induce a large structural perturbation of DNA, i.e. a.4 A Ë widening of the DNA minor groove and a compression of the major groove by more than 4A Ë as compared with the DNA molecule in the GRDBD dimer+DNA complex. Further investigations for the ternary system of polyamides+DNA+GRDBD dimer and the binary system of allosteric DNA+GRDBD dimer revealed that the compression o
Effect of resource spatial correlation and Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer mobility on social cooperation in Tierra del Fuego
This article presents an agent-based model designed to explore the development of cooperation
in hunter-fisher-gatherer societies that face a dilemma of sharing an unpredictable resource
that is randomly distributed in space. The model is a stylised abstraction of the
Yamana society, which inhabited the channels and islands of the southernmost part of
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina-Chile). According to ethnographic sources, the Yamana developed
cooperative behaviour supported by an indirect reciprocity mechanism: whenever
someone found an extraordinary confluence of resources, such as a beached whale, they
would use smoke signals to announce their find, bringing people together to share food and
exchange different types of social capital. The model provides insight on how the spatial
concentration of beachings and agentsâ movements in the space can influence cooperation.
We conclude that the emergence of informal and dynamic communities that operate as a
vigilance network preserves cooperation and makes defection very costly.MICINN http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/ CSD2010-00034 (SimulPast CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010) and HAR2009-06996; the government of Castilla y LeĂłnhttp://www.jcyl.es/ GREX251-2009; the Argentine CONICET http://www.conicet.gov.ar/PIP-0706; and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Researchhttp://www.wennergren.org/ "Social Aggregation: A Yamana Society's Short Term Episode to Analyse Social Interaction, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina". The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscrip
Holographic Gravitational Anomaly and Chiral Vortical Effect
We analyze a holographic model with a pure gauge and a mixed
gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons term in the action. These are the holographic
implementations of the usual chiral and the mixed gauge-gravitational anomalies
in four dimensional field theories with chiral fermions. We discuss the
holographic renormalization and show that the gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons
term does not induce new divergences. In order to cancel contributions from the
extrinsic curvature at a boundary at finite distance a new type of counterterm
has to be added however. This counterterm can also serve to make the Dirichlet
problem well defined in case the gauge field strength vanishes on the boundary.
A charged asymptotically AdS black hole is a solution to the theory and as an
application we compute the chiral magnetic and chiral vortical conductivities
via Kubo formulas. We find that the characteristic term proportional to T^2 is
present also at strong coupling and that its numerical value is not
renormalized compared to the weak coupling result.Comment: 27 pages, no figure
Field redefinitions in effective theories at higher orders
The invariance of physical observables under redefinitions of the quantum fields
is a well-known and important property of quantum field theory. We study perturbative field redefinitions in effective theories, paying special attention to higher-order effects and
their impact on matching to an ultraviolet theory at the classical and quantum levels.Our
work has been supported by the Spanish MINECO project FPA2016-78220-C3-1-P (Fondos
FEDER) and the Junta de AndalucĂa grant FQM101. The work of J.C.C. has also been
supported by the Spanish MECD grant FPU14
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