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Where we stand on structure dependence of ISGMR in the Zr-Mo region: Implications on K_\infty
Isoscalar giant resonances, being the archetypal forms of collective nuclear
behavior, have been studied extensively for decades with the goal of
constraining bulk nuclear properties of the equation of state, as well as for
modeling dynamical behaviors within stellar environments. An important such
mode is the isoscalar electric giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) that can be
understood as a radially symmetric density vibration within the saturated
nuclear volume. The field has a few key open questions, which have been
proposed and remain unresolved. One of the more provocative questions is the
extra high-energy strength in the region, which manifested in
large percentages of the sum rule in Zr and Mo above the
main ISGMR peak. The purpose of this article is to introduce these questions
within the context of experimental investigations into the phenomena in the
zirconium and molybdenum isotopic chains, and to address, via a discussion of
previously published and preliminary results, the implications of recent
experimental efforts on extraction of the nuclear incompressibility from this
data.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, invited to be submitted to a special issue of
EPJA honoring Prof. P. F. Bortigno
Probing the indefinite CP nature of the Higgs Boson through decay distributions in the process
The recently discovered scalar resonance at the LHC is now almost confirmed
to be a Higgs Boson, whose CP properties are yet to be established. At the ILC
with and without polarized beams, it may be possible to probe these properties
at high precision. In this work, we study the possibility of probing departures
from the pure CP-even case, by using the decay distributions in the process
, with mainly decaying into a
pair. We have compared the case of a minimal extension of the SM case (Model I)
with an additional pseudoscalar degree of freedom, with a more realistic case
namely the CP-violating Two-Higgs Doublet Model (Model II) that permits a more
general description of the couplings. We have considered the ILC with
\,GeV and integrated luminosity of . Our
main findings are that even in the case of small departures from the CP-even
case, the decay distributions are sensitive to the presence of a CP-odd
component in Model II, while it is difficult to probe these departures in Model
I unless the pseudoscalar component is very large. Noting that the proposed
degrees of beam polarization increases the statistics, the process demonstrates
the effective role of beam polarization in studies beyond the Standard Model.
Further, our study shows that an indefinite CP Higgs would be a sensitive
laboratory to physics beyond the SM.Comment: 14 pages using revtex, 10 figures, corresponds to version accepted
for publication in Phys. Rev. D.; compared to v1, discussion extended, figure
added, table added, section reorganize
Isolating CP-violating \gamma ZZ coupling in e+e- \to \gamma Z with transverse beam polarizations
We revisit the process at the ILC with transverse beam
polarization in the presence of anomalous CP-violating coupling
and coupling . We point out that if
the final-state spins are resolved, then it becomes possible to fingerprint the
anomalous coupling {\rm Re}.90% confidence level limit on {\rm
Re} achievable at ILC with center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV or 800
GeV with realistic initial beam polarization and integrated luminosity is of
the order of few times of when the helicity of is used and
when the helicity of is used. The resulting corrections at
quadratic order to the cross section and its influence on these limits are also
evaluated and are shown to be small. The benefits of such polarization
programmes at the ILC are compared and contrasted for the process at hand. We
also discuss possible methods by which one can isolate events with a definite
helicity for one of the final-state particles.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, using RevTex; v2 is a significantly revised
version of v1, and corresponds to the version that has been published in
Physical Review
Top Yukawa coupling measurement with indefinite CP Higgs in
We consider the issue of the top quark Yukawa coupling measurement in a model
in dependent and general case with the inclusion of CP-violation in the
coupling. Arguably the best process to study this coupling is the associa ted
production of Higgs boson along with a pair in a machine like the
International Linear Collider (ILC). While detailed analyses of the sensitivity
of the measurement assuming a Standard Model (SM) - like coupling are available
in the context of ILC, conclude that th e coupling could be pinned down at
about 10\% level with modest luminosity, our investigations show that the
scenario could be different in case of a more general coupling. The modified
Lorentz structure resulting in a changed functional dependence of the cross
section on the couplin g, along with the difference in the cross section itself
leads to considerable deviation in the sensitivity. Our studies with an ILC of
center of mass energies of 500 GeV, 800 GeV and 1000 GeV show that moderate
CP-mixing in the Higgs sector could change the sensitivity to about 20\ %,
while it could be worsened to 75\% in cases which could accommodate more
dramatic changes in the coupling. While detailed considerations of the decay
distributions point to a need for a relook at the analysis strategy followed
for the case of SM such as for a model independent analysis of the top quark
Yukawa coupling measurement. This study strongly suggests that, a joint
analysis of the CP properties and the Yukawa coupling measurement would be the
way forward at the ILC and that caution must be excercised in the measurem ent
of the Yukawa couplings and the conclusions drawn from it.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, uses revte
Oscillatory Tunnel Splittings in Spin Systems: A Discrete Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin Approach
Certain spin Hamiltonians that give rise to tunnel splittings that are viewed
in terms of interfering instanton trajectories, are restudied using a discrete
WKB method, that is more elementary, and also yields wavefunctions and
preexponential factors for the splittings. A novel turning point inside the
classically forbidden region is analysed, and a general formula is obtained for
the splittings. The result is appled to the \Fe8 system. A previous result for
the oscillation of the ground state splitting with external magnetic field is
extended to higher levels.Comment: RevTex, one ps figur
On 2-Repeated Burst Codes
There are several kinds of burst errors for which error detecting and error correcting codes have been constructed. In this paper, we consider a new kind of burst error which will be termed as ‘2-repeated burst error of length b(fixed)’. Linear codes capable of detecting such errors have been studied. Further, codes capable of detecting and simultaneously correcting such errors have also been dealt with. The paper obtains lower and upper bounds on the number of parity-check digits required for such codes. An example of such a code has also been provided
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