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    The Higgs mass in the MSSM infrared fixed point scenario

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    In the infrared fixed point (IFP) scenario of the minimal supersymmetric model (MSSM), the top-quark mass and other physical quantities of the low-energy theory are insensitive to the values of the parameters of the theory at some high energy scale. In this framework we evaluate the light CP-even Higgs mass, mhm_h, taking into account some important effects that had not been previously considered. In particular, the supersymmetric correction to the relation between the running and the physical top-quark masses lowers the value of tanβ\tan\beta, thereby implying a lower predicted value of mhm_h. Assuming a supersymmetric threshold of MS1M_S\leq 1 TeV and Mt=175M_t=175 GeV, we find an upper bound of mh97±2m_h\le 97\pm 2 GeV; the most plausible value of mhm_h lies somewhat below the upper bound. This places the Higgs boson in the IFP scenario well within the reach of the LEP-2 Higgs search.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX, 5 ps figures, uses psfig.sty. Final version, some comments and a figure added, references correcte

    Relativistic Quantum Thermodynamics of Ideal Gases in 2 Dimensions

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    In this work we study the behavior of relativistic ideal Bose and Fermi gases in two space dimensions. Making use of polylogarithm functions we derive a closed and unified expression for their densities. It is shown that both type of gases are essentially inequivalent, and only in the non-relativistic limit the spinless and equal mass Bose and Fermi gases are equivalent as known in the literature.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur

    Derivation of mAMZm_A \simeq M_Z and tanβ>3\tan \beta > \sqrt 3 in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

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    In the minimal supersymmetric standard model, the Higgs sector has two unknown parameters, usually taken to be tanβv2/v1\tan \beta \equiv v_2/v_1 and mAm_A, the mass of its one physical pseudoscalar particle. By minimizing the minimum of the Higgs potential along a certain direction in parameter space, it is shown that mA=MZm_A = M_Z + radiative correction, and if one further plausible assumption is made, tanβ>3\tan \beta > \sqrt 3.Comment: 7 pages, University of California, Riverside Report No. UCRHEP-T105 (Feb 1993). [Discussion of radiative correction is now included.

    Charginos and Neutralinos Production at 3-3-1 Supersymmetric Model in eee^-e^- Scattering

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    The goal of this article is to derive the Feynman rules involving charginos, neutralinos, double charged gauge bosons and sleptons in a 3-3-1 supersymmetric model. Using these Feynman rules we will calculate the production of a double charged chargino with a neutralino and also the production of a pair of single charged charginos, both in an electron- electron eee^-e^- process.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 2 table

    Frontostriatal Maturation Predicts Cognitive Control Failure to Appetitive Cues in Adolescents

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    Adolescent risk-taking is a public health issue that increases the odds of poor lifetime outcomes. One factor thought to influence adolescents' propensity for risk-taking is an enhanced sensitivity to appetitive cues, relative to an immature capacity to exert sufficient cognitive control. We tested this hypothesis by characterizing interactions among ventral striatal, dorsal striatal, and prefrontal cortical regions with varying appetitive load using fMRI scanning. Child, teen, and adult participants performed a go/no-go task with appetitive (happy faces) and neutral cues (calm faces). Impulse control to neutral cues showed linear improvement with age, whereas teens showed a nonlinear reduction in impulse control to appetitive cues. This performance decrement in teens was paralleled by enhanced activity in the ventral striatum. Prefrontal cortical recruitment correlated with overall accuracy and showed a linear response with age for no-go versus go trials. Connectivity analyses identified a ventral frontostriatal circuit including the inferior frontal gyrus and dorsal striatum during no-go versus go trials. Examining recruitment developmentally showed that teens had greater between-subject ventral-dorsal striatal coactivation relative to children and adults for happy no-go versus go trials. These findings implicate exaggerated ventral striatal representation of appetitive cues in adolescents relative to an intermediary cognitive control response. Connectivity and coactivity data suggest these systems communicate at the level of the dorsal striatum differentially across development. Biased responding in this system is one possible mechanism underlying heightened risk-taking during adolescence

    Sneutrino Mixing Phenomena

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    In any model with nonzero Majorana neutrino masses, the sneutrino and antisneutrino of the supersymmetric extended theory mix. We outline the conditions under which sneutrino-antisneutrino mixing is experimentally observable. The mass-splitting of the sneutrino mass eigenstates and sneutrino oscillation phenomena are considered.Comment: 12 pages, revtex + axodraw, 1 figure included. Minor change

    Production of neutral scalar Higgs bosons at eγe\gamma colliders

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    We study the production of neutral scalar (CP even) Higgs bosons in the process eγehe\gamma\to e h by including supersymmetric corrections to the dominant tt-channel photon exchange amplitude. In addition to the standard model W±W^{\pm} and fermion loops, there are substantial contributions from chargino loops. For some cases, these contributions can exceed those of the WW's and ordinary fermions. The cross sections in this channel are generally one or two orders of magnitude larger than those in the related channel eeˉγhe\bar{e}\to\gamma h.Comment: 12 pages RevTeX, 5 postscript figures included, uses epsf.st

    One-loop Effective Potential for a Fixed Charged Self-interacting Bosonic Model at Finite Temperature with its Related Multiplicative Anomaly

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    The one-loop partition function for a charged self-interacting Bose gas at finite temperature in D-dimensional spacetime is evaluated within a path integral approach making use of zeta-function regularization. For D even, a new additional vacuum term ---overlooked in all previous treatments and coming from the multiplicative anomaly related to functional determinants-- is found and its dependence on the mass and chemical potential is obtained. The presence of the new term is shown to be crucial for having the factorization invariance of the regularized partition function. In the non interacting case, the relativistic Bose-Einstein condensation is revisited. By means of a suitable charge renormalization, for D=4 the symmetry breaking phase is shown to be unaffected by the new term, which, however, gives actually rise to a non vanishing new contribution in the unbroken phase.Comment: 25 pages, RevTex, a new Section and several explanations added concering the non-commutative residue and the physical discussio

    Calculable Upper Limit on the Mass of the Lightest Higgs Boson in Any Perturbatively Valid Supersymmetric Theory

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    We show that there is a calculable upper limit on the mass of the lightest Higgs boson in any supersymmetric theory that remains perturbative up to a high scale . There are no restrictions on the Higgs sector, or the gauge group or particle content. We estimate the value of the upper limit to be m_{\hcirc} < 146 GeV for 100 GeV < MtM_t < 145 GeV, from all effects except possibly additional heavy fermions beyond top (which could increase the limit by 0-20 GeV if any existed); for MtM_t > 145 GeV the limit decreases monotonically. We expect to be able to decrease the value of the upper limit by at least a few percent by very careful analysis of the conditions. It is not normal in models for the actual mass to saturate the upper limit.Comment: 8 pages, UM-TH-92-24, Plain TeX. (One table available by fax on request to [email protected]

    Tunable sub-luminal propagation of narrowband x-ray pulses

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    Group velocity control is demonstrated for x-ray photons of 14.4 keV energy via a direct measurement of the temporal delay imposed on spectrally narrow x-ray pulses. Sub-luminal light propagation is achieved by inducing a steep positive linear dispersion in the optical response of 57{}^{57}Fe M\"ossbauer nuclei embedded in a thin film planar x-ray cavity. The direct detection of the temporal pulse delay is enabled by generating frequency-tunable spectrally narrow x-ray pulses from broadband pulsed synchrotron radiation. Our theoretical model is in good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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