Complete electroweak one-loop radiative corrections to top-pair production at TESLA -- a comparison

Electroweak one-loop radiative corrections to the process e^+ e^- -> t tbar are revisited. Two groups from Karlsruhe and Bielefeld/Zeuthen performed independent calculations of both (virtual and soft) QED contributions and weak virtual corrections. For the angular distribution an agreement of at least eight digits for the weak corrections and of at least seven digits for additional photonic corrections is established.Comment: 12 pages, minor improvement of soft photon correction

The Relationship between Enrollment in Service Learning Courses and Deep Approaches to Learning: A Campus Study

Utilizing 2012 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data for both freshmen and senior students on a college campus, this study isolates the influence of participation in service learning courses on freshmen and senior students’ application of deep approaches to learning. Deep learning, as compared to surface learning, describes the extent to which a student engages in the learning process. Students who use deep learning strategies make more robust connections to course material by emphasizing learning activities such as integration, synthesis, and reflection. By making deeper connections, students focus on both the substance and the underlying meaning of their studies. Students learn to apply the knowledge gained to real life situations and successfully integrate this with prior learning. Multiple linear regression results for both freshmen and senior students suggest that students’ use of deep approaches to learning increased as their participation in service learning courses increased, adjusting for student characteristics and participation in other high impact practices. These findings provide a rationale for institutions to support faculty who engage with their community partners to develop service learning courses. For faculty who teach service learning courses, these findings support the value, from an institutional perspective, of the work that they do

The Relationship between Service Learning and Deep Learning

This research investigated the relationship between college students’ participation in service learning courses and their reported use of deep learning skills. An analysis of 2012 National Survey of Student Engagement data for freshmen and seniors at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis found that reported deep learning skills of higher order learning, integrative learning, and reflective learning were all higher for both freshmen and seniors who participated in service learning courses, with integrative learning skills having the greatest gain. These results contribute evidence that service learning should be valued to the extent that it contributes to student learning at the course level as well as at the institutional level and provide a rationale for institutions to support faculty who engage with the community partners to develop service learning courses

The Costs and Benefits of Regulation: Review and Synthesis

Hahn and Hird provide the first comprehensive analysis of the costs and benefits offederal economic and social regulation. They assess several alternative methods of measuring the effects of regulatory policies, noting the advantages and drawbacks of each. They find that previous estimates of the costs of economic regulation probably overstated the true costs by failing to distinguish between transfer payments and net changes in economic efficiency. Their study separates transfers from efficiency costs for each estimate and updates the figures for sixteen industries and seven areas of social regulation. Overall, they find that the efficiency cost due to economic regulation is large and that the benefit from social regulation is positive but small. Their study also finds a huge variation in estimates of the costs and benefits of particular regulatory policies, particularly in the transportation sector and in environmental protection. This variation indicates that most estimates may be merely guesstimates. Nevertheless, Hahn and Hird argue that since the current political climate has increased the pressure on Congress to add regulatory burdens, the need to introduce such information into policy making has never been greate

Structure of a Complete ATP Synthase Dimer Reveals the Molecular Basis of Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Morphology

We determined the structure of a complete, dimeric F1Fo-ATP synthase from yeast Yarrowia lipolytica mitochondria by a combination of cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography. The final structure resolves 58 of the 60 dimer subunits. Horizontal helices of subunit a in Fo wrap around the c-ring rotor, and a total of six vertical helices assigned to subunits a, b, f, i, and 8 span the membrane. Subunit 8 (A6L in human) is an evolutionary derivative of the bacterial b subunit. On the lumenal membrane surface, subunit f establishes direct contact between the two monomers. Comparison with a cryo-EM map of the F1Fo monomer identifies subunits e and g at the lateral dimer interface. They do not form dimer contacts but enable dimer formation by inducing a strong membrane curvature of ∼100°. Our structure explains the structural basis of cristae formation in mitochondria, a landmark signature of eukaryotic cell morphology

CP violating asymmetry in H±→W±h1H^\pm\to W^\pm h_1 decays

The CP violating asymmetry from the decay rates $H^\pm\to W^\pm h_1$ of charged Higgs bosons into the lightest neutral Higgs boson and a $W^\pm$ boson is calculated and discussed in the complex MSSM. The contributions from all complex phases are considered, especially from the top-squark trilinear coupling, which induces a large contribution to the CP asymmetry.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures, version published in JHE

Higgs Phenomenology in Warped Extra-Dimensions with a 4th Generation

We study a warped extra-dimension scenario where the Standard Model fields lie in the bulk, with the addition of a fourth family of fermions. We concentrate on the flavor structure of the Higgs couplings with fermions in the flavor anarchy ansatz. Even without a fourth family, these couplings will be generically misaligned with respect to the SM fermion mass matrices. The presence of the fourth family typically enhances the misalignment effects and we show that one should expect them to be highly non-symmetrical in the ${(34)}$ inter-generational mixing. The radiative corrections from the new fermions and their flavor violating couplings to the Higgs affect negligibly known experimental precision measurements such as the oblique parameters and $Z\to b {\bar b}$ or $Z \to \mu^+ \mu^-$. On the other hand, $\Delta F=1,2$ processes, mediated by tree-level Higgs exchange, as well as radiative corrections to $b \to s \gamma$ and $\mu \to e\gamma$ put some generic pressure on the allowed size of the flavor violating couplings. But more importantly, these couplings will alter the Higgs decay patterns as well as those of the new fermions, and produce very interesting new signals associated to Higgs phenomenology in high energy colliders. These might become very important indirect signals for these type of models as they would be present even when the KK mass scale is high and no heavy KK particle is discovered.Comment: 39 pages, 6 figure

Two-loop SUSY QCD corrections to the chargino masses in the MSSM

We have calculated the two-loop strong interaction corrections to the chargino pole masses in the DRbar'-scheme in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with complex parameters. We have performed a detailed numerical analysis for a particular point in the parameter space and found corrections of a few tenths of a percent. We provide a computer program which calculates chargino and neutralino masses with complex parameters including the one-loop corrections and all two-loop SQCD effects.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures, references modified, clarifications adde

Integración de Ecuaciones Diferenciales rígidas de valor de contorno en problemas de combustión con cinética de reacción detallada

Modelos detallados de la llama de difusión plana, laminar de jets opuestos requieren la solución de las ecuaciones de conservación de cantidad de movimiento, energía y especies químicas en conjunto con una cinética de reacción química stiff. El problema tiene soluciones autosimilares y se puede resolver mediante integración numérica de un conjunto de ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias stiff de segundo orden, con condiciones de contorno, cada una de las cuales tiene un punto de torno de primer orden debido a la ecuación de conservación de cantidad de movimiento. El uso de discretización en diferencias finitas standard (en el dominio espacial) y la expansión en serie de Taylor alrededor de la iteración anterior (en el espacio temporal) del término cinético de las reacciones químicas lleva a una ecuación de matrices en la cual la matriz de coeficientes es del tipo tridiagonal en bloques y muy grande de tamaño. También representa una matriz de banda y se puede obtener una solución al problema mediante una descomposición LU. Inestabilidades numéricas debidas a la malla finita de espaciamiento irregular y a la difusión de errores numéricos hacia los bordes forzaron el uso de una malla regular con un gran número de puntos. Esto restringió el estudio a la solución de problemas con esquemas cinéticos relativamente simples, debido a la alta necesidad de memoria de computador. Este dilema fue resuelto por el desarrollo de un esquema de diferenciación modificado, que asume que la solución puntual del problema está dada por una suma de exponenciales. A Usando esta nueva técnica fue posible hallar la solución de una llama con 150 reacciones envolviendo las ecuaciones de ccnservación de 70 especies químicas. En este artículo formulamos el problema y describimos resultados de los varios esquemas numéricos mediante los que se intentó resolver el mismo. El foco principal, sin embargo, está u dirigido hacia la modificación del esquema de diferencias finitas, acoplado con la expansión en serie de Taylor de los términos de reacción química.Detailed models of the flat, laminar, opposed jet diffusion flame involve the solution of the momentu, energy and species conservation equations coupled with stiff chemical kinetics. The problem has self similar solutions and can be solved through numerical integration of a set of second order, stiff, boundary valued, ordinary differential equations, each with a regular first order turning point arising from convection. Use of standard finite difference discretization (in the spatial domain) and expansion of the reaction rate source terms in a Taylor series abaut the backward iteration (in the temporal domain), lead to a matrix equation in which the coefficient matrix is a very large block tridiagonal matrix. It is also a band matrix and solution is obtained through LU descomposition. Instabiiities originating from the unevenly spaced grid and from diffusion of numerical errors towards the boundaries forced the use of a large number of equally spaced grid points which contrained the program to solution of relatively small kinetic problems (due to core storage limitations). This dilemma was resolved by developing a modified central difference discretization which assumes that the solution at a mesh point is given by the sum of exponentials. Using the new technique it was possible to obtain the solution of the opposed jet problem with 150 reactions and 70 species on the available CYBER 175 computer.Peer Reviewe