21 research outputs found
Hamatum osteoblastoma
SummaryWe report the case of an osteoblastoma of the hamate bone that was successfully treated by curettage. This tumor is very rare in a carpal bone and only nine cases have been reported in the literature. Pathological examination is mandatory before treatment due to the lack of distinctive clinical and radiological features. Osteoblastomas are benign, but potentially aggressive bone tumors. Treatment of the lesion may either be a conservative “intralesional resection” or radical “wide en bloc resection”. The latter option, which has non-negligible functional consequences in the wrist, should be reserved for recurrence after curettage but may also be considered a primary immediate alternative for aggressive forms
Mutated Hilltop Inflation : A Natural Choice for Early Universe
We propose a model of inflation with a suitable potential for a single scalar
field which falls in the wide class of hilltop inflation. We derive the
analytical expressions for most of the physical quantities related to inflation
and show that all of them represent the true behavior as required from a model
of inflation. We further subject the results to observational verification by
formulating the theory of perturbations based on our model followed by an
estimation for the values of those observable parameters. Our model is found to
be in excellent agreement with observational data. Thus, the features related
to the model leads us to infer that this type of hilltop inflation may be a
natural choice for explaining the early universe.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Matches published version in JCA
Constraints on dark matter particles charged under a hidden gauge group from primordial black holes
In order to accommodate increasingly tighter observational constraints on
dark matter, several models have been proposed recently in which dark matter
particles are charged under some hidden gauge group. Hidden gauge charges are
invisible for the standard model particles, hence such scenarios are very
difficult to constrain directly. However black holes are sensitive to all gauge
charges, whether they belong to the standard model or not. Here, we examine the
constraints on the possible values of the dark matter particle mass and hidden
gauge charge from the evolution of primordial black holes. We find that the
existence of the primordial black holes with reasonable mass is incompatible
with dark matter particles whose charge to mass ratio is of the order of one.
For dark matter particles whose charge to mass ratio is much less than one, we
are able to exclude only heavy dark matter in the mass range of 10^(11) GeV -
10^(16) GeV. Finally, for dark matter particles whose charge to mass ratio is
much greater than one, there are no useful limits coming from primordial black
holes.Comment: accepted for publication in JCA
2PI Effective Action and Evolution Equations of N = 4 super Yang-Mills
We employ nPI effective action techniques to study N = 4 super Yang-Mills,
and write down the 2PI effective action of the theory. We also supply the
evolution equations of two-point correlators within the theory.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures. Figure 2 replaced, approximation scheme
clarified, references adde
Baryon number violation, baryogenesis and defects with extra dimensions
In generic models for grand unified theories(GUT), various types of baryon
number violating processes are expected when quarks and leptons propagate in
the background of GUT strings. On the other hand, in models with large extra
dimensions, the baryon number violation in the background of a string is not
trivial because it must depend on the mechanism of the proton stabilization. In
this paper we argue that cosmic strings in models with extra dimensions can
enhance the baryon number violation to a phenomenologically interesting level,
if the proton decay is suppressed by the mechanism of localized wavefunctions.
We also make some comments on baryogenesis mediated by cosmological defects. We
show at least two scenarios will be successful in this direction. One is the
scenario of leptogenesis where the required lepton number conversion is
mediated by cosmic strings, and the other is the baryogenesis from the decaying
cosmological domain wall. Both scenarios are new and have not been discussed in
the past.Comment: 20pages, latex2e, comments and references added, to appear in PR
Orbital resonances in discs around braneworld Kerr black holes
Rotating black holes in the brany universe of the Randall-Sundrum type are
described by the Kerr geometry with a tidal charge b representing the
interaction of the brany black hole and the bulk spacetime. For b<0 rotating
black holes with dimensionless spin a>1 are allowed. We investigate the role of
the tidal charge b in the orbital resonance model of QPOs in black hole
systems. The orbital Keplerian, the radial and vertical epicyclic frequencies
of the equatorial, quasicircular geodetical motion are given and their radial
profiles are discussed. The resonant conditions are given in three
astrophysically relevant situations: for direct (parametric) resonances, for
the relativistic precession model, and for some trapped oscillations of the
warped discs, with resonant combinational frequencies. It is shown, how b could
influence matching of the observational data indicating the 3:2 frequency ratio
observed in GRS 1915+105 microquasar with prediction of the orbital resonance
model; limits on allowed range of the black hole parameters a and b are
established. The "magic" dimensionless black hole spin enabling presence of
strong resonant phenomena at the radius where \nu_K:\nu_{\theta}:\nu_r=3:2:1 is
determined in dependence on b. Such strong resonances could be relevant even in
sources with highly scattered resonant frequencies, as those expected in Sgr
A*. The specific values of a and b are given also for existence of specific
radius where \nu_K:\nu_{\theta}:\nu_r=s:t:u with 5>=s>t>u being small natural
numbers. It is shown that for some ratios such situation is impossible in the
field of black holes. We can conclude that analysing the microquasars
high-frequency QPOs in the framework of orbital resonance models, we can put
relevant limits on the tidal charge of brany Kerr black holes.Comment: 31 pages, 19 figures, to appear in General Relativity and Gravitatio
Overview of the SME: Implications and Phenomenology of Lorentz Violation
The Standard Model Extension (SME) provides the most general
observer-independent field theoretical framework for investigations of Lorentz
violation. The SME lagrangian by definition contains all Lorentz-violating
interaction terms that can be written as observer scalars and that involve
particle fields in the Standard Model and gravitational fields in a generalized
theory of gravity. This includes all possible terms that could arise from a
process of spontaneous Lorentz violation in the context of a more fundamental
theory, as well as terms that explicitly break Lorentz symmetry. An overview of
the SME is presented, including its motivations and construction. Some of the
theoretical issues arising in the case of spontaneous Lorentz violation are
discussed, including the question of what happens to the Nambu-Goldstone modes
when Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously violated and whether a Higgs mechanism
can occur. A minimal version of the SME in flat Minkowski spacetime that
maintains gauge invariance and power-counting renormalizability is used to
search for leading-order signals of Lorentz violation. Recent Lorentz tests in
QED systems are examined, including experiments with photons, particle and
atomic experiments, proposed experiments in space and experiments with a
spin-polarized torsion pendulum.Comment: 40 pages, Talk presented at Special Relativity: Will it Survive the
Next 100 Years? Potsdam, Germany, February, 200
Statefinder diagnosis and the interacting ghost model of dark energy
A new model of dark energy namely "ghost dark energy model" has recently been
suggested to interpret the positive acceleration of cosmic expansion. The
energy density of ghost dark energy is proportional to the hubble parameter. In
this paper we perform the statefinder diagnostic tool for this model both in
flat and non-flat universe. We discuss the dependency of the evolutionary
trajectories in and planes on the interaction parameter between
dark matter and dark energy as well as the spatial curvature parameter of the
universe. Eventually, in the light of SNe+BAO+OHD+CMB observational data, we
plot the evolutionary trajectories in and planes for the best fit
values of the cosmological parameters and compare the interacting ghost model
with other dynamical dark energy models. We show that the evolutionary
trajectory of ghost dark energy in statefinder diagram is similar to
holographic dark energy model. It has been shown that the statefinder location
of CDM is in good agreement with observation and therefore the dark
energy models whose current statefinder values are far from the CDM
point can be ruled out.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure
Brane inflation revisited after WMAP five-year results
In this paper, we revisit brane inflation models with the WMAP five-year
results. The WMAP five-year data favor a red-tilted power spectrum of
primordial fluctuations at the level of two standard deviations, which is the
same as the WMAP three-year result qualitatively, but quantitatively the
spectral index is slightly greater than the three-year value. This result can
bring impacts on brane inflation models. According to the WMAP five-year data,
we find that the KKLMMT model can survive at the level of one standard
deviation, and the fine-tuning of the parameter can be alleviated to a
certain extent at the level of two standard deviations.Comment: 23 pages, 11 figure
N-body simulations with generic non-Gaussian initial conditions II: Halo bias
We present N-body simulations for generic non-Gaussian initial conditions
with the aim of exploring and modelling the scale-dependent halo bias. This
effect is evident at very large scales requiring large simulation boxes. In
addition, the previously available prescription to implement generic
non-Gaussian initial conditions has been improved to keep under control
higher-order terms which were spoiling the power spectrum on large scales. We
pay particular attention to the differences between physical,
inflation-motivated primordial bispectra and their factorizable templates, and
to the operational definition of the non-Gaussian halo bias (which has both a
scale-dependent and an approximately scale-independent contributions). We find
that analytic predictions for both the non-Gaussian halo mass function and halo
bias work well once a calibration factor (which was introduced before) is
calibrated on simulations. The halo bias remains therefore an extremely
promising tool to probe primordial non-Gaussianity and thus to give insights
into the physical mechanism that generated the primordial perturbations. The
simulation outputs and tables of the analytic predictions will be made publicly
available via the non-Gaussian comparison project web site
http://icc.ub.edu/~liciaverde/NGSCP.htmlComment: 34 pages, 16 figures. Corrected typos and incorporated referee
suggestion