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Littlest Inverse Seesaw Model
We propose a minimal predictive inverse seesaw model based on two
right-handed neutrinos and two additional singlets, leading to the same low
energy neutrino mass matrix as in the Littlest Seesaw (LS) (type I) model. In
order to implement such a Littlest Inverse Seesaw (LIS) model, we have used an
family symmetry, together with other various symmetries, flavons and
driving fields. The resulting LIS model leads to an excellent fit to the low
energy neutrino parameters, including the prediction of a normal neutrino mass
ordering, exactly as in the usual LS model. However, unlike the LS model, the
LIS model allows charged lepton flavour violating (CLFV) processes and lepton
conversion in nuclei within reach of the forthcoming experiments.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures. Published versio
Microeconomic Effects of Capital Controls: The Chilean Experience During the 1990s.
This paper studies the experience with the use of capital controls in Chile during the 1990s. Rather than revisiting previous studies, it complements previous research by providing, for the first time, empirical evidence on some of the microeconomic effects of capital controls, in particular, the unremunerated reserve requirement (URR). By looking at financial statements for a group of 73 Chilean firms during 1986-2001, the paper attempts to identify the effects of the URR on the firmsâ costs and ways of financing. Chilean firms are grouped by economic sector, size and access to international capital markets. Results show that the effects of the URR are firm specific; forinstance, there are striking differences in the response to the URR among firms of different size and those with or without access to international capital markets.
Determining cosmic microwave background structure from its peak distribution
We present a new method for time-efficient and accurate extraction of the
power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps based on
properties of peaks and troughs of the Gaussian CMB sky. We construct a
statistic describing their angular clustering - analogously to galaxies, the
2-point angular correlation function, . We show that for
increasing peak threshold, , the is strongly amplified
and becomes measurable for 1 on angular scales . Its
amplitude at every scale depends uniquely on the CMB temperature correlation
function, , and thus the measured can be uniquely inverted
to obtain and its Legendre transform, the power spectrum of the CMB
field. Because in this method the CMB power spectrum is deduced from high
peaks/troughs of the CMB field, the procedure takes only
operations where is the fraction of pixels with
standard deviations in the map of pixels and is e.g. 0.045 and 0.01 for
=2 and 2.5 respectively. We develop theoretical formalism for the method
and show with detailed simulations, using MAP mission parameters, that this
method allows to determine very accurately the CMB power spectrum from the
upcoming CMB maps in only operations.Comment: To be published in Ap.J. Letters. Minor changes to match the journal
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Guaranteed emergence of genuine entanglement in 3-qubit evolving systems
Multipartite entanglement has been shown to be of particular relevance for a
better understanding and exploitation of the dynamics and flow of entanglement
in multiparty systems. This calls for analysis aimed at identifying the
appropriate processes that guarantee the emergence of multipartite entanglement
in a wide range of scenarios. Here we carry on such analysis considering a
system of two initially entangled qubits, one of which is let to interact with
a third qubit according to an arbitrary unitary evolution. We establish
necessary and sufficient conditions on the corresponding Kraus operators, to
discern whether the evolved state pertains to either one of the classes of
3-qubit pure states that exhibit some kind of entanglement, namely biseparable,
W-, and GHZ- genuine entangled classes. Our results provide a classification of
the Kraus operators according to their capacity of producing 3-qubit
entanglement, and pave the way for extending the analysis to larger systems and
determining the particular interactions that must be implemented in order to
create, enhance and distribute entanglement in a specific manner.Comment: Two new subsections included. Accepted for publication in The
European Physical Journal
Pairs-Production of Higgs in Association with Bottom Quarks Pairs at Colliders
In a previous paper, we studied the Higgs pair production in the standard
model with the reaction . Based on this, we study
the Higgs pair production via . We evaluate the
total cross section of and calculate the number total of events
considering the complete set of Feynman diagrams at tree-level, and compare
this process with the process . The numerical
computation is done for the energy which is expected to be available at a
possible Next Linear Collider with a center-of-mass energy and luminosity 1000 .Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
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