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Near-infrared K-band Spectroscopic Investigation of Seyfert 2 Nuclei in the CfA and 12 Micron Samples
We present near-infrared K-band slit spectra of the nuclei of 25 Seyfert 2
galaxies in the CfA and 12 micron samples. The strength of the CO absorption
features at 2.3-2.4 micron produced by stars is measured in terms of a
spectroscopic CO index. A clear anti-correlation between the observed CO index
and the nuclear K-L color is present, suggesting that a featureless hot dust
continuum heated by an AGN contributes significantly to the observed K-band
fluxes in the nuclei of Seyfert 2 galaxies. After correction for this AGN
contribution, we estimate nuclear stellar K-band luminosities for all sources,
and CO indices for sources with modestly large observed CO indices. The
corrected CO indices for 10 (=40%) Seyfert 2 nuclei are found to be as high as
those observed in star-forming or elliptical (=spheroidal) galaxies. We combine
the K-band data with measurements of the L-band 3.3 micron polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon (PAH) emission feature, another powerful indicator for
star-formation, and find that the 3.3 micron PAH to K-band stellar luminosity
ratios are substantially smaller than those of starburst galaxies. Our results
suggest that the 3.3 micron PAH emission originates in the putative nuclear
starbursts in the dusty tori surrounding the AGNs, because of its high surface
brightness, whereas the K-band CO absorption features detected at the nuclei
are dominated by old bulge (=spheroid) stars, and thus may not be a powerful
indicator for the nuclear starbursts. We see no clear difference in the
strength of the CO absorption and PAH emission features between the CfA and 12
micron Seyfert 2s.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ (10 October
2004, v614 issue
Imprints of massive inverse seesaw model neutrinos in lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays
In this paper we consider a Higgs boson with mass and other properties
compatible with those of the recently discovered Higgs particle at the LHC, and
explore the possibility of new Higgs leptonic decays, beyond the standard
model, with the singular feature of being lepton flavor violating (LFV). We
study these LFV Higgs decays, , within the context of the
inverse seesaw model (ISS) and consider the most generic case where three
additional pairs of massive right-handed singlet neutrinos are added to the
standard model particle content. We require in addition that the input
parameters of this ISS model are compatible with the present neutrino data and
other constraints, like perturbativity of the neutrino Yukawa couplings. We
present a full one-loop computation of the BR() rates for
the three possible channels, , and analyze in full detail the predictions as functions of the
various relevant ISS parameters. We study in parallel the correlated one-loop
predictions for the radiative decays, , within this same
ISS context, and require full compatibility of our predictions with the present
experimental bounds for the three radiative decays, , , and . After exploring the ISS parameter
space we conclude on the maximum allowed LFV Higgs decay rates within the ISS.Comment: 29 pages, 13 figures, 1 table, 1 appendix: v4 matches the manuscript
published in PR
Analysis of the decays induced from SUSY loops within the Mass Insertion Approximation
In this paper we study the lepton favor violating decay channels of the
neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model into a lepton
and an anti-lepton of different flavor. We work in the context of the most
general flavor mixing scenario in the slepton sector, in contrast to the
minimal flavor violation assumption more frequently used. Our analytic
computation is a one-loop diagrammatic one, but in contrast to the full
one-loop computation which is usually referred to the physical slepton mass
basis, we use here instead the Mass Insertion Approximation (MIA) which uses
the electroweak interaction slepton basis and treats perturbatively the mass
insertions changing slepton flavor. By performing an expansion in powers of the
external momenta in the relevant form factors, we will be able to separate
explicitly in the analytic results the leading non-decoupling (constant at
asymptotically large sparticle masses) and the next to leading decoupling
contributions (decreasing with the sparticle masses). Our final aim is to
provide a set of simple analytic formulas for the form factors and the
associated effective vertices, that we think may be very useful for future
phenomenological studies of the lepton flavor violating Higgs boson decays, and
for their comparison with data. The accuracy of the numerical results obtained
with the MIA are also analyzed and discussed here in comparison with the full
one-loop results. Our most optimistic numerical estimates for the three neutral
Higgs boson decays channels into and leptons, searching for their
maximum rates that are allowed by present constraints from data and beyond Standard Model Higgs boson searches at the LHC, are
also included.Comment: 37 pages, 16 figures, 3 appendices. This version v3 matches the
manuscript published in JHE
Exotic events from heavy ISS neutrinos at the LHC
In this letter we study new relevant phenomenological consequences of the
right-handed heavy neutrinos with masses at the TeV energy scale,
working within the context of the Inverse Seesaw Model that includes three
pairs of quasi-degenerate pseudo-Dirac heavy neutrinos. We propose a new exotic
signal of these heavy neutrinos at the CERN Large Hadron Collider containing a
muon, a tau lepton, and two jets in the final state, which is based on the
interesting fact that this model can incorporate large Lepton Flavor Violation
for specific choices of the relevant parameters, particularly, the neutrino
Yukawa couplings. We will show here that an observable number of
exotic events, without missing energy, can be produced at this ongoing run of
the LHC.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. This version v3 matches the manuscript published
in Physics Letters
Sensitivity to SUSY Seesaw Parameters and Lepton Flavour Violation
We address the constraints on the SUSY seesaw parameters arising from Lepton
Flavour Violation observables. Working in the Constrained Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model extended by three right-handed (s)neutrinos, we
study the predictions for the branching ratios of and channels. We impose compatibility with neutrino data, electric
dipole moment bounds, and further require a successful baryon asymmetry of the
Universe (via thermal leptogenesis). We emphasise the interesting interplay
between and the LFV muon decays, pointing out the hints on the
SUSY seesaw parameters that can arise from measurements of and
LFV branching ratios. This is a brief summary of the work of Ref.
\cite{Antusch:2006vw}.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Presented at 5th Flavor Physics and CP Violation
Conference (FPCP 2007), Bled, Slovenia, 12-16 May 200
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