430 research outputs found
The process at a Collider
The helicity amplitudes for the process are
studied to 1-loop order in the minimal SUSY (MSSM) model, where is the
CP-odd Higgs particle.
Simple exact analytic formulae are obtained, in terms of the and
Passarino-Veltman functions; in spite of the fact that the loop-diagrams often
involve different particles running along their sides. For a usual mSUGRA set
of parameters, is
expected. If SUSY is realized in Nature, these expressions should be useful for
understanding the Higgs sector.Comment: Misprints in typos corrected, 1 reference added e-mail:
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Tests of Higgs Boson Couplings at a mu+mu- Collider
We investigate the potential of a muon collider for testing the presence of
anomalous Higgs boson couplings. We consider the case of a light (less than
) Higgs boson and study the effects on the Higgs branching ratios and
total width, which could be induced by the non standard couplings created by a
class of dim=6 gauge invariant operators
satisfying the constraints imposed by the present and future hadronic and
colliders. For each operator we give the minimal value of the
integrated luminosity needed for the muon collider () to
improve these constraints. Depending on the operator and the Higgs mass, this
minimal luminosity lies between and .Comment: 18 pages and 4 figures; version to be published in Phys. Rev.D.
e-mail: [email protected]
Electron Spectra in the Ionization of Atoms by Neutrinos
For neutrinos of O(10keV) energies, their oscillation lengths are less than a
few hundred meters, thereby suggesting the fascinating idea of oscillation
experiments of small geometrical size. To help evaluating this idea we
calculate the ionization cross sections of H, He, Ne and Xe, using any neutrino
flavor, in the few keV energy range. We find that the atomic ionization cross
sections per electron are always smaller than the neutrino cross sections off
free electrons, approaching it from below as the energy increases to the 100
keV region. At the 10-20 keV range though, atomic binding effects are very
important, particularly for the heavier atoms, inducing a factor of two
reduction of the Xe ionization cross section, compared to the free electron
one.Comment: Typos corrected. Version appeared in Phys. Rev. D70:113008 (2004
The heavy neutral Higgs signature in the gamma gamma to Z Z process
If the Standard Model (SM) Higgs particle is sufficiently heavy, then its
contribution to gamma gamma to Z Z should be largely imaginary, interfering
with the also predominantly imaginary SM "background" generated by the W-loop.
For standard model Higgs masses in the region 200 \lsim m_H \lsim 500 GeV, this
interference is found to be constructive and increasing the Higgs signal. In
the minimal SUSY case an interference effect should also appear for the
contribution of the heavier CP-even neutral Higgs boson H^0, provided it is
sufficiently heavy. The effect is somewhat reduced though, by the smallness of
the H^0 width and the gamma gamma and ZZ branching ratios. The interference is
again found to be constructive for part of the parameter space corresponding to
sfermion masses at the TeV scale and maximal stop mixing. For both the SM and
SUSY cases, regions of the parameter space exist though, where the interference
may be destructive. It is therefore essential to take these effects into
account when searching for possible scalar Higgs-like candidates. To this aim,
we present the complete analytic expressions for both resonance and background
amplitudes.Comment: version submitted to EPJC; 34 pages and 6 figures. e-mail:
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How to reduce the negative impact of customer non-compliance: an empirical study
This article focuses on the notion of customer non-compliance with front-line employees' instructions and company's policies during the service encounter. The aim of the study is to offer an alternative solution to the issue of customer non-compliance, exploring the factors that reduce its negative impact on service quality. For that reason, we developed a conceptual framework integrating the negative influence of customer non-compliance on perceived service quality with three moderating effects. To test the validity of the framework, a hierarchical approach was followed and data were collected from 120 managers and 585 customers of 120 hotels. The results confirm the negative influence of customer non-compliance on perceived service quality and indicate three organizational factors as reducing moderators of this influence: customer orientation, service blueprinting effectiveness and employee empowerment. Based on these conclusions, important implications for academics and practitioners are drawn
The gamma gamma to Z Z process and the search for virtual SUSY effects at a gamma gamma Collider
We study the helicity amplitudes of the process gamma gamma to ZZ in the
Standard Model at high energy. These amplitudes receive contributions from the
W and charged quark and lepton loops, analogous to those encountered in the
gamma gamma to gamma gamma, gamma Z cases studied before. But gamma gamma to ZZ
also receives contributions from the Higgs s-channel poles involving the
effective Higgs-gamma gamma vertex. At energies of about 300 GeV, the
amplitudes in all three processes are mainly helicity-conserving and almost
purely imaginary; which renders them a very useful tool in searching for New
Physics. As an example, a SUSY case is studied, and the signatures due to the
virtual effects induced by a chargino-, charged slepton- or a lightest
stop-loop in gamma gamma to ZZ, are explored. These signatures, combined with
the analogous ones in gamma gamma to gamma gamma and gamma gamma to gamma Z,
should help identifying the nature of possible New Physics particles.Comment: 28 pages and 6 figures; version to appear in E.P.J.C e-mail:
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Testing the Higgs boson gluonic couplings at LHC
We study Higgs + jet production at hadron colliders in order to look for new
physics residual effects possibly described by the operators
{\O}_{GG} and {\widetilde\O}_{GG} which induce anomalous and
couplings. Two ways for constraining these operators at LHC may be ~useful. The
first is based on the total Higgs boson production rate induced by gluon-gluon
fusion, in which the main cause of limitations are due to theoretical
uncertainties leading to sensitivities of and
for the corresponding anomalous
couplings, in the mass range 100 GeV \lsim \mh \lsim 2~00 GeV. These results
imply sensitivity to new physics scales of 51 and 24 TeV respectively. The
second way investigated here concerns the shape of the Higgs transverse
momentum; for which the theoretical uncertainties are less severe and the
limitations are mainly induced by statistics. A simple analysis, based on the
ratio of the number of events at large and low at LHC, leads to similar
sensitivities, if only the decay mode is used. But the
sensitivities can now be improved by a factor 2 to 10, depending on the Higgs
mass, if the Higgs decay modes to , , , are also used.Comment: 23 pages and 7 figures, version to appear in Phys.ReV.D. e-mail:
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