962 research outputs found
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The cross section of
process with a complete set of tree diagrams, 232 diagrams in the unitary
gauge, was calculated at the energy range of = 340 - 500 GeV by
using GRACE system. A main contribution to the cross section comes from
production, where and decay into and
, respectively. It was found that the
interference between the diagrams with production and those with
single- through pair production amounts to 10% at the
threshold energy region. In the energy region above twice of the top quark
mass, more than 95% of the cross section comes from the diagrams.Comment: 17 pages, 8 PostScript figures, LateX; To appear in Phys. Lett.
Highlights from the SOAP project survey. What Scientists Think about Open Access Publishing
The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has run a large-scale
survey of the attitudes of researchers on, and the experiences with, open
access publishing. Around forty thousands answers were collected across
disciplines and around the world, showing an overwhelming support for the idea
of open access, while highlighting funding and (perceived) quality as the main
barriers to publishing in open access journals. This article serves as an
introduction to the survey and presents this and other highlights from a
preliminary analysis of the survey responses. To allow a maximal re-use of the
information collected by this survey, the data are hereby released under a CC0
waiver, so to allow libraries, publishers, funding agencies and academics to
further analyse risks and opportunities, drivers and barriers, in the
transition to open access publishing.Comment: Data manual available at http://bit.ly/gI8nct Compressed CSV data
file available at http://bit.ly/gSmm71 Alternative data formats: CSV
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Testing the Higgs Sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model at Large Hadron Colliders
We study the Higgs sector of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, in
the context of proton-proton collisions at LHC and SSC energies. We assume a
relatively heavy supersymmetric particle spectrum, and include recent results
on one-loop radiative corrections to Higgs-boson masses and couplings. We begin
by discussing present and future constraints from the LEP experiments. We then
compute branching ratios and total widths for the neutral () and charged
() Higgs particles. We present total cross-sections and event rates for
the important discovery channels at the LHC and SSC. Promising physics
signatures are given by , or or , , and followed by
, which should allow for an almost complete coverage
of the parameter space of the model.Comment: 51 pages, 30 figures (not enclosed and not available via e-mail
A gobal fit to the anomalous magnetic moment, b->s gamma and Higgs limits in the constrained MSSM
New data on the anomalous magnetic moment a_mu of the muon together with the
b->s gamma decay rate are considered within the supergravity inspired
constrained minimal supersymmetric model. We perform a global statistical chi^2
analysis of these data and show that the allowed region of parameter space is
bounded from below by the Higgs limit, which depends on the trilinear coupling
and from above by the anomalous magnetic moment a_mu. The newest b->s gamma
data deviate 1.7 sigma from recent SM calculations and prefer a similar
parameter region as the 2.6 sigma deviation from a_mu.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figs. Refs. update
The Stau Neutralino Co-annihilation Region at an International Linear Collider
We probe the stau-neutralino co-annihilation domain of the parameter space
allowed by the current experimental bounds on the light Higgs mass, the b-> s
\gamma decay, and the amount of neutralino cold dark matter within the
framework of minimal SUGRA models at a 500 GeV e+e- linear collider. The most
favorable signals of SUSY are stau pair production and neutralino pair
production where the small mass difference between the lighter stau and the
lightest neutralino in the co-annihilation region is ~5-15 GeV and hence
generates low-energy tau leptons in the final state. This small mass difference
would be a striking signal of many SUGRA models. We find that a calorimeter
covering down to 1^o from the beams is crucial to reduce the two-photon
background and the mass difference could be measured at a level of 10% with 500
fb^-1 of data where an invariant mass of two-tau jets and missing energy is
used as a discriminator.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure
How Finely Tuned is Supersymmetric Dark Matter?
We introduce a quantification of the question in the title: the logarithmic
sensitivity of the relic neutralino density Omega-hsquared to variations in
input parameters such as the supersymmetric mass scales m_0, m_1/2 and A_0, tan
beta and the top and bottom quark masses. In generic domains of the CMSSM
parameter space with a relic density in the preferred range 0.1 <
Omega-hsquared < 0.3, the sensitivities to all these parameters are moderate,
so an interesting amount of supersymetric dark matter is a natural and robust
prediction. Within these domains, the accuracy in measuring the CMSSM and other
input parameters at the LHC may enable the relic density to be predicted quite
precisely. However, in the coannihilation regions, this might require more
information on the supersymetric spectrum than the LHC is able to provide.
There are also exceptional domains, such as those where direct-channel pole
annihilation dominates, and in the `focus-point' region, where the logarithmic
sensitivity to the input parameters is greatly increased, and it would be more
difficult to predict Omega-hsquared accurately.Comment: 14 pages, 2 eps figure
Implications of a possible 115 GeV supersymmetric Higgs boson on detection and cosmological abundance of relic neutralinos
We show that a supersymmetric neutral Higgs boson with a mass of about 115
GeV and with the other prerequisites required by the LEP Higgs events would be
compatible with the detection of relic neutralinos in current set-ups for WIMP
direct search. Thus this putative Higgs would fit remarkably well in an
interpretation in terms of relic neutralinos of the annual-modulation effect
recently measured in a WIMP direct experiment. We also show that the
cosmological abundance of the relevant neutralinos reaches values of
cosmological interest.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, typeset with ReVTeX. The new version containes
extended analysis. In order to reduce size, the version on the archive has
low-resolution figures. The paper with high-resolution figures can be found
at http://www.to.infn.it/~fornengo/papers
CP-Violating Lepton-Energy Correlation in e\bar{e}\to t\bar{t}
In order to observe a signal of possible CP violation in top-quark couplings,
we have studied energy correlation of the final leptons in at future linear colliders. Applying the
recently-proposed optimal method, we have compared the statistical
significances of CP-violation-parameter determination using double- and
single-lepton distributions. We have found that the single-lepton-distribution
analysis is more advantageous.Comment: Final version (to appear in Phys.Lett.B
Direct Higgs production and jet veto at the Tevatron and the LHC in NNLO QCD
We consider Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron
collisions, when a veto is applied on the transverse momenta of the
accompanying hard jets. We compute the QCD radiative corrections to this
process at NLO and NNLO. The NLO calculation is complete. The NNLO calculation
uses the recently evaluated NNLO soft and virtual QCD contributions to the
inclusive cross section. We find that the jet veto reduces the impact of the
NLO and NNLO contributions, the reduction being more sizeable at the LHC than
at the Tevatron.Comment: 22 pages, 12 postscript figure
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