55 research outputs found
Evaluation of measurement accuracies of the Higgs boson branching fractions in the International Linear Collider
Precise measurement of Higgs boson couplings is an important task for
International Linear Collider (ILC) experiments and will facilitate the
understanding of the particle mass generation mechanism.
In this study, the measurement accuracies of the Higgs boson branching
fractions to the and quarks and gluons, , were evaluated with the full International Large
Detector model (\texttt{ILD\_00}) for the Higgs mass of 120 GeV at the
center-of-mass (CM) energies of 250 and 350 GeV using neutrino, hadronic and
leptonic channels and assuming an integrated luminosity of ,
and an electron (positron) beam polarization of -80% (+30%).
We obtained the following measurement accuracies of the Higgs cross section
times branching fraction () for decay
of the Higgs into , , and ; as 1.0%, 6.9%, and 8.5% at
a CM energy of 250 GeV and 1.0%, 6.2%, and 7.3% at 350 GeV, respectively.
After the measurement accuracy of the cross section ()
was corrected using the results of studies at 250 GeV and their extrapolation
to 350 GeV, the derived measurement accuracies of the branching fractions
() to , , and gg were 2.7%, 7.3%, and 8.9% at
a CM energy of 250 GeV and 3.6%, 7.2%, and 8.1% at 350 GeV, respectively.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
TeV Scale Implications of Non Commutative Space time in Laboratory Frame with Polarized Beams
We analyze , and processes within the
Seiberg-Witten expanded noncommutative scenario using polarized beams. With
unpolarized beams the leading order effects of non commutativity starts from
second order in non commutative(NC) parameter i.e. , while with
polarized beams these corrections appear at first order () in cross
section. The corrections in Compton case can probe the magnetic
component() while in Pair production and Pair annihilation
probe the electric component() of NC parameter. We include the
effects of earth rotation in our analysis. This study is done by investigating
the effects of non commutativity on different time averaged cross section
observables. The results which also depends on the position of the collider,
can provide clear and distinct signatures of the model testable at the
International Linear Collider(ILC).Comment: 22 pages, 19 figures, new comments and references added, few typos
corrected, Published in JHE
Neutrino-electron scattering in noncommutative space
Neutral particles can couple with the gauge field in the adjoint
representation at the tree level if the space-time coordinates are
noncommutative (NC). Considering neutrino-photon coupling in the NC QED
framework, we obtain the differential cross section of neutrino-electron
scattering. Similar to the magnetic moment effect, one of the NC terms is
proportional to , where is the electron recoil energy.
Therefore, this scattering provides a chance to achieve a stringent bound on
the NC scale in low energy by improving the sensitivity to the smaller electron
recoil energy.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider
The TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear
ColliderComment: 192 pages, 131 figures. Some figures have reduced quality. Full
quality figures can be obtained from http://tesla.desy.de/tdr. Editors -
R.-D. Heuer, D.J. Miller, F. Richard, P.M. Zerwa
Quantitative measurements of inequality in geographic accessibility to pediatric care in Oita Prefecture, Japan: Standardization with complete spatial randomness
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A quantitative measurement of inequality in geographic accessibility to pediatric care as well as that of mean distance or travel time is very important for priority setting to ensure fair access to pediatric facilities. However, conventional techniques for measuring inequality is inappropriate in geographic settings. Since inequality measures of access distance or travel time is strongly influenced by the background geographic distribution patterns, they cannot be directly used for regional comparisons of geographic accessibility. The objective of this study is to resolve this issue by using a standardization approach.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Travel times to the nearest pediatric care were calculated for all children in Oita Prefecture, Japan. Relative mean differences were considered as the inequality measure for secondary medical service areas, and were standardized with an expected value estimated from a Monte Carlo simulation based on complete spatial randomness.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The observed mean travel times in the area considered averaged 4.50 minutes, ranging from 1.83 to 7.02 minutes. The mean of the observed inequality measure was 1.1, ranging from 0.9 to 1.3. The expected values of the inequality measure varied according to the background geographic distribution pattern of children, which ranged from 0.3 to 0.7. After standardizing the observed inequality measure with the expected one, we found that the ranks of the inequality measure were reversed for the observed areas.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Using the indicator proposed in this paper, it is possible to compare the inequality in geographic accessibility among regions. Such a comparison may facilitate priority setting in health policy and planning.</p
Electroweak phase transitions in the secluded U(1)-prime-extended MSSM
The electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the secluded--extended MSSM
(sMSSM) is studied. Using the effective potential at zero and finite
temperatures, we search for the non-MSSM-like EWPT in which the light stop mass
is larger than the top quark mass. Scanning the parameters relevant to the
EWPT, the upper limits of the Higgs boson masses, which are consistent with the
strong first order EWPT, are derived. For the lightest CP-even and -odd Higgs
bosons, we find GeV and GeV, respectively. In the
sMSSM, the tree-level CP violation is possible by the complex soft
supersymmetry breaking masses. It is observed that such a CP-violating effect
does not spoil the strong first order EWPT for the typical parameter sets.Comment: 29 pages,15 figures, JHEP style; accepted for publication in JHE
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