313 research outputs found
Bulk Higgs Boson Decays in Brane Localized Gravity
We embed the Standard Model in the Randall-Sundrum model of 5 dimensional
brane localized gravity. The SM gauge and chiral fermion fields are restricted
on the 4D visible brane whereas the Higgs and the right-handed neutrino are
assumed to be 5D bulk fields. We calculate the effective couplings of the
lowest mass Higgs field to the SM fermions and to the gauge bosons and find
that the couplings are enhanced. Furthermore, the invisible decay width of a
bulk Higgs of mass 150 GeV is shown to be large.Comment: 14 pages, 2 postscript figures, minor typos corrected, two references
added, to appear in Physics Letters
Astrophysical Implications of the Induced Neutrino Magnetic Moment from Large Extra Dimensions
Theories involving extra dimensions, a low (TeV) string scale and bulk
singlet neutrinos will produce an effective neutrino magnetic moment which may
be large (< 10^{-11} mu_B). The effective magnetic moment increases with
neutrino energy, and therefore high energy reactions are most useful for
limiting the allowed number of extra dimensions. We examine constraints from
both neutrino-electron scattering and also astrophysical environments. We find
that supernova energy loss considerations require a number of extra dimensions,
n > 1, for an electron neutrino-bulk neutrino Yukawa coupling of order 1.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, figure added, references adde
A Study of the Charged Scalar in the Zee Model
An extension of the Zee model involving a light right handed neutrino, nu_R
is considered. We update constraints on couplings between the bilepton scalar,
the active neutrinos, nu_R and the charged leptons. We find that the most
stringent constraint currently comes from measurements limiting the width of
the decay mu -> e gamma. These are used to predict the upper bound on violation
of lepton universality in leptonic W boson decays and rare Z decays, such as Z
-> e mu.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure
Supersymmetric with Large Chargino Contributions
Supersymmetric (SUSY) theories are often thought to give large branching
ratios for from charged Higgs loops. We show that in
many cases chargino loop contributions can cancel those of the Higgs, and SUSY
can give at or below the \SM\ prediction. We show
this occurs because the large stop mass splittings usually found in SUSY break
a GIM mechanism suppression. These effects are strongly enhanced by large
, so that is very sensitive to the value
of , contrary to what has been claimed. We also note that the
supergravity relation is somewhat disfavored over the general
case.Comment: TRI-PP-93-66. 12pp (Plain LATEX)+4 fig not incl. PostScript file of
figs available (~3MB), contact Corrie Kost [email protected]. Request hardcopy
or FAX of figures through [email protected]
Altered Cortical Microarchitecture and Bone Metabolism in Patients with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance
Patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) are at increased fracture risk, and we have previously shown that MGUS patients have altered trabecular bone microarchitecture compared with controls. However, there are no data on whether the porosity of cortical bone, which may play a greater role in bone strength and the occurrence of fractures, is increased in MGUS. Thus, we studied cortical porosity and bone strength (apparent modulus) using high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography imaging of the distal radius in 50 MGUS patients and 100 age-, gender-, and body mass index–matched controls. Compared with controls, MGUS patients had both significantly higher cortical porosity (+16.8%; P < .05) and lower apparent modulus (–8.9%; P < .05). Despite their larger radial bone size, MGUS patients have significantly increased cortical bone porosity and reduced bone strength relative to controls. This increased cortical porosity may explain the increased fracture risk seen in MGUS patients
Cerebrofaciothoracic dysplasia: four new patients with a recurrent TMCO1 pathogenic variant.
Biallelic loss of function variants in the TMCO1 gene have been previously demonstrated to result in cerebrofaciothoracic dysplasia (CFTD; MIM #213980). The phenotype of this condition includes severe intellectual disability, as well as distinctive craniofacial features, including brachycephaly, synophrys, arched eyebrows, "cupid's bow" upper lip, and microdontia. In addition, nonspecific skeletal anomalies are common, including bifid ribs, scoliosis, and spinal fusion. Only 19 molecularly confirmed patients have been previously described. Here, we present four patients with CFTD, including three brothers from a Pakistani background and an additional unrelated white Scottish patient. All share the characteristic craniofacial appearance, with severe intellectual disability and skeletal abnormalities. We further define the phenotype with comparison to the published literature, and present images to define the dysmorphic features in a previously unreported ethnic group. All of our patient series are homozygous for the same c.292_293del (p.Ser98*) TMCO1 pathogenic variant, which has been previously reported only in an isolated Amish population. Thus we provide evidence that CFTD may be more common than previously thought. The patients presented here further delineate the phenotypic spectrum of CFTD and provide evidence for a recurrent pathogenic variant in TMCO1
Theory for Metal Hydrides with Switchable Optical Properties
Recently it has been discovered that lanthanum, yttrium, and other metal
hydride films show dramatic changes in the optical properties at the
metal-insulator transition. Such changes on a high energy scale suggest the
electronic structure is best described by a local model based on negatively
charged hydrogen (H) ions. We develop a many-body theory for the strong
correlation in a H ion lattice. The metal hydride is described by a large
-limit of an Anderson lattice model. We use lanthanum hydride as a prototype
of these compounds, and find LaH is an insulator with a substantial gap
consistent with experiments. It may be viewed either as a Kondo insulator or a
band insulator due to strong electron correlation. A H vacancy state in LaH
is found to be highly localized due to the strong bonding between the electron
orbitals of hydrogen and metal atoms. Unlike the impurity states in the usual
semiconductors, there is only weak internal optical transitions within the
vacancy. The metal-insulator transition takes place in a band of these vacancy
states.Comment: 18 pages, 16 figures and 6 tables. Submitted to PR
Electron correlation resonances in the transport through a single quantum level
Correlation effects in the transport properties of a single quantum level
coupled to electron reservoirs are discussed theoretically using a
non-equilibrium Green functions approach. Our method is based on the
introduction of a second-order self-energy associated with the Coulomb
interaction that consistently eliminates the pathologies found in previous
perturbative calculations. We present results for the current-voltage
characteristic illustrating the different correlation effects that may be found
in this system, including the Kondo anomaly and Coulomb blockade. We finally
discuss the experimental conditions for the simultaneous observation of these
effects in an ultrasmall quantum dot.Comment: 4 pages (two columns), 3 figures under reques
Analysis of CMB polarization on an incomplete sky
The full sky cosmic microwave background polarization field can be decomposed
into 'electric' and 'magnetic' components. Working in harmonic space we
construct window functions that allow clean separation of the electric and
magnetic modes from observations over only a portion of the sky. Our
construction is exact for azimuthally symmetric patches, but should continue to
perform well for arbitrary patches. From the window functions we obtain
variables that allow for robust estimation of the magnetic component without
risk of contamination from the probably much larger electric signal. For
isotropic, uncorrelated noise the variables have a very simple diagonal noise
correlation, and further analysis using them should be no harder than analysing
the temperature field. For an azimuthally-symmetric patch, such as that
obtained from survey missions when the galactic region is removed, the
exactly-separated variables are fast to compute allowing us to estimate the
magnetic signal that could be detected by the Planck satellite in the absence
of non-galactic foregrounds. We also discuss the sensitivity of future
experiments to tensor modes in the presence of a magnetic signal generated by
weak lensing, and give lossless methods for analysing the electric polarization
field in the case that the magnetic component is negligible.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figures. New appendix on weak signal detection and
revised plots using a better statistic. Other changes to match version
accepted by PRD. Sample source code now available at
http://cosmologist.info/pola
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