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Neutrino masses in lepton number violating mSUGRA
In SUSY models which violate R-parity, there exist trilinear lepton number
violating (LNV) operators which can lead to neutrino masses. If these operators
are defined at the unification scale, the renormalization group flow becomes
important and generally leads to one neutrino mass much heavier than the
others. We study, in a minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) set-up with two trilinear
LNV operators and three charged lepton mixing angles, numerically how these
parameters may be arranged to be compatible with neutrino oscillation data, and
discuss some phenomenological observations.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at SUSY08. To be published in the
Conference Proceeding
Effects of using different plasmonic metals in metal/dielectric/metal subwavelength waveguides on guided dispersion characteristics
The fundamental guided dispersion characteristics of guided light in a
subwavelength dielectric slit channel embedded by two different plasmonic
metals are investigated when varying the gap width. As a result, an overall and
salient picture of the guided dispersion characteristics is obtained over a
wide spectrum range below and above the plasma frequencies of the two different
plasmonic metals, which is important preliminary information for analyzing this
type of subwavelength waveguide. In particular, the effects of using two
different metals on the guided mode dispersions are emphasized in comparison
with the effects of using the same plasmonic metal cladding.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, reference added, text modifie
Synthesis and Activity of Six-Membered Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene–Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Ru–cyclic alkyl amino carbene (Ru–CAAC) olefin metathesis catalysts perform extraordinarily in metathesis macrocyclization and ethenolysis, but previous studies have been limited to the use of five-membered CAAC (CAAC-5) ligands. In this work, we synthesized a different group of ruthenium catalysts with more σ-donating and π-accepting six-membered CAAC (CAAC-6) ligands, and their metathesis activity was probed through initiation studies, ring-closing metathesis (RCM), cross-metathesis, and ethenolysis. These catalysts display higher initiation rates than analogous Ru–CAAC-5 complexes but demonstrate lower activity in RCM and ethenolysis
Collider Inclusive Jet Data and the Gluon Distribution
Inclusive jet production data are important for constraining the gluon
distribution in the global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions. With
the addition of recent CDF and D0 Run II jet data, we study a number of issues
that play a role in determining the up-to-date gluon distribution and its
uncertainty, and produce a new set of parton distributions that make use of
that data. We present in detail the general procedures used to study the
compatibility between new data sets and the previous body of data used in a
global fit. We introduce a new method in which the Hessian matrix for
uncertainties is ``rediagonalized'' to obtain eigenvector sets that
conveniently characterize the uncertainty of a particular observable.Comment: Published versio
Assessing System of Systems Security Risk and Requirements with OASoSIS
When independent systems come together as a System of Systems (SoS) to achieve a new purpose, dealing with requirements conflicts across systems becomes a challenge. Moreover, assessing and modelling security risk for independent systems and the SoS as a whole is challenged by a gap in related research and approaches within the SoSs domain. In this paper, we present an approach for bridging SoS and Requirements Engineering by identifying aligning SoSs concepts to assess and model security risk and requirements. We introduce our OASoSIS approach modifying OCTAVE Allegro for SoSs using CAIRIS (Computer Aided Integration of Requirements and Information Security) with a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) SoS exemplar for Security Requirements Engineering tool-support. Index Terms—System of Systems, Security, Risk, Human Factors, Requirements Engineering, CAIRIS
Scaling and non-Abelian signature in fractional quantum Hall quasiparticle tunneling amplitude
We study the scaling behavior in the tunneling amplitude when quasiparticles
tunnel along a straight path between the two edges of a fractional quantum Hall
annulus. Such scaling behavior originates from the propagation and tunneling of
charged quasielectrons and quasiholes in an effective field analysis. In the
limit when the annulus deforms continuously into a quasi-one-dimensional ring,
we conjecture the exact functional form of the tunneling amplitude for several
cases, which reproduces the numerical results in finite systems exactly. The
results for Abelian quasiparticle tunneling is consistent with the scaling
anaysis; this allows for the extraction of the conformal dimensions of the
quasiparticles. We analyze the scaling behavior of both Abelian and non-Abelian
quasiparticles in the Read-Rezayi Z_k-parafermion states. Interestingly, the
non-Abelian quasiparticle tunneling amplitudes exhibit nontrivial k-dependent
corrections to the scaling exponent.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Roots of the derivative of the Riemann zeta function and of characteristic polynomials
We investigate the horizontal distribution of zeros of the derivative of the
Riemann zeta function and compare this to the radial distribution of zeros of
the derivative of the characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix.
Both cases show a surprising bimodal distribution which has yet to be
explained. We show by example that the bimodality is a general phenomenon. For
the unitary matrix case we prove a conjecture of Mezzadri concerning the
leading order behavior, and we show that the same follows from the random
matrix conjectures for the zeros of the zeta function.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figure
Positivity of High Density Effective Theory
We show that the effective field theory of low energy modes in dense QCD has
positive Euclidean path integral measure. The complexity of the measure of QCD
at finite chemical potential can be ascribed to modes which are irrelevant to
the dynamics at sufficiently high density. Rigorous inequalities follow at
asymptotic density. Lattice simulation of dense QCD should be possible using
the quark determinant calculated in the effective theory.Comment: 10 pages, Revised version, to appear in Rapid Communications of
Physical Review
Precise Complexity of the Core in Dichotomous and Additive Hedonic Games
Hedonic games provide a general model of coalition formation, in which a set
of agents is partitioned into coalitions, with each agent having preferences
over which other players are in her coalition. We prove that with additively
separable preferences, it is -complete to decide whether a core- or
strict-core-stable partition exists, extending a result of Woeginger (2013).
Our result holds even if valuations are symmetric and non-zero only for a
constant number of other agents. We also establish -completeness of
deciding non-emptiness of the strict core for hedonic games with dichotomous
preferences. Such results establish that the core is much less tractable than
solution concepts such as individual stability.Comment: ADT-2017, 15 pages in LNCS styl
Frame-like Geometry of Double Field Theory
We relate two formulations of the recently constructed double field theory to
a frame-like geometrical formalism developed by Siegel. A self-contained
presentation of this formalism is given, including a discussion of the
constraints and its solutions, and of the resulting Riemann tensor, Ricci
tensor and curvature scalar. This curvature scalar can be used to define an
action, and it is shown that this action is equivalent to that of double field
theory.Comment: 35 pages, v2: minor corrections, to appear in J. Phys.
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