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    The top squark-mediated annihilation scenario and direct detection of dark matter in compressed supersymmetry

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    Top squark-mediated annihilation of bino-like neutralinos to top-antitop pairs can play the dominant role in obtaining a thermal relic dark matter abundance in agreement with observations. In a previous paper, it was argued that this can occur naturally in models of compressed supersymmetry, which feature a running gluino mass parameter that is substantially smaller than the wino mass parameter at the scale of apparent gauge coupling unification. Here I study in some more detail the parameter space in which this is viable, and compare to other scenarios for obtaining the observed dark matter density. I then study the possibility of detecting the dark matter directly in future experiments. The prospects are consistently very promising for a wide variety of model parameters within this scenario.Comment: 17 pages. v2: additions to figures 4 and

    All we need is the candidate’s face: the irrelevance of information about political coalition affiliation and campaign promises

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    Recent research has indicated that judgments of competence based on very short exposure to political candidates' faces reliably predict electoral success. An unexplored question is whether presenting written information of the kind to which voters are typically exposed during an election alongside candidates' faces affects competence judgments. We conducted three studies using photographs of 16 pairs of competing politicians in 16 medium-sized towns of northeast Italy as stimuli. Study 1 confirmed the external validity of earlier research in which participants were exposed to candidates' faces without providing any other information. Study 2a showed that competence judgments were not subject to in-group favoritism: candidates' faces were presented alongside information about the political coalition to which they belonged (center left; center right) to participants who declared a left or right political orientation. Finally, Study 2c compared the competence inferences made in Study 1 (face-only condition) with those of Study 2a (face plus political coalition label) and with new inferences (Study 2b) based on candidates' faces plus information about campaign promises (greater equality; lower taxes). The results showed that automatic competence inferences are not substantially modified when relevant written information is presented alongside candidates' faces

    Universal aging properties at a disordered critical point

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    We investigate, analytically near the dimension duc=4d_{uc}=4 and numerically in d=3d=3, the non equilibrium relaxational dynamics of the randomly diluted Ising model at criticality. Using the Exact Renormalization Group Method to one loop, we compute the two times t,twt,t_w correlation function and Fluctuation Dissipation Ratio (FDR) for any Fourier mode of the order parameter, of finite wave vector qq. In the large time separation limit, the FDR is found to reach a non trivial value XX^{\infty} independently of (small) qq and coincide with the FDR associated to the the {\it total} magnetization obtained previously. Explicit calculations in real space show that the FDR associated to the {\it local} magnetization converges, in the asymptotic limit, to this same value XX^{\infty}. Through a Monte Carlo simulation, we compute the autocorrelation function in three dimensions, for different values of the dilution fraction pp at Tc(p)T_c(p). Taking properly into account the corrections to scaling, we find, according to the Renormalization Group predictions, that the autocorrelation exponent λc\lambda_c is independent on pp. The analysis is complemented by a study of the non equilibrium critical dynamics following a quench from a completely ordered state.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure

    Alien Registration- Belanger, Marie L. (Auburn, Androscoggin County)

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    Alien Registration- Belanger, Louise L. (Fort Kent, Aroostook County)

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    https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/36263/thumbnail.jp

    Equilibrium random-field Ising critical scattering in the antiferromagnet Fe(0.93)Zn(0.07)F2

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    It has long been believed that equilibrium random-field Ising model (RFIM) critical scattering studies are not feasible in dilute antiferromagnets close to and below Tc(H) because of severe non-equilibrium effects. The high magnetic concentration Ising antiferromagnet Fe(0.93)Zn(0.07)F2, however, does provide equilibrium behavior. We have employed scaling techniques to extract the universal equilibrium scattering line shape, critical exponents nu = 0.87 +- 0.07 and eta = 0.20 +- 0.05, and amplitude ratios of this RFIM system.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, minor revision

    Comprehensive study of the critical behavior in the diluted antiferromagnet in a field

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    We study the critical behavior of the Diluted Antiferromagnet in a Field with the Tethered Monte Carlo formalism. We compute the critical exponents (including the elusive hyperscaling violations exponent θ\theta). Our results provide a comprehensive description of the phase transition and clarify the inconsistencies between previous experimental and theoretical work. To do so, our method addresses the usual problems of numerical work (large tunneling barriers and self-averaging violations).Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

    Magnetic Properties of the Metamagnet Ising Model in a three-dimensional Lattice in a Random and Uniform Field

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    By employing the Monte Carlo technique we study the behavior of Metamagnet Ising Model in a random field. The phase diagram is obtained by using the algorithm of Glaubr in a cubic lattice of linear size LL with values ranging from 16 to 42 and with periodic boundary conditions.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
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