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Can a gravitational wave and a magnetic monopole coexist?
We investigate the behavior of small perturbations around the Kaluza-Klein
monopole in the five dimensional space-time. We find that the even parity
gravitational wave does not propagate in the five dimensional space-time with
Kaluza-Klein monopole provided that the gravitational wave is constant in the
fifth direction. We conclude that a gravitational wave and a U(1) magnetic
monopole do not coexist in five dimensional Kaluza-Klein spacetime.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX. To appear in Modern Physics Letters
Thermal leptogenesis in a supersymmetric neutrinophilic Higgs model
We investigate thermal leptogenesis in a supersymmetric neutrinophilic Higgs
model by taking phenomenological constraints into account, where, in addition
to the minimal supersymmetric standard model, we introduce an extra Higgs field
with a tiny vacuum expectation value (VEV) which generates neutrino masses.
Thanks to this tiny VEV of the neutrinophilic Higgs, our model allows to reduce
the mass of the lightest right-handed (s)neutrino to be GeV as
keeping sufficiently large CP asymmetry in its decay. Therefore, the reheating
temperature after inflation is not necessarily high, hence this scenario is
free from gravitino problem.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
MANX: A 6D Ionization-Cooling Experiment
Six-dimensional ionization cooling of muons is essential for muon colliders
and possibly beneficial for neutrino factories. An experiment to demonstrate
six-dimensional ionization cooling using practical apparatus is presented. It
exploits recent innovative ideas that may lead to six-dimensional muon-cooling
channels with emittance reduction approaching that needed for high-luminosity
muon colliders.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the 9th International
Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams, and Betabeams (NuFact07), August
6-11, 2007, Okayama University, Japa
Neutrino Scattering on Glass: NuSOnG
These proceedings describe the physics goals and initial design for a new
experiment: NuSOnG -- Neutrino Scattering On Glass. The design will yield about
two orders of magnitude higher statistics than previous high energy neutrino
experiments, observed in a detector optimized for low hadronic energy and
electromagnetic events. As a result, the purely weak processes and (inverse muon decay)
can be measured with high accuracy for the first time. This allows important
precision electroweak tests and well as direct searches for new physics. The
high statistics also will yield the world's largest sample of Deep Inelastic
(DIS) events for precision parton distribution studies.Comment: Proceedings of NuFact0
Nuclear effects in Neutrino Nuclear Cross-sections
Nuclear effects in the quasielastic and inelastic scattering of
neutrinos(antineutrinos) from nuclear targets have been studied. The
calculations are done in the local density approximation which take into
account the effect of nucleon motion as well as renormalisation of weak
transition strengths in the nuclear medium. The inelastic reaction leading to
production of pions is calculated in a dominance model taking into
account the renormalization of properties in the nuclear medium.Comment: 4 pages,3 figures, Ninth International Workshop on Neutrino
Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact07), August 6-11, 2007, Okayama
University, Okayama, Japa
Symmetric Tensor Decomposition Description of Fermionic Many-Body Wavefunctions
The configuration interaction (CI) is a versatile wavefunction theory for
interacting fermions but it involves an extremely long CI series. Using a
symmetric tensor decomposition (STD) method, we convert the CI series into a
compact and numerically tractable form. The converted series encompasses the
Hartree-Fock state in the first term and rapidly converges to the full-CI
state, as numerically tested using small molecules. Provided that the length of
the STD-CI series grows only moderately with the increasing complexity of the
system, the new method will serve as one of the alternative variational methods
to achieve full-CI with enhanced practicability.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Chiral Symmetry and Neutrino Pion Production off the Nucleon
The neutrino pion production off the nucleon is traditionally described in
the literature by means of the weak excitation of the Delta(1232) resonance and
its subsequent decay into N pi. Here, we present results from a model that
includes also some background terms required by chiral symmetry. We show that
the contribution of these terms is sizeable and leads to significant effects in
total and partially integrated pion production cross sections at intermediate
energies of interest for neutrino oscillation experiments. Finally, we discuss
parity-violating contributions to the pion angular differential cross section
induced by the interference of these non-resonant terms with the Delta piece.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of 9th International Workshop On
Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact07) August 6-11, 2007,
Okayama University, Japa
Global NLO Analysis of Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions
Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by a global
analysis of experimental measurements on structure-function ratios
F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross section ratios
\sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}, and their uncertainties are estimated by the
Hessian method. The NPDFs are obtained in both leading order (LO) and
next-to-leading order (NLO) of \alpha_s. As a result, valence-quark
distributions are relatively well determined, whereas antiquark distributions
at x>0.2 and gluon distributions in the whole x region have large
uncertainties. The NLO uncertainties are slightly smaller than the LO ones;
however, such a NLO improvement is not as significant as the nucleonic case.Comment: 3 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps files, to be published in the AIP proceedings
of the 9th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and
Betabeams (NuFact07), Okayama, Japan, August 6 - 11, 2007. A code for
calculating our nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertainties
can be obtained from http://research.kek.jp/people/kumanos/nuclp.htm
A New Triangulated Category for Rational Surface Singularities
In this short paper we introduce a new triangulated category for rational
surface singularities which in the non-Gorenstein case acts as a substitute for
the stable category of matrix factorizations. The category is formed as a
Frobenius quotient of the category of special CM modules, and we classify the
relatively projective-injective objects and thus describe the AR quiver of the
quotient. Connections to the corresponding reconstruction algebras are also
discussed.Comment: 15 pages, minor changes. Final versio
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