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    Exotic Fermions and Bosons in the Quartification Model

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    Exotic fermions of half-integral charges at the TeV energy scale are predicted by the quartification model of Babu, Ma, and Willenbrock. We add to these one copy of their scalar analogs and discuss the ensuing phenomenological implications, i.e. radiative contributions to lepton masses and flavor-changing leptonic decays.Comment: 7 pages, including 3 figure

    Tripartite Neutrino Mass Matrix

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    The 3 X 3 Majorana neutrino mass matrix is written as a sum of 3 terms, i.e. M_nu = M_A + M_B + M_C, where M_A is proportional to the identity matrix and M_B and M_C are invariant under different Z_3 transformations. This M_nu is very suitable for understanding atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations, with sin^2 (2 theta_atm) and tan^2 (theta_sol) fixed at 1 and 0.5 respectively, in excellent agreement with present data. It has in fact been proposed before, but only as an ansatz. This paper uncovers its underlying symmetry, thus allowing a complete theory of leptons and quarks to be constructed.Comment: 9 pages, no figur

    Quarks and Leptons in a Hexagonal Chain

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    The seemingly disparate notions of chiral color and quark-lepton nonuniversality are combined, and shown to be essential to each other as part of an underlying (and unifying) larger symmetry, i.e. supersymmetric SU(3)^6. Both phenomena are accessible experimentally at the TeV energy scale.Comment: 10 pages, including 1 figur

    Study of Single W production in e-gamma collisions through the decay lepton spectrum to probe gamma-WW couplings

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    We investigate the effect of anomalous gamma-W-W couplings in e-gamma --> nu W through the angular and energy spectrum of the secondary leptons. Within the narrow-width approximation, a semi-analytical study of the secondary lepton energy-angle double distribution is considered. Utility of observables derived from this is demonstrated by considering the anomalous coupling, delta-kappa-gamma. Results of our investigation for typical ILC machine considered at Ecm = 300-1000 GeV re-affirms potential of this collider as a precision machine.Comment: Typos corrected, discussion added in section 2 for clarity, error in fig.2 corrected, figures 7 and 8 replaced with better resolutio

    New "Square Root" Model of Lepton Family Cyclic Symmetry

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    Following the newly formulated notion of form invariance of the neutrino mass matrix, a complete model of leptons is constructed. It is based on a specific unitary 3 X 3 matrix U in family space, such that U^2 is the simple discrete symmetry nu_e to -nu_e, nu_mu to nu_tau. Thus U also generates the cyclic group Z_4. The charged-lepton mass matrix is nearly diagonal while the neutrino mass matrix is of the form suitable for explaining maximal (large) mixing in atmospheric (solar) neutrino oscillations in the context of three nearly degenerate neutrino masses. Observable lepton flavor violation is predicted. Quarks may be treated in the same way as the charged leptons.Comment: 10 pages, no figur

    CP Violating Form Factors for Three Gauge Boson Vertex in the Two Higgs Doublet and Left-Right symmetric Models

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    In this paper we calculate the one loop contributions to the CP violating three gauge boson couplings in two-Higgs doublet and Left--Right symmetric models. In the two-Higgs doublet model only a P conserving and CP violating coupling is generated, and it can be large as 10310^{-3}. In the Left--Right symmetric model both P conserving and violating couplings are generated. Due to constraints on the WLW_L--WRW_R mixing, these couplings are small.Comment: 9 pages, Tex, UM-P-92/75, OZ-92/2

    A Renormalization Group Analysis of the Higgs Boson with Heavy Fermions and Compositeness

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    We study the properties of heavy fermions in the vector-like representation of the electro-weak gauge group SU(2)W×U(1)YSU(2)_W\times U(1)_Y with Yukawa couplings to the standard model (SM) Higgs boson. Using the renormalization group analysis, we discuss their effects on the vacuum stability and the triviality bound on the Higgs self-coupling, within the context of the standard model (i.e., the Higgs particle is elementary). Contrary to the low energy case where the decoupling theorem dictates their behavior, the inclusion of heavy fermions drastically change the SM structure at high scale. We also discuss the interesting possibility of compositeness, i.e., the Higgs particle is composed of the heavy fermions using the method of Bardeen, Hill and Lindner~\cite{BHL91}. Finally we briefly comment on their possible role in explaining RbR_b and RcR_c.Comment: Some typographic errors are corrected and title is changed. Version to appear in Physics Letter B. 9 pages 6 Postscript figures, use epsf.st
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