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Finding the Higgs Boson through Supersymmetry
The study of displaced vertices containing two b--jets may provide a double
discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): we show how it may not only
reveal evidence for supersymmetry, but also provide a way to uncover the Higgs
boson necessary in the formulation of the electroweak theory in a large region
of the parameter space. We quantify this explicitly using the simplest minimal
supergravity model with bilinear breaking of R-parity, which accounts for the
observed pattern of neutrino masses and mixings seen in neutrino oscillation
experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures. Final version to appear at PRD. Discussion and
results were enlarge
Probing Neutrino Oscillations in Supersymmetric Models at the Large Hadron Collider
The lightest supersymmetric particle may decay with branching ratios that
correlate with neutrino oscillation parameters. In this case the CERN Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) has the potential to probe the atmospheric neutrino
mixing angle with sensitivity competitive to its low-energy determination by
underground experiments. Under realistic detection assumptions, we identify the
necessary conditions for the experiments at CERN's LHC to probe the simplest
scenario for neutrino masses induced by minimal supergravity with bilinear R
parity violation.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Physical Review
Solitons of Sigma Model on Noncommutative Space as Solitons of Electron System
We study the relationship of soliton solutions for electron system with those
of the sigma model on the noncommutative space, working directly in the
operator formalism. We find that some soliton solutions of the sigma model are
also the solitons of the electron system and are classified by the same
topological numbers.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX2e, improvements to discussions, Version to be
published in JHE
Probing neutrino mass with multilepton production at the Tevatron in the simplest R-parity violation model
We analyze the production of multileptons in the simplest supergravity model
with bilinear violation of R parity at the Fermilab Tevatron. Despite the small
R-parity violating couplings needed to generate the neutrino masses indicated
by current atmospheric neutrino data, the lightest supersymmetric particle is
unstable and can decay inside the detector. This leads to a phenomenology quite
distinct from that of the R-parity conserving scenario. We quantify by how much
the supersymmetric multilepton signals differ from the R-parity conserving
expectations, displaying our results in the plane. We
show that the presence of bilinear R-parity violating interactions enhances the
supersymmetric multilepton signals over most of the parameter space, specially
at moderate and large .Comment: 26 pages, 23 figures. Revised version with some results corrected and
references added. Conclusions remain the sam
The use of essential oils to protect rice from storage fungi
Rice (Oryza sativa) is the main food of half of the population of our planet. The growth of fungi closely associated to the eventual occurrence of mycotoxins can be responsible for serious economic losses and public health risks. Knowledge about the origin of the growth of toxigenic fungi is a prerequisite to the establishment of mycotoxin control programs. Socio-economical and environmental factors led to an extreme reduction of rice availability, while the estimated rice production losses increased in all continents what increases the importance to develop new harmless strategies for the control of fungi affecting stored rice. Natural products from plant origin were screened for the control of main pernicious fungi.In this work we have collected rice samples from different origins (national and imported) and these samples were analysed for fungal infection. Several fungi taxa were isolated: Absidia, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Bipolaris, Botrytis, Chaetomium, Curvularia, Cunninghamela, Epicoccum, Fusarium, Geotrichum, Helicoma, Nigrospora, Penicillium, Pyricularia, Rhizopus, Scytalidium, Stemphylium, Sordaria, Trichoconiella, Trichoderma, Trichothecium and Ulocladium. Some of the fungi isolated are potentially mycotoxigenic. We also studied a way to control the growth of some of these fungi using plant extracts and essential oils from Syzyginum aromaticum and Laurus nobilis. Promising results were obtained.Keywords: Rice, Cereals, Fungi, Bio-pesticides, Plant extracts
Searching supersymmetry at the LHCb with displaced vertices
Supersymmetric theories with bilinear R-parity violation can give rise to the
observed neutrino masses and mixings. One important feature of such models is
that the lightest supersymmetric particle might have a sufficiently large
lifetime to give rise to detached vertices. Working in the framework of
supergravity models we analyze the potential of the LHCb experiment to search
for supersymmetric models exhibiting bilinear R-parity violation. We show that
the LHCb experiment can probe a large fraction of the
being able to explore gluino masses up to 1.3 TeV. The LHCb discover potential
for this kind of models is similar to the ATLAS and CMS ones in the low
luminosity phase of operation of the LHC.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures. Extended version that appears at PRD. The
discussion is enlarged but the results remain the sam
On classical q-deformations of integrable sigma-models
JHEP is an open-access journal funded by SCOAP3 and licensed under CC BY 4.0A procedure is developed for constructing deformations of integrable σ-models which are themselves classically integrable. When applied to the principal chiral model on any compact Lie group F, one recovers the Yang-Baxter σ-model introduced a few years ago by C. Klimčík. In the case of the symmetric space σ-model on F/G we obtain a new one-parameter family of integrable σ-models. The actions of these models correspond to a deformation of the target space geometry and include a torsion term. An interesting feature of the construction is the q-deformation of the symmetry corresponding to left multiplication in the original models, which becomes replaced by a classical q-deformed Poisson-Hopf algebra. Another noteworthy aspect of the deformation in the coset σ-model case is that it interpolates between a compact and a non-compact symmetric space. This is exemplified in the case of the SU(2)/U(1) coset σ-model which interpolates all the way to the SU(1, 1)/U(1) coset σ-modelPeer reviewedFinal Published versio
The HMW effect in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics
The HMW effect in non-commutative quantum mechanics is studied. By solving
the Dirac equations on non-commutative (NC) space and non-commutative phase
space, we obtain topological HMW phase on NC space and NC phase space
respectively, where the additional terms related to the space-space and
momentum-momentum non-commutativity are given explicitly.Comment: 8 Latex page
Quartic Anomalous Couplings in Colliders
We study the constraints on the vertices ,
, and that can be obtained from
triple-gauge-boson production at the next generation of linear
colliders operating in the mode. We analyze the processes
(, or ) and show that these reactions
increase the potential of machines to search for anomalous
four-gauge-boson interactions.Comment: 15 pages, Latex file using ReVteX, 4 uufiled figures include
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