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New edition of Eurachem/CITAC guide on measurement uncertainty arising from sampling
The second edition of the Eurachem/CITAC Guide on measurement uncertainty arising from sampling (UfS) has recently been published [1]. It has been updated to explain how several new research ideas can be used to improve the way that we estimate and express UfS. The Guide considers the whole measurement process, which usually begins at the point where a primary sample is taken. It retains the basic structure of the first edition, describing the estimation of UfS by both empirical and modelling approaches, and includes six worked examples across several application sectors, including food, animal feed, soil and water
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Eurachem Workshop on ‘Uncertainty from Sampling and Analysis for Accredited Laboratories’: BAM, Berlin, 19-20 November 2019
The article reviews the Eurachem Workshop on ‘Uncertainty from sampling and analysis for accredited laboratories’, that was held in conjunction with Eurolab-Germany and CITAC, at BAM in Berlin on November 19th-20th 2019. This two-day Workshop attracted over 140 participants from 27 counties, who made 30 presentation, both orally and as posters. One of its objectives was to launch the Second Edition of the Eurachem/CITAC Guide on Measurement Uncertainty arising from Sampling. The first day was therefore mainly focused on UfS and several of the new ideas in this area that have been incorporated into the revised Guide. For example, the Uncertainty Factor was explained as a better way to express measurement uncertainty (U) when the values are large (e.g. U > 20%), and when the frequency distribution of the uncertainty is shown to be log-normal, rather than the Gaussian that is usually assumed. Some examples where given where this asymmetry in the uncertainty was seen to arise from the sampling process, but other examples arose from purely analytical sources, such as the determination of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in soya
Chiral Symmetries and Low Energy Searches for New Physics
I discuss low energy searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model,
identifying the role played by chiral symmetries in these searches and in
various new physics scenarios. I focus in particular on electric dipole moment
searches; precision studies of weak decays and electron scattering; and
neutrino properties and interactions.Comment: Talk given at 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics,
Durham/Chapel Hill, NC (September, 2006); 12 page
Nuclei as Laboratories: Nuclear Tests of Fundamental Symmetries
The prospect of a rare isosotope accelerator facility opens up possibilities
for a new generation of nuclear tests of fundamental symmetries. In this talk,
I survey the current landscape of such tests and discuss future opportunities
that a new facility might present.Comment: To appear in proceedings of 3rd ANL/MSU/INT/JINA Theory Workshop,
Argonne National Laboratory (April, 2006); 13 page
Electric Dipole Moments: A Global Analysis
We perform a global analysis of searches for the permanent electric dipole
moments (EDMs) of the neutron, neutral atoms, and molecules in terms of six
leptonic, semileptonic, and nonleptonic interactions involving photons,
electrons, pions, and nucleons. Translating the results into fundamental
CP-violating effective interactions through dimension six involving Standard
Model particles, we obtain rough lower bounds on the scale of beyond the
Standard Model CP-violating interactions ranging from 1.5 TeV for the electron
EDM to 1300 TeV for the nuclear spin-independent electron-quark interaction. We
show that future measurements involving systems or combinations of systems with
complementary sensitivities to the low-energy parameters may extend the mass
reach by an order of magnitude or more.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur
Top Down Electroweak Dipole Operators
We derive present constraints on, and prospective sensitivity to, the
electric dipole moment (EDM) of the top quark () implied by searches for
the EDMs of the electron and nucleons. Above the electroweak scale , the
arises from two gauge invariant operators generated at a scale that also mix with the light fermion EDMs under renormalization group
evolution at two-loop order. Bounds on the EDMs of first generation fermion
systems thus imply bounds on . Working in the leading log-squared
approximation, we find that the present upper bound on is roughly
cm for TeV, except in regions of finely tuned
cancellations that allow for to be up to fifty times larger. Future
and probes may yield an order of magnitude increase in
sensitivity, while inclusion of a prospective proton EDM search may lead to an
additional increase in reach.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
New Physics Effects in Higgs Decay to Tau Leptons
We study the possible effects of TeV scale new physics (NP) on the rate for
Higgs boson decays to charged leptons, focusing on the tau tau channel which
can be readily studied at the Large Hadron collider. Using an SU(3)_C X SU(2)_L
X U(1)_Y invariant effective theory valid below a NP scale Lambda, we determine
all effective operators up to dimension six that could generate appreciable
contributions to the decay rate and compute the dependence of the rate on the
corresponding operator coefficients. We bound the size of these operator
coefficients based on the scale of the tau mass, naturalness considerations,
and experimental constraints on the tau anomalous magnetic moment. These
considerations imply that contributions to the decay rate from a NP scale
Lambda ~ TeV could be comparable to the prediction based on the SM Yukawa
interaction. A reliable test of the Higgs mechanism for fermion mass generation
via the h-> tau tau channel is possible only after such NP effects are
understood and brought under theoretical control.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, V2: typos correcte
Electron-to-Tau Lepton Flavor Violation at the Electron-Ion Collider
We analyze the potential sensitivity of a search for
conversion at a proposed electron-ion collider (EIC) facility. To that end, we
calculate the cross sections for events in a leptoquark
framework assuming that the leptoquark masses are on the order of several
hundred GeV or more. Given present limits on leptoquarks from direct searches
at HERA and rare decay processes, an EIC sensitive to 0.1 fb
cross sections could probe previously unexplored regions of parameter space for
these lepton flavor violating events (assuming 90 GeV center-of-mass energy and
10 fb integrated luminosity). Depending on the species of leptoquark and
flavor structure of the couplings, an EIC search could surpass the HERA and
rare process sensitivity to conversion amplitudes by as much
as an order of magnitude or more. We also derive updated limits on quark
flavor-diagonal LFV leptoquark interactions using the most recent BaBar
search. We find that limits from an EIC
search could be competitive with the most recent
limit for a subset of the quark flavor-diagonal
leptoquark couplings. Using an SU(5) GUT model in which leptoquark couplings
are constrained by the neutrino masses and mixing, we illustrate how observable
leptoquark-induced conversion can be consistent with
stringent LFV limits imposed by and
conversion searches.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure
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