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Top-BESS model and its phenomenology
We introduce the top-BESS model which is the effective description of the
strong electroweak symmetry breaking with a single new SU(2)_L+R triplet vector
resonance. The model is a modification of the BESS model in the fermion sector.
The triplet couples to the third generation of quarks only. This approach
reflects a possible extraordinary role of the top quark in the mechanism of
electroweak symmetry breaking. The low-energy limits on the model parameters
found provide hope for finding sizable signals in the LHC Drell-Yan processes
as well as in the s-channel production processes at the ILC. However, there are
regions of the model parameter space where the interplay of the direct and
indirect fermion couplings can hide the resonance peak in a scattering process
even though the resonance exists and couples directly to top and bottom quarks.Comment: published in Physical Review D, minor changes in text, 21 pages, 37
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A rich ichnofossil assemblage from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) deposits at Andoma Hill, Onega Lake, Russia
The effect of renal denervation in an experimental model of chronic renal insufficiency, The REmnant kidney Denervation In Pigs study (REDIP study)
Micromorphological and chemical investigation of late-Viking age grave fills at Hofstaðir, Iceland
Grave fills from seven human burials from a late-Viking age - early medieval cemetery at Hofstaðir, Mývatnssveit (Iceland) were examined by soil micromorphology and organic chemical analysis. Detailed analysis of the weathering of the mineral constituents of the grave fills demonstrates a relationship between the extent of weathering of volcanic silicates within the fills and the presence of buried human remains. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS) of extracts from the fills and controls of two graves revealed organic signatures dominated by plant-derived organic matter, with no evidence of degradation products of the body tissues. Transformation of n-alkanes into n-alkan-2-ones provides evidence for microbial activity within the fills. GC–MS analysis of the organic extract from under one of the skulls and pyrolysis gas chromatography of wood fragments found in that grave provide compelling evidence for the former presence of a conifer wood coffin. The use of this non-native wood in the burial provides evidence for either the import of foreign lumber or the utilisation of driftwood, most likely originating from Russia/Siberia
Late Proterozoic to Early Palaeozoic platform deposits of Southern Moravia (Czech Republic)
Integrated sedimentological and palaeontological study of borehole cores through plat orm siliciclastic deposits of the southernmost part of Brunovistulicum (S Moravia) shows convincing evidence for the Cambrian age of a considerable portion organic-walled microfossils of Late Proterozoic (Ediacaran) age have been found in a sample from the Menín-1 borehole. Thirty genera characteristic of the Ediacaran have been recognized. Part, though, of the siliciclastic succession of S Brunovistulicum is Devonian in age. The platform deposits studied are consid red to have the same source area but the degree of maturity of the Devonian clastics rocks is generally higher than that of the older strata. Facies analysis indicates a predominance of deltaic settings (braided and fan del tas); similar sedimentary environments are suggested for both the Ediacaran/Cambrian and Devonian successions
Three New Ichnogenera of Biting and Gnawing Traces on Reptilian and Mammalian Bones: A Case Study from the Miocene of the Czech Republic
A Large Trace Fossil in Nodular Limestones (Lower Devonian, Czech Republic): Sedimentological Consequences, Ethology and Taphonomy
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