Time-series properties of state-level public expenditure.

Public expenditure reform must be underpinned by some understanding of the time-series properties of public expenditure. This paper examines the univariate properties of aggregate revenue expenditure at the level of State governments in India over the period 1974-98 for three states: Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra. The empirical exercise is performed on the logarithmic transformation of aggregate revenue expenditure in terms of nominal (rather than ex post real) expenditure, not normalised to State Domestic Product, for reasons justified in the paper, and is confined to the aggregate for lack of a breakdown of the series by economic classification. The data are adjusted for notional entries and other distortionary budgetary practices. There is trend stationarity in Punjab and Haryana, with a deterministic trend growth rate of 16-17 per cent, and clear evidence thereby of fiscal smoothing in the presence of periodic upward shocks of Pay Commission or other origin. In Maharashtra by contrast, aggregate expenditure carries a unit root, with no deterministic trend, and no drift term; expenditure shocks of other than Pay Commission origin appear to have been enabled with no corresponding smoothing, but there is sharp and concurrent smoothing at the time of the Pay Commission shocks, such that aggregate expenditure does not show a spike. The issue of whether the fiscal smoothing in each case was unproductive or productive remains unrevealed in the aggregate figures.

Invisibly decaying Higgs boson in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity

We show that there are regions in the parameter space of the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity, allowed by electroweak precision data, where the Higgs boson can decay invisibly into a pair of heavy photons A_H with a substantial branching ratio. For a symmetry breaking scale f in the range 450-600 GeV, the BR(H -> A_H A_H) can be up to 95% for an intermediate mass Higgs, and from 20% down to a few percents for a Higgs boson of mass 200 GeV or above. The total decay width of the Higgs boson can thereby be enhanced by an order of magnitude compared to the Standard Model for Higgs masses around 130 GeV.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Latex (stylefiles included); Talk presented by A.N. at the International Workshop on Theoretical High Energy Physics (IWTHEP 2007), Roorkee, India, 15-20 March 2007, to appear in the proceeding

Gauge boson fusion as a probe of inverted hierarchies in supersymmetry

Supersymmetric scenarios with inverted mass hierarchy can be hard to observe at a hadron collider, particularly for the non-strongly interacting sector. We show how the production of stau-pairs via gauge boson fusion, along with hard jets in the high rapidity region, can be instrumental in uncovering the signatures of such scenarios. We demonstrate this both in a model-independent way and with reference to some specific, well-motivated models.Comment: RevTeX4, 4 pages, 2 figures. Final version to appear in Phys.Rev.D Changes in context, figures modified. References added. Conclusions unchange

Associated single photons and doubly charged scalar at linear e-e- colliders

Doubly charged scalars, predicted in many models having exotic Higgs representations, can in general have lepton-number violating (LFV) couplings. We show that by using an associated monoenergetic final state photon seen at a future linear e-e- collider, we can have a clear and distinct signature for a doubly-charged resonance. The strength of the Delta L=2 coupling can also be probed quite effectively as a function of the recoil mass of the doubly-charged scalar.Comment: Reference adde

Spacetime torsion and parity violation: a gauge invariant formulation

The possibility of parity violation through spacetime torsion has been explored in a scenario containing fields with different spins. Taking the Kalb-Ramond field as the source of torsion, an explicitly parity violating $U(1)_{EM}$ gauge invariant theory has been constructed by extending the KR field with a Chern-Simons term.Comment: 4 pages, RevTe

Two-loop neutrino masses with large R-parity violating interactions in supersymmetry

We attempt to reconcile large trilinear R-parity violating interactions in a supersymmetric (SUSY) theory with the observed pattern of neutrino masses and mixing. We show that, with a restricted number of such interaction terms with the $\lambda'$-type couplings in the range (0.1-1.0), it is possible to forbid one-loop contributions to the neutrino mass matrix. This is illustrated with the help of a `working example' where an econnomic choice of SUSY parameters is made, with three non-vanishing and `large' R-parity violating terms in the superpotential. The two-loop contributions in such a case can not only generate the masses in the requisite order but can also lead us to specific allowed regions of the parameter space.Comment: Revised version, 25 pages, 16 figure

Singlet Charge 2/32/3 Quark hiding the Top: Tevatron and LEP Implications

If $c$ and $t$ quarks are strongly mixed with a weak singlet charge $2/3$ quark, $BR(t\to \ell\nu + X)$ could be suppressed via the $t\to cH^0$ mode, thereby the top quark could still hide below $M_W$, whereas the heavy quark signal observed at the Tevatron is due to the dominantly singlet quark $Q$. This may occur without affecting the small $m_c$ value. Demanding $m_Q \simeq 175$ GeV and m_t \ltap M_W, we find that $BR(t\to \ell\nu + X)$ cannot be too suppressed. The heavy quark $Q$ decays via $W,\ H$, and $Z$ bosons. The latter can lead to $b$-tagged $Z + 4$ jet events, while the strong $c$--$Q$ mixing is reflected in sizable $Q\to sW$ fraction. $Z\to t\bar c$ decay occurs at tree level and may be at the $10^{-3}$ order, leading to the signature of $Z\to \ell\nu b\bar c$, all isolated and with large $p_T$, at $10^{-5}$ order.Comment: 10 pages + 3 Figures (not included), ReVTeX, NTUTH-94-1

Split supersymmetry and the role of a light fermion in a supergravity-based scenario

We investigate split supersymmetry (SUSY) within a supergravity framework, where local SUSY is broken by the F-term of a hidden sector chiral superfield X. With reasonably general assumptions, we show that the fermionic component of X will always have mass within a Tev. Though its coupling to the observable sector superfields is highly suppressed in Tev scale SUSY, we show that it can be enhanced by many orders in split SUSY, leading to its likely participation in accelerator phenomenology.We conclude with a specific example of such a scenario in a string based supergravity model.Comment: 12 Pages, Latex, Title changed, version thoroughly revise