167 research outputs found
Suppression of Heavy Ion gamma gamma Production of the Higgs by Coulomb Dissociation
Predicted two-photon Higgs production with heavy ions at LHC is shown to be
reduced due to the large Coulomb dissociation cross section. Incorporating the
effect of dissociation reduces the production of a 100 GeV Higgs by about a
factor of three compared to rates in the literature calculated without this
effect.Comment: 5 pages, latex, revtex source, two postscript figure
Tagging Two-Photon Production at the LHC
Tagging two-photon production offers a significant extension of the LHC
physics programme. Effective luminosity of high-energy gamma-gamma collisions
reaches 1% of the proton-proton luminosity and the standard detector techniques
used for measuring very forward proton scattering should allow for a reliable
extraction of interesting two-photon interactions. Particularly exciting is a
possibility of detecting two-photon exclusive Higgs boson production at the
LHC.Comment: 9 pages and 4 figure
Exclusive Production of Higgs Bosons in Hadron Colliders
We study the exclusive, double--diffractive production of the Standard Model
Higgs particle in hadronic collisions at LHC and FNAL (upgraded) energies. Such
a mechanism would provide an exceptionally clean signal for experimental
detection in which the usual penalty for triggering on the rare decays of the
Higgs could be avoided. In addition, because of the color singlet nature of the
hard interaction, factorization is expected to be preserved, allowing the
cross--section to be related to similar hard--diffractive events at HERA.
Starting from a Fock state expansion in perturbative QCD, we obtain an estimate
for the cross section in terms of the gluon structure functions squared of the
colliding hadrons. Unfortunately, our estimates yield a production rate well
below what is likely to be experimentally feasible.Comment: 17 pages, RevTeX file, four uufiled PostScript figures. UMPP #94-177.
(Revised version. Some mistakenly missing Feynman diagrams are now added.
Results do not change qualitatively. Paper reorganized.
Horizontal Symmetry for Quark and Squark Masses in Supersymmetric SU(5)
Recent interest in horizontal symmetry model building has been driven mainly
by the large top mass and hence strong hierarchy in quark masses, and the
possibility of appropriately constrained soft squark mass matrices, in place of
an assumed universality condition, for satisfying the relevant FCNC
constraints. Here we present the first successful SUSY- model that has
such a feature. The horizontal symmetry is a gauged
(). All nonrenormalizable terms compatible with
the symmetry are allowed in the mass matrix constructions. Charged lepton
masses can also be accommodated.Comment: 15 pages, latex, 1 latex figure included version to be published in
Phys. Rev. Lett. ; some small changes in notations and presentation, a small
paragragh and 3 references adde
Social innovations for social cohesion in Western Europe: success dimensions for lifelong learning and education
YesIn addressing the EU2020 goals, skills shortage combined with increasing unemployment rates is to be primarily tackled in Western Europe; the common factor here is education. Education and lifelong learning (LL) are the key strands governing employability in the European labour market. Overarching concepts capable of addressing social challenges within education and LL that contribute towards better practices are seen as social innovations (SI). While SI in education is well founded in the developing countries, Europe is still in the process of gaining progressive momentum in this direction. In addressing various societal challenges, this study looks at observable trends in SI for education across Western Europe. About 30 innovations have been recorded across 11 countries that are essentially focussed on: social integration, alternative/new forms of education, digital learning, new learning arrangements, new LL strategies, early career planning, youth employment, quality improvements and new education standards, transition management, and entrepreneurial education.European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration [grant number 612870]
High-E_T dijet photoproduction at HERA
The cross section for high-E_T dijet production in photoproduction has been
measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.8
pb-1. The events were required to have a virtuality of the incoming photon,
Q^2, of less than 1 GeV^2 and a photon-proton centre-of-mass energy in the
range 142 < W < 293 GeV. Events were selected if at least two jets satisfied
the transverse-energy requirements of E_T(jet1) > 20 GeV and E_T(jet2) > 15 GeV
and pseudorapidity requirements of -1 < eta(jet1,2) < 3, with at least one of
the jets satisfying -1 < eta(jet) < 2.5. The measurements show sensitivity to
the parton distributions in the photon and proton and effects beyond
next-to-leading order in QCD. Hence these data can be used to constrain further
the parton densities in the proton and photon.Comment: 36 pages, 13 figures, 20 tables, including minor revisions from
referees. Accepted by Phys. Rev.
Neutrino Oscillations from Discrete Non-Abelian Symmetries
I discuss a SUSY-GUT model with a non-Abelian discrete family symmetry that
explains the observed hierarchical pattern of quark and lepton masses. This
model predicts modified quadratic seesaw neutrino
masses and mixing angles which are interesting for three reasons: i.) they
offer a solution to the solar neutrino problem, ii.) the tau neutrino has the
right mass for a cosmologically interesting hot dark matter candidate, and
iii.) they suggest a positive result for the
oscillation searches by the CHORUS and NOMAD collaborations. However, the model
shares some problems with many other predictive GUT models of quark and lepton
masses. Well-known and once successful mass and angle relations, such as the
relation , are found to be in
conflict with the current experimental status. Attempts to correct these
relations seem to lead to rather contrived models.Comment: 16 pages, uses harvmac, epsf, tables, 4 figure
Measurement of (anti)deuteron and (anti)proton production in DIS at HERA
The first observation of (anti)deuterons in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
has been made with the ZEUS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 300--318 GeV
using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. The measurement was performed in
the central rapidity region for transverse momentum per unit of mass in the
range 0.3<p_T/M<0.7. The particle rates have been extracted and interpreted in
terms of the coalescence model. The (anti)deuteron production yield is smaller
than the (anti)proton yield by approximately three orders of magnitude,
consistent with the world measurements.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Nucl. Phys.
Quarks, Squarks and Textures
By studying symmetric mass textures for the up and down quark sectors, and
expanding in a small parameter , bounds are set on
entries commonly assumed to vanish. Consequences of a 2 + 1 family structure
which can result from horizontal symmetry are examined. Generalizing to
squarks, we study suppression of Flavor Changing Neutral Currents by mass
degeneracy and/or small mixing angles.Comment: Slight modifications in presentation; one table added; version to
appear in Phys.Rev.
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