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Custodial SO(4) symmetry and CP violation in N-Higgs-doublet potentials
We study the implementation of global
symmetry in general potentials with N-Higgs-doublets in order to obtain models
with custodial symmetry. We conclude that any implementation of the
custodial SO(4) symmetry is equivalent, by a basis transformation, to a
canonical one if is the gauge factor, is embedded in
and we require copies of the doublet representation of .
The invariance by SO(4) automatically leads to a CP invariant potential and the
basis of the canonical implementation of SO(4) is aligned to a basis where
CP-symmetry acts in the standard fashion. We show different but equivalent
implementations for the 2HDM, including an implementation not previously
considered.Comment: 22pp, REVTeX4. Published versio
Plasmonic Enhancement of Emission from Si-nanocrystals
Plasmonic gratings of different periodicities are fabricated on top of
Silicon nanocrystals embedded in Silicon Dioxide. Purcell enhancements of up to
2 were observed, which matches the value from simulations. Plasmonic
enhancements are observed for the first three orders of the plasmonic modes,
with the peak enhancement wavelength varying with the periodicity. Biharmonic
gratings are also fabricated to extract the enhanced emission from the first
order plasmonic mode, resulting in enhancements with quality factors of up to
16.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures added explanation of low purcell enhancement
updated figure
Self-Regulation of Star Formation in Low Metallicity Clouds
We investigate the process of self-regulated star formation via
photodissociation of hydrogen molecules in low metallicity clouds. We evaluate
the influence region's scale of a massive star in low metallicity gas clouds
whose temperatures are between 100 and 10000 Kelvin. A single O star can
photodissociate hydrogen molecules in the whole of the host cloud. If
metallicity is smaller than about 10^{-2.5} of the solar metallicity, the
depletion of coolant of the the host cloud is very serious so that the cloud
cannot cool in a free-fall time, and subsequent star formation is almost
quenched. On the contrary, if metallicity is larger than about 10^{-1.5} of the
solar metallicity, star formation regulation via photodissociation is not
efficient. The typical metallicity when this transition occurs is about 1/100
of the solar metallicity. This indicates that stars do not form efficiently
before the metallicity becomes larger than about 1/100 of the solar metallicity
and we considered that this value becomes the lower limit of the metallicity of
luminous objects such as galaxies.Comment: 14 pages, including 5 figures, To appear in ApJ, Vol. 53
On the Decelerating Shock Instability of Plane-Parallel Slab with Finite Thickness
Dynamical stability of the shock compressed layer with finite thickness is
investigated. It is characterized by self-gravity, structure, and shock
condition at the surfaces of the compressed layer. At one side of the shocked
layer, its surface condition is determined via the ram pressure, while at the
other side the thermal pressure supports its structure. When the ram pressure
dominates the thermal pressure, we expect deceleration of the shocked layer.
Especially, in this paper, we examine how the stratification of the
decelerating layer has an effect on its dynamical stability. Performing the
linear perturbation analysis, a {\it more general} dispersion relation than the
previous one obtained by one of the authors is derived. It gives us an
interesting information about the stability of the decelerating layer.
Importantly, the DSI (Decelerating Shock Instability) and the gravitational
instability are always incompatible. We also consider the evolution effect of
the shocked layer. In the early stages of its evolution, only DSI occurs. On
the contrary, in the late stages, it is possible for the shocked layer to be
unstable for the DSI (in smaller scale) and the gravitational instability (in
larger scale). Furthermore, we find there is a stable range of wavenumbers
against both the DSI and the gravitational instability between respective
unstable wavenumber ranges. These stable modes suggest the ineffectiveness of
DSI for the fragmentation of the decelerating slab.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures. The Astrophysical Journal Vol.532 in pres
Photodissociative Regulation of Star Formation in Metal-Free Pregalactic Clouds
We study the H2 photodissociation regions around OB stars in primordial gas
clouds whose virial temperatures are between a few hundred and a few thousand
Kelvin. In such small objects, a single O star can photodissociate a mass equal
to that of the cloud itself. As a result, the clouds deplete their molecular
coolant and cannot cool in a free-fall time, and subsequent star formation is
totally quenched. This indicates that stars do not form efficiently in small
objects and that these objects contribute little to the reionization of the
universe.Comment: 9 pages. ApJ, 518, in pres
High-concentration Er:YAG single-crystal fibers grown by laser-heated pedestal growth technique
High-concentration Er:YAG single-crystal fibers have been grown using the laser-heated pedestal growth technique. Instability in the melt and concomitant opacity of fibers were observed at source concentrations higher than 15 mol.%. Spectroscopic examination shows that broadening of the linewidth of the I<sub>13/2</sub>4→I<sub>15/2</sub>4 transition is strongly dependent on Er<sup>3+</sup> concentration
Structural Insights into Differences in Drug-binding Selectivity between Two Forms of Human α1-Acid Glycoprotein Genetic Variants, the A and F1*S Forms
Human α1-acid glycoprotein (hAGP) in serum functions as a carrier of basic drugs. In most individuals, hAGP exists as a mixture of two genetic variants, the F1*S and A variants, which bind drugs with different selectivities. We prepared a mutant of the A variant, C149R, and showed that its drug-binding properties were indistinguishable from those of the wild type. In this study, we determined the crystal structures of this mutant hAGP alone and complexed with disopyramide (DSP), amitriptyline (AMT), and the nonspecific drug chlorpromazine (CPZ). The crystal structures revealed that the drug-binding pocket on the A variant is located within an eight-stranded β-barrel, similar to that found in the F1*S variant and other lipocalin family proteins. However, the binding region of the A variant is narrower than that of the F1*S variant. In the crystal structures of complexes with DSP and AMT, the two aromatic rings of each drug interact with Phe-49 and Phe-112 at the bottom of the binding pocket. Although the structure of CPZ is similar to those of DSP and AMT, its fused aromatic ring system, which is extended in length by the addition of a chlorine atom, appears to dictate an alternative mode of binding, which explains its nonselective binding to the F1*S and A variant hAGPs. Modeling experiments based on the co-crystal structures suggest that, in complexes of DSP, AMT, or CPZ with the F1*S variant, Phe-114 sterically hinders interactions with DSP and AMT, but not CPZ. © 2011 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc
Explicit parametrization of more than one vector-like quark of Nelson-Barr type
Nelson-Barr models solve the strong CP problem based on spontaneous CP
violation and generically requires vector-like quarks (VLQs) mixing with
standard quarks to transmit the CP violation. We devise an explicit
parametrization for the case of two VLQs of either down-type or up-type and
quantitatively study several aspects including the hierarchy of the VLQ Yukawas
and their irreducible contribution to . In particular, with the
use of the parametrization, we show that a big portion of the parameter space
for two up-type VLQs at the TeV scale is still allowed by the constraint on
, although this case had been previously shown to be very
restricted based on estimates
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