597 research outputs found
Chemicals from Poland : a tempest in a teacup
In the early 1980s, the Polish chemical industry got caught up in a battle waged by the European Community's chemical industry to preserve the EC market for itself. The Polish share of that market was very small, and the performance of the Polish companies did not depend on it, so they emerged from the battle unscathed. Perhaps the most striking finding of this study is what it tells us about the business ethics implicit in antidumping regulation. This ethic stresses collective behavior and the resolution of economic questions through political negotiation and compromise. The business behavior the antidumping rules attempt to impose on is in direct conflict with the antimonopoly laws - a basic part of the business ethics of a market system - but it fits well into the business ethics of a nonmarket economy. As an interface between the two systems, the antidumping rules teach the capitalists to behave like socialists, rather than teach the socialists how tobehave as capitalists.Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Economic Theory&Research,Markets and Market Access,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT
Effects of quantum statistics on relic density of Dark Radiation
The freeze-out of massless particles is investigated. The effects due to
quantum statistics, Fermi-Dirac or Bose-Einstein, of all particles relevant for
the process are analyzed. Solutions of appropriate Boltzmann equation are
compared with those obtained using some popular approximate methods. As an
application of general results the relic density of dark radiation in
Weinberg's Higgs portal model is discussed.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
Price and quality competitiveness of socialist countries'exports
In this report the authors have analyzed pricing of the centrally planned economies (CPEs) in the highly competitive export markets of the EC countries in the first half of the 1980s. They found that the CPEs'export prices were lower than prices in both developed and developing countries. Manufactured goods from CPEs were underpriced an average 31 to 45 percent - even more on some commodities. Protection of EC countries doesn't seem to be a factor in CPE underpricing of manufactured goods. This could not be explained either by a deliberate policy of CPEs to penetrate Western markets. The CPEs inability to upgrade manufactured exports that are subject to quotas suggests serious quality constraints on exports of manufactured goods. They appear to underprice their manufactured exports not because of cost advantages that make them more competitive, but because most of their manufactured goods are inferior in quality to their competitors.Environmental Economics&Policies,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets
Light staus and enhanced Higgs diphoton rate with non-universal gaugino masses and SO(10) Yukawa unification
It is shown that substantially enhanced Higgs to diphoton rate induced by
light staus with large left-right mixing in MSSM requires at the GUT scale
non-universal gaugino masses with bino and/or wino lighter than gluino. The
possibility of such enhancement is investigated in MSSM models with arbitrary
gaugino masses at the GUT scale with additional restriction of top-bottom-tau
Yukawa unification, as predicted by minimal SO(10) GUTs. Many patterns of
gaugino masses leading to enhanced Higgs to diphoton rate and the Yukawa
unification are identified. Some of these patterns can be accommodated in a
well-motivated scenarios such as mirage mediation or SUSY breaking F-terms
being a non-singlet of SO(10). Phenomenological implications of a scenario with
non-universal gaugino masses generated by a mixture of the singlet F-term and
the F-term in a 24-dimensional representation of SU(5) SO(10) are
studied in detail. Possible non-universalities of other soft terms generated by
such F-terms are discussed. The enhancement of Higgs to diphoton rate up to 30%
can be obtained in agreement with all phenomenological constraints, including
vacuum metastability bounds. The lightest sbottom and pseudoscalar Higgs are
within easy reach of the 14 TeV LHC. The LSP can be either bino-like or
wino-like. The thermal relic abundance in the former case may be in agreement
with the cosmological data thanks to efficient stau coannihilation.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures, comments and references added, matches published
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Spin-dependent constraints on blind spots for thermal singlino-higgsino dark matter with(out) light singlets
The LUX experiment has recently set very strong constraints on
spin-independent interactions of WIMP with nuclei. These null results can be
accommodated in NMSSM provided that the effective spin-independent coupling of
the LSP to nucleons is suppressed. We investigate thermal relic abundance of
singlino-higgsino LSP in these so-called spin-independent blind spots and
derive current constraints and prospects for direct detection of spin-dependent
interactions of the LSP with nuclei providing strong constraints on parameter
space. We show that if the Higgs boson is the only light scalar the new LUX
constraints set a lower bound on the LSP mass of about 300 GeV except for a
small range around the half of boson masses where resonant annihilation
via exchange dominates. XENON1T will probe entire range of LSP masses
except for a tiny -resonant region that may be tested by the LZ
experiment. These conclusions apply to general singlet-doublet dark matter
annihilating dominantly to . Presence of light singlet
(pseudo)scalars generically relaxes the constraints because new LSP (resonant
and non-resonant) annihilation channels become important. Even away from
resonant regions, the lower limit on the LSP mass from LUX is relaxed to about
250 GeV while XENON1T may not be sensitive to the LSP masses above about 400
GeV.Comment: 31 pages, 8 figure
New Regions in the NMSSM with a 125 GeV Higgs
It is pointed out that mixing effects in the CP-even scalar sector of the
NMSSM can give 6-8 GeV correction to the SM-like Higgs mass in moderate or
large regions with a small value of the singlet-higgs-higgs
superfields coupling . This effect comes mainly
from the mixing of the SM-like Higgs with lighter singlet. In the same
parameter range, the mixing of the heavy doublet Higgs with the singlet may
strongly modify the couplings of the singlet-like and the 125 GeV scalars.
Firstly, the LEP bounds on a light singlet can be evaded for a large range of
its masses. Secondly, the decay rates of both scalars can show a variety of
interesting patterns, depending on the lightest scalar mass. In particular, a
striking signature of this mechanism can be a light scalar with strongly
suppressed (enhanced) branching ratios to (, ,
) as compared to the SM Higgs with the same mass. The
decay channel is particularly promising for the search of such a
scalar at the LHC. The 125 GeV scalar can, thus, be accommodated with
substantially smaller than in the MSSM radiative corrections from the stop
loops (and consequently, with lighter stops) also for moderate or large
, with the mixing effects replacing the standard NMSSM mechanism of
increasing the tree level Higgs mass in the low and large
regime, and with clear experimental signatures of such a mechanism.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures, references added, version to be publishe
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