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Interferon regulatory factor 1 protects against chikungunya virus-induced immunopathology by restricting infection in muscle cells
Probing R-parity violating models of neutrino mass at the LHC via top squark decays
It is shown that the R-parity violating decays of the lighter top squarks
() triggered by the lepton number violating couplings
, where the lepton family index i = 1-3, can be
observed at the LHC via the dilepton di-jet channel even if the coupling is as
small as 10 or 10, which is the case in several models of
neutrino mass, provided it is the next lightest supersymmetric particle(NLSP)
the lightest neutralino being the lightest supersymmetric particle(LSP). We
have first obtained a fairly model independent estimate of the minimum
observable value of the parameter ()) at the LHC for an integrated
luminosity of 10fb as a function of \mlstop by a standard Pythia based
analysis. We have then computed the parameter in several
representative models of neutrino mass constrained by the neutrino oscillation
data and have found that the theoretical predictions are above the estimated
minimum observable levels for a wide region of the parameter space.Comment: 19 pages, 1 Figure and 11 Table
A method for studying electron-density-based dynamics of many-electron systems in scaled cylindrical coordinates
The combination of quantum fluid dynamics and density functional theory had led to the formulation of a single time-dependent equation, the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (GNLSE). In this paper, the above GNLSE is written as a nonlinear diffusion-type equation in appropriately scaled cylindrical coordinates and evolved in imaginary time to obtain the electronic energies, densities and other properties of all the noble gas atoms. The close agreement of the values obtained with those from the literature implies that the same method can be used in real time to study the density-based dynamics of many-electron systems in axially symmetric external fields such as intense laser fields, with relatively less computational effort
GraphSE: An Encrypted Graph Database for Privacy-Preserving Social Search
In this paper, we propose GraphSE, an encrypted graph database for online
social network services to address massive data breaches. GraphSE preserves
the functionality of social search, a key enabler for quality social network
services, where social search queries are conducted on a large-scale social
graph and meanwhile perform set and computational operations on user-generated
contents. To enable efficient privacy-preserving social search, GraphSE
provides an encrypted structural data model to facilitate parallel and
encrypted graph data access. It is also designed to decompose complex social
search queries into atomic operations and realise them via interchangeable
protocols in a fast and scalable manner. We build GraphSE with various
queries supported in the Facebook graph search engine and implement a
full-fledged prototype. Extensive evaluations on Azure Cloud demonstrate that
GraphSE is practical for querying a social graph with a million of users.Comment: This is the full version of our AsiaCCS paper "GraphSE: An
Encrypted Graph Database for Privacy-Preserving Social Search". It includes
the security proof of the proposed scheme. If you want to cite our work,
please cite the conference version of i
Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Blood Glucose Monitoring in Human Subjects
A device based on Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography is
developed to monitor blood glucose levels in human subjects. The device was
initially tested with tissue phantom. The measurements with human subjects for
various glucose concentration levels are found to be linearly dependent on the
degree of circular polarization obtainable from the PS-OCT.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Lepton Flavours at the Early LHC Experiments as the Footprints of the Dark Matter Producing Mechanisms
The mSUGRA parameter space corresponding to light sleptons well within the
reach of LHC and relatively light squarks and gluinos (mass 1 TeV) has
three regions consistent with the WMAP data on dark matter relic density and
direct mass bounds from LEP 2. Each region can lead to distinct leptonic
signatures from squark-gluino events during the early LHC experiments
(integrated luminosity or even smaller). In the much studied
stau-LSP coannihilation region with a vanishing common trilinear coupling
() at the GUT scale a large fraction of the final states contain electrons
and / or muons and - - universality holds to a good
approximation. In the not so well studied scenarios with non-vanishing
both LSP pair annihilation and stau-LSP coannihilation could contribute
significantly to the dark matter relic density for even smaller squark-gluino
masses. Our simulations indicate that the corresponding signatures are final
states rich in -leptons while final states with electrons and muons are
suppressed leading to a violation of lepton universality. These features may be
observed to a lesser extent even in the modified parameter space (with non-zero
) where the coannihilation process dominates. We also show that the
generic -leptons + -jets+ signatures without flavour tagging
can also discriminate among the three scenarios. However, the signals become
more informative if the and -jet tagging facilities at the LHC
experiments are utilized.Comment: 28 page
New signals of a R-parity violating model of neutrino mass at the Tevatron
In a variety models of neutrino masses and mixings the lighter top squark
decays into competing R - parity violating and R - parity conserving channels.
Using Pythia we have estimated in a model independent way the minimum value of
P BR()
BR(), where and , corresponding
to an observable signal involving the final state
1 + jets +\met (carried by the neutrinos from the
decay) at Tevatron Run II. For the kinematical cuts designed in this paper P
depends on only. We then compute P for representative
choices of the model parameters constrained by the oscillation data and find
that over a significant region of the allowed parameter space P is indeed
larger than . This signal is complementary to the dilepton + dijet
signal studied in several earlier experimental and phenomenological analyses
and may be observed even if BR() is an order of
magnitude smaller than BR(). The
invariant mass distribution of the hardest lepton and the hardest jet may
determine and reveal the lepton number violating nature of
the underlying interaction. The invariant mass distribution of the two lowest
energy jets may determine .Comment: Some minor changes in language are made at pages 1,2,8 and 18
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