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Super-Razor and Searches for Sleptons and Charginos at the LHC
Direct searches for electroweak pair production of new particles at the LHC
are a difficult proposition, due to the large background and low signal cross
sections. We demonstrate how these searches can be improved by a combination of
new razor variables and shape analysis of signal and background kinematics. We
assume that the pair-produced particles decay to charged leptons and missing
energy, either directly or through a W boson. In both cases the final state is
a pair of opposite sign leptons plus missing transverse energy. We estimate
exclusion reach in terms of sleptons and charginos as realized in minimal
supersymmetry. We compare this super-razor approach in detail to analyses based
on other kinematic variables, showing how the super-razor uses more of the
relevant kinematic information while achieving higher selection efficiency on
signals, including cases with compressed spectra.Comment: 33 pages, 33 figure
Towards a Theory Grounded Theory of Language
In this paper, we build upon the idea of theory grounding and propose one specific form of theory grounding, a theory of language. Theory grounding is the idea that we can imbue our embodied artificially intelligent systems with theories by modeling the way humans, and specifically young children, develop skills with theories. Modeling theory development promises to increase the conceptual and behavioral flexibility of these systems. An example of theory development in children is the social understanding referred to as “theory of mind.” Language is a natural task for theory grounding because it is vital in symbolic skills and apparently necessary in developing theories. Word learning, and specifically developing a concept of words, is proposed as the first step in a theory grounded theory of language
Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensional Brane Worlds
A black string generaliztion of the Myers-Perry N dimensional rotating black
hole is considered in an (N+1) dimensional Randall-Sundrum brane world. The
black string intercepts the (N-1) brane in a N dimensional rotating black hole.
We examine the diverse cases arising for various non-zero rotation components
and obtain the geodesic equations for these space-time. The asymptotics of
theresulting brane world geometries and their implications are discussed.Comment: 23 pages, latex, sections rewritten and references adde
Higgs look-alikes at the LHC
The discovery of a Higgs particle is possible in a variety of search channels
at the LHC. However the true identity of any putative Higgs boson will at first
remain ambiguous, until one has experimentally excluded other possible
assignments of quantum numbers and couplings. We quantify to what degree one
can discriminate a Standard Model Higgs boson from "look-alikes" at, or close
to, the moment of discovery at the LHC. We focus on the fully-reconstructible
"golden" decay mode to a pair of Z bosons and a four-lepton final state,
simulating sPlot-weighted samples of signal and background events. Considering
both on-shell and off-shell Z's, we show how to utilize the full decay
information from the events, including the distributions and correlations of
the five relevant angular variables. We demonstrate how the finite phase space
acceptance of any LHC detector sculpts the decay distributions, a feature
neglected in previous studies. We use likelihood ratios to discriminate a
Standard Model Higgs from look-alikes with other spins or nonstandard parity,
CP, or form factors. For a benchmark resonance mass of 200 GeV/c^2, we achieve
a median expected discrimination significance of 3 sigma with as few as 19
events, and even better discrimination for the off-shell decays of a 145
GeV/c^2 resonance.Comment: 39 pages, 55 figures, typos fixed, figures added, and minor
clarification
Scalar potential from de Sitter brane in 5D and effective cosmological constant
We derive the scalar potential in zero mode effective action arising from a
de Sitter brane embedded in five dimensions with bulk cosmological constant
. The scalar potential for a scalar field canonically normalized is
given by the sum of exponential potentials. In the case of and
, we point out that the scalar potential has an unstable local
maximum at the origin and exponentially vanishes for large positive scalar
field. In the case of , the scalar potential has an unstable local
maximum at the origin and a stable local minimum, it is shown that the positive
cosmological constant in brane is reduced by negative potential energy of
scalar at minimum.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, add the section of cosmological implication
Some Phenomenology of Intersecting D-Brane Models
We present some phenomenology of a new class of intersecting D-brane models.
Soft SUSY breaking terms for these models are calculated in the u - moduli
dominant SUSY breaking approach (in type IIA). In this case, the dependence of
the soft terms on the Yukawas and Wilson lines drops out. These soft terms have
a different pattern compared to the usual heterotic string models.
Phenomenological implications for dark matter are discussed.Comment: 29 pages, 1 figure, References adde
The pMSSM Interpretation of LHC Results Using Rernormalization Group Invariants
The LHC has started to constrain supersymmetry-breaking parameters by setting
bounds on possible colored particles at the weak scale. Moreover, constraints
from Higgs physics, flavor physics, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon,
as well as from searches at LEP and the Tevatron have set additional bounds on
these parameters. Renormalization Group Invariants (RGIs) provide a very useful
way of representing the allowed parameter space by making direct connection
with the values of these parameters at the messenger scale. Using a general
approach, based on the pMSSM parametrization of the soft supersymmetry-breaking
parameters, we analyze the current experimental constraints to determine the
probability distributions for the RGIs. As examples of their application, we
use these distributions to analyze the question of Gaugino Mass Unification and
to probabilistically determine the parameters of General and Minimal Gauge
Mediation with arbitrary Higgs mass parameters at the Messenger Scale.Comment: 38 pages, 10 figure
Stops and MET: the shape of things to come
LHC experiments have placed strong bounds on the production of supersymmetric
colored particles (squarks and gluinos), under the assumption that all flavors
of squarks are nearly degenerate. However, the current experimental constraints
on stop squarks are much weaker, due to the smaller production cross section
and difficult backgrounds. While light stops are motivated by naturalness
arguments, it has been suggested that such particles become nearly impossible
to detect near the limit where their mass is degenerate with the sum of the
masses of their decay products. We show that this is not the case, and that
searches based on missing transverse energy (MET) have significant reach for
stop masses above 175 GeV, even in the degenerate limit. We consider direct
pair production of stops, decaying to invisible LSPs and tops with either
hadronic or semi-leptonic final states. Modest intrinsic differences in MET are
magnified by boosted kinematics and by shape analyses of MET or suitably-chosen
observables related to MET. For these observables we show that the
distributions of the relevant backgrounds and signals are well-described by
simple analytic functions, in the kinematic regime where signal is enhanced.
Shape analyses of MET-related distributions will allow the LHC experiments to
place significantly improved bounds on stop squarks, even in scenarios where
the stop-LSP mass difference is degenerate with the top mass. Assuming 20/fb of
luminosity at 8 TeV, we conservatively estimate that experiments can exclude or
discover degenerate stops with mass as large as ~ 360 GeV and 560 GeV for
massless LSPs.Comment: Version submitted to journal with improved analysis and small fixes,
27 pages, 11 figures, 2 table
Boundary Effects in 2+1 Dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons Theory
The boundary effects in the screening of an applied magnetic field in a
finite temperature 2+1 dimensional model of charged fermions minimally coupled
to Maxwell and Chern-Simons fields are investigated. It is found that in a
sample with only one boundary -a half-plane- a total Meissner effect takes
place, while in a sample with two boundaries -an infinite strip- the external
magnetic field partially penetrates the material.Comment: revte
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