138 research outputs found
Heavy Higgs production and decay via and irreducible backgrounds at Next Linear Colliders
The complete matrix element for e^+e^-\ar b\bar bZ^0Z^0 has been computed
at tree--level and applied to --production followed by Z^0\ar b\bar b
and H^0\ar Z^0Z^0, including all the irreducible background, at Next Linear
Colliders. We find that, assuming flavour identification of the --decay
products, this channel, together with e^+e^-\ar b\bar bW^+W^- in which
Z^0H^0\ar (b\bar b)(W^+W^-), can be important for the study of the parameters
of the Standard Model Higgs boson over the heavy mass range 2M_{Z^0}\Ord
M_{H^0}\Ord 2{m_t}.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX (uses Feynman), 7 figures (.ps files or hardcopies of
figs.2-7 available upon request
Composite Higgs Search at the LHC
The Higgs boson production cross-sections and decay rates depend, within the
Standard Model (SM), on a single unknown parameter, the Higgs mass. In
composite Higgs models where the Higgs boson emerges as a pseudo-Goldstone
boson from a strongly-interacting sector, additional parameters control the
Higgs properties which then deviate from the SM ones. These deviations modify
the LEP and Tevatron exclusion bounds and significantly affect the searches for
the Higgs boson at the LHC. In some cases, all the Higgs couplings are reduced,
which results in deterioration of the Higgs searches but the deviations of the
Higgs couplings can also allow for an enhancement of the gluon-fusion
production channel, leading to higher statistical significances. The search in
the H to gamma gamma channel can also be substantially improved due to an
enhancement of the branching fraction for the decay of the Higgs boson into a
pair of photons.Comment: 32 pages, 16 figure
Discourses of conflict and collaboration and institutional context in the implementation of forest conservation policies in Soria, Spain
This article examines the emergence of conflict and collaboration in the implementation of forest conservation policies in Soria, Spain. We draw insights from discursive institutionalism and use a comparative case study approach to analyse and compare a situation of social conflict over the Natural Park declaration in the Sierra de UrbiĂłn, and a civil society led collaborative process to develop management plans for the âSierra de Cabrejasâ in Soria. The implementation of the EU Habitats Directive generated different outcomes in these two cases, which unfolded in the context of the same nature conservation legislation and national and provincial administrative structures but differed in terms of types of forests involved, property rights arrangements and forest use histories. We critically examine the influence of the institutional context and dominant discourses on the emergence of outcomes: conflict emerged where local institutions and discourses were threatened by the EU directive, while collaboration was possible where local institutions and counter-discourses were weak. We find that the institutional context plays an important part in determining local discourses in the implementation of forest conservation policies. Yet local counter-discourses have limited influence in the implementation and policy processes in the face of contestation by the discourses of regional civil servants conservation activists
Predictions for Higgs production at the Tevatron and the associated uncertainties
We update the theoretical predictions for the production cross sections of
the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, focusing on
the two main search channels, the gluon-gluon fusion mechanism and
the Higgs-strahlung processes with , including all
relevant higher order QCD and electroweak corrections in perturbation theory.
We then estimate the various uncertainties affecting these predictions: the
scale uncertainties which are viewed as a measure of the unknown higher order
effects, the uncertainties from the parton distribution functions and the
related errors on the strong coupling constant, as well as the uncertainties
due to the use of an effective theory approach in the determination of the
radiative corrections in the process at next-to-next-to-leading
order. We find that while the cross sections are well under control in the
Higgs--strahlung processes, the theoretical uncertainties are rather large in
the case of the gluon-gluon fusion channel, possibly shifting the central
values of the next-to-next-to-leading order cross sections by more than
. These uncertainties are thus significantly larger than the
error assumed by the CDF and D0 experiments in their recent
analysis that has excluded the Higgs mass range 162-166 GeV at the 95%
confidence level. These exclusion limits should be, therefore, reconsidered in
the light of these large theoretical uncertainties.Comment: 40 pages, 12 figures. A few typos are corrected and some updated
numbers are provide
Intermediate mass standard model Higgs boson at the proposed CERN LEPLHC collider
The production of the \sm\ Higgs with intermediate mass at the
proposed CERN LEPLHC collider in , and
events is studied. This is done for all
possible (massive) flavours of the quarks and using photons generated
via Compton back--scattering of laser light. We study signatures in which the
Higgs decays to --pairs and the electroweak vector bosons and
decay either hadronically or leptonically. All possible backgrounds to
these signals are also computed. Flavour identification on --jets is
assumed. Explicit formulae for the helicity amplitudes of the above processes
are given.Comment: 31 pages, Latex, 8 figures uuencoded, revised version, significant
changes in the discussion of the results, in tables and figure
A cyclic universe with colour fields
The topology of the universe is discussed in relation to the singularity
problem. We explore the possibility that the initial state of the universe
might have had a structure with 3-Klein bottle topology, which would lead to a
model of a nonsingular oscillating (cyclic) universe with a well-defined
boundary condition. The same topology is assumed to be intrinsic to the nature
of the hypothetical primitive constituents of matter (usually called preons)
giving rise to the observed variety of elementary particles. Some
phenomenological implications of this approach are also discussed.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures; v.4: final versio
Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair in pp collisions at the LHC
This is the pre-print version of the final published paper that is available from the link below.A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair is presented using data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1 (5.1 fb-1) collected in pp collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7TeV (8TeV). Events are considered where the top-quark pair decays to either one lepton+jets (ttâlvqqâbb) or dileptons [ttâl(+)vl(-)vbb], l being an electron or a muon. The search is optimized for the decay mode H â bb. The largest background to the ttH signal is top-quark pair production with additional jets. Artificial neural networks are used to discriminate between signal and background events. Combining the results from the 7TeV and 8TeV samples, the observed (expected) limit on the cross section for Higgs boson production in association with top quark pairs for a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV is 5.8 (5.2) times the standard model expectatio
NMSSM Higgs Benchmarks Near 125 GeV
The recent LHC indications of a SM-like Higgs boson near 125 GeV are
consistent not only with the Standard Model (SM) but also with Supersymmetry
(SUSY). However naturalness arguments disfavour the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM). We consider the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard
Model (NMSSM) with a SM-like Higgs boson near 125 GeV involving relatively
light stops and gluinos below 1 TeV in order to satisfy naturalness
requirements. We are careful to ensure that the chosen values of couplings do
not become non perturbative below the grand unification (GUT) scale, although
we also examine how these limits may be extended by the addition of extra
matter to the NMSSM at the two-loop level. We then propose four sets of
benchmark points corresponding to the SM-like Higgs boson being the lightest or
the second lightest Higgs state in the NMSSM or the NMSSM-with-extra-matter.
With the aid of these benchmark points we discuss how the NMSSM Higgs boson
near 125 GeV may be distinguished from the SM Higgs boson in future LHC
searches.Comment: 40 pages, 1 figure; Minor changes and further references include
Study of a region on yeast chromosome XIII that complements pet G199 mutants (COX7) and carries a new non-essential gene
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