178 research outputs found
A Pair of Disjoint 3-GDDs of type g^t u^1
Pairwise disjoint 3-GDDs can be used to construct some optimal
constant-weight codes. We study the existence of a pair of disjoint 3-GDDs of
type and establish that its necessary conditions are also sufficient.Comment: Designs, Codes and Cryptography (to appear
Modeling climate migration: dead ends and new avenues
Understanding and forecasting human mobility in response to climatic and environmental changes has become a subject of substantial political, societal, and academic interest. Quantitative models exploring the relationship between climatic factors and migration patterns have been developed since the early 2000s; however, different models have produced results that are not always consistent with one another or robust enough to provide actionable insights into future dynamics. Here we examine weaknesses of classical methods and identify next-generation approaches with the potential to close existing knowledge gaps. We propose six priorities for the future of climate mobility modeling: (i) the use of non-linear machine-learning rather than linear methods, (ii) the prioritization of explaining the observed data rather than testing statistical significance of predictors, (iii) the consideration of relevant climate impacts rather than temperature- and precipitation-based metrics, (iv) the examination of heterogeneities, including across space and demographic groups rather than aggregated measures, (v) the investigation of temporal migration dynamics rather than essentially spatial patterns, (vi) the use of better calibration data, including disaggregated and within-country flows. Improving both methods and data to accommodate the high complexity and context-specificity of climate mobility will be crucial for establishing the scientific consensus on historical trends and future projections that has eluded the discipline thus far
Magnetic Field Measurement with Ground State Alignment
Observational studies of magnetic fields are crucial. We introduce a process
"ground state alignment" as a new way to determine the magnetic field direction
in diffuse medium. The alignment is due to anisotropic radiation impinging on
the atom/ion. The consequence of the process is the polarization of spectral
lines resulting from scattering and absorption from aligned atomic/ionic
species with fine or hyperfine structure. The magnetic field induces precession
and realign the atom/ion and therefore the polarization of the emitted or
absorbed radiation reflects the direction of the magnetic field. The atoms get
aligned at their low levels and, as the life-time of the atoms/ions we deal
with is long, the alignment induced by anisotropic radiation is susceptible to
extremely weak magnetic fields (G). In fact,
the effects of atomic/ionic alignment were studied in the laboratory decades
ago, mostly in relation to the maser research. Recently, the atomic effect has
been already detected in observations from circumstellar medium and this is a
harbinger of future extensive magnetic field studies. A unique feature of the
atomic realignment is that they can reveal the 3D orientation of magnetic
field. In this article, we shall review the basic physical processes involved
in atomic realignment. We shall also discuss its applications to
interplanetary, circumstellar and interstellar magnetic fields. In addition,
our research reveals that the polarization of the radiation arising from the
transitions between fine and hyperfine states of the ground level can provide a
unique diagnostics of magnetic fields in the Epoch of Reionization.Comment: 30 pages, 12 figures, chapter in Lecture Notes in Physics "Magnetic
Fields in Diffuse Media". arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1203.557
Brane matter, hidden or mirror matter, their various avatars and mixings: many faces of the same physics
Numerous papers deal with the phenomenology related to photon-hidden photon
kinetic mixing and with the effects of a mass mixing on particle-hidden
particle oscillations. In addition, recent papers underline the existence of a
geometrical mixing between branes which would allow a matter swapping between
branes. These approaches and their phenomenologies are reminiscent of each
other but rely on different physical concepts. In the present paper, we suggest
there is no rivalry between these models, which are probably many faces of the
same physics. We discuss some phenomenological consequences of a global
framework.Comment: 9 pages. Typo corrected. Published in European Physical Journal
One-loop Neutron Electric Dipole Moment from Supersymmetry without R-parity
We present a detailed analysis together with exact numerical calculations on
one-loop contributions to neutron electric dipole moment from supersymmetry
without R-parity, focusing on the gluino, chargino, and neutralino
contributions. Apart from the neglected family mixing among quarks, complete
formulae are given for the various contributions, through the quark dipole
operators, to which the present study is restricted. We discuss the structure
and main features of the R-parity violating contributions and the interplay
between the R-parity conserving and violating parameters. In particular, the
parameter combination , under the optimal
parametrization adopted, is shown to be solely responsible for the R-parity
violating contributions in the supersymmetric loop diagrams. While
could bear a complex phase, the latter is not
necessary to have a R-parity violating contribution.Comment: 43 pages Revtex with 15 eps- and 4 ps- figure files incoporated;
proofread version to be published in Phys. Rev.
Lightest-neutralino decays in R_p-violating models with dominant lambda^{prime} and lambda couplings
Decays of the lightest neutralino are studied in R_p-violating models with
operators lambda^{prime} L Q D^c and lambda L L E^c involving third-generation
matter fields and with dominant lambda^{prime} and lambda couplings.
Generalizations to decays of the lightest neutralino induced by subdominant
lambda^{prime} and lambda couplings are straightforward. Decays with the
top-quark among the particles produced are considered, in addition to those
with an almost massless final state. Phenomenological analyses for examples of
both classes of decays are presented. No specific assumption on the composition
of the lightest neutralino is made, and the formulae listed here can be easily
generalized to study decays of heavier neutralinos. It has been recently
pointed out that, for a sizable coupling lambda^{prime}_{333}, tau-sleptons may
be copiously produced at the LHC as single supersymmetric particles, in
association with top- and bottom-quark pairs. This analysis of neutralino
decays is, therefore, a first step towards the reconstruction of the complete
final state produced in this case.Comment: 40 pages, 11 figures, version to appear in JHE
MSSM Higgs sector CP violation at photon colliders: Revisited
We present a comprehensive analysis on the MSSM Higgs sector CP violation at
photon colliders including the chargino contributions as well as the
contributions of other charged particles. The chargino loop contributions can
be important for the would-be CP odd Higgs production at photon colliders.
Polarization asymmetries are indispensable in determining the CP properties of
neutral Higgs bosons.Comment: 24 pages, 40 figure
The MSSM invisible Higgs in the light of dark matter and g-2
Giving up the assumption of the gaugino mass unification at the GUT scale,
the latest LEP and Tevatron data still allow the lightest supersymmetric Higgs
to have a large branching fraction into invisible neutralinos. Such a Higgs may
be difficult to discover at the LHC and is practically unreachable at the
Tevatron. We argue that, for some of these models to be compatible with the
relic density, light sleptons with masses not far above the current limits are
needed. There are however models that allow for larger sleptons masses without
being in conflict with the relic density constraint. This is possible because
these neutralinos can annihilate efficiently through a Z-pole. We also find
that many of these models can nicely account, at the 2\sigma level, for the
discrepancy in the latest g-2 measurement. However, requiring consistency with
the g-2 at the 1\sigma level, excludes models that lead to the largest Higgs
branching fraction into LSP's. In all cases one expects that even though the
Higgs might escape detection, one would have a rich SUSY phenomenology even at
the Tevatron, through the production of charginos and neutralinos.Comment: 16 pages and 5 figures. New references added, text and figures
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Associated charged Higgs and W boson production in the MSSM at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
We investigate the viability of observing charged Higgs bosons (H^+/-)
produced in association with W bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, using
the leptonic decay H^+ -> tau^+ nu_tau and hadronic W-decay, within different
scenarios of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with both real
and complex parameters. Performing a parton level study we show how the
irreducible Standard Model background from W+2 jets can be controlled by
applying appropriate cuts and find that the size of a possible signal depends
on the cuts needed to suppress QCD backgrounds and misidentifications. In the
standard maximal mixing scenario of the MSSM we find a viable signal for large
tan(beta) and intermediate H^+/- masses (~m_t) when using optimistic cuts
whereas for more pessimistic ones we only find a viable signal for very large
tan(beta) (>~50). We have also investigated a special class of MSSM scenarios
with large mass-splittings among the heavy Higgs bosons where the cross-section
can be resonantly enhanced by factors up to one hundred, with a strong
dependence on the CP-violating phases. Even so we find that the signal after
cuts remains small except for small masses (~< m_t) with optimistic cuts.
Finally, in all the scenarios we have investigated we have only found small
CP-asymmetries.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figures, version to appear in Euro. Phys. J.
The First Magnetic Fields
We review current ideas on the origin of galactic and extragalactic magnetic
fields. We begin by summarizing observations of magnetic fields at cosmological
redshifts and on cosmological scales. These observations translate into
constraints on the strength and scale magnetic fields must have during the
early stages of galaxy formation in order to seed the galactic dynamo. We
examine mechanisms for the generation of magnetic fields that operate prior
during inflation and during subsequent phase transitions such as electroweak
symmetry breaking and the quark-hadron phase transition. The implications of
strong primordial magnetic fields for the reionization epoch as well as the
first generation of stars is discussed in detail. The exotic, early-Universe
mechanisms are contrasted with astrophysical processes that generate fields
after recombination. For example, a Biermann-type battery can operate in a
proto-galaxy during the early stages of structure formation. Moreover, magnetic
fields in either an early generation of stars or active galactic nuclei can be
dispersed into the intergalactic medium.Comment: Accepted for publication in Space Science Reviews. Pdf can be also
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