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Flavor and CP violating physics from new supersymmetric thresholds
Treating the MSSM as an effective theory, we study the implications of having
dimension five operators in the superpotential for flavor and CP-violating
processes, exploiting the linear decoupling of observable effects with respect
to the new threshold scale \Lambda. We show that the assumption of weak scale
supersymmetry, when combined with the stringent limits on electric dipole
moments and lepton flavor-violating processes, provides sensitivity to \Lambda
as high as 10^7-10^9 GeV, while the next generation of experiments could
directly probe the high-energy scales suggested by neutrino physics.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Notes on the Norman vocabulary
The Norman Manuscript, containing- a vocabulary
and notes on customs in use among Tasmanian
Aboriginals, was recently discovered among the archives
deposited in the Tasmanian Museum, Hobart, and is now
published in full in the Transactions of the Royal Society
of Tasmania.
It is of great value, as containing what is probably
the only vocabulary now extant in the original manuscript,
and also a number of incidental notes written by
the same hand
Crustal and upper mantle electrical conductivity structures in West Africa : geodynamic implications
Analysis of broadband microwave conductivity and permittivity measurements of semiconducting materials
We perform broadband phase sensitive measurements of the reflection
coefficient from 45 MHz up to 20 GHz employing a vector network analyzer with a
2.4 mm coaxial sensor which is terminated by the sample under test. While the
material parameters (conductivity and permittivity) can be easily extracted
from the obtained impedance data if the sample is metallic, no direct solution
is possible if the material under investigation is an insulator. Focusing on
doped semiconductors with largely varying conductivity, here we present a
closed calibration and evaluation procedure for frequencies up to 5 GHz, based
on the rigorous solution for the electromagnetic field distribution inside the
sample combined with the variational principle; basically no limiting
assumptions are necessary. A simple static model based on the electric current
distribution proves to yield the same frequency dependence of the complex
conductivity up to 1 GHz. After a critical discussion we apply the developed
method to the hopping transport in Si:P at temperature down to 1 K.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the Journal of
Applied Physic
Resonant scattering and recombination of pseudo-degenerate WIMPs
We consider the direct and indirect detection signatures of WIMPs \chi^0 in
kinematic regimes with a heavier, but nearly degenerate, charged state
\chi^{+-}. For small splittings of O(10) MeV, the scattering of WIMPs off
nuclei may be dominated by inelastic recombination processes mediated by the
formation of (\chi^- N) bound states, leading to a distinct signature for
direct detection. These cross-sections are bound primarily by limits on the
abundance of heavy isotopes, and may be considerably larger than the elastic
scattering cross section in more conventional models. If the mass splitting is
too large for recombination to occur, there may still be a significant resonant
enhancement of loop-induced electromagnetic form-factors of the WIMP, which can
enhance the elastic scattering cross-section. We also discuss how this regime
affects the annihilation cross-section and indirect detection signatures, and
note the possibility of a significant mono-energetic \gamma-signal, mediated by
resonant processes near the (\chi^+\chi^-) bound state threshold.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures; v2: typos corrected, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Sensitivity to new supersymmetric thresholds through flavour and CP violating physics
Treating the MSSM as an effective theory below a threshold scale Lambda, we
study the consequences of having dimension-five operators in the superpotential
for flavour and CP-violating processes. Below the supersymmetric threshold such
terms generate flavour changing and/or CP-odd effective operators of dimension
six composed from the Standard Model fermions, that have the interesting
property of decoupling linearly with the threshold scale, i.e. as 1/(Lambda
m_soft), where m_soft is the scale of soft supersymmetry breaking. The
assumption of weak-scale supersymmetry, together with the stringent limits on
electric dipole moments and lepton flavour-violating processes, then provides
sensitivity to Lambda as high as 10^7-10^9 GeV. We discuss the varying
sensitivity to these scales within several MSSM benchmark scenarios and also
outline the classes of UV physics which could generate these operators.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figure
Secluded WIMP Dark Matter
We consider a generic mechanism via which thermal relic WIMP dark matter may
be decoupled from the Standard Model, namely through a combination of WIMP
annihilation to metastable mediators with subsequent delayed decay to Standard
Model states. We illustrate this with explicit examples of WIMPs connected to
the Standard Model by metastable bosons or fermions. In all models, provided
the WIMP mass is greater than that of the mediator, it can be secluded from the
Standard Model with an extremely small elastic scattering cross-section on
nuclei and rate for direct collider production. In contrast, indirect
signatures from WIMP annihilation are consistent with a weak scale
cross-section and provide potentially observable \gamma-ray signals. We also
point out that \gamma-ray constraints and flavor physics impose severe
restrictions on MeV-scale variants of secluded models, and identify limited
classes that pass all the observational constraints.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figure
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