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The low energy effective Lagrangian for photon interactions in any dimension
The subject of low energy photon-photon scattering is considered in arbitrary
dimensional space-time and the interaction is widened to include scattering
events involving an arbitrary number of photons. The effective interaction
Lagrangian for these processes in QED has been determined in a manifestly
invariant form. This generalisation resolves the structure of the weak-field
Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian and indicates that the component invariant
functions have coefficients related, not only to the space-time dimension, but
also to the coefficients of the Bernoulli polynomial.Comment: In the revised version, the results have been expressed in terms of
Bernoulli polynomials instead of generalized zeta functions; they agree for
spinor QED with those of Schubert and Schmidt (obtained differently by path
integral methods)
Signatures of sub-GeV dark matter beams at neutrino experiments
We study the high-luminosity fixed-target neutrino experiments at MiniBooNE,
MINOS and T2K and analyze their sensitivity to light stable states, focusing on
MeV--GeV scale dark matter. Thermal relic dark matter scenarios in the sub-GeV
mass range require the presence of light mediators, whose coupling to the
Standard Model facilitates annihilation in the early universe and allows for
the correct thermal relic abundance. The mediators in turn provide a production
channel for dark matter at colliders or fixed targets, and as a consequence the
neutrino beams generated at fixed targets may contain an additional beam of
light dark matter. The signatures of this beam include elastic scattering off
electrons or nucleons in the (near-)detector, which closely mimics the neutral
current scattering of neutrinos. We determine the event rate at modern fixed
target facilities and the ensuing sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures, revtex4-
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Climate targets, executive compensation, and corporate strategy
Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, climate change – and wider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues – have risen to board-level on the corporate agenda. Under increasing pressure from institutional investors, companies are reformulating their strategies for a climate-constrained world. A novel aspect of the emerging corporate response is that executive compensation is being linked to climate targets. At the world’s largest energy companies, climate metrics now make up 8% of CEO’s short-term incentive plans. This paper explains the case for corporate climate action, summarizes the use to date of climate-linked management incentives, and presents a framework for understanding their benefits and design challenges
Probing a Secluded U(1) at B-factories
A secluded U(1) gauge field, kinetically mixed with Standard Model
hypercharge, provides a `portal' mediating interactions with a hidden sector at
the renormalizable level, as recently exploited in the context of WIMP dark
matter. The secluded U(1) symmetry-breaking scale may naturally be suppressed
relative to the weak scale, and so this sector is efficiently probed by medium
energy electron-positron colliders. We study the collider signatures of the
minimal secluded U(1) model, focusing on the reach of B-factory experiments
such as BaBar and BELLE. In particular, we show that Higgs-strahlung in the
secluded sector can lead to multi-lepton signatures which probe the natural
range for the kinetic mixing angle of 10^(-2)-10^(-3) over a large portion of
the kinematically accessible parameter space.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
An evaluation of the IDEEA™ activity monitor for estimating energy expenditure
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Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
We present a model of altruistically-minded-yet rational-players contributing to a public good. A key feature is the tension between altruism and "crowding-out" effects (players' efforts are strategic substitutes). We find that more altruistic behaviour can raise or reduce welfare, depending on the fine details of the environment. It is almost always optimal for a player to act more selfishly than her true preference. We discuss applications to a range of public good problems, including global climate policy. Our results highlight that it may be difficult to infer social preferences from observed behaviour
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