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General Issues in the Evolution of Fermion Masses and Mixings
General issues in the renormalization group evolution of fermion masses and
mixings is discussed. An effective fixed point in the top quark Yukawa coupling
can strongly constrain its value at the electroweak scale. Predictions
following from Yukawa coupling unification are affected by threshold
corrections at the grand unified scale. The Landau pole translates into an
upper limit on the strong gauge coupling . Given the hierarchy
in the fermion sector, the evolution of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
can be expressed in terms of a single scaling parameter . Using this scaling
factor and analogous scaling factors for the quark and lepton masses, we
outline a systematic strategy that readily yields electroweak predictions for
any GUT scale texture.}Comment: (Talk given at the SUSY93 Conference MSB), 9 pages + 3 PS figures not
included (available on request), MAD/PH/75
Supersymmetry with Grand Unification
Supersymmetry (SUSY) has many well known attractions, especially in the
context of Grand Unified Theories (GUTs). SUSY stabilizes scalar mass
corrections (the hierarchy problem), greatly reduces the number of free
parameters, facilitates gauge coupling unification, and provides a plausible
candidate for cosmological dark matter. In this conference report we survey
some recent examples of progress in SUSY-GUT applications.Comment: Talk V. Barger at the Workshop on Physics at Current Accelerators and
the Supercollider, Argonne, June 1993, 15 pages + 12 PS figures included
(uuencoded), (correct author list in header) MAD/PH/78
Evidence for an oscillatory singularity in generic U(1) symmetric cosmologies on
A longstanding conjecture by Belinskii, Lifshitz, and Khalatnikov that the
singularity in generic gravitational collapse is locally oscillatory is tested
numerically in vacuum, U(1) symmetric cosmological spacetimes on . If the velocity term dominated (VTD) solution to Einstein's equations is
substituted into the Hamiltonian for the full Einstein evolution equations, one
term is found to grow exponentially. This generates a prediction that
oscillatory behavior involving this term and another (which the VTD solution
causes to decay exponentially) should be observed in the approach to the
singularity. Numerical simulations strongly support this prediction.Comment: 15 pages, Revtex, includes 12 figures, psfig. High resolution
versions of figures 7, 8, 9, and 11 may be obtained from anonymous ftp to
ftp://vela.acs.oakland.edu/pub/berger/u1genfig
Classification of symmetric periodic trajectories in ellipsoidal billiards
We classify nonsingular symmetric periodic trajectories (SPTs) of billiards
inside ellipsoids of R^{n+1} without any symmetry of revolution. SPTs are
defined as periodic trajectories passing through some symmetry set. We prove
that there are exactly 2^{2n}(2^{n+1}-1) classes of such trajectories. We have
implemented an algorithm to find minimal SPTs of each of the 12 classes in the
2D case (R^2) and each of the 112 classes in the 3D case (R^3). They have
periods 3, 4 or 6 in the 2D case; and 4, 5, 6, 8 or 10 in the 3D case. We
display a selection of 3D minimal SPTs. Some of them have properties that
cannot take place in the 2D case.Comment: 26 pages, 77 figures, 17 table
Analysis Of Measured Transport Properties Of Domain Walls In Magnetic Nanowires And Films
Existing data for soft magnetic materials of critical current for domain-wall
motion, wall speed driven by a magnetic field, and wall electrical resistance,
show that all three observable properties are related through a single
parameter: the wall mobility . The reciprocal of represents the
strength of viscous friction between domain wall and conduction-electron gas.
And is a function of the wall width, which depends in turn on the aspect
ratio t/w, where t and w are the thickness and width of the sample. Over four
orders of magnitude of , the data for nanowires show . This dependence is in approximate agreement with the prediction
of the 1984 Berger theory based on s-d exchange. On the other hand, it is
inconsistent with the prediction of the 2004 Tatara and Kohno theory, and of
the 2004 Zhang and Li theory.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure; submitted to Phys. Rev.
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