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Lower Mass Bound on the mass via Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in a 3-3-1 Model
The discovery of neutrino masses has raised the importance of studies in the
context of neutrinoless double beta decay, which constitutes a landmark for
lepton number violation. The standard interpretation is that the light massive
neutrinos, that we observed oscillating in terrestrial experiments, mediate
double beta decay. In the minimal 3-3-1 model, object of our study, there is an
additional contribution that stems from the mixing between a new charged vector
boson, , and the Standard Model W boson. Even after setting this
mixing to be very small, we show that tight constraints arise from the
non-observation of neutrinoless double beta decay. Indeed, we derive bounds on
the mass of the gauge boson that might exceed those from collider
probes, and most importantly push the scale of symmetry breaking beyond its
validity, leading to the exclusion of the minimal 3-3-1 model.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
K X-Ray Energies and Transition Probabilities for He-, Li- and Be-like Praseodymium ions
Theoretical transition energies and probabilities for He-, Li- and Be-like
Praseodymium ions are calculated in the framework of the multi-configuration
Dirac-Fock method (MCDF), including QED corrections. These calculated values
are compared to recent experimental data obtained in the Livermore SuperEBIT
electron beam ion trap facility
Demixing can occur in binary hard-sphere mixtures with negative non-additivity
A binary fluid mixture of non-additive hard spheres characterized by a size
ratio and a non-additivity parameter
is considered in infinitely many
dimensions. From the equation of state in the second virial approximation
(which is exact in the limit ) a demixing transition with a
critical consolute point at a packing fraction scaling as
is found, even for slightly negative non-additivity, if
. Arguments concerning the stability of the
demixing with respect to freezing are provided.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; title changed; final paragraph added; to be
published in PRE as a Rapid Communicatio
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