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Band gap and band parameters of InN and GaN from quasiparticle energy calculations based on exact-exchange density-functional theory
We have studied the electronic structure of InN and GaN employing G0W0
calculations based on exact-exchange density-functional theory. For InN our
approach predicts a gap of 0.7 eV. Taking the Burnstein-Moss effect into
account, the increase of the apparent quasiparticle gap with increasing
electron concentration is in good agreement with the observed blue shift of the
experimental optical absorption edge. Moreover, the concentration dependence of
the effective mass, which results from the non-parabolicity of the conduction
band, agrees well with recent experimental findings. Based on the quasiparticle
band structure the parameter set for a 4x4 kp Hamiltonian has been derived.Comment: 3 pages including 3 figures; related publications can be found at
http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/th.htm
The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon and Higgs-Mediated Flavor Changing Neutral Currents
In the two-Higgs doublet extension of the standard model, flavor-changing
neutral couplings arise naturally. In the lepton sector, the largest such
coupling is expected to be $\mu-\tau-\phi#. We consider the effects of this
coupling on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The resulting bound on
the coupling, unlike previous bounds, is independent of the value of other
unknown couplings. It will be significantly improved by the upcoming E821
experiment at Brookhaven National Lab.Comment: 7 pages Latex, 2 figure
Production of Single Heavy Charged Leptons at a Linear Collider
A sequential fourth generation of quarks and leptons is allowed by precision
electroweak constraints if the mass splitting between the heavy quarks is
between 50 and 80 GeV. Although heavy quarks can be easily detected at the LHC,
it is very difficult to detect a sequential heavy charged lepton, L, due to
large backgrounds. Should the L mass be above 250 GeV, it can not be
pair-produced at a 500 GeV ILC. We calculate the cross section for the one-loop
process e+e- -> L tau. Although the cross section is small, it may be
detectable. We also consider contributions from the two Higgs doublet model and
the Randall-Sundrum model, in which case the cross section can be substantially
higher.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figure
Monopoles near the Planck Scale and Unification
Considering our (3+1)-dimensional space-time as, in some way, discrete or l
attice with a parameter , where is the Planck length,
we have investigated the additional contributions of lattice artifact monopoles
to beta-functions of the renormalisation group equations for the running fine
structure constants (i=1,2,3 correspond to the U(1), SU(2) and
SU(3) gauge groups of the Standard Model) in the Family Replicated Gauge Group
Model (FRGGM) which is an extension of the Standard Model at high energies. It
was shown that monopoles have times smaller magnetic charge in FRGGM
than in SM ( is the number of families in FRGGM). We have estimated al
so the enlargement of a number of fermions in FRGGM leading to the suppression
of the asymptotic freedom in the non-Abelian theory. We have shown that, in
contrast to the case of AntiGUT when the FRGGM undergoes the breakdown at
GeV, we have the possibility of unification if the
FRGGM-breakdown occurs at GeV. By numerical calculations we
obtained an example of the unification of all gauge interactions (including
gravity) at the scale GeV. We discussed the
possibility of or (SUSY or not SUSY) unifications.Comment: 49 pages, 7 figure
New, high statistics measurement of the K+ -> pi0 e+ nu (Ke3) branching ratio
E865 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS collected about 70,000 K+(e3)
events with the purpose of measuring the relative K+(e3) branching ratio. The
pi0 in all the decays was detected using the e+e- pair from pi0 -> e+e-gamma
decay and no photons were required. Using the Particle Data Group branching
ratios for the normalization decays we obtain
BR(K+(e3(gamma))=(5.13+/-0.02(stat)+/-0.09(sys)+/-0.04(norm))%, where
V_{us}$ element of the CKM matrix, and the matrix's
unitarity are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures; final version accepted by PR
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