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The Electroweak Interactions as a Confinement Phenomenon
We consider a model for the electroweak interactions based on the assumption
that physical particles are singlets under the gauge group SU(2). The concept
of complementarity explains why the standard model works with such an
extraordinary precision although the fermions and bosons of the model can be
viewed as composite objects of some more fundamental fermions and bosons. We
study the incorporation of QED in the model. Furthermore we consider possible
deviations from the standard model at very high energies, e.g. excited states
of the weak bosons.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Physics Letters
Flavor Democracy and Type-II Seesaw Realization of Bilarge Neutrino Mixing
We generalize the democratic neutrino mixing Ansatz by incorporating the
type-II seesaw mechanism with S(3) flavor symmetry. We find that bilarge
neutrino mixing can naturally appear if the flavor democracy contribution is
strongly suppressed due to significant cancellation between the conventional
seesaw and triplet mass terms. Explicit S(3) symmetry breaking yields
successful neutrino phenomenology and various testable correlations between the
neutrino mass and mixing parameters. Among the results are a normal neutrino
mass ordering, , , positive and moderate cancellation in the effective mass
of the neutrinoless double beta decay.Comment: LaTex 12 pages (2 figures included). More discussions added. Accepted
for publication in PL
The scalar glueball spectrum
We discuss scenarios for scalar glueballs using arguments based on sum rules,
spectral decomposition, the approximation, the scales of the
strong interaction and the topology of the flux tubes. We analyze the
phenomenological support of those scenarios and their observational
implications. Our investigations hint a rich low lying glueball spectrum.Comment: 11 pages: New title, figure, table and a more detailed comparison
with experiment
Nearly Bi-Maximal Neutrino Mixing, Muon g-2 Anomaly and Lepton-Flavor-Violating Processes
We interpret the newly observed muon g-2 anomaly in the framework of a
leptonic Higgs doublet model with nearly degenerate neutrino masses and nearly
bi-maximal neutrino mixing. Useful constraints are obtained on the rates of
lepton-flavor-violating rare decays ,
and as well as the - conversion ratio .
We find that , and
depend crucially on possible non-zero but samll values of the
neutrino mixing matrix element , and they are also sensitive to the
Dirac-type CP-violating phase. In particular, we show that , and are approximately in the ratio if is much larger than , and in the
ratio if is much lower than , where and are the corresponding mass-squared
differences of atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations.Comment: LaTex 6 pages (2 PS figures). Phys. Rev. D (in printing
Towards a new determination of the QCD Lambda parameter from running couplings in the three-flavour theory
We review our new strategy and current status towards a high precision
computation of the Lambda parameter from three-flavour simulations in QCD. To
reach this goal we combine specific advantages of the Schr\"odinger functional
and gradient flow couplings.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium
on Lattice Field Theory; 23-28 June, 2014, Columbia University, New Yor
Predictions from the Fritzsch-Type Lepton Mass Matrices
We revisit the Fritzsch-type lepton mass matrix models confronted with new
experiments for neutrino mixings. It is shown that the model is viable and
leads to a rather narrow range of free parameters. Using empirical mixing
information between and , and between and
, it is predicted that the mixing angle between and
is in the range , consistent with the CHOOZ experiment and
the lightest neutrino mass is eV. The range of the
effective mass measured in double beta decay is eV.Comment: Latex file with 13 pages, 6 eps file
Democratic Neutrino Mixing and Radiative Corrections
The renormalization effect on a specific ansatz of lepton mass matrices,
arising naturally from the breaking of flavor democracy for charged leptons and
that of mass degeneracy for light neutrinos, is studied from a superhigh energy
scale M_0 \sim 10^{13} GeV to the electroweak scale in the framework of the
minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that the democratic neutrino
mixing pattern obtained from this ansatz may in general be instable against
radiative corrections. With the help of similar flavor symmetries we prescribe
a slightly different scheme of lepton mass matrices at the scale M_0, from
which the democratic mixing pattern of lepton flavors can be achieved, after
radiative corrections, at the experimentally accessible scales.Comment: RevTex 8 pages. Phys. Rev. D (in printing
Hierarchy and Up-Down Parallelism of Quark Mass Matrices
In view of the quark mass hierarchy and in the assumption of the up-down
parallelism, we derive two phenomenologically-favored patterns of Hermitian
quark mass matrices from the quark flavor mixing matrix. We compare one of them
with two existing {\it Anstze} proposed by Rosner and Worah and by
Roberts {\it et al}, and find that only the latter is consistent with the
present experimental data.Comment: RevTex 9 pages. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Quark masses and mixings in the RS1 model with a condensing 4th generation
We study the hierarchy of quark masses and mixings in a model based on a
5-dimensional spacetime with constant curvature of Randall-Sundrum type with
two branes, where the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking is caused dynamically by
the condensation of a 4th generation of quarks, due to underlying physics from
the 5D bulk and the first KK gluons. We first study the hierarchy of quark
masses and mixings that can be obtained from purely adjusting the profile
localizations, finding that realistic masses are not reproduced unless non
trivial hierarchies of underlying 4-fermion interactions from the bulk are
included. Then we study global U(1) symmetries that can be imposed in order to
obtain non-symmetric modified Fritzsch-like textures in the mass matrices that
reproduce reasonably well quark masses and CKM mixings.Comment: Minor changes. Version accepted for publication in JHE
Deep inelastic scattering and factorization in the 't Hooft Model
We study in detail deep inelastic scattering in the 't Hooft model. We are
able to analytically check current conservation and to obtain analytic
expressions for the matrix elements with relative precision O(1/Q^2) for 1-x >>
\beta^2/Q^2. This allows us to compute the electron-meson differential cross
section and its moments with 1/Q^2 precision. For the former we find maximal
violations of quark-hadron duality, as it is expected for a large N_c analysis.
For the latter we find violations of the operator product expansion at
next-to-leading order in the 1/Q^2 expansion.Comment: 55 pages, 16 figure
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