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Simple renormalizable flavor symmetry for neutrino oscillations
The recent measurement of a non-zero neutrino mixing angle
requires a modification of the tri-bimaximal mixing pattern that predicts a
zero value for it. We propose a new neutrino mixing pattern based on a
spontaneously-broken flavor symmetry and a type-I seesaw mechanism. Our
model allows for approximate tri-bimaximal mixing and non-zero ,
and contains a natural way to implement low and high energy CP violation in
neutrino oscillations, and leptogenesis with a renormalizable Lagrangian. Both
normal and inverted mass hierarchies are permitted within
experimental bounds, with the prediction of small (large) deviations from
maximality in the atmospheric mixing angle for the normal (inverted) case.
Interestingly, we show that the inverted case is excluded by the global
analysis in experimental bounds, while the most recent MINOS data
seem to favor the inverted case. Our model make predictions for the Dirac CP
phase in the normal and inverted hierarchies, which can be tested in
near-future neutrino oscillation experiments. Our model also predicts the
effective mass measurable in neutrinoless double beta decay to be in
the range eV for the normal hierarchy and
eV for the inverted hierarchy, both of
which are within the sensitivity of the next generation experiments.Comment: 29 pages and 10 figures. No corrections. Version for Phys. Rev.
Persistence of singlet fluctuations in the coupled spin tetrahedra system Cu2Te2O5Br2 revealed by high-field magnetization and 79Br NQR - 125Te NMR
We present high-field magnetization and Br nuclear quadrupole
resonance (NQR) and Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies in the
weakly coupled Cu () tetrahedral system CuTeOBr.
The field-induced level crossing effects were observed by the magnetization
measurements in a long-ranged magnetically ordered state which was confirmed by
a strong divergence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 at T0=13.5 K. In
the paramagnetic state, 1/T1 reveals an effective singlet-triplet spin gap much
larger than that observed by static bulk measurements. Our results imply that
the inter- and the intra-tetrahedral interactions compete, but at the same time
they cooperate strengthening effectively the local intratetrahedral exchange
couplings. We discuss that the unusual feature originates from the frustrated
intertetrahedral interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. B as a Rapid
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A mechanism for unipolar resistance switching in oxide non-volatile memory devices
Building on a recently introduced model for non-volatile resistive switching,
we propose a mechanism for unipolar resistance switching in
metal-insulator-metal sandwich structures. The commutation from the high to low
resistance state and back can be achieved with successive voltage sweeps of the
same polarity. Electronic correlation effects at the metal-insulator interface
are found to play a key role to produce a resistive commutation effect in
qualitative agreement with recent experimental reports on binary transition
metal oxide based sandwich structures.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
|V_ub| and |V_cb|, Charm Counting and Lifetime Differences in Inclusive Bottom Hadron Decays
Inclusive bottom hadron decays are analyzed based on the heavy quark
effective field theory (HQEFT). Special attentions in this paper are paid to
the b\to u transitions and nonspectator effects. As a consequence, the CKM
quark mixing matrix elements |V_ub| and |V_cb| are reliably extracted from the
inclusive semileptonic decays B\to X_u e \nu and B\to X_c e \nu. Various
observables, such as the semileptonic branch ratio B_SL, the lifetime
differences among B^-, B^0, B_s and \Lambda_b hadrons, the charm counting n_c,
are predicted and found to be consistent with the present experimental data.Comment: 20 pages, Revtex, 4 figures and 2 table
Inclusive Decays of Bottom Hadrons in New Formulation of Heavy Quark Effective Field Theory
We apply the new formulation of heavy quark effective field theory (HQEFT) to
the inclusive decays of bottom hadrons. The long-term ambiguity of using heavy
quark mass or heavy hadron mass for inclusive decays is clarified within the
framework of the new formulation of HQEFT. The order corrections are
absent and contributions from terms are calculated in detail. This
enables us to reliably extract the important CKM matrix element from
the inclusive semileptonic decay rates. The resulting lifetime ratios
and are found to well agree
with the experimental data. We also calculate in detail the inclusive
semileptonic branching ratios and the ratios of the and decay
rates as well as the charm countings in the , and
systems. For decays, all the observables are found to be consistent with
the experimental data. More precise data for the decays and further
experimental measurements for the and systems will be very
useful for testing the framework of new formulation of HQEFT at the level of
higher order corrections.Comment: 20 pages, RevTex, 8 figures, 3 tables, revised version with `dressed
heavy quark' being addressed, to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Muon anomalous magnetic moment and lepton flavor violation in MSSM
We give a thorough analysis of the correlation between the muon anomalous
magnetic moment and the radiative lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes
within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that in the case when
the slepton mass eigenstates are nearly degenerate, , coming from
SUSY contributions, hardly depends on the lepton flavor mixing and, thus, there
is no direct relation between and the LFV processes. On the
contrary, if the first two generations' sleptons are much heavier than the 3rd
one, i.e., in the effective SUSY scenario, the two quantities are closely
related. In the latter scenario, the SUSY parameter space to account for the
experimental is quite different from the case of no lepton
flavor mixing. Especially, the Higgsino mass parameter can be either
positive or negative.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures; Some discussions are modifie
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