55 research outputs found
Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons using the same-sign diboson mode at the LHC
Doubly charged Higgs bosons are predicted in many new physics models with an
extended Higgs sector that contains a Higgs triplet field. Current experimental
searches have been focusing mainly on the scenario in which the same-sign
dilepton decay modes are the dominant ones. We study the scenario where the
vacuum expectation value of the triplet field is sufficiently large so that the
associated charged Higgs bosons decay dominantly to a pair of weak gauge bosons
instead. A detailed simulation of the signal and the backgrounds is performed
for the CERN Large Hadron Collider at the collision energy of 8 TeV and 14 TeV.
We find that different cuts should be imposed for the events, depending on
whether the doubly charged Higgs boson mass is greater than about 200 GeV. In
the higher mass region, the forward jet tagging proves to be useful in
enhancing the signal significance. We show the discovery reach of the LHC
running at 8 and 14 TeV, with two benchmark triplet vacuum expectation values.
With an integrated luminosity of 10 fb at 8 TeV, the doubly charged
Higgs boson with a mass of GeV can be tested at level in
such a scenario.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures; published in Physical Review
Higgs Properties and Fourth Generation Leptons
It is possible that there are additional vector-like generations where the
quarks have mass terms that do not originate from weak symmetry breaking, but
the leptons only get mass through weak symmetry breaking. We discuss the impact
that the new leptons have on Higgs boson decay branching ratios and on the
range of allowed Higgs masses in such a model (with a single new vector-like
generation). We find that if the fourth generation leptons are too heavy to be
produced in Higgs decay, then the new leptons reduce the branching ratio for h
-> gamma gamma to about 30% of its standard-model value. The dependence of this
branching ratio on the new charged lepton masses is weak. Furthermore the
expected Higgs production rate at the LHC is very near its standard-model value
if the new quarks are much heavier than the weak scale. If the new quarks have
masses near the cutoff for the theory then for cutoffs greater than 10^15 GeV,
the new lepton masses cannot be much heavier than about 100 GeV and the Higgs
mass must have a value around 175 GeV.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, published versio
Phase effects from the general neutrino Yukawa matrix on lepton flavor violation
We examine contributions from Majorana phases to lepton flavor violating
processes in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model with
heavy right-handed neutrinos. All phases in the complex neutrino Yukawa matrix
are taken into account in our study. We find that in the scenario with
universal soft-breaking terms sizable phase effects can appear on the lepton
flavor violating processes such as , , and
. In particular, the branching ratio of
can be considerably enhanced due to the Majorana phases, so that it can be much
greater than that of .Comment: 14 pages, 4 eps figures, revtex
Right-Handed Sneutrino as Cold Dark Matter
We consider supersymmetric models with right-handed neutrinos where neutrino
masses are purely Dirac-type. In this model, right-handed sneutrino can be the
lightest supersymmetric particle and can be a viable candidate of cold dark
matter of the universe. Right-handed sneutrinos are never thermalized in the
early universe because of weakness of Yukawa interaction, but are effectively
produced by decays of various superparticles. We show that the present mass
density of right-handed sneutrino can be consistent with the observed dark
matter density.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Phenomenology in the Zee Model with the A_4 Symmetry
The Zee model generates neutrino masses at the one-loop level by adding
charged SU(2)_L-singlet and extra SU(2)_L-doublet scalars to the standard model
of particle physics. As the origin of the nontrivial structure of the lepton
flavor mixing, we introduce the softly broken A_4 symmetry to the Zee model.
This model is compatible with the tribimaximal mixing which agrees well with
neutrino oscillation measurements. Then, a sum rule m_1 e^{i alpha_12} + 2 m_2
+ 3 m_3 e^{i alpha_32} = 0 is obtained and it results in Delta m^2_31 < 0 and
m_3 > 1.8*10^{-2}eV. The effective mass |(M_nu)_{ee}| for the neutrinoless
double beta decay is predicted as | (M_\nu)_{ee} | > 1.7*10^{-2}eV. The
characteristic particles in this model are SU(2)_L-singlet charged Higgs bosons
s^+_alpha (alpha=xi,eta,zeta) which are made from a 3-representation of A_4.
Contributions of s^+_alpha to the lepton flavor violating decays of charged
leptons are almost forbidden by an approximately remaining Z_3 symmetry; only
BR(tau to ebar mu mu) can be sizable by the flavor changing neutral current
interaction with SU(2)_L-doublet scalars. Therefore, s^+_alpha can be easily
light enough to be discovered at the LHC with satisfying current constraints.
The flavor structures of BR(s^-_alpha to ell nu) are also discussed.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figures, version accepted by PR
Enhancement of lepton flavor violation in a model with bi-maximal mixing at the grand unification scale
We study phenomenological predictions in the scenario with the
quasi-degenerate relation among neutrino Dirac masses, m_D1 simeq m_D2 < m_D3,
assuming the bi-maximal mixing at the grand unification scale in supersymmetric
standard models with right-handed neutrinos. A sufficient lepton number
asymmetry can be produced for successful leptogenesis. The lepton flavor
violating process mu to e gamma can be enhanced due to the Majorana phase, so
that it can be detectable at forthcoming experiments. The processes tau to e
gamma and tau to mu gamma are suppressed because of the structure of neutrino
Dirac masses, and their branching ratios are smaller than that of mu to e
gamma.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
High Energy Cosmic Rays from the Decay of Gravitino Dark Matter
We study gamma ray and positron in high energy cosmic ray from the decay of
the gravitino dark matter in the framework of supersymmetric model with
R-parity violation. Even though R-parity is violated, the lifetime of the
gravitino, which is assumed to be the lightest superparticle, can be longer
than the present age of the universe if R-parity violating interactions are
weak enough. In such a case, gravitino can be dark matter of the universe and
its decay produces high energy cosmic rays. We calculate the fluxes of gamma
ray and positron from the decay of the gravitino dark matter and discuss
implications of such a scenario to present and future observations. In
particular, we show that excesses of the fluxes of gamma ray and positron
observed by EGRET and HEAT experiments, respectively, can be simultaneously
explained as the cosmic rays from the decay of the gravitino dark matter.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figure
The selective continued linkage of centromeres from mitosis to interphase in the absence of mammalian separase
Separase is an evolutionarily conserved protease that is essential for chromosome segregation and cleaves cohesin Scc1/Rad21, which joins the sister chromatids together. Although mammalian separase also functions in chromosome segregation, our understanding of this process in mammals is still incomplete. We generated separase knockout mice, reporting an essential function for mammalian separase. Separase-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts exhibited severely restrained increases in cell number, polyploid chromosomes, and amplified centrosomes. Chromosome spreads demonstrated that multiple chromosomes connected to a centromeric region. Live observation demonstrated that the chromosomes of separase-deficient cells condensed, but failed to segregate, although subsequent cytokinesis and chromosome decondensation proceeded normally. These results establish that mammalian separase is essential for the separation of centromeres, but not of the arm regions of chromosomes. Other cell cycle events, such as mitotic exit, DNA replication, and centrosome duplication appear to occur normally. We also demonstrated that heterozygous separase-deficient cells exhibited severely restrained increases in cell number with apparently normal mitosis in the absence of securin, which is an inhibitory partner of separase
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Micrococcal nuclease (MNase) has been widely used for analyses of nucleosome locations in many organisms. However, due to its sequence preference, the interpretations of the positions and occupancies of nucleosomes using MNase have remained controversial. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has also been utilized for analyses of MNase-digests, but some technical biases are commonly present in the NGS experiments. Here, we established a gel-based method to map nucleosome positions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, using isolated nuclei as the substrate for the histone H4 S47C-site-directed chemical cleavage in parallel with MNase digestion. The parallel mapping allowed us to compare the chemically and enzymatically cleaved sites by indirect end-labeling and primer extension mapping, and thus we could determine the nucleosome positions and the sizes of the nucleosome-free regions (or nucleosome-depleted regions) more accurately, as compared to nucleosome mapping by MNase alone. The analysis also revealed that the structural features of the nucleosomes flanked by the nucleosome-free region were different from those within regularly arrayed nucleosomes, showing that the structures and dynamics of individual nucleosomes strongly depend on their locations. Moreover, we demonstrated that the parallel mapping results were generally consistent with the previous genome-wide chemical mapping and MNase-Seq results. Thus, the gel-based parallel mapping will be useful for the analysis of a specific locus under various conditions
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无线传感器网络,作为全球未来十大技术之一,集成了传感器技术、嵌入式计算技术、分布式信息处理和自组织网技术,可实时感知、采集、处理、传输网络分布区域内的各种信息数据,在军事国防、生物医疗、环境监测、抢险救灾、防恐反恐、危险区域远程控制等领域具有十分广阔的应用前景。 本文研究分析了无线传感器网络的已有路由协议,并针对大规模的无线传感器网络设计了一种树状路由协议,它根据节点地址信息来形成路由,从而简化了复杂繁冗的路由表查找和维护,节省了不必要的开销,提高了路由效率,实现了快速有效的数据传输。 为支持此路由协议本文提出了一种自适应动态地址分配算——ADAR(AdaptiveDynamicAddre...As one of the ten high technologies in the future, wireless sensor network, which is the integration of micro-sensors, embedded computing, modern network and Ad Hoc technologies, can apperceive, collect, process and transmit various information data within the region. It can be used in military defense, biomedical, environmental monitoring, disaster relief, counter-terrorism, remote control of haz...学位:工学硕士院系专业:信息科学与技术学院通信工程系_通信与信息系统学号:2332007115216
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