Enhanced Higgs boson production and avoidance of CP-violation and FCNC in the MPP inspired 2HDM

The multiple point principle (MPP) can be used to suppress non--diagonal flavour transitions and CP violation in the two Higgs doublet extension of the standard model. We discuss the quasi--fixed point scenario in the MPP inspired two Higgs doublet model which leads to the enhanced production of Higgs particles at the LHC if the MPP scale is low.Comment: Talk given at the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester, England, 19-25 July 2007, CERN preprint number added, references update

Negative Specific Heat in a Quasi-2D Generalized Vorticity Model

Negative specific heat is a dramatic phenomenon where processes decrease in temperature when adding energy. It has been observed in gravo-thermal collapse of globular clusters. We now report finding this phenomenon in bundles of nearly parallel, periodic, single-sign generalized vortex filaments in the electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMH) model for the unbounded plane under strong magnetic confinement. We derive the specific heat using a steepest descent method and a mean field property. Our derivations show that as temperature increases, the overall size of the system increases exponentially and the energy drops. The implication of negative specific heat is a runaway reaction, resulting in a collapsing inner core surrounded by an expanding halo of filaments.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures; updated with revision

Teaching research methods: Introducing a psychogeographical approach

This paper explores teaching business students research methods using a psychogeographical approach, specifically the technique of dérive. It responds to calls for new ways of teaching in higher education and addresses the dearth of literature on teaching undergraduate business students qualitative research methods. Psychogeography challenges the dominance of questionnaires and interviews, introduces students to data variety, problematizes notions of success and illuminates the importance of observation and location. Using two studies with undergraduate students, the authors emphasize place and setting, the perception of purpose, the choice of data, criteria of success and the value of guided reflection and self-reflection in students’ learning. Additionally the data reflect on the way students perceive research about management and the nature of management itself. The paper concludes that the deployment of psychogeography to teach business research methods although complex and fraught with difficulty is nevertheless viable, educationally productive and worthy of further research

From sine-Gordon to vacuumless systems in flat and curved spacetimes

In this work we start from the Higgs prototype model to introduce a new model, which makes a smooth transition between systems with well located minima and systems that support no minima at all. We implement this possibility using the deformation procedure, which allows the obtention of a sine-Gordon-like model, controlled by a real parameter that gives rise to a family of models, reproducing the sine-Gordon and the so-called vacuumless models. We also study the thick brane scenarios associated with these models and investigate their stability and renormalization group flow. In particular, one shows how gravity can change from the 5-dimensional warped geometry with a single extra dimension of infinite extent to the conventional 5-dimensional Minkowski geometry.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures. Version to appear in EPJ

User guide to 1:250000 scale lunar maps

Background information of detailed photo base maps produced from orbital and surface experiments data derived from Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17 is presented in outline form

Resolution of Cosmological Singularity and a Plausible Mechanism of the Big Bang

The initial cosmological singularity in the framework of the general theory of relativity is resolved by introducing the effect of the uncertainty principle of quantum theory without violating conventional laws of physics. A plausible account of the mechanism of the big bang, analogous to that of a nuclear explosion, is given and the currently accepted Planck temperature of about 10^(32)K at the beginning of the big bang is predicted. Subj-class: cosmology: theory-pre-big bang; mechanism of the big bang.Comment: 5 pages, LaTex, Talk given at INPC 2001. To be published by the American Institute of Physics in the Proceedings of the International Nuclear Physics Conference that took place at the University of California campus in Berkeley, California on July 30-August 3,200