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Occurrence of Hysteresis like behavior of resistance of film in heating-cooling cycle
Experimental observations of a peculiar behavior observed on heating and
cooling films at different heating and cooling rate are
detailed. The film regained its original resistance, forming a closed loop, on
the completion of the heating-cooling cycle which was reproducible for
identical conditions of heating and cooling. The area enclosed by the loop was
found to depend on (i) the thickness of the film, (ii) the heating rate, (iii)
the maximum temperature to which film was heated and (iv) the cooling rate. The
observations are explained on basis of model which considers the film to be a
resultant of parallel resistances. The film's finite thermal conductivity gives
rise to a temperature gradient along the thickness of the film, due to this and
the temperature coefficient of resistance, the parallel combination of
resistance changes with temperature. Difference in heating and cooling rates
give different temperature gradient, which explains the observed hysteresis.Comment: 21 pages and 10 figure
Jet substructure shedding light on heavy Majorana neutrinos at the LHC
The existence of tiny neutrino masses and flavor mixings can be explained
naturally in various seesaw models, many of which typically having additional
Majorana type SM gauge singlet right handed neutrinos (). If they are at
around the electroweak scale and furnished with sizeable mixings with light
active neutrinos, they can be produced at high energy colliders, such as the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A characteristic signature would be same sign
lepton pairs, violating lepton number, together with light jets -- . We propose a new
search strategy utilising jet substructure techniques, observing that for a
heavy right handed neutrino mass much above , the two jets
coming out of the boosted may be interpreted as a single fat-jet ().
Hence, the distinguishing signal topology will be .
Performing a comprehensive study of the different signal regions along with
complete background analysis, in tandem with detector level simulations, we
compute statistical significance limits. We find that heavy neutrinos can be
explored effectively for mass ranges GeV GeV and
different light-heavy neutrino mixing . At the 13 TeV LHC with
3000 integrated luminosity one can competently explore
mixing angles much below present LHC limits, and moreover exceed bounds from
electroweak precision data.Comment: Accepted for publication in JHEP. 25 pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl
Graviton modes in multiply warped geometry
The negative results in the search for Kaluza-Klein graviton modes at the
LHC, when confronted with the discovery of the Higgs, has been construed to
have severely limited the efficacy of the Randall-Sundrum model as an
explanation of the hierarchy problem. We show, though, that the presence of
multiple warping offers a natural resolution of this conundrum through
modifications in both the graviton spectrum and their couplings to the Standard
Model fields.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
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