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Rare Charm Decays at LHCb
Studies of rare decays are an indirect probe of New Physics (NP). This
document presents recent measurements of rare decays in the charm sector by the
LHCb experiment. The analyses are performed with proton-proton collision data
at = 7 TeV recorded in 2011.Comment: to appear in the proceedings of The 6th International Workshop on
Charm Physics (CHARM 2013
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at LEP
Preliminary results from the four LEP experiments using data collected at 189
GeV have shown no evidence for the Standard Model Higgs boson. The preliminary
95% confidence level lower limits on the SM Higgs boson mass from ALEPH,
DELPHI, OPAL, and L3 are 90.4 GeV, 94.1 GeV, 95.5 GeV, and 95.2 GeV,
respectively. When LEP finishes in the year 2000, each experiment expects to
collect 200 pb-1 of data at 200 GeV. These data will allow the discovery of the
SM Higgs boson with a mass lower than about 105 GeV. Assuming that no new
evidence for the SM Higgs boson is found, the mass exclusion limit would be
approximately 110 GeV.Comment: 5 pages with 4 figures Submitted to UCLS/DPF 99 Conference
Proceeding
A Multi-coloured survey of NGC 253 with XMM-Newton
There is a large body of work that has used the excellent Chandra
observations of nearby galaxies with neglible low mass X-ray binary (LMXB)
populations. This has culminated in a ``Universal'' X-ray luminosity function
(XLF) for high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). However, a number of methods have
been used to convert from source intensities to luminosities when creating
these XLFs. We have taken advantage of the XMM-Newton observations of the
nearby starbursting spiral galaxy NGC 253 to test some of these methods. We
find the luminosities derived from these various methods to vary by a factor of
3. We also find the most influential factor in the conversion from
intensity to luminosity to be the absorption. We therefore conclude that a more
consistent approach is required for determining the true Universal XLF for
HMXBs. Ideally, this would involve individual spectral fitting of each X-ray
source. Certainly, the line-of-sight absorption should be determined from the
observations rather than assuming Galactic absorption. We find the best
approach for obtaining an XLF from low-count data to be the splitting of the
X-ray sources into two or more intensity intervals, and obtaining a conversion
from intensity to flux for each group from spectral modelling of the summed
spectrum of that group.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of "X-rays from Nearby Galaxies", 4-7
Septembeer 2007, 4 page
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