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Enhanced Tau Lepton Signatures at LHC in Constrained Supersymmetric Seesaw
We discuss the possible enhancement of the tau lepton events at LHC when the
left-handed stau doublet becomes light (which can be even lighter than the
right-handed stau). This is illustrated in the constrained supersymmetric
seesaw model where the slepton doublet mass is suppressed by the effects of a
large neutrino Yukawa coupling. We study a few representative parameter sets in
the sneutrino coannihilation regions where the tau sneutrino is NLSP and the
stau coannihilation regions where the stau is NLSP both of which yield the
thermal neutralino LSP abundance determined by WMAP.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, references adde
Sterile neutrino dark matter in warped extra dimensions
We consider a (long-lived) sterile neutrino dark matter scenario in a five
dimensional (5D) warped extra dimension model where the fields can live in the
bulk, which is partly motivated from the absence of the absolutely stable
particles in a simple Randall-Sundrum model. The dominant production of the
sterile neutrino can come from the decay of the radion (the scalar field
representing the brane separation) around the electroweak scale. The
suppressions of the 4D parameters due to the warp factor and the small wave
function overlaps in the extra dimension help alleviate the exceeding
fine-tunings typical for a sterile neutrino dark matter scenario in a 4D setup.Comment: Typos corrected and references adde
Supersymmetric Musings on the Predictivity of Family Symmetries
We discuss the predictivity of family symmetries for the soft supersymmetry
breaking parameters in the framework of supergravity. We show that unknown
details of the messenger sector and the supersymmetry breaking hidden sector
enter into the soft parameters, making it difficult to obtain robust
predictions. We find that there are specific choices of messenger fields which
can improve the predictivity for the soft parameters.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
The Decay of the Inflaton in No-scale Supergravity
We study the decay of the inflaton in no-scale supergravity and show that
decay due to the gravitational interactions through supergravity effects is
highly suppressed relative to the case in minimal supergravity or models with a
generic Kahler potential. We also show that decay to gravitinos is suppressed.
We demonstrate that decay and sufficient reheating are possible with the
introduction of a non-trivial gauge kinetic term. This channel may be dominant
in no-scale supergravity, yet yields a re-heating temperature which is low
enough to avoid the gravitino problem while high enough for Big Bang
Nucleosynthesis and baryogenesis.Comment: Added the footnote in the conclusion section which discusses the
constrains on the explicit inflaton couplings to the matter fields via
non-renormalizable operators. To appear in JCA
Positrons in Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Annihilations for Uplifted Higgs Regions in MSSM
We point out that there are regions in the MSSM parameter space which
successfully provide a dark matter (DM) annihilation explanation for observed
positron excess (e.g. PAMELA), while still remaining in agreement with all
other data sets. Such regions (e.g. the uplifted Higgs region) can realize an
enhanced neutralino DM annihilation dominantly into leptons via a Breit-Wigner
resonance through the CP-odd Higgs channel. Such regions can give the proper
thermal relic DM abundance, and the DM annihilation products are compatible
with current antiproton and gamma ray observations. This scenario can succeed
without introducing any additional degrees of freedom beyond those already in
the MSSM.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
New D-term chaotic inflation in supergravity and leptogenesis
We present a new model of D-term dominated chaotic inflation in supergravity.
The F-flat direction present in this model is lifted by the dominant D-term,
which leads to chaotic inflation and subsequent reheating. No cosmic string is
formed after inflation because the U(1) gauge symmetry is broken during
inflation. The leptogenesis scenario via the inflaton decay in our D-term
chaotic inflation scenario is also discussed.Comment: 14 pages, no figure, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Synthesis of magnesium ZIF-8 from Mg(BH₄)₂.
Porous Mg(2-methyl imidazolate)2 (Mg-ZIF-8) was synthesised from Mg(BH4)2 as a precursor under an Ar atmosphere. It possesses an uncommon tetrahedral Mg(2+)-N coordination geometry that is stabilised by the formation of a framework, and it exhibits a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area greater than 1800 m(2) g(-1)
Parameterizing the Power Spectrum: Beyond the Truncated Taylor Expansion
The power spectrum is traditionally parameterized by a truncated Taylor
series: . It is
reasonable to truncate the Taylor series if , but
it is not if . We argue that there is no good
theoretical reason to prefer , and show that current
observations are consistent with even for
. Thus, there are regions of parameter space, which are both
theoretically and observationally relevant, for which the traditional truncated
Taylor series parameterization is inconsistent, and hence it can lead to
incorrect parameter estimations. Motivated by this, we propose a simple
extension of the traditional parameterization, which uses no extra parameters,
but that, unlike the traditional approach, covers well motivated inflationary
spectra with . Our parameterization therefore covers not only
standard-slow-roll inflation models but also a much wider class of inflation
models. We use this parameterization to perform a likelihood analysis for the
cosmological parameters.Comment: References added. Typo correcte
The Earliest Optical Observations of GRB 030329
We present the earliest optical imaging observations of GRB 030329 related to
SN 2003dh. The burst was detected by the HETE-2 satellite at 2003 March 29,
11:37:14.67 UT. Our wide-field monitoring started 97 minutes before the trigger
and the burst position was continuously observed. We found no precursor or
contemporaneous flare brighter than () in 32 s (64 s) timescale
between 10:00 and 13:00 UT. Follow-up time series photometries started at
12:51:39 UT (75 s after position notice through the GCN) and continued for more
than 5 hours. The afterglow was at min after burst.
Its fading between 1.2 and 6.3 hours is well characterized by a single
power-law of the form in -band. No significant flux variation was
detected and upper limits are derived as % in
minutes to hours timescales and % in seconds to
minutes timescales. Such a featureless lightcurve is explained by the smooth
distribution of circumburst medium. Another explanation is that the optical
band was above the synchrotron cooling frequency where emergent flux is
insensitive to the ambient density contrasts. Extrapolation of the afterglow
lightcurve to the burst epoch excludes the presence of an additional flare
component at minutes as seen in GRB 990123 and GRB 021211.Comment: ApJL, in pres
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