How Do We See the Nuclear Region (r < 0.1 pc) of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies?

We propose two statistical tests to investigate how we see the nuclear region (r < 0.1 pc) of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). 1) The high-ionization nuclear emission-line region (HINER) test: Seyfert 1 galaxies (S1s) have systematically higher flux ratios of [Fe VII] lambda 6087 to [O III] lambda 5007 than Seyfert 2 galaxies (S2s). This is interpreted in that a significant part of the [Fe VII] lambda 6087 emission arises from the inner walls of dusty tori that cannot be seen in S2s (Murayama & Taniguchi 1998a,b). 2) The mid-infrared test: S1s have systematically higher flux ratios of the L band (3.5 micrometer) to the IRAS 25 micrometer band than S2s. This is also interpreted in that a significant part of the L band emission arises from the inner walls of dusty tori, because the tori are optically thick enough to absorb the L band emission if the tori are viewed nearly edge on (Murayama et al. 2000). Applying these tests to a sample of NLS1s, we have found that the NLS1s possibly have nearly the same properties as S1s.Comment: Contributed talk presented at the Joint MPE,AIP,ESO workshop on NLS1s, Bad Honnef, Dec. 1999, to appear in New Astronomy Reviews; also available at http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/conferences/nls1-worksho

Impact of Neutrino Oscillation Measurements on Theory

Neutrino oscillation data had been a big surprise to theorists, and indeed they have ongoing impact on theory. I review what the impact has been, and what measurements will have critical impact on theory in the future.Comment: 8 pages, uses aipproc, 6 figures. Plenary talk presented at Nufact 03, 5th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams, Columbia University, New York, 5-11 June 200

Supersymmetry

I review phenomenologically interesting aspects of supersymmetry. First I point out that the discovery of the positron can be regarded as a historic analogue to the would-be discovery of supersymmetry. Second I review the recent topics on the unification of the gauge coupling constants, $m_b$--$m_\tau$ relation, proton decay, and baryogenesis. I also briefly discuss the recent proposals to solve the problem of flavor changing neutral currents. Finally I argue that the measurements of supersymmetry parameters may probe the physics at the Planck scale.Comment: LBL-36175, LaTeX, 27 pages. Psfig1.9 required. Invited talk presented at the 22nd INS International Symposium on Physics with High Energy Colliders, Tokyo, Japan, March 8--10, 1994, to appear in Proceedings of INS Symposium. The original version submitted in June, only references and spellings corrected. Five EPS figures appended in uuencoded forma

Theory of Neutrino Masses and Mixings

Neutrino physics is going through a revolutionary progress. In this talk I review what we have learned and why neutrino mass is so important. Neutrino masses and mixings are already shedding new insight into the origin of flavor. Given the evidences for neutrino mass, leptogenesis is gaining momentum as the origin of cosmic baryon asymmetry. Best of all, we will learn a lot more in the coming years.Comment: Talk at Lepton Photon 2001. 18 pages, LaTeX2e, uses ws-p10x7.cl

Nucleon Decay in GUT and Non-GUT SUSY Models

I first emphasize the importance of searching for nucleon decay in the context of supersymmetric models. The status of minimal SUSY SU(5) model is reviewed, which can be definitively ruled out by a combination of superKamiokande and LEP-2 experiments. Non-minimal models may provide some suppression in the nucleon decay rates, but there is still a good chance for superKamiokande. I point out that the operators suppressed even by the Planck-scale are too large. We need a suppression mechanism for the operators at the level of $10^{-7}$, and the mechanism, I argue, may well be a flavor symmetry. A particular example predicts $p \rightarrow K^0 e^+$ to be the dominant mode which does not arise in GUT models.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, Psfig, talk presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, Warsaw, July 26-30, 199

Technicolorful Supersymmetry

Technicolor achieves electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in an elegant and natural way, while it suffers from severe model building difficulties. I propose to abandon its secondary goal to eliminate scalar bosons in exchange of solving numerous problems using supersymmetry. It helps to understand walking dynamics much better with certain exact results. In the particular model presented here, there is no light elementary Higgs boson and the EWSB is fully dynamical, hence explaining the hierarchy; There is no alignment problem and no light pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons exist; The fermion masses are generated by a ultraviolet-complete renormalizable extended technicolor sector with techni-GIM mechanism and hence the sector is safe from flavor-changing-neutral-current constraints; The "e+ e-'' production of techni-states in the superconformal window is calculable; The electroweak precision observables are (un)fortunately not calculable.Comment: 6 pages. Markus Luty pointed out a mistake in the naive dimensional analysis in the first version of the paper. See hep-ph/0006224 for more details. The new version uses superconformal dynamics to enhance the ETC operato