285 research outputs found
Charged Current Universality and the MSSM
We analyze the prospective impact of supersymmetric radiative corrections on
tests of charged current universality involving light quarks and leptons.
Working within the R-parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model,
we compute the corresponding one-loop corrections that enter the extraction of
the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element from a comparison of the
muon-decay Fermi constant with the vector coupling constant determined from
nuclear and neutron -decay. We also revisit earlier studies of the
corrections to the ratio of pion leptonic decay rates and . In both
cases, we observe that the magnitude of the corrections can be on the order of
. We show that a comparison of the first row CKM unitarity tests with
measurements of can provide unique probes of the spectrum of first
generation squarks and first and second generation sleptons.Comment: 38 pages, 17 figure
Meson Scattering in a Pion Superfluid
Instead of the fermion-fermion scattering which identifies the BCS-BEC
crossover in cold atom systems, boson-boson scattering is measurable and
characterizes the BCS-BEC crossover at quark level. We study -
scattering in a pion superfluid described by the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We
found that the scattering amplitude drops down monotonically with decreasing
isospin density and finally vanishes at the boundary of the phase transition.
This indicates a BCS-BEC crossover in the pion superfluid.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Measurements of the (n,p) Reaction at IUCF
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440
Study of (n,p) Reactions Between 100 and 200 MeV
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440
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