Project X and a muon facility at Fermilab

An integrated program is described, starting with muon experiments in the Booster era, continuing with a 2 MW target station, a 4 GeV Neutrino Factory and a 3 TeV Muon Collider, all driven by Project X. This idea provides an integrated approach to the Intensity and Energy Frontiers at Fermilab.Comment: 3 pp. 11th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams: NuFact 09. 20-25 Jul 2009. Chicago, Illinoi

Dynamic Models of Arts Labor Supply

In this paper two dynamic models of an artist’s behavior and arts labor supply have been developed. Both are based on a household production function approach and on the assumption that artists are multiple-job-holders. In the first model proposed here an artist is depicted as someone who is hired on the arts labor market and paid for his artistic time. In the second model an artist is described as someone who sells his products, like paintings for instance, on the market for artistic products. In order to make these models dynamic, an artist’s productivity is here supposed to be a function of accumulated human capital of the artist. Following the results of existing empirical research, previous experience and previous artistic practice are supposed to be the most important form of human capital accumulation. Once the analysis is expanded to capture this kind of the artist’s human capital accumulation, the supply of labor in the arts market appears as the result of an inter-temporal process of resources allocation. Both models end with the same result: the cost of producing a unit of an artistic commodity in a particular year should be equal to the sum of current monetary benefits, current nonmonetary benefits, a stream of future monetary benefits, and a stream of future nonmonetary benefits generated by production of a given artistic unit. This result appears to be pretty suitable for formalization of several existing hypotheses aimed at explaining arts labor market peculiarities. Especially, by referring to the stream of expected nonmonetary benefits, models developed here are able to formalize the most promising among these hypotheses according to which an artist’s need for self-discovery and self-actualization is the driving force in explaining the oversupply of arts labor

Asymptotic genealogy of a critical branching process

Consider a continuous-time binary branching process conditioned to have population size n at some time t, and with a chance p for recording each extinct individual in the process. Within the family tree of this process, we consider the smallest subtree containing the genealogy of the extant individuals together with the genealogy of the recorded extinct individuals. We introduce a novel representation of such subtrees in terms of a point-process, and provide asymptotic results on the distribution of this point-process as the number of extant individuals increases. We motivate the study within the scope of a coherent analysis for an a priori model for macroevolution.Comment: 30 page

Thanks to 2D and maybe even beyond: 115 GeV and 140 GeV almost Standard Model Higgs without problems

I address: (1) dynamical, likely local Higgs mass generation as resolution to the 4D hierarchy and vacuum energy problems, (2) possibility that top condensation may be explained by an interplay among the gluon and scalar sectors, (3) the Higgs Mass Zero Crossing (HMZC) scale, most likely equal to {\Lambda}_EWSB, in accord with standard cosmology or classic inflation, and (4) two preferred Higgs regions centered at 116.5 GeV and 140.5 GeV with related high energy models. I show that SM in 2D could simultaneously satisfy (a) complete radiative generation of the Higgs mass via top loop and (b) cancelation of the remaining leading order corrections to the scalar propagator. The Higgs mass, m_H, parameterized with k=1 (2), in the leading order is 113.0{\pm}1.0 GeV (143.4{\pm}1.3 GeV). I show that the SM top condensation is consistent with the gluon and Higgs mediated top-anti top interactions at tree level. I predict the QCD fine structure constant with the mean value only 0.25% away from the world average value at {\sqrt}s=M_Z. The SM driven theory at energies larger than the HMZC scale necessary includes effective tachyonic Higgs (Popovic 2001). Here, I map the SM physical Higgs mass to the low energy HMZC scale (0.8-1.8 TeV). I show that the very "long lived" SM necessitates Higgs lighter than 146.5{\pm}2 GeV such that there is a single HMZC scale at energies smaller than the Planck mass. I present candidate m_H=138.1{\pm}1.8 GeV for the SM valid up to an energy scale, nearly equal Planck mass, obtained from a conjecture which minimizes the parameters of the Higgs potential. I introduce a class of models potentially exactly removing tachyons. I analyze Composite Particles Models (CPM) (Popovic 2002) where top quark is composite, composed of 3 fundamental fermions, and Higgs scalar is composite, composed of 2 fundamental fermions, with m_H=2/3 m_t=115.4{\pm}0.9 GeV.Comment: 52 Pages, 11 Figures, 1 Table, 155 References, document created on July 24, 2010, document submitted to the Physical Review D on July 25, 201