21 research outputs found
Planar Antennas
This article reviews the state of the art in broadband antennas for emerging UWB applications and addresses the important issues of the broadband antenna design for UWB applications. First, a variety of planar monopoles with finite ground planes are reviewed. Next, the roll antennas with enhanced radiation performance are outlined. After that, the planar antennas printed on PCBs are described. A directional antipodal Vivaldi antenna is also presented for UWB applications. Last, a UWB antenna for wearable applications is exemplifie
A model realizing the Harrison-Perkins-Scott lepton mixing matrix
We present a supersymmetric model in which the lepton mixing matrix
obeys, at the seesaw scale, the Harrison--Perkins--Scott
\textit{Ansatz}--vanishing , maximal atmospheric neutrino mixing, and
( is the solar mixing angle). The
model features a permutation symmetry among the three lepton multiplets
of each type--left-handed doublets, right-handed charged leptons, and
right-handed neutrinos--and among three Higgs doublets and three
zero-hypercharge scalar singlets; a fourth right-handed neutrino, a fourth
Higgs doublet, and a fourth scalar singlet are invariant under . In
addition, the model has seven \mathbbm{Z}_2 symmetries, out of which six do
not commute with . Supersymmetry is needed in order to eliminate some
quartic terms from the scalar potential, quartic terms which would make
impossible to obtain the required vacuum expectation values of the three Higgs
doublets and three scalar singlets. The Yukawa couplings to the charged leptons
are flavour diagonal, so that flavour-changing neutral Yukawa interactions only
arise at loop level.Comment: 16 pages, plain LaTeX, no figures; some clarifying remarks in the
conclusions and references added, version accepted for publication in JHE
Remarks on 't Hooft's Brick Wall Model
A semi-classical reasoning leads to the non-commutativity of the space and
time coordinates near the horizon of Schwarzschild black hole. This
non-commutativity in turn provides a mechanism to interpret the brick wall
thickness hypothesis in 't Hooft's brick wall model as well as the boundary
condition imposed for the field considered. For concreteness, we consider a
noncommutative scalar field model near the horizon and derive the effective
metric via the equation of motion of noncommutative scalar field. This metric
displays a new horizon in addition to the original one associated with the
Schwarzschild black hole. The infinite red-shifting of the scalar field on the
new horizon determines the range of the noncommutativ space and explains the
relevant boundary condition for the field. This range enables us to calculate
the entropy of black hole as proportional to the area of its original horizon
along the same line as in 't Hooft's model, and the thickness of the brick wall
is found to be proportional to the thermal average of the noncommutative
space-time range. The Hawking temperature has been derived in this formalism.
The study here represents an attempt to reveal some physics beyond the brick
wall model.Comment: RevTeX, 5 pages, no figure
Supersymmetry discovery potential of the LHC at 10 and 14 TeV without and with missing
We examine the supersymmetry (SUSY) reach of the CERN LHC operating at
and 14 TeV within the framework of the minimal supergravity
model. We improve upon previous reach projections by incorporating updated
background calculations including a variety of Standard Model (SM)
processes. We show that SUSY discovery is possible even before the detectors
are understood well enough to utilize either or electrons in
the signal. We evaluate the early SUSY reach of the LHC at TeV by
examining multi-muon plus jets and also dijet events with {\it no}
missing cuts and show that the greatest reach in terms of
occurs in the dijet channel. The reach in multi-muons is slightly smaller in
, but extends to higher values of . We find that an observable
multi-muon signal will first appear in the opposite-sign dimuon channel, but as
the integrated luminosity increases the relatively background-free but
rate-limited same-sign dimuon, and ultimately the trimuon channel yield the
highest reach. We show characteristic distributions in these channels that
serve to distinguish the signal from the SM background, and also help to
corroborate its SUSY origin. We then evaluate the LHC reach in various
no-lepton and multi-lepton plus jets channels {\it including} missing
cuts for and 14 TeV, and plot the reach for integrated
luminosities ranging up to 3000 fb at the SLHC. For TeV,
the LHC reach extends to and 2.9 TeV for
and integrated luminosities of 10, 100, 1000 and
3000 fb, respectively. For TeV, the LHC reach for the same
integrated luminosities is to m_{gluino}=2.4,\3.1, 3.7 and 4.0 TeV.Comment: 34 pages, 25 figures. Revised projections for the SUSY reach for
ab^-1 integrated luminosities, with minor corrections of references and text.
2 figures added. To appear in JHE
Measuring the Higgs Sector
If we find a light Higgs boson at the LHC, there should be many observable
channels which we can exploit to measure the relevant parameters in the Higgs
sector. We use the SFitter framework to map these measurements on the parameter
space of a general weak-scale effective theory with a light Higgs state of mass
120 GeV. Our analysis benefits from the parameter determination tools and the
error treatment used in new--physics searches, to study individual parameters
and their error bars as well as parameter correlations.Comment: 45 pages, Journal version with comments from refere
Seesaw mechanism in the sneutrino sector and its consequences
The seesaw-extended MSSM provides a framework in which the observed light
neutrino masses and mixing angles can be generated in the context of a natural
theory for the TeV-scale. Sneutrino-mixing phenomena provide valuable tools for
connecting the physics of neutrinos and supersymmetry. We examine the
theoretical structure of the seesaw-extended MSSM, retaining the full
complexity of three generations of neutrinos and sneutrinos. In this general
framework, new flavor-changing and CP-violating sneutrino processes are
allowed, and are parameterized in terms of two matrices that
respectively preserve and violate lepton number. The elements of these matrices
can be bounded by analyzing the rate for rare flavor-changing decays of charged
leptons and the one-loop contribution to neutrino masses. In the former case,
new contributions arise in the seesaw extended model which are not present in
the ordinary MSSM. In the latter case, sneutrino--antisneutrino mixing
generates the leading correction at one-loop to neutrino masses, and could
provide the origin of the observed texture of the light neutrino mass matrix.
Finally, we derive general formulae for sneutrino--antisneutrino oscillations
and sneutrino flavor-oscillations. Unfortunately, neither oscillation phenomena
is likely to be observable at future colliders.Comment: 69 pages, 5 figures, uses axodraw.sty. Version accepted for
publication in JHEP: some comments and one more Appendix with additional
discussion added, references update
de Sitter String Vacua from Supersymmetric D-terms
We propose a new mechanism for obtaining de Sitter vacua in type IIB string
theory compactified on (orientifolded) Calabi-Yau manifolds similar to those
recently studied by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi (KKLT). dS vacuum
appears in KKLT model after uplifting an AdS vacuum by adding an anti-D3-brane,
which explicitly breaks supersymmetry. We accomplish the same goal by adding
fluxes of gauge fields within the D7-branes, which induce a D-term potential in
the effective 4D action. In this way we obtain dS space as a spontaneously
broken vacuum from a purely supersymmetric 4D action. We argue that our
approach can be directly extended to heterotic string vacua, with the dilaton
potential obtained from a combination of gaugino condensation and the D-terms
generated by anomalous U(1) gauge groups.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur
Non-Minimal Sneutrino Inflation, Peccei-Quinn Phase Transition and non-Thermal Leptogenesis
We consider a phenomenological extension of the minimal supersymmetric
standard model which incorporates non-minimal chaotic inflation, driven by a
quartic potential associated with the lightest right-handed sneutrino.
Inflation is followed by a Peccei-Quinn phase transition based on
renormalizable superpotential terms, which resolves the strong CP and mu
problems of the minimal supersymmetric standard model provided that one related
parameter of the superpotential is somewhat small. Baryogenesis occurs via
non-thermal leptogenesis, which is realized by the inflaton decay. Confronting
our scenario with the current observational data on the inflationary
observables, the baryon assymetry of the universe, the gravitino limit on the
reheating temperature and the upper bound on the light neutrino masses, we
constrain the effective Yukawa coupling involved in the decay of the inflaton
to relatively small values and the inflaton mass to values lower than 10^12
GeV.Comment: 21 pages including 3 figures; Final versio
Neutrino masses: From fantasy to facts
Theory suggests the existence of neutrino masses, but little more. Facts are
coming close to reveal our fantasy: solar and atmospheric neutrino data
strongly indicate the need for neutrino conversions, while LSND provides an
intriguing hint. The simplest ways to reconcile these data in terms of neutrino
oscillations invoke a light sterile neutrino in addition to the three active
ones. Out of the four neutrinos, two are maximally-mixed and lie at the LSND
scale, while the others are at the solar mass scale. These schemes can be
distinguished at neutral-current-sensitive solar & atmospheric neutrino
experiments. I discuss the simplest theoretical scenarios, where the lightness
of the sterile neutrino, the nearly maximal atmospheric neutrino mixing, and
the generation of & all follow
naturally from the assumed lepton-number symmetry and its breaking. Although
the most likely interpretation of the present data is in terms of
neutrino-mass-induced oscillations, one still has room for alternative
explanations, such as flavour changing neutrino interactions, with no need for
neutrino mass or mixing. Such flavour violating transitions arise in theories
with strictly massless neutrinos, and may lead to other sizeable flavour
non-conservation effects, such as , conversion in
nuclei, unaccompanied by neutrino-less double beta decay.Comment: 33 pages, latex, 16 figures. Invited Talk at Ioannina Conference,
Symmetries in Intermediate High Energy Physics and its Applications, Oct.
1998, to be published by Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Festschrift in
Honour of John Vergados' 60th Birthda
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