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Search for anomalous gauge couplings in semi-leptonic decays of and in pp collisions at 8 TeV
A study of the Standard Model (SM) three electroweak boson production,
where V = W or Z gauge boson, is presented concerning events with a
leptonically decaying W boson accompanied by a photon and two or more jets. We
are using the full 2012 dataset, of proton-proton collisions at a
center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 19.3
fb, collected by the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
production final states may be sensitive to anomalous
and quartic couplings. In light of the recent
discovery of a Higgs-like particle, we investigate, in a model independent way,
any deviation of gauge boson couplings with respect to the SM prediction by
setting limits on the anomalous quartic gauge couplings (aQGC) for
and . Upper limits at 95% confidence level are
obtained, with and without a form factor.Comment: "Presentation at the DPF 2013 Meeting of the American Physical
Society Division of Particles and Fields, Santa Cruz, California, August
13-17, 2013.
The optimal price of money
The optimal inflation tax is computed in monetary models where money is costly to supply. The models are simple general equilibrium models with money in the utility function or a transactions technology. The inflation tax is a means of raising taxes to finance exogenous government expenditures. The alternative means of revenue are also distortionary. The main point of this article is to show that the robustness of the optimality of the Friedman rule, of a zero nominal interest rate, resides in the assumption that money is produced at zero cost.Money ; Interest rates ; Inflation (Finance)
Prospects for and measurements at the FCC-ee
We study the possibilities for the measurement of two-photon production of
the Higgs boson (in the decay channel), and of pairs
(decaying into four jets) in collisions at the the Future Circular
Collider (FCC-ee). The processes are simulated with the PYTHIA and MADGRAPH 5
Monte Carlo codes, using the effective photon approximation for the
photon fluxes, at center-of-mass energies 160 GeV
and 240 GeV. The analyses include electron-positron tagging, realistic
acceptance and reconstruction efficiencies for the final-state jets, and
selection criteria to remove the backgrounds. Observation of both channels is
achievable with the expected few ab integrated luminosities at FCC-ee.Comment: Proceedings of the conference PHOTON 2015: International Conference
on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon including the 21th
International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions and the International
Workshop on High Energy Photon Colliders, held at Budker Institute of Nuclear
Physics (BINP), Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk,
Russia, from 15 to 19 June, 201
The optimal inflation tax
We determine the second best rule for the inflation tax in monetary general equilibrium models where money is dominated in rate of return. The results in the literature are ambiguous and inconsistent across different monetary environments. We compare the derived optimal inflation tax solutions across the different environments and find that Friedman's policy recommendation of a zero nominal interest rate is the right one.Inflation (Finance) ; Taxation
A stable money demand: Looking for the right monetary aggregate
A money demand relationship with M1 as the monetary aggregate holds very well until the mid-1980s but not well after that. This could be because the demand for money is not a stable relationship. The authors' conclusion is that the measure of money is not a stable measure. Technological innovation and changes in regulatory practices in the past two decades have made other monetary aggregates as liquid as M1. Once an appropriately adjusted measure of money is taken into consideration, the stability of money demand is recovered.Money ; Money supply
Universal Algebra of a Hom-Lie Algebra and group-like elements
We construct the universal enveloping algebra of a Hom-Lie algebra and endow
it with a Hom-Hopf algebra structure. We discuss group-like elements that we
see as a Hom-group integrating the initial Hom-Lie algebra
Collisionless relaxation in non-neutral plasmas
A theoretical framework is presented which allows to quantitatively predict
the final stationary state achieved by a non-neutral plasma during a process of
collisionless relaxation. As a specific application, the theory is used to
study relaxation of charged-particles beams. It is shown that a fully matched
beam relaxes to the Lynden-Bell distribution. However, when a mismatch is
present and the beam oscillates, parametric resonances lead to a core-halo
phase separation. The approach developed accounts for both the density and the
velocity distributions in the final stationary state.Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev. Let
Sharpening the shape analysis for higher-dimensional operator searches
When the Standard Model is interpreted as the renormalizable sector of a
low-energy effective theory, the effects of new physics are encoded into a set
of higher dimensional operators. These operators potentially deform the shapes
of Standard Model differential distributions of final states observable at
colliders. We describe a simple and systematic method to obtain optimal
estimations of these deformations when using numerical tools, like Monte Carlo
simulations. A crucial aspect of this method is minimization of the estimation
uncertainty: we demonstrate how the operator coefficients have to be set in the
simulations in order to get optimal results. The uncertainty on the
interference term turns out to be the most difficult to control and grows very
quickly when the interference is suppressed. We exemplify our method by
computing the deformations induced by the operator in
production at the LHC, and by deriving a bound on using TeV
CMS data.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures. v2: Minor corrections, references added, matches
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