Neutrino mass and lepton number violation in the Little Higgs model

We study lepton number violation in Little Higgs model and find that the choice of putting triplet Higgs vev equal to zero so as not to have any tree level neutrino Majorana mass is not natural in the sense that such a term is generated at the one loop level. We investigate the contribution of exotic lepton number violating terms on neutrinoless double beta decay, K meson decay and on trilepton production in $\nu$-N scattering.Comment: 6 pages including 3 eps figures, talk given at PASCOS-05 held at Gyeongju, Korea from 30 May - 4 June 200

Effects of curvature and interactions on the dynamics of the deconfinement phase transition

We study the dynamics of first-order cofinement-deconfinement phase transition through nucleation of hadronic bubbles in an expanding quark gluon plasma in the context of heavy ion collisions for interacting quark and hadron gas and by incorporating the effects of curvature energy. We find that the interactions reduce the delay in the phase transition whereas the curvature energy has a mixed behavior. In contrast to the case of early Universe phase transition, here lower values of surface tension increase the supercooling and slow down the hadronization process. Higher values of bag pressure tend to speed up the transition. Another interesting feature is the start of the hadronization process as soon as the QGP is created.Comment: LaTeX, 17 pages including 14 postscript figure

Lepton number violation in Little Higgs model

In this note we examine the constraints imposed by muon anomalous magnetic moment ($(g-2)_\mu$) and $\mu^- \to e^+ e^- e^-$ on lepton number violating (LNV) couplings of the triplet Higgs in Little Higgs (LH) model.Comment: revtex4.0 file, 5 pages including 8 eps figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.