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GeV Scale Asymmetric Dark Matter from Mirror Universe: Direct Detection and LHC Signatures
Mirror universe is a fundamental way to restore parity symmetry in weak
interactions. It naturally provides the lightest mirror nucleon as a unique
GeV-scale asymmetric dark matter particle candidate. We conjecture that the
mirror parity is respected by the fundamental interaction Lagrangian, and its
possible soft breaking arises only from non-interaction terms in the
gauge-singlet sector. We realize the spontaneous mirror parity violation by
minimizing the vacuum Higgs potential, and derive the corresponding Higgs
spectrum. We demonstrate that the common origin of CP violation in the visible
and mirror neutrino seesaws can generate the right amount of matter and mirror
dark matter via leptogenesis. We analyze the direct detections of GeV-scale
mirror dark matter by TEXONO and CDEX experiments. We further study the
predicted distinctive Higgs signatures at the LHC.Comment: 16pp. Plenary talk presented by HJH at the International Symposium on
Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2011). To appear in the conference
proceedings of IJMP. Minor refinement
Isotopic effects on the thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons: localization mechanism
Thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) with length 106~{\AA} and
width 4.92~{\AA} after isotopic doping is investigated by molecular dynamics
with quantum correction. Two interesting phenomena are found: (1) isotopic
doping reduces thermal conductivity effectively in low doping region, and the
reduction slows down in high doping region; (2) thermal conductivity increases
with increasing temperature in both pure and doped GNR; but the increasing
behavior is much more slowly in the doped GNR than that in pure ones. Further
studies reveal that the physics of these two phenomena is related to the
localized phonon modes, whose number increases quickly (slowly) with increasing
isotopic doping in low (high) isotopic doping region.Comment: 6 fig
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