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Abelian Gauge Extension of Standard Model: Dark Matter and Radiative Neutrino Mass
We study a simple extension of Standard Model where the gauge group is
extended by an additional gauge symmetry. Neutrino mass arise both at
tree level as well as radiatively by the anomaly free addition of one singlet
fermion and two triplet fermions with suitable
Higgs scalars. The spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking is achieved in such a
way which results in a residual symmetry and hence providing a stable
cold dark matter candidate. We study the possible dark matter candidates in
this model by incorporating the constraints from cosmology as well as direct
detection experiments. We discuss both low and high mass (from GeV to the TeV
scale) regimes of fermionic and scalar dark matter candidates in the model. We
show that scalar dark matter relic density, although not significantly affected
by the presence or absence of annihilation into gauge boson pairs, is
however affected by choice of gauge charges. We discuss the neutrino
mass phenomenology and its compatibility with the allowed dark matter mass
ranges and also comment on the implications of the model on Higgs signatures at
colliders including those related to fourth fermion generation.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, figures redrawn and conclusion unchanged,
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Neutrino and astroparticle physics : Working group report
The contributions made to the Working Group activities on neutrino and
astroparticle physics are summarised in this article. The topics discussed were
leptogenesis in Left-Right symmetric model, inflationary models in
Raman-Sundrum scenarios, ultra high energy cosmic rays and neutrino
oscillations in 4 flavour and decaying neutrino models.Comment: 11 pages; arXiv copy of contribution to WHEPP-6 proceeding
Heat capacity and magnetoresistance in Dy(Co,Si)2 compounds
Magnetocaloric effect and magnetoresistance have been studied in
Dy(Co1-xSix)2 [x=0, 0.075 and 0.15] compounds. Magnetocaloric effect has been
calculated in terms of adiabatic temperatue change (Delta Tad) as well as
isothermal magnetic entropy change (Delta SM) using the heat capacity data. The
maximum values of DeltaSM and DeltaTad for DyCo2 are found to be 11.4 JKg-1K-1
and 5.4 K, respectively. Both DSM and DTad decrease with Si concentration,
reaching a value of 5.4 JKg-1K-1 and 3 K, respectively for x=0.15. The maximum
magnetoresistance is found to about 32% in DyCo2, which decreases with increase
in Si. These variations are explained on the basis of itinerant electron
metamagnetism occurring in these compounds.Comment: Total 8 pages of text and figure
Effective SO Superpotential for N=1 Theory with N_f Fundamental Matter
Motivated by the duality conjecture of Dijkgraaf and Vafa between
supersymmetric gauge theories and matrix models, we derive the effective
superpotential of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory with gauge group SO(N_c) and
arbitrary tree level polynomial superpotential of one chiral superfield in the
adjoint representation and N_f fundamental matter multiplets. For a special
point in the classical vacuum where the gauge group is unbroken, we show that
the effective superpotential matches with that obtained from the geometric
engineering approach.Comment: LaTeX, 1+19 pages, To appear in Nucl.Phys.
Limit laws for k-coverage of paths by a Markov-Poisson-Boolean model
Let P := {X_i,i >= 1} be a stationary Poisson point process in R^d, {C_i,i >=
1} be a sequence of i.i.d. random sets in R^d, and {Y_i^t; t \geq 0, i >= 1} be
i.i.d. {0,1}-valued continuous time stationary Markov chains. We define the
Markov-Poisson-Boolean model C_t := {Y_i^t(X_i + C_i), i >= 1}. C_t represents
the coverage process at time t. We first obtain limit laws for k-coverage of an
area at an arbitrary instant. We then obtain the limit laws for the k-coverage
seen by a particle as it moves along a one-dimensional path.Comment: 1 figure. 24 Pages. Accepted at Stochastic Models. Theorems 6 and 7
corrected. Theorem 9 and Appendix adde
Electronic structure of spin 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic systems: Ba_2Cu(PO_4)_2 and Sr_2Cu(PO_4)_2
We have employed first principles calculations to study the electronic
structure and magnetic properties of the low-dimensional phosphates,
Ba2Cu(PO4)2 and Sr2Cu(PO4)2. Using the self-consistent tight-binding lin-
earized muffin-tin orbital method and the Nth order muffin-tin orbital method,
we have calculated the various intrachain as well as the interchain hopping
parameters between the magnetic ions Cu2+ for both the com- pounds. We find
that the nearest-neighbor intrachain hopping t is the dominant interaction
suggesting the compounds to be indeed one dimensional. Our analysis of the band
dispersion, orbital projected band struc- tures, and the hopping parameters
confirms that the Cu2+-Cu2+ super-super exchange interaction takes place along
the crystallographic b direction mediated by O-P-O. We have also analyzed in
detail the origin of short-range exchange interaction for these systems. Our ab
initio estimate of the ratio of the exchange inter- action of Sr2Cu(PO4)2 to
that of Ba2Cu(PO4)2 compares excellently with available experimental results.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Spontaneously broken parity and consistent cosmology with transitory domain walls
Domain wall structure which may form in theories with spontaneously broken
parity is generically in conflict with standard cosmology. It has been argued
that Planck scale suppressed effects can be sufficient for removing such domain
walls. We study this possibility for three specific evolution scenarios for the
domain walls, with evolution during radiation dominated era, during matter
dominated era, and that accompanied by weak inflation. We determine the
operators permitted by the supergravity formalism and find that the field
content introduced to achieve desired spontaneous parity breaking makes
possible Planck scale suppressed terms which can potentially remove the domain
walls safely. However, the parity breaking scale, equivalently the majorana
mass scale of the right handed neutrino, does get constrained in some of
the cases, notably for the matter dominated evolution case which would be
generic to string theory inspired models giving rise to moduli fields. One
left-right symmetric model with only triplets and bidoublets is found to be
more constrainted than another admitting a gauge singlet
Probing Lorentz Invariance at EeV Energy
Pierre Auger experiment has detected at least a couple of ray events above
energy 60 EeV from the direction of the radio-galaxy Centaurus A. Assuming
those events are from Centaurus A, we have calculated the number of neutral
cosmic ray events from this source for small values of the degree of violation
in Lorentz invariance. Our results show that a comparison of our calculated
numbers of events with the observed number of events at EeV energy from the
direction of the source can probe extremely low value of the degree of this
violation.Comment: 8 pages,4 figure
Indication of transverse radial flow in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
We analyze the measured spectra of , , () in
collisions at = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV, in the light of blast-wave
model to extract the transverse radial flow velocity and kinetic temperature at
freeze-out for the system formed in collisions. The dependency of the
blast-wave parameters on average charged particle multiplicity of event sample
or the `centrality' of collisions has been studied and compared with results of
similar analysis in nucleus-nucleus () and proton-nucleus ()
collisions. We analyze the spectra of , () and
also to see the dependence of blast-wave description on the species of
produced particles. Within the framework of the blast-wave model, the study
reveals indication of collective behavior for high-multiplicity events in
collisions at LHC. Strong transverse radial flow in high multiplicity
collisions and its comparison with that in and collisions match with
predictions from a very recent theoretical work [Shuryak and Zahed 2013
arXiv:1301.4470] that addresses the conditions for applicability of
hydrodynamics in and collisions.Comment: 14 pages 8 figure
Role of dual nuclear baths on spin blockade leakage current bistabilities
Spin-blockaded electronic transport across a double quantum dot (DQD) system
represents an important advancement in the area of spin-based quantum
information. The basic mechanism underlying the blockade is the formation of a
blocking triplet state. The bistability of the leakage current as a function of
the applied magnetic field in this regime is believed to arise from the effect
of nuclear Overhauser fields on spin-flip transitions between the blocking
triplet and the conducting singlet states. The objective of this paper is to
present the nuances of considering a two bath model on the experimentally
observed current bistability by employing a self consistent simulation of the
nuclear spin dynamics coupled with the electronic transport of the DQD set up.
In doing so, we first discuss the important subtleties involved in the
microscopic derivation of the hyperfine mediated spin flip rates. We then give
insights as to how the differences between the two nuclear baths and the
resulting difference Overhauser field affect the two-electron states of the
DQD, and their connection with the experimentally observed current hysteresis
curve.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
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