204003965
Textures and hierarchies in quark mass matrices with four texture-zeros
A systematic analysis on the phenomenologically allowed textures in Hermitian quark mass matrices with four texture-zeros is presented. The current data allow a full determination of the mass matrix elements, provided that the actual number of the parameters in the matrices is less than or equal to ten. Besides the standard texture with zeros located in (1,1) and (1,3) positions, we find four new type of parallel mass matrices. All of them are found to have similar hierarchical structures: three of the nonzero matrix elements are at the same order of magnitude with a small geometric hierarchy, while the remaining one is relatively much smaller. These textures show a possibility that a realistic quark mass matrix may have an approximate flavor $S(2)_{L}\otimes S(2)_{R}$ symmetry, i.e. a partial flavor democracy. The absolute values of the CP violating phases in the matrix elements are found to be either close to their maximum ($\approx 90^\circ$) or very small ($\leq 10^{\circ}$). We also find twenty-six quasi-parallel and seventeen non-parallel textures allowed by the experimental data.
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More precise determination of V-cb & V-ub and direct CP violation in charmless B decays
More precise extractions on the two important CKM matrix elements \V-cb\ and \V-ub\ are presented up to 1/m(Q)(2) corrections, based on the complete heavy-quark effective field theory (HQEFT) of QCD. The HQEFT as a large component QCD provides us with a complete theoretical framework for correctly and systematically evaluating the subleading and higher-order contributions in 1/m(Q) expansion of heavy quarks. A global analysis on charmless B decays is made, based on the isospin and SU(3) flavor symmetry. An isospin relation is found to be very useful for studying SU(3) symmetry-breaking effects of strong phases and exploring new types of electroweak penguin effects. The direct CP violation in charmless B decays is predicted, and its precise measurement is helpful either for testing SU(3) symmetry breaking effects of strong phases or for probing news physics beyond standard model.
18105043
Chiral couplings of W ′ and top quark polarization at the LHC
If a TeV-scale charged gauge boson (W') is discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it will become imperative to determine its chiral couplings to standard model (SM) fermions in order to learn about the underlying theory containing the W'. We describe the reconstruction of the tb decay mode of the W' at the LHC, and identify various kinematic observables such as the angular distributions of the top quark and the lepton resulting from top decay that can be used to disentangle the chiral couplings of the W' to SM fermions. We demonstrate by presenting analytical expressions, numerical simulations, as well as intuitive illustrations for these observables at the LHC that among the SM fermions, the polarized top quark can most directly probe the chirality of such couplings.
118710048
Probing the fourth generation Majorana neutrino dark matter
The heavy fourth-generation Majorana neutrino can be stable and contribute to a small fraction of the relic density of dark matter (DM) in the Universe. Because of its strong coupling to the standard model particles, it can be probed by the current direct and indirect DM detection experiments even it is a subdominant component of the whole halo DM. Assuming that it contributes to the same fraction of the local halo DM density as that of the DM relic density in the Universe, we show that the current Xenon100 data constrain the mass of the stable Majorana neutrino to be greater than the mass of the top quark. In the mass range from 200 GeV to a few hundred GeV, the effective spin-independent cross section for the neutrino elastic-scattering off nucleon is insensitive to the neutrino mass and mixing, and is predicted to be similar to 1.5 X 10(-44) cm(2), which can be reached by the direct DM detection experiments soon. In the same mass region the predicted effective spin-dependent cross section for the heavy neutrino scattering off proton is in the range of 2 X 10(-40) cm(2) similar to 2 X 10(-39) cm(2), which is within the reach of the ongoing DM indirect search experiments such as IceCube. We demonstrate such properties of the heavy neutrino DM in a fourth-generation model with the stability of the fourth Majorana neutrino protected by an additional generation-dependent U(1) gauge symmetry.
119263633
Two Higgs bi-doublet left-right model with spontaneous P and CP violation
A left-right symmetric model with two Higgs bi-doublet is shown to be a consistent model for both spontaneous P and CP violation. The flavor changing neutral currents can be suppressed by the mechanism of approximate global U(1) family symmetry. The constraints from neural K meson mass difference ΔmK are calculated and it is demonstrated that a right-handed gauge boson W2 contribution in box-diagrams with mass well below 1 TeV is allowed due to a cancelation caused by a light-charged Higgs boson with a mass range of 150–300 GeV. The W2 contribution to εK can be suppressed from an appropriate choice of additional CP phases appearing in the right-handed Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. The model is also found to be fully consistent with B0 mass difference ΔmB and the mixing induced CP violation sin2βJ/ Ψ, which is usually difficult for the model with only one Higgs bi-doublet. The new physics beyond the standard model can be directly searched at the colliders LHC and ILC.
119061151
Weak phase gamma and strong phase delta from CP averaged B ->pi pi and pi K decays
Assuming SU(3) symmetry for the strong phases in the four decay modes B-->pi(-)pi(+), pi(0)pi(+), pi(-)K(+), pi(-)(K) over bar(0) and ignoring the relative small electroweak penguin effects in those decays, the weak phase gamma and the strong phase delta can be determined in a model independent way by the CP averaged branching ratios of the four decay modes. It appears that the current experimental data for B-->pi pi and pi K decays prefer a negative value of cos gamma cos delta. By combining with the other constraints from V-ub B-d,s(0)-(B) over bar(d,s)(0) mixing, and the indirect CP-violating parameter epsilon(K) within the standard model, two favorable solutions for the phases gamma and delta are found to lie in the region 35 degrees less than or similar to gamma less than or similar to 62 degrees and 106 degrees less than or similar to delta less than or similar to 180 degrees or 86 degrees less than or similar to gamma less than or similar to 151 degrees and 0 degrees less than or similar to delta less than or similar to 75 degrees within 1 sigma standard deviation. It is noted that if allowing the standard deviation of the data to be more than 1 sigma, the two solutions could approach one solution with a much larger region for the phases gamma and delta. Direct CP asymmetry a(epsilon")((pi-K+)) in B -->pi(-)K(+) decay can be as large as the present experimental upper bound. Direct CP asymmetry a(epsilon")((pi+)pi-) in B-->pi(-)pi(+) decay can reach up to about 40% at the 1 sigma level.
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Interpreting N M2 branes
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The Kobayashi-Maskawa Parametrization of Lepton Flavor Mixing and Its Application to Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
We show that the Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) parametrization of the 3 X 3 lepton flavor mixing matrix is a useful language to describe the phenomenology of neutrino oscillations. In particular, it provides us with a convenient way to link the genuine flavor mixing parameters (\theta_1, \theta_2, \theta_3 and \delta_KM) to their effective counterparts in matter (\tilde{\theta}_1, \tilde{\theta}_2, \tilde{\theta}_3 and \tilde{\delta}_KM). We rediscover the Toshev-like relation sin \tilde{\delta}_KM sin 2\tilde{\theta}_2 = sin \delta_KM sin 2\theta_2 in the KM parametrization. We make reasonable analytical approximations to the exact relations between the genuine and matter-corrected flavor mixing parameters in two different experimental scenarios: (a) the neutrino beam energy E is above O(1) GeV and (b) E is below O(1) GeV. As an example, the probability of \nu_\mu -> \nu_e oscillations and CP-violating effects are calculated for the upcoming NOvA and Hyper-K experiments.
13934764
A Holographic model for Non-Relativistic Superconductor
We build a holographic description of non-relativistic system for superconductivity in strongly interacting condensed matter via gauge/gravity duality. We focus on the phase transition and give an example to show that a simple gravitational theory can provide a non-relativistic holographical dual description of a superconductor. There is also a critical temperature like the relativistic case, below which a charged condensation field appears by a second order phase transition and the (DC) conductivity becomes infinite. We also calculated the frequency dependent conductivity.
6158388
D4 brane probes in gauge/gravity duality
We propose a Dirac-Born-Infeld vertex brane+N(c) fundamental strings configuration for a probe baryon in the finite-temperature thermal gauge field via AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we investigate properties of this configuration in QCD(4) and warped AdS(6)xS(4). We find that, in the D4-D8 system, a holographic probe baryon can be described as N(c) fundamental strings connecting through a vertex D4 brane wrapped on S(4). In QCD(4) background, a closed vertex can exist in a confined phase but cannot exist in a deconfined phase. In the low temperature region, the screening effect still exists in the confined phase like a meson, and the vertex D4 brane dominates the baryon mass. The lower energy state corresponds to the vertex brane closer to the radial cutoff position (r=r(c)), and the higher energy state corresponds to the vertex brane a little farther away from the cutoff position. The high energy limit of this configuration is just like the unclosed vertex brane configuration in a higher temperature deconfined phase. In warped AdS(6)xS(4) background, a closed vertex can exist in a deconfined phase and the vertex contains a spike, while fundamental strings are relatively short. The screening length should be defined through the distance between the top position of the vertex spike and the boundary.
119286757
Dirac neutrinos with S"4 flavor symmetry in warped extra dimensions
We present a warped extra dimension model with the custodial symmetry SU(2)(L) x SU(2)(R) x U(1)(X) x P-LR based on the flavor symmetry S-4 X Z(2) x Z(2)', and the neutrinos are taken to be Dirac particles. At leading order, the democratic lepton mixing is derived exactly, and the high-dimensional operators introduce corrections of order lambda(c) to all the three lepton mixing angles such that agreement with the experimental data can be achieved. The neutrino mass spectrum is predicted to be of the inverted hierarchy and the second octant of theta(23) is preferred. We suggest the modified democratic mixing, which is obtained by permuting the second and the third rows of the democratic mixing matrix, should be a good first order approximation to understanding sizable theta(13) and the first octant of theta(23). The constraints on the model from the electroweak precision measurements are discussed. Furthermore, we investigate the lepton mixing patterns for all the possible residual symmetries G(nu) and G(l) in the neutrino and charged lepton sectors, respectively. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.