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Quantum Monte Carlo Study of a Resonant Bose-Fermi Mixture

We study a resonant Bose-Fermi mixture at zero temperature by using the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo method. We explore the system from weak to strong boson-fermion interaction, for different concentrations of the bosons relative to the fermion compone ...

2013

Single-top t-channel production with off-shell and non-resonant effects

Valentin Hirschi

This Letter details and discusses the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to t-channel electro-weak W(+)bj production, where finite top-width effects are consistently taken into account. The computation is done within the AMC@NLO framework and includes b ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

A Shape-Template Based Two-Stage Corpus Callosum Segmentation Technique for Sagittal Plane T1-Weighted Brain Magnetic Resonance Images

Michaël Unser, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We propose a semi-automatic technique to segment corpus callosum (CC) using a two-stage snake formulation: A restricted affine transform (RAT) constrained snake followed by an unconstrained snake in an iterative fashion. A statistical model is developed to ...

IEEE2013

Metastable spontaneous breaking of N=2 supersymmetry

Claudio Scrucca, Paul Smyth, Benoît Légeret

We show that contrary to the common lore it is possible to spontaneously break N = 2 supersymmetry even in simple theories without constant Fayet-Iliopoulos terms. We consider the most general N = 2 supersymmetric theory with one hypermultiplet and one vec ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

A minimally tuned composite Higgs model from an extra dimension

Duccio Pappadopulo, Riccardo Torre, Andrea Thamm

We construct and study the 5D realization of a composite Higgs model with minimal tuning. The Higgs is a (pseudo-)Goldstone boson from the spontaneous breaking of a global SO(5) symmetry to an SO(4) subgroup. The peculiarity of our construction lies in the ...

Springer2013

Interplay of Dirac fermions and heavy quasiparticles in solids

Thorsten Schmitt

Many-body interactions in crystalline solids can be conveniently described in terms of quasiparticles with strongly renormalized masses as compared with those of non-interacting particles. Examples of extreme mass renormalization are on the one hand graphe ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Spontaneously broken conformal symmetry: dealing with the trace anomaly

Alexander Monin, Roberta Armillis

The majority of renormalizable field theories possessing the scale invariance at the classical level exhibits the trace anomaly once quantum corrections are taken into account. This leads to the breaking of scale and conformal invariance. At the same time ...

Springer2013

Symmetric and asymmetric excitations of a strong-leg quantum spin ladder

Pierre Bouillot

The zero-field excitation spectrum of the strong-leg spin ladder (C7H10N)(2)CuBr4 is studied with a neutron time-of-flight technique. The spectrum is decomposed into its symmetric and asymmetric parts with respect to the rung momentum and compared with the ...

American Physical Society2013

Higgs at last

Francesco Riva

We update the experimental constraints on the parameters of the Higgs effective Lagrangian. We combine the most recent LHC Higgs data in all available search channels with electroweak precision observables from SLC, LEP-1, LEP-2, and the Tevatron. Overall, ...

Springer2013

A first top partner hunter's guide

Riccardo Rattazzi, Andrea Wulzer, Andrea De Simone

We provide a systematic effective lagrangian description of the phenomenology of the lightest top-partners in composite Higgs models. Our construction is based on symmetry, on selection rules and on plausible dynamical assumptions. The structure of the res ...

Springer2013

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