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Frustration- induced plateaus in S >= 1/2 Heisenberg spin ladders

Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana, Jean-David Picon, Tommaso Coletta, Frédéric Alexis Michaud

We study the T=0 magnetization of frustrated two-leg spin ladders with arbitrary value of the spin S. In the strong-rung limit, we use degenerate perturbation theory to prove that frustration leads to magnetization plateaus at fractional values of the magn ...

2010

Effects of heavy modes on vacuum stability in supersymmetric theories

Claudio Scrucca, Leonardo Brizi

We study the effects induced by heavy fields on the masses of light fields in supersymmetric theories, under the assumption that the heavy mass scale is much higher than the supersymmetry breaking scale. We show that the square-masses of light scalar field ...

2010

CDMS stands for Constrained Dark Matter Singlet

Duccio Pappadopulo

Motivated by the two candidate Dark Matter events observed by the CDMS experiment, we consider a Constrained Dark Matter Singlet (CDMS) model that, with no free parameters, predicts the DM mass and the DM direct cross section to be in the range weakly favo ...

2010

Cosmology versus standard model

I will discuss a proposal for a unified solution of the problems of neutrino masses, dark matter, baryon asymmetry of the Universe and inflation, which does not require introduction of any new energy scale besides already known, namely the electroweak and ...

2010

Comment on "Strong coupling in extended Horava-Lifshitz gravity" [Phys. Lett. B 685 (2010) 197]

Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino

We show that, contrary to the claim made in arXiv:0911.1299, the extended Horava gravity model proposed in arXiv:0909.3525 does not suffer from a strong coupling problem. By studying the observational constraints on the model we determine the bounds on the ...

2010

Neutrino Mass Seesaw at the Weak Scale, the Baryon Asymmetry, and the LHC

Steve Blanchet

We consider theories where the Standard Model (SM) neutrinos acquire masses through the seesaw mechanism at the weak scale. We show that in such a scenario, the requirement that any pre-existing baryon asymmetry, regardless of its origin, not be washed out ...

2009

One light composite Higgs boson facing electroweak precision tests

Marc Gillioz

We study analytically and numerically the bounds imposed by the electroweak precision tests on a minimal composite Higgs model. The model is based on spontaneous SO(5) -> SO(4) breaking, so that an approximate custodial symmetry is preserved. The Higgs ari ...

2009

Gauge boson mass generation in AdS(4)

Riccardo Rattazzi

We investigate the role of boundary conditions in gauge theories in AdS(4). The presence of the boundary can break the gauge symmetry consistently with AdS(4) isometries. We show that, as a consequence, the gauge bosons associated to the broken symmetries ...

2009

Gaugino mass in AdS space

Riccardo Rattazzi, Claudio Scrucca

We study supersymmetric QED in AdS(4) with massless matter. At 1-loop the ultra-violet regulator of the theory generates a contribution to the gaugino mass that is naively inconsistent with unbroken supersymmetry. We show that this effect, known in flat sp ...

2009

On the Role of Low-Energy CP Violation in Leptogenesis

Steve Blanchet

The link between low-energy CP violation and leptogenesis became more accessible with the understanding of flavor effects. However, a definite well-motivated model where such a link occurs was still lacking. Adjoint SU(5) is a simple grand unified theory w ...

2008

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