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hep-ph2000★ 154 cited

H-->WW as the discovery mode for a light Higgs boson

N. Kauer, T. Plehn, D. Rainwater +1

The production cross section for a m_H=115 GeV, SM Higgs boson in weak boson fusion at the LHC is sizable. However, the branching fraction for H-->WW is expected to be relatively s…

hep-ph2000★ 55 cited

Standard Model Neutrinos as Warm Dark Matter

Gian F. Giudice, Edward W. Kolb, Antonio Riotto +2

Standard Model neutrinos are not usually considered plausible dark matter candidates because the usual treatment of their decoupling in the early universe implies that their mass m…

hep-ph2000★ 48 cited

Power counting and effective field theory for charmonium

Sean Fleming, Adam K. Leibovich, I. Z. Rothstein

We hypothesize that the correct power counting for charmonia is in the parameter Lambda_QCD/m_c, but is not based purely on dimensional analysis (as is HQET). This power counting l…

hep-ph2000

Can we distinguish an MSSM Higgs from a SM Higgs at a Linear Collider?

Heather E. Logan

We study the prospects for distinguishing the CP-even Higgs boson of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) from the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson by m…

hep-ph2000★ 176 cited

Supersymmetric CP-violating Currents and Electroweak Baryogenesis

M. Carena, J. M. Moreno, M. Quiros +2

In this work we compute the CP-violating currents of the right-handed stops and Higgsinos, induced by the presence of non-trivial vacuum expectation values of the Higgs fields with…

hep-ph2000★ 224 cited

In Pursuit of New Physics with B_s Decays

Isard Dunietz, Robert Fleischer, Ulrich Nierste

The presence of a sizeable CP-violating phase in B_s^0-B_s^0-bar mixing would be an unambiguous signal of physics beyond the Standard Model. We analyse various possibilities to det…

hep-ph2000★ 67 cited

Exploring Neutrino Oscillations with Superbeams

V. Barger, S. Geer, R. Raja +1

We consider the medium- and long-baseline oscillation physics capabilities of intense muon-neutrino and muon-antineutrino beams produced using future upgraded megawatt-scale high-e…

hep-ph2000★ 41 cited

Constraints on ultraviolet-stable fixed points in supersymmetric gauge theories

Stephen P. Martin, James D. Wells

We consider the possibility that some supersymmetric gauge theories which are not asymptotically free can be governed by ultraviolet-stable fixed points. If this scenario can be re…

hep-ph2000★ 60 cited

Neutrino Masses and Mixing in Brane-World Theories

Andre Lukas, Pierre Ramond, Andrea Romanino +1

We present a comprehensive study of five-dimensional brane-world models for neutrino physics based on flat compactifications. Particular emphasis is put on the inclusion of bulk ma…

hep-ph2000★ 57 cited

Optimizing T-violating Effects for Neutrino Oscillations in Matter

Stephen J. Parke, Thomas J. Weiler

Matter effects may strongly enhance the Jarlskog factor J in T and CP-violating three-neutrino oscillation probabilities. However, we show that when J is enhanced, the same matter…

hep-ph2000★ 24 cited

Cosmological Constraints on Bulk Neutrinos

Kevork Abazajian, George M. Fuller, Mitesh Patel

Recent models invoking extra spacelike dimensions inhabited by (bulk) neutrinos are shown to have significant cosmological effects if the size of the largest extra dimension is R >…

hep-ph2000★ 14 cited

Probing Neutral Gauge Boson Self-interactions in ZZ Production at the Tevatron

U. Baur, D. Rainwater

We present an analysis of ZZ production at the upgraded Fermilab Tevatron for general ZZZ and ZZ-gamma couplings. Achievable limits on these couplings are shown to be a significant…

hep-ph2000

Neutrino Oscillation Scenarios and GUT Model Predictions

Carl H. Albright

The present experimental situation regarding neutrino oscillations is first summarized, followed by an overview of selected grand unified models which have been proposed to explain…

hep-ph2000★ 321 cited

b -> s γand supersymmetry with large tanβ

M. Carena, D. Garcia, U. Nierste +1

We discuss the constraints on the supersymmetric parameter space from the decay mode b -> s γfor large values of tanβ. We improve the theoretical prediction for the decay rate by s…

hep-ph2000★ 5 cited

Gravi-Burst: Super-GZK Cosmic Rays from Localized Gravity

H. Davoudiasl, J. L. Hewett, T. G. Rizzo

The flux of cosmic rays beyond the GZK cutoff ( eV) may be explained through their production by ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos, annihilating on the relic neutrin…

hep-ph2000★ 173 cited

Signals for Non-Commutative Interactions at Linear Colliders

J. L. Hewett, F. J. Petriello, T. G. Rizzo

Recent theoretical results have demonstrated that non-commutative geometries naturally appear within the context of string/M-theory. One consequence of this possibility is that QED…

hep-ph2000★ 3 cited

Searching for the Higgs Boson at Hadron Colliders using the Missing Mass Method

M. G. Albrow, A. Rostovtsev

If the Higgs is produced with a large enough cross section in the {\em exclusive} reaction it will give rise to a peak at in the {\em missin…

hep-ph2000★ 180 cited

CP-Violating MSSM Higgs Bosons in the Light of LEP 2

M. Carena, J. Ellis, A. Pilaftsis +1

In the MSSM, the CP parities of the neutral Higgs bosons may be mixed by radiative effects induced by explicit CP violation in the third generation of squarks. To allow for this po…

hep-ph2000★ 2 cited

Hadronic Decays of Excited Heavy Mesons

Massimo Di Pierro, Estia Eichten

We studied the hadronic decays of excited states of heavy mesons (D, D_s, B and B_s) to lighter states by emission of pi, eta or K. Wavefunctions and energy levels of these excited…

hep-ph2000★ 13 cited

Semileptonic form factors - a model-independent approach

T. Coleman, M. G. Olsson, S. Veseli

We demonstrate that the B->D(*) l nu form factors can be accurately predicted given the slope parameter rho^2 of the Isgur-Wise function. Only weak assumptions, consistent with lat…

hep-ph2000★ 11 cited

Probing Light Sbottoms with B Decays

Ulrich Nierste, Tilman Plehn

We discuss recently reported experimental hints for a bottom squark with mass around 3.5 GeV decaying as sbottom -> charm + lepton + anti-sneutrino. We correlate the sbottom lifeti…

hep-ph2000★ 172 cited

Light Axion within the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Konstantin T. Matchev

We analyze the Higgs sector in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, emphasizing the possibility of a light CP-odd scalar (axion) in the spectrum. We compute the coupl…

hep-ph2000★ 247 cited

Improved Methods for Observing CP Violation in B+/- --> K+/- D0 and Measuring the CKM Phase gamma

David Atwood, Isard Dunietz, Amarjit Soni

Various methods are discussed for obtaining the CKM angle gamma through the interference of the charged B-meson decay channels B- -> K- D0 and B- -> K- D0-bar where the D0 and D0-b…

hep-ph2000★ 44 cited

Do electroweak precision data and Higgs-mass constraints rule out a scalar bottom quark with mass of O(5 GeV)?

M. Carena, S. Heinemeyer, C. E. M. Wagner +1

We investigate the phenomenological implications of a light scalar bottom quark, with a mass of about the bottom quark mass, within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. The s…