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hep-ph2004★ 51 cited

From parameter space constraints to the precision determination of the leptonic Dirac CP phase

Patrick Huber, Manfred Lindner, Walter Winter

We discuss the precision determination of the leptonic Dirac CP phase in neutrino oscillation experiments, where we apply the concept of ``CP coverage''. We demonstrate th…

hep-ph2004★ 14 cited

Combined potential of future long-baseline and reactor experiments

P. Huber, M. Lindner, M. Rolinec +2

We investigate the determination of neutrino oscillation parameters by experiments within the next ten years. The potential of conventional beam experiments (MINOS, ICARUS, OPERA),…

hep-ph2004★ 64 cited

Wilson Lines in Warped Space: Dynamical Symmetry Breaking and Restoration

Kin-ya Oda, Andreas Weiler

The dynamics of Wilson lines integrated along a warped extra dimension has been unknown. We study a five dimensional SU(N) pure gauge theory with Randall-Sundrum warped compactific…

hep-ph2004★ 12 cited

Extraction of m_s and |V_us| from Hadronic Tau Decays

Elvira Gamiz, Matthias Jamin, Antonio Pich +2

We review recent work to determine the strange quark mass m_s as well as the proposal to determine |V_{us}| using hadronic tau decay data. The recent update of the strange spectral…

hep-ph2004★ 6 cited

Dynamically Generated Resonances in the Chiral Unitary Approach to Meson Baryon Interaction

E. Oset, S. Sarkar, M. J. Vicente Vacas

In this talk we report on the use of a chiral unitary approach for the interaction of the octets of meson and baryon and the octet of mesons with the decuplet of baryons. Two octet…

hep-ph2004★ 86 cited

Earth Matter Effects at Very Long Baselines and the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

Raj Gandhi, Pomita Ghoshal, Srubabati Goswami +2

We study matter effects which arise in the muon neutrino oscillation and survival probabilities relevant to atmospheric neutrino and very long baseline beam experiments. The inter-…

hep-ph2004★ 121 cited

A Flavor Symmetry for quasi-degenerate Neutrinos: L_mu-L_tau

Sandhya Choubey, Werner Rodejohann

We consider the flavor symmetry L_mu - L_tau for the neutrino mass matrix. The most general neutrino mass matrix conserving L_mu - L_tau predicts quasi-degenerate neutrino masses w…

hep-ph2004★ 2 cited

R2D2 - a symmetric measurement of reactor neutrinos free of systematical errors

P. Huber, M. Lindner, T. Schwetz

We discuss a symmetric setup for a reactor neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of two reactors separated by about 1 km, and two symmetrically placed detectors, one close to…

hep-ph2004★ 110 cited

Kaonic hydrogen and K^- p scattering

B. Borasoy, R. Nissler, W. Weise

Chiral SU(3) effective field theory in combination with a relativistic coupled channels approach is used to perform a novel analysis of the strong interaction shift and width in ka…

hep-ph2004

CKM matrix from non-leptonic B-decays

A. Salim Safir

We analyze the impact of the forthcoming CP-violating observables in the system, combined with the precise measurement of , in the extraction of the CKM m…

hep-ph2004★ 5 cited

Can one see the number of colors in eta, eta-prime --> pi^+ pi^- gamma?

B. Borasoy, E. Lipartia

We investigate the decays eta, eta-prime --> pi^+ pi^- gamma up to next-to-leading order in the framework of the combined 1/N_c and chiral expansions. Counter terms of unnatural pa…

hep-ph2004

Lepton Flavor Violation in a Long Baseline Experiment

Toshihiko Ota, Joe Sato

We evaluate the size of a coupling for a lepton flavor violating interaction with neutrinos (nLFV) in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with right-handed neutrinos (MSSMRN)…

hep-ph2004★ 46 cited

Particle-Antiparticle Mixing, ε_K and the Unitarity Triangle in the Littlest Higgs Model

Andrzej J. Buras, Anton Poschenrieder, Selma Uhlig

We calculate the K^{0}-\bar{K}^{0}, B_{d,s}^{0}-\bar{B}_{d,s}^{0} mixing mass differences ΔM_K, ΔM_{d,s} and the CP-violating parameter ε_{K} in the Littlest Higgs (LH) model. For…

hep-ph2004★ 36 cited

B->X_s l^+l^- in the MSSM at NNLO

Christoph Bobeth, Andrzej J. Buras, Thorsten Ewerth

We present the results of the calculation of QCD corrections to the matching conditions for the Wilson coefficients of operators mediating the transition b->s l^+l^- in the context…

hep-ph2004★ 59 cited

K^+ -> pi^+ nu nu-bar and K_L -> pi^0 nu nu-bar Decays in the General MSSM

Andrzej J. Buras, Thorsten Ewerth, Sebastian Jager +1

We reanalyze the rare decays K^+ -> pi^+ nu nu-bar and K_L -> pi^0 nu nu-bar in a general MSSM with conserved R-parity. Working in the mass eigenstate basis and performing adaptive…

hep-ph2004★ 147 cited

V_us and m_s from hadronic tau decays

E. Gamiz, M. Jamin, A. Pich +2

Recent experimental results on hadronic tau decays into strange particles by the OPAL collaboration are employed to determine V_us and m_s from moments of the invariant mass distri…

hep-ph2004★ 20 cited

Waiting for the Discovery of B^0_d -> K^0 \bar K^0

Robert Fleischer, Stefan Recksiegel

The CP asymmetries of the decay B_d^0 -> K^0 \bar K^0, which originates from \bar b -> \bar d s \bar s flavour-changing neutral-current processes, and its CP-averaged branching rat…

hep-ph2004★ 720 cited

Simulation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments with GLoBES

P. Huber, M. Lindner, W. Winter

We present the GLoBES (``General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator'') software package, which allows the simulation of long-baseline and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments.…

hep-ph2004★ 38 cited

Stability of Texture Zeros under Radiative Corrections in See-Saw Models

Claudia Hagedorn, Joern Kersten, Manfred Lindner

It has been shown that only certain neutrino mass matrices with texture zeros are compatible with existing data. We discuss the stability of phenomenological consequences of textur…

hep-ph2004★ 78 cited

Precision spectroscopy with reactor anti-neutrinos

Patrick Huber, Thomas Schwetz

In this work we present an accurate parameterization of the anti-neutrino flux produced by the isotopes 235U, 239Pu and 241Pu in nuclear reactors. We determine the coefficients of…

hep-ph2004★ 47 cited

New experimental limits on violations of the Pauli exclusion principle obtained with the Borexino Counting Test Facility

Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back

The Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) has been tested for nucleons () in and nuclei, using the results of background measurements with the prototype of the Bor…

hep-ph2004★ 111 cited

Thermodynamics of two-colour QCD and the Nambu Jona-Lasinio model

C. Ratti, W. Weise

We investigate two-flavour and two-colour QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential in comparison with a corresponding Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model. By minimizing the thermo…

hep-ph2004★ 6 cited

Early SU(4)_PS x SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R x SU(2)_H Unification of Quarks and Leptons

Andrzej J. Buras, P. Q. Hung, Ngoc-Khanh Tran +2

We discuss various aspects of the early petite unification (PUT) of quarks and leptons based on the gauge group G_PUT=SU(4)_PS x SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R x SU(2)_H. This unification takes…

hep-ph2004★ 17 cited

eta, eta-prime -> pi^+ pi^- gamma with coupled channels

B. Borasoy, R. Nissler

The decays eta, eta-prime -> pi^+ pi^- gamma are investigated within an approach that combines one-loop chiral perturbation theory with a coupled channel Bethe-Salpeter equation wh…