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Large arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), open at one end, could be used as target material for the directional detection of weakly interacting dark matter particles (WIMPs). As a result of a WIMP elastic scattering on a CNT, a carbon ion might be injected in the body of the array and propagate through multiple collisions within the lattice. The ion may eventually emerge from the surface with open end CNTs, provided that its longitudinal momentum is large enough to compensate energy losses and its transverse momentum approaches the channeling conditions in a single CNT. Therefore, the angle formed between the WIMP wind apparent orientation and the direction of parallel carbon nanotube axes must be properly chosen. We focus on very low ion recoil kinetic energies, related to low mass WIMPs ([Formula: see text] GeV) where most of the existing experiments have low sensitivity. Relying on some exact results on two-dimensional lattices of circular obstacles, we study the low energy ion motion in the transverse plane with respect to CNT directions. New constraints are obtained on how to devise the CNT arrays to maximize the target channeling efficiency.
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We analyze the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model that we have after the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, the hMSSM (habemus MSSM?), i.e. a model in which the lighter h boson has a mass of approximately 125 GeV which, together with the non-observation of superparticles at the LHC, indicates that the SUSY-breaking scale MS is rather high, MS â³1 TeV. We first demonstrate that the value Mh ≈125 GeV fixes the dominant radiative corrections that enter the MSSM Higgs boson masses, leading to a Higgs sector that can be described, to a good approximation, by only two free parameters. In a second step, we consider the direct supersymmetric radiative corrections and show that, to a good approximation, the phenomenology of the lighter Higgs state can be described by its mass and three couplings: those to massive gauge bosons and to top and bottom quarks. We perform a fit of these couplings using the latest LHC data on the production and decay rates of the light h boson and combine it with the limits from the negative search of the heavier H,A and H± states, taking into account the current uncertainties.
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We reanalyze the published data on the Y(4630)-->Lambda(c) Lambda(c) and the Y(4660)-->psi(2S)pi pi with a consistent ansatz and we find that the two observations are likely to be due to the same state Y(B), produced via initial state radiation (ISR), with M(Y(B))=4660.7+/-8.7 MeV and Gamma(Y(B))=61+/-23 MeV. Under this hypothesis and reanalyzing the e+e- -->J/psi pi pi gamma(ISR) spectrum we find B(Y(B))-->Lambda(c) Lambda(c))/B(Y(B))-->psi(2S)pi pi)=117+/-44, B(Y(B))-->J/psi pi pi)/B(Y(B))-->psi(2S)pi pi)<0.46@90% C.L., B(Y(4350)-->J/psi pi pi)/B(Y(4350)-->psi(2S)pi pi)<3.4x10(-3)@90% C.L., and B(Y(B))-->psi(2S)sigma)/B(Y(B))-->psi(2S)f0)=2.0+/-0.3. These conclusions strongly support the hypothesis of Y(B) being the first observation of a charmed baryonium constituted by four quarks. Analyzing the mass spectrum we show that Y(4350) and Y(B) are, respectively, consistent with the ground state and first radial excitation of the l=1 state.
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The X(3872) is universally accepted to be an exotic hadron. In this Letter, we assume that the X(3872) is a D(0)D(*0) molecule, as claimed by many authors, and attempt an estimate of its prompt production cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron. A comparison with Collider Detector at Fermilab data allows us to draw rather compelling quantitative conclusions about this statement.
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Recent results by Belle and BABAR point to the existence of a second X particle decaying in D(0)D(0)pi(0), a few MeV above the X(3872). We identify the two X states with the neutral particles predicted by the four-quark model and show that production and decays are consistent with this assignment. We consider the yet-to-be-observed charged partners and give new hints on how to look for them.
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Light scalar mesons are found to fit rather well a diquark-antidiquark description. The resulting nonet obeys mass formulas which respect, to a good extent, the Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule. OZI allowed strong decays are reasonably reproduced by a single amplitude describing the switch of a qq pair, which transforms the state into two colorless pseudoscalar mesons. Predicted heavy states with one or more quarks replaced by charm or beauty are briefly described; they should give rise to narrow states with exotic quantum numbers.
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It is discussed how the equilibrium properties of the Ising model are described by an Hamiltonian with an antiferromagnetic low temperature behavior if only an heat bath dynamics, with the characteristics of a Probabilistic cellular automaton, is assumed to determine the temporal evolution of the system.
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We point out that a new contribution to B decays to three pions is relevant in explaining recent data from the CLEO and BABAR Collaborations, in particular, the results on quasi-two-body decays via a rho meson. We also discuss the relevance of these contributions to the measurement of CP violations.
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We describe the multiresolution wavelet analysis of blood pressure waves in vasovagal syncope-affected patients compared with those in healthy people, using Haar and Gaussian bases. A comparison between scale-dependent and scale-independent measures discriminating the two classes of subjects is made. What emerges is a sort of equivalence between these two methodological approaches, that is, both methods reach the same statistical significance of separation between the two classes.
