Multidimensional intermittency study of target fragments at CERN SPS energies
An investigation on the presence of ring and jet-like structures is carried out in the angular emission of target-evaporated slow particles emitted in 16 O–Ag/Br interactions at 60 A GeV/c and 32 S–Ag/Br interactions at 200 A GeV/c. The nuclear emulsion technique was employed to collect the experimental data. We compared our experimental results with those obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. The analysis indicates the presence of ring and jet-like structures in the experimental data beyond the statistical noise. The presence of ring-like structure is fairly pronounced in 16 O–Ag/Br interactions compared to 32 S–Ag/Br interactions and jet-like structure is more distinct in 32 S. One dimensional (1d) intermittency for ring-like structures and two dimensional (2d) intermittency for jet-like structures are expected. The self-affine behavior of 2d scaled factorial moments (SFM) were investigated and the strength of 2d intermittency was determined. For each set of data, the 2d results were compared with the corresponding one-dimensional (1d) intermittency results. The strength in 2d is significantly greater than 1d for 32 S–Ag/Br interactions whereas for 16 O–Ag/Br interactions 1d is greater than 2d. This is also a sign of predominance of jets in 32 S–Ag/Br and the rings in 16 O–Ag/Br interactions.

title: Evidence of different reaction mechanisms for hot and cold events in relativistic heavy-ion interaction
abstract: This paper reports evidence of different reaction mechanisms for two classes of events, ''hot,'' and ''cold,'' in /sup 12/C emulsion at 4.5 (GeV/c)/N observed by Ghosh et al., from a comparison of the transverse-momentum (P/sub T/) distribution with a mixture of two Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions with different temperatures. The hypothesis is substantiated by the significant difference, for ''hot'' and ''cold'' events, in the values of the average number of pions produced, average emission angle of ..cap alpha..-projectile fragments, and ratio of yield of ..cap alpha.. particles to protons as projectile fragments.

title: MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTION AND MULTIPLICITY MOMENT OF BLACK AND GREY PARTICLES IN HIGH ENERGY NUCLEUS–NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS
abstract: In this paper we have studied the multiplicity distribution of black and grey particles emitted from 16O–AgBr interactions at 2.1 AGeV and 60 AGeV. We have also calculated the multiplicity moment up to the fifth order for both the interactions and for both kinds of emitted particles. The variation of multiplicity moment with the order number has been investigated. It is seen that in the case of black particles multiplicity moment up to fourth order remains almost constant as energy increases from 2.1 AGeV to 60 AGeV. Fifth order multiplicity moment increases insignificantly with energy. However in the case of grey particles no such constancy of multiplicity moment with energy of the projectile beam is obtained. Later we have extended our study on the basis of Regge–Mueller approach to find the existence of second order correlation during the emission of black as well as the grey particles. The second Mueller moment is found to be positive and it increases as energy increases in the case of black particles. On the contrary in the case of grey particles the second Mueller moment decreases with energy. It can be concluded that as energy increases correlation among the black particles increases. On the other hand with the increase of energy correlation among the grey particles is found to diminish.

title: Multiplicity fluctuations of pions and protons at SPS energy — An in-depth analysis with factorial correlator
abstract: We compute the factorial correlators to study the dynamical fluctuations of pions and a combination of pions and protons (compound multiplicity) in 32S-AgBr interactions at 200 A GeV. The study reveals that for both pion and compound multiplicity the correlated moments increase with the decrease in bin-bin separation D, following a power-law, which suggests the self-similarity of multiplicity fluctuation in each case. The results of the analysis also show a consistency with the prediction of α-model for the existence of intermittency in both cases.

title: Entropy scaling in high-energy nucleus–nucleus interactions
abstract: We studied the multiparticle production in high-energy nucleus–nucleus interactions in terms of particle entropy in 16O–AgBr and 32S–AgBr interactions at 60 A GeV and 200 A GeV, respectively. An approximate scaling behavior of total produced entropy normalized to maximum rapidity in the center of mass frame measured in different rapidity bins has been reported. The scaling behavior is not supported either by the FRITIOF model or by the Monte Carlo simulated events.

title: NON-STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS OF PIONS FOR RING- AND JET-LIKE EVENTS AT CERN SPS ENERGY — AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS WITH FACTORIAL CORRELATOR
abstract: This study reveals the analysis of ring-like and jet-like events in terms of factorial correlations of 16O–Ag/Br interactions at 60A GeV. The investigation revealed that the correlated moments are found to increase with decreasing bin–bin separation D and follows a power-law which suggests the presence of an intermittent nature of self-similar dynamical fluctuations pattern for ring-like and jet-like events. From the analysis we find that for jet-like events the strength of non-statistical fluctuation is greater than the ring-like and total event set. Jet-like events follow the bin size independence according to α model of intermittency as like total events, whereas ring-like events are not consistent with the prediction of α model of intermittency.

title: Dijet signals of the little Higgs model with T-parity
abstract: A bstractThe Littest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT), apart from offering a viable solution to the naturalness problem of the Standard Model, also predicts a set of new fermions as well as a candidate for dark matter. We explore the possibility of discovering the heavy T-odd quark QH at the LHC in a final state comprising two hard jets with a large missing transverse momentum. Also discussed is the role of heavy flavor tagging.

title: LHC signals of T-odd heavy quarks in the Littlest Higgs model
abstract: Recently proposed Little Higgs models present a viable solution to the naturalness problem of the Standard Model. An additional discrete symmetry, called T-parity, has been included in the simplest Little Higgs models to evade the constraints arising from electroweak precision data. The Littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT) not only predicts a set of new fermions in addition to the heavy gauge bosons of the original Little Higgs model, but also provides a new candidate for dark matter. In this paper, we study two particularly interesting signatures of T-odd fermion pair production at the LHC, namely, (a) jj+l+l−+ and (b) jj+b+l±+. Using a parton level Monte Carlo event generator, we evaluate both the signal as well as the standard model background profile for a selected set of model parameters thereby developing a good discriminator. Finally, we scan the parameter space and delineate the possible discovery region in the same.

title: Single electron signal from anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking at a future linear collider
abstract: Understanding how Supersymmetry (SUSY) breaks in the real world from a deeper, more fundamental standpoint is a major challenge in theoretical high energy physics today. An interesting recent idea in this direction has been that of Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking (AMSB)  – . AMSB occurs when, in a higher dimension, one has a Supergravity theory defined on two separated parallel 3-branes (3+1 dimensional subspaces) in a way that the Standard Model (SM) particles are localized on one of these while the SUSY breaking sector is localized on the other. There are no tree-level couplings between these two branes. Gravity propagates in the bulk and the breakdown of SUSY is communicated from the hidden sector to the visible one through the loopinduced super-Weyl anomaly. In the absence of tree-level interactions between the two 3-branes, this is the dominant contribution to the soft SUSY breaking parameters. All the masses (of gauginos and scalars) generated through this mechanism are proportional to the corresponding gauge coupling strengths. In fact, these masses become renormalization group invariant with slepton becoming tachyonic. The latter fact is the most severe problem in the AMSB scenario and there are several proposals in the literature to solve it. We shall focus here on the minimal  model of AMSB where the problem of tachyonic sleptons is tackled by adding a universal constant term m 0 to the expressions for squared scalar masses, i.e., m 2 0 contributes equally to the squared masses of all scalars present in the theory. One can now solve the tachyonic slepton problem through a suitably chosen m 0 making all squared slepton masses positive, the scale invariance of the expressions for scalar masses being lost. The evolution of scalar masses governed by the corresponding Renormalization Group Equations (RGEs), starting from a very high energy scale, must therefore be taken into account. However, except for the addition of an extra parameter, this is quite a feasible procedure. This model is characterized by several distinct features with important phenomenological consequences: a rather massive gravitino (∼ a few TeV) and nearly mass-degenerate left and right selectrons and smuons, while the staus split into two distinct mass eigenstates with the τ1 being the lightest charged slepton. Most importantly, the model has gauginomasses proportional to the β-functions of the gauge couplings. The latter lead to the existence of a neutral near-Wino as the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) χ 1 and closely mass-degenerate with it a pair of charged near-Winos as the lighter charginos χ± 1 . A tiny mass difference ∆M (< 1 GeV) arises between them from loop corrections and a weak gaugino-higgsino mixing at the tree level. Because of the

title: Implications of the 98 GeV and 125 GeV Higgs scenarios in nondecoupling supersymmetry with updated ATLAS, CMS, and PLANCK data
abstract: We discuss both MSSM and NMSSM scenarios in which the lightest Higgs boson with $m_h=98$~GeV is consistent with the small excess ($\sim 2.3 \sigma$) observed at the LEP in $e^+ e^-\rightarrow Zh$, with $h \rightarrow b {\bar b}$ process and the heavier Higgs boson of mass close to 125~GeV as the observed candidate of the SM Higgs like particle at the LHC. We show the allowed regions in the non-decoupling Higgs zone of MSSM parameter space which are consistent with several low energy constraints coming from heavy flavour physics, latest experimental data on Higgs signals and lower limit on superparticle masses from 7~TeV and 8~TeV LHC run. We also implement the constraints from the relic density of the cold dark matter as obtained from the recent PLANCK data. Additionally, we discuss the possibility of observing the light Higgs boson of mass 98~GeV at the 14~TeV LHC run via $pp \rightarrow V h$, with $h \rightarrow b \bar b$ using the technique of jet substructure. Our analysis shows that at 14~TeV LHC run with 300 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$ luminosity the signal efficiency of such a light Higgs boson is at most 2.5$\sigma$. Finally, we make a comment on the prospect of proposed $e^+ e^-$ ILC to discover/exclude this light Higgs boson.

title: CP violating SUSY effects in Penguin dominated modes B -> PHI K and B -> PHI K*
abstract: Recent measurement of time dependent asymmetries in $B \to \phi K$ are indicative of a new source of CP violation. We examine squark mixing in SUSY as this new source, and using QCD improved factorization method to describe $B \to \phi K $ decay, find the allowed range of parameter space for $\rho$ and $\psi $, the magnitude and phase of the down type LR(RL) squark mixing parameter $\delta^{bs}_{LR(RL)}$. We then study $B \to \phi K^{*}$ and calculate the expected CP asymmetries in the same range of parameter space. We find that this asymmetry is in the range 15% to $20% $ for acceptable value of $B \to phi K^{*}$ branching ratio. We also predict the helicity dependent CP asymmetries in the same parameter space.