Invisible decays of Higgs and other mesons in models with singlet neutrinos in large extra dimensions
In light of current atmospheric neutrino oscillation data, we revisit the invisible decay of the standard model Higgs boson and other pseudoscalar mesons which can be enhanced because of large number of KK modes in models with right-handed singlet neutrinos in large extra dimensions. We find that the invisible decay rate of Higgs can be as large as H→b b decay rate only for a very restricted region of parameter space. This parameter space is even further restricted if one demands that the dimensionless neutrino Yukawa coupling λ is O (1). We have also studied the scenarios where singlet neutrino propagate in a sub-space, which lowers the string scale M ∗ and keeps neutrino Yukawa coupling O (1). We have also considered decays of other spin-0 mesons to ν ν and found the rates to be too small for measurement.

title: Higgs production in association with top quark pair at e+e− colliders in theories of higher dimensional gravity
abstract: Models with large extra compact dimensions predict exciting phenomenological consequences with gravitational interactions becoming strong at the TeV scale. Such theories can be tested at the existing and future colliders. In this paper, we study the contribution of virtual Kaluza-Klein excitations in the process e + e - →ttH at a future linear collider. The exchange of virtual KK gravitons is found to modify the cross-section σ(e + e - →ttH) from its Standard Model value to a very significant extent. The consequent sensitivity to the effective string scale M S depends (weakly) on the number of extra-dimensions n and (strongly) on the center-of-mass energy of the collider. For n = 3, M S ⋍ 920 GeV (8 TeV) could be probed at machines working at √s = 500 GeV (3 TeV). More importantly, this process can serve to distinguish such models from other sources of new physics.

title: Constraining anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking framework via ongoing muon g − 2 experiment at Brookhaven
abstract: The ongoing high precision E821 Brookhaven National Laboratory experiment on muon $g\ensuremath{-}2$ is promising to probe a theory involving supersymmetry. We have studied the constraints on the minimal anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB) model using the current data of muon $g\ensuremath{-}2$ from Brookhaven. A scenario of seeing no deviation from the standard model is also considered, within a $2\ensuremath{\sigma}$ limit of the combined error from the standard model result and the Brookhaven predicted uncertainty level. The resulting constraint is found to be complementary to what one obtains from $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{b}s+\ensuremath{\gamma}$ bounds within the AMSB scenario, since only a definite sign of $\ensuremath{\mu}$ is effectively probed via $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{b}s+\ensuremath{\gamma}.$ A few relevant generic features of the model are also described for disallowed regions of parameter space.

title: Triplet Higgs boson at hadron colliders
abstract: The novel feature of a Higgs-triplet representation is a nonzero tree-level coupling of H+W −Z, which is absent in all Higgs-doublet models. We study the associated production of a singly-charged Higgs boson of the Higgs-triplet representation with a W or Z boson at hadron colliders, followed by the H+→W+Z decay. We find that the 2l+4j final state gives an interesting level of signal with a negligible background, plus it allows a full mass reconstruction of the charged-Higgs boson. The cover range of the charged-Higgs mass is between 110 and 200 GeV.

title: Signatures of noncommutative QED at photon colliders
abstract: In this paper we study non-commutative (NC) QED signatures at photon colliders through pair production of charged leptons(l + l ) and charged scalars(H + H ). The NC corrections for the fermion pair production can be easily obtained since NC QED with fermions has been extensively studied in the literature. NC QED with scalars is less studied. To obtain the cross section for H + H productions, we first investigate the structure of NC QED with scalars, and then study the corrections due to the NC geometry to the ordinary QED cross sections. Finally by folding in the photon spectra for a γγ collider with laser back-scattered photons from the e + e machine, we obtain 95% CL lower bound on the NC scale using the above two processes. We find that, with √ s = 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 TeV and integrated luminosity L = 500(fb 1 ), the NC scale up to 0.7, 1.2, and 1.6 TeV can be probed, respectively, while, for monochromatic photon beams, these numbers become 1.1, 1.7, 2.6 TeV, respectively.

title: Study of single sneutrino production in association with fermion pairs at polarized photon colliders
abstract: We investigate single sneutrino production in the context of R-parity-violating supersymmetry at future ?? linear colliders. The sneutrino is produced in association with fermion pairs and it is shown that its decays into two further fermions will lead to a clean signal. We also discuss possible standard model backgrounds and the effects of beam polarization.

title: Characteristics of pion production in ring-like events using entropy index
abstract: The possible chaotic behaviour in production of ring like structured events and jet like structured events in 16 O-AgBr interactions at 60 AGeV with the help of a newly defined parameter, entropy index μ′q has been studied. The data reveal less chaoticity in the pionisation process of ring like events with respect to that of jet like events.

title: Quantitative estimate of pion fluctuation and its multiplicity dependence in nuclear collisions
abstract: This paper presents the results of an investigation on the multiplicity dependence of the fluctuation pattern of pions for the entire accelerator energy range from 2.1 to 200 AGeV. The data set for produced pions is divided into four sets depending on the number of shower tracks ns. Analysis is carried out in two-dimensional η– space with the Hurst exponent to take care of the anisotropy of the phase space. The Hurst exponent is extracted by fitting one-dimensional factorial moment saturation curves to Ochs' saturation formula. The values of the effective fluctuation strength α eff are estimated and multiplicity dependence is studied w.r.t. α eff and the Hurst exponent H. It is highly interesting to observe that both fluctuation strength and degree of anisotropy (characterized by H) depend on pion multiplicity. The multiplicity dependence is more pronounced at lower projectile energy. The results of the study are discussed in detail.

title: Multidimensional intermittency study of target fragments at CERN SPS energies
abstract: 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: FLUCTUATION PATTERN OF SHOWER AND COMPOUND MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN NUCLEUS–NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS AT A FEW GeV
abstract: This work presents a study on the multiplicity distribution of shower and compound multiplicity (pions + target protons) emitted from 12C–AgBr and 24Mg–AgBr interactions at 4.5 AGeV in terms of negative binomial distribution (NBD) and also on the fluctuation pattern of shower and compound multiplicity in the frame work of two-dimensional factorial moment methodology using the concept of Hurst exponent.

title: Multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis of pseudorapidity and azimuthal distribution of pions emitted in high energy nuclear collisions
abstract: In this paper multifractal analysis of fluctuation pattern of pions emitted in 32S-AgBr and 16O-AgBr interactions at 200 GeV and 60 GeV, respectively, is performed in the framework of multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDFA). The pseudorapidity and azimuthal distributions exhibit multifractal scaling properties at both energies. The variation of multifractal width with energy is also studied. The study reveals a dependence of multifractal width on energy in pseudorapidity space while no such dependence is observed in azimuthal space.