Proton decay with a light gravitino or axino
We consider proton decay in supersymmetric models with a gravitino or axino lighter than the proton. This consideration leads to a stringent limit on the R-parity and B-violating Yukawa coupling of the superpotential operator U{sub i}{sup c}D{sub j}{sup c}D{sub k}{sup c} as {lambda}{sub 112}{sup {double_prime}}{le}10{sup {minus}15}(m{sub 3/2}/eV) for a light gravitino, and {lambda}{sub 112}{sup {double_prime}}{le}10{sup {minus}15}(F{sub a}/10{sup 10} GeV) for a light Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskii axino. For the hadronic axino, the constraint is weakened by a factor of 10{sup 3}.  {ital The American Physical Society}

title: CPsuperH2.3: An updated tool for phenomenology in the MSSM with explicit CP violation
abstract: We describe the Fortran code CPsuperH2.3 , which incorporates the following updates compared with its predecessor CPsuperH2.0 . It implements improved calculations of the Higgs-boson masses and mixing including stau contributions and finite threshold effects on the tau-lepton Yukawa coupling. It incorporates the LEP limits on the processes e + e − → H i Z , H i H j and the CMS limits on H i → τ τ obtained from 4.6 fb − 1 of data at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. It also includes the decay mode H i → Z γ and the Schiff-moment contributions to the electric dipole moments of Mercury and Radium 225, with several calculational options for the case of Mercury. These additions make CPsuperH2.3 a suitable tool for analyzing possible CP-violating effects in the MSSM in the era of the LHC and a new generation of EDM experiments. 1  CPsuperH2.3 Catalogue identifier: ADSR_v3_0  http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/ADSR_v3_0.html  CPC Program Library, Queen’s University, Belfast, N. Ireland  Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc. tar.gz  Fortran77.  PC running under Linux and computers in Unix environment.  Linux.   Yes Catalogue identifier of previous version: ADSR_v2_0   The calculations of mass spectrum, decay widths and branching ratios of the neutral and charged Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with explicit CP violation have been improved. The program is based on renormalization-group-improved diagrammatic calculations that include dominant higher-order logarithmic and threshold corrections, b -quark and τ -lepton Yukawa-coupling resummation effects and improved treatment of Higgs-boson pole-mass shifts. The couplings of the Higgs bosons to the Standard Model gauge bosons and fermions, to their supersymmetric partners and all the trilinear and quartic Higgs-boson self-couplings are also calculated. Also included are a full treatment of the 4×4 (2×2) neutral (charged) Higgs propagator matrix together with the center-of-mass dependent Higgs-boson couplings to gluons and photons, and an integrated treatment of several B-meson observables. The new implementations include the EDMs of Thallium, neutron, Mercury, Deuteron, Radium, and muon, as well as the anomalous magnetic moment of muon, ( g μ − 2 ), the top-quark decays, improved calculations of the Higgs-boson masses and mixing including stau contributions, the LEP limits, and the CMS limits on H i → τ τ . It also implements the decay mode H i → Z γ and includes the corresponding Standard Model branching ratios of the three neutral Higgs bosons in the array GAMBRN(IM,IWB = 2,IH) .  One-dimensional numerical integration for several Higgs-decay modes and EDMs, iterative treatment of the threshold corrections and Higgs-boson pole masses, and the numerical diagonalization of the neutralino mass matrix.  Mainly to provide the full calculations of the EDMs of Thallium, neutron, Mercury, Deuteron, Radium, and muon as well as ( g μ − 2 ) , improved calculations of the Higgs-boson masses and mixing including stau contributions, the LEP limits, the CMS limits on H i → τ τ , the top-quark decays, H i → Z γ decay, and the corresponding Standard Model branching ratios of the three neutral Higgs bosons.  Full calculations of the EDMs of Thallium, neutron, Mercury, Deuteron, Radium, and muon as well as ( g μ − 2 ) . Improved treatment of Higgs-boson masses and mixing including stau contributions. The LEP limits. The CMS limits on H i → τ τ . The top-quark decays. The H i → Z γ decay. The corresponding Standard Model branching ratios of the three neutral Higgs bosons.  Less than 1.0 s.

title: A geometric approach to CP violation: applications to the MCPMFV SUSY model
abstract: We analyze the constraints imposed by experimental upper limits on electric dipole moments (EDMs) within the Maximally CP -and Minimally Flavour-Violating (MCPMFV) version of the MSSM. Since the MCPMFV scenario has 6 non-standard CP -violating phases, in addition to the CP -odd QCD vacuum phase θQCD, cancellations may occur among the CP -violating contributions to the three measured EDMs, those of 205Tl, the neutron and 199Hg, leaving open the possibility of relatively large values of the other CP -violating observables. We develop a novel geometric method that uses the small-phase approximation as a starting point, takes the existing EDM constraints into account, and enables us to find maximal values of other CP -violating observables, such as the EDMs of the Deuteron and muon, the CP -violating asymmetry in b→sγ decay, and the B s mixing phase. We apply this geometric method to provide upper limits on these observables within specific benchmark supersymmetric scenarios, including extensions that allow for a non-zero θQCD.

title: Remarks on the upper bounds on the Higgs boson mass from triviality.
abstract: We study the effects of the one-loop matching conditions on Higgs boson and top quark masses on the triviality bounds on the Higgs boson mass using {beta}{sub {lambda}} with corrected two-loop coefficients. We obtain quite higher results than previous ones and observe that the triviality bounds are not nearly influenced by varying the top quark mass over the range measured at CDF and D0. The effects of typographical errors in {beta}{sub {lambda}}{sup (2)} and the one-loop matching condition on the top quark mass are negligible. We estimate the size of the effects on the triviality bounds from the one-loop matching condition on the Higgs boson mass. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.

title: COMPOSITE OPERATORS AND TOPOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN GAUGE THEORY
abstract: In D-dimensional gauge theory with a kinetic term based on p-form tensor gauge field, we introduce a gauge-invariant operator associated with the composite form from an electric (p - 1)-brane and a magnetic (q - 1)-brane in D = p + q + 1 space–time dimensions. By evaluating the partition function of this operator, we show that the expectation value of this operator gives rise to the topological contributions identical to those in gauge theory with a topological Chern–Simons BF term.

title: Fragmentation functions for lepton pairs
abstract: We calculate the fragmentation function for a light quark to decay into a lepton pair to leading order in the QCD coupling constant. In the formal definition of the fragmentation function, a QED phase must be included in the eikonal factor to guarantee QED gauge invariance. We find that the longitudinal polarization fraction is a decreasing function of the factorization scale, in accord with the intuitive expectation that the virtual photon should behave more and more like a real photon as the transverse momentum of the fragmenting quark increases.

title: Higher-order relativistic corrections to gluon fragmentation into spin-triplet S-wave quarkonium
abstract: A bstractWe compute the relative-order-v4 contribution to gluon fragmentation into quarkonium in the $ ^3{S_1} $ color-singlet channel, using the nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization approach. The QCD fragmentation process contains infrared divergences that produce single and double poles in ∈ in 4 − 2∈ dimensions. We devise subtractions that isolate the pole contributions, which ultimately are absorbed into long-distance NRQCD matrix elements in the NRQCD matching procedure. The matching procedure involves two-loop renormalizations of the NRQCD operators. The subtractions are integrated over the phase space analytically in 4 − 2∈ dimensions, and the remainder is integrated over the phase-space numerically. We find that the order-v4 contribution is enhanced relative to the order-v0 contribution. However, the order-v4 contribution is not important numerically at the current level of precision of quarkonium-hadroproduction phenomenology. We also estimate the contribution to hadroproduction from gluon fragmentation into quarkonium in the $ ^3{P_J} $ color-octet channel and find that it is significant in comparison to the complete next-to-leading-order-in-αs contribution in that channel.

title: Gaugino masses from gravitino at one loop
abstract: The N=1 supergravity coupled to chiral and Yang-Mills superfields is regarded as the ultraviolet theory of the supersymmetric Standard Model. The gravitino acquires a mass from the hidden sector and participate in mediating supersymmetry breaking to the visible sector. We consider the quantum effects of the gravitino and evaluate its contribution to the gaugino masses at one loop level, which turns out to be irrespective of the SM gauge couplings. Due to the universality of gravitino, its contribution to the gaugino masses can significantly modify the gaugino mass relations of other supersymmetry breaking mechanisms depending on the gravitino mass. For a given gaugino mass the gravitino mass cannot be arbitrarily large even when other supersymmetry breaking mechanisms are dominant.

title: Search for neutrinoless tau decays: tau ---> e gamma and tau ---> mu gamma
abstract: A search for the lepton family number violating decays {tau} {yields} e{gamma} and {tau} {yields} {mu}{gamma} has been performed using CLEO-II data. No evidence of a signal has been found and the corresponding upper limits are B({tau} {yields} e{gamma}) < 2.7 x 10{sup -6} and B({tau} {yields} {mu}{gamma}) < 3.0 c 10{sup -6} at 90% CL.