ABC Effect in Basic Double-Pionic Fusion --- Observation of a new resonance?
P. Adlarson, C. Adolph, W. Augustyniak, V. Baru, 5 M. Bashkanov, F.S. Bergmann, M. Berłowski, H. Bhatt, K.–T. Brinkmann, M. Büscher, 11 H. Calén, H. Clement, D. Coderre, 11, 12 E. Czerwiński, ∗ E. Doroshkevich, C. Ekström, R. Engels, 11 W. Erven, 11 W. Eyrich, P. Fedorets, 5 K. Föhl, K. Fransson, F. Goldenbaum, 11 P. Goslawski, K. Grigoryev, 11, 17 V. Grishina, C.–O. Gullström, J. Hampe, 11, 18 C. Hanhart, 11, 19 L. Heijkenskjöld, V. Hejny, 11 F. Hinterberger, M. Hodana, 11, 13 B. Höistad, M. Jacewicz, M. Janusz, A. Jany, B.R. Jany, L. Jarczyk, J. Jaus, T. Johansson, B. Kamys, G. Kemmerling, 11 O. Khakimova, A. Khoukaz, S. Kistryn, J. Klaja, 11, 13 H. Kleines, 11 B. Kłos, F. Kren, W. Krzemień, P. Kulessa, S. Kullander, A. Kupść, K. Lalwani, B. Lorentz, 11 A. Magiera, R. Maier, 11 P. Marciniewski, B. Mariański, M. Mikirtychiants, 11, 17 P. Moskal, H.–P. Morsch, B.K. Nandi, H. Ohm, 11 A. Passfeld, C. Pauly, 11, † E. Perez del Rio, Y. Petukhov, N. Piskunov, P. Pluciński, P. Podkopał, A. Povtoreyko, D. Prasuhn, 11 A. Pricking, 10 K. Pysz, T. Rausmann, C.F. Redmer, J. Ritman, 11, 12 A. Roy, R.J.M.Y. Ruber, Z. Rudy, S. Schadmand, 11 A. Schmidt, W. Schroeder, T. Sefzick, 11 V. Serdyuk, 11, 24 N. Shah, M. Siemaszko, R. Siudak, T. Skorodko, M. Skurzok, J. Smyrski, V. Sopov, R. Stassen, 11 J. Stepaniak, G. Sterzenbach, 11 H. Stockhorst, 11 H. Ströher, 11 A. Szczurek, A. Täschner, T. Tolba, 11 A. Trzciński, R. Varma, P. Vlasov, G.J. Wagner, W. Węglorz, A. Winnemöller, A. Wirzba, 11, 19 M. Wolke, A. Wrońska, P. Wüstner, 11 P. Wurm, 11 L. Yurev, 11, 24 J. Zabierowski, M.J. Zieliński, W. Zipper, J. Złomańczuk, and P. Żuprański

title: Measurement of the $pn \to pp\pi^0\pi^-$ reaction in search for the recently observed resonance structure in $d\pi^0\pi^0$ and $d\pi^+\pi^-$ systems
abstract: Exclusive measurements of the quasi-free $pn \to pp\pi^0\pi^-$ reaction have been performed by means of $pd$ collisions at $T_p$ = 1.2 GeV using the WASA detector setup at COSY. Total and differential cross sections have been obtained covering the energy region $\sqrt s$ = (2.35 - 2.46) GeV, which includes the region of the ABC effect and its associated resonance structure. No ABC effect, {\it i.e.} low-mass enhancement is found in the $\pi^0\pi^-$-invariant mass spectrum -- in agreement with the constraint from Bose statistics that the isovector pion pair can not be in relative s-wave. At the upper end of the covered energy region $t$-channel processes for Roper, $\Delta(1600)$ and $\Delta\Delta$ excitations provide a reasonable description of the data, but at low energies the measured cross sections are much larger than predicted by such processes. Adding a resonance amplitude for the resonance at $m$=~2.37 GeV with $\Gamma$ =~70 MeV and $I(J^P)=~0(3^+)$ observed recently in $pn \to d\pi^0\pi^0$ and $pn \to d\pi^+\pi^-$ reactions leads to an agreement with the data also at low energies.

title: Light Dark Matter and the Electroweak Phase Transition in the NMSSM
abstract: We analyze the stability of the vacuum and the electroweak phase transition in the NMSSM close to the Peccei-Quinn symmetry limit. This limit contains light Dark Matter (DM) particles with a mass signicantly smaller than the weak scale and also light CP-even and CP-odd Higgs bosons. Such light particles lead to a consistent relic density and facilitate a large spin-independent direct DM detection cross section, that may accommodate the recently reported signatures at the DAMA and CoGeNT experiments. Studying the one-loop eective potential at nite temperature, we show that when the lightest CP-even Higgs mass is of the order of a few GeV, the electroweak phase transition tends to become rst order and strong. The inverse relationship between the direct-detection cross-section and the lightest CP-even Higgs mass implies that a cross-section of the order of 10 41 cm 2 is correlated with a strong rst order phase transition.

title: Gauge-Higgs Unification and Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Warped Extra Dimensions
abstract: of large corrections to the T parameter and the coupling of the Z to the bottom quark. We demonstrate that electroweak symmetry breaking may be realized, with proper generation of the top and bottom quark masses for the same region of bulk mass parameters that lead to good agreement with precision electroweak data in the presence of a light Higgs. We compute the Higgs mass and demonstrate that for the range of parameters for which the Higgs boson has Standard Model-like properties, the Higgs mass is naturally in a range that varies between values close to the LEP experimental limit and about 160 GeV. This mass range may be probed at the Tevatron and at the LHC. We analyze the KK spectrum and briey discuss the phenomenology of the light resonances arising in our model.

title: Braneworld graviton interactions in early universe phase transitions
abstract: This chapter discusses the Braneworld models that solve the hierarchy problem. The chapter focuses on Randall-Sundrum (RS) type models that embed one or two branes into a five dimensional AdS bulk. In RS 1, a static solution of the 5d Einstein equations is derived with two branes of opposite tension at the orbifold fixed points of the finite fifth dimension. Low-scale gravity leads to low reheating temperatures, and it is possible to obtain temperatures lower than the electroweak scale. This implies that the electroweak phase transition can take place before the completion of reheating. The chapter discusses how the gravitons couple in order to matter fields on the brane. The KK decomposition, graviton propagators and their coupling to matter and gauge fields are considered for toroidal extra dimensions and the analysis for the infinite AdS bulks have to be repeated.

title: Indirect probes of the MSSM after the Higgs discovery
abstract: A bstractWe study the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with minimal flavor violation (MFV), imposing constraints from flavor physics observables and MSSM Higgs searches, in light of the recent discovery of a 125 GeV Higgs boson by ATLAS and CMS. We analyze the electroweak vacuum stability conditions to further restrict the MSSM parameter space. In addition, a connection to ultraviolet physics is shown via an implementation of renormalization group running, which determines the TeV-scale spectrum from a small set of minimal supergravity parameters. Finally, we investigate the impact from dark matter direct detection searches. Our work highlights the complementarity of collider, flavor and dark matter probes in exploring the MSSM, and shows that even in a MFV framework, flavor observables constrain the MSSM parameter space well beyond the current reach of direct SUSY particle searches.

title: Collision and Symmetry Breaking in the Transition to Strange Nonchaotic Attractors
abstract: Strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) can be created due to the collision of an invariant curve with itself. This novel "homoclinic" transition to SNAs occurs in quasiperiodically driven maps which derive from the discrete Schrodinger equation for a particle in a quasiperiodic potential. In the classical dynamics, there is a transition from torus attractors to SNAs, which, in the quantum system, is manifest as the localization transition. This equivalence provides new insight into a variety of properties of SNAs, including its fractal measure. Further, there is a symmetry breaking associated with the creation of SNAs which rigorously shows that the Lyapunov exponent is nonpositive. We show that these characteristics associated with the appearance of SNA are robust and occur in a large class of systems.