Prospects and constraints for vector-like MFV matter at LHC
We examine the prospects for LHC discovery of SU(2)L singlet vector-like quarks that obey Minimal Flavour Violation (MFV) and are consistent with lower energy phenomenology. We study models where the vector-like quarks have the same quantum numbers as uR or dR, allowing mixing, which generally leads to significant low energy constraints. We find that at leading order in the MFV expansion there are two naturally phenomenologically viable MFV models of this type when the Weyl spinor components of the vector-like quarks are flavour triplets. We examine direct production bounds, flavour and electroweak precision data constraints for these models and determine the cross section for allowed values of the model parameters at LHC. For the models we identify as naturally phenomenologically viable, large amounts of parameter space afford a significant early discovery reach at LHC while being consistent with lower energy phenomenology.

title: Standard model with compactified spatial dimensions
abstract: We analyze the structure of the standard model coupled to gravity with spatial dimensions compactified on a three-torus. We find that there are no stable one-dimensional vacua at zero temperature, although there does exist an unstable vacuum for a particular set of Dirac neutrino masses.

title: {gamma}-ray studies of neutron-rich N=18,19 nuclei produced in deep-inelastic collisions
abstract: Neutron-rich sdf shell nuclei have been produced in deep-inelastic processes during collision of 230 MeV {sup 37}Cl ions on a thick {sup 208}Pb target. The in-beam as well as off-beam {gamma}-{gamma} coincidence data yielded new spectroscopic information on some hard-to-access N=18,19 isotones. A new 27 ns isomer at 5583 keV in {sup 32}Si has been located. A candidate for the negative parity state 4{sup {minus}} has been identified above the 200 ns isomer in {sup 32}Al. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

title: Yrast spectroscopy of N=82,83 isotopes Xe-136 and Xe-137 from Cm-248 fission

title: Observation of Octupole Structures in Radon and Radium Isotopes and Their Contrasting Behavior at High Spin
abstract: Multinucleon transfer reactions have been used, for the first time, to populate high-spin bands of alternating parity states in {sup 218,220,222}Rn and {sup 222,224,226}Ra. The behavior of the angular momentum alignment with rotational frequency for the Rn isotopes is very different when compared with Ra and Th isotopes with N{approx}134, indicating a transition from octupole vibrational to stable octupole deformation. Throughout the measured spin range the values of {vert_bar}D{sub 0}/Q{sub 0}{vert_bar} remain constant for {sup 222}Ra and {sup 226}Ra and have a very small value for {sup 224}Ra, suggesting that the charge and mass distributions are not affected appreciably by rotations.

title: Yrast structure of the two-proton- and three-neutron-hole nucleus 203Hg from the decay of a 53/2+ isomer
abstract: The decay of a new, 53/2{sup +}, isomer at 8281 keV in {sup 203}Hg has been studied by {gamma} coincidence spectroscopy. A half-life of 146(30) ns was measured. In addition, another isomeric, 39/2{sup +}, level with a half-life of 7.8(1.5) ns was observed. Some elements of the Rydstroem shell-model interaction have been adjusted to reproduce level energies in nuclei with two to four holes in the {sup 208}Pb core. With this interaction, the new states in the five-hole nucleus {sup 203}Hg are reproduced with an rms error of 105 keV.