Maximal electric dipole moments of nuclei with enhanced Schiff moments
The electric dipole moments (EDMs) of heavy nuclei, such as 199Hg, 225Ra and 211Rn, can be enhanced by the Schiff moments induced by the presence of nearby parity-doublet states. Working within the framework of the maximally CP-violating and minimally flavour-violating (MCPMFV) version of the MSSM, we discuss the maximal values that such EDMs might attain, given the existing experimental constraints on the Thallium, neutron and Mercury EDMs. The maximal EDM values of the heavy nuclei are obtained with the help of a differential-geometrical approach proposed recently that enables the maxima of new CP-violating observables to be calculated exactly in the linear approximation. In the case of 225Ra, we find that its EDM may be as large as 6 to 50 × 10−27e ∙ cm.

title: Singlino-driven electroweak baryogenesis in the next-to-MSSM
abstract: We explore a new possibility of electroweak baryogenesis in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. In this model, a strong first-order electroweak phase transition can be achieved due to the additional singlet Higgs field. The new impact of its superpartner (singlino) on the baryon asymmetry is investigated by employing the closed-time-path formalism. We find that the CP violating source term fueled by the singlino could be large enough to generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe without any conflicts with the current constraints from the non-observation of the thallium, neutron and mercury electric dipole moments.

title: Flavour geometry and effective Yukawa couplings in the MSSM
abstract: We present a new geometric approach to the flavour decomposition of an arbitrary soft supersymmetry-breaking sector in the MSSM. Our approach is based on the geometry that results from the quark and lepton Yukawa couplings, and enables us to derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for a linearly-independent basis of matrices related to the completeness of the internal [SU(3)⊗U(1)]5 flavour space. In a second step, we calculate the effective Yukawa couplings that are enhanced at large values of tan β for general soft supersymmetry-breaking mass parameters. We highlight the contributions due to non-universal terms in the flavour decompositions of the sfermion mass matrices. We present numerical examples illustrating how such terms are induced by renormalization-group evolution starting from universal input boundary conditions, and demonstrate their importance for the flavour-violating effective Yukawa couplings of quarks.

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: 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: Proton decay with a light gravitino or axino
abstract: 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: Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data
abstract: Studies of the spin and parity quantum numbers of the Higgs boson are presented, based on protonproton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The Standard Model spin-parity J( ...

title: Physical Properties of the Transiting Planetary System TrES-3
abstract: We present four new transits of the planetary system TrES-3 observed between 2009 May and 2010 June. Among these, the third transit by itself indicates possible evidence for brightness disturbance, which might be a result of the planet blocking a cool starspot on the stellar surface. A total of 109 transit times, including our measurements, were used to determine the improved ephemeris with a transit epoch of 2454185.910944 ˙ 0.000072 HJED and an orbital period of 1.30618700 ˙ 0.00000015d. We analyzed the transit light curves using the JKTEBOP code and adopting the quadratic limb-darkening law. In order to derive the physical properties of the TrES-3 system, the transit parameters were combined with the empirical relations from eclipsing binary stars and stellar evolutionary

title: Current Issues In Quarkonium Production
abstract: As a stringent test of the nonrelativistic QCD factorization approach for inclusive heavy-quarkonium production in high-energy hadron collision, the polarized heavy-quarkonium production at the Tevatron is discussed. The polarization of prompt J/psi at the Tevatron is predicted within the nonrelativistic QCD factorization framework. The contribution from radiative decays of P-wave charmonium states decreases, but does not eliminate, the transverse polarization at large transverse momentum. The prediction agrees with measurements from the CDF collaboration at intermediate values of p_T, but disagrees at the large values of p_T measured. Recent preliminary data of heavy quarkonia from CDF and theoretical/experimental prospects related to the Run II heavy quarkonium physics are also discussed.

title: The intrinsic and oscillated astrophysical neutrino flavor ratios
abstract: The pp interactions taking place in the cosmos around us are a source of the astrophysical neutrinos of all the three flavors. In these interactions, the electron and the muon neutrinos mainly come from the production and the decay of the \pi^{\pm} mesons, whereas the tau neutrinos mainly come from the production and the decay of the D^{\pm}_{S} mesons. We estimate the three intrinsic neutrino flavor ratios for 1 GeV 10^{-10} in the presence of neutrino oscillations, where L is the distance to the astrophysical neutrino source in units of parsecs.

title: Resummation of relativistic corrections to exclusive productions of charmonia in e+e- collisions
abstract: We investigate two exclusive processes, ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\eta}}_{c}+\ensuremath{\gamma}$ and ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+J/\ensuremath{\psi}$, at the center-of-momentum energy $\sqrt{s}=10.58\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$ within the framework of the nonrelativistic QCD factorization approach. A class of relativistic corrections is resummed to all orders in the heavy-quark velocity $v$ and the corrections are large negative. We further improve the prediction by including available QCD next-to-leading-order corrections and the interference between the QCD and relativistic corrections. The prediction for $\ensuremath{\sigma}[{e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\eta}}_{c}+\ensuremath{\gamma}]$ is about 50 fb. In the case of ${e}^{+}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ the standard nonrelativistic QCD prediction for the cross section is negative. As an alternative, the vector-meson-dominance approach is employed to compute the photon-fragmentation contribution of the process, which gives the cross section $\ensuremath{\sim}1\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{fb}$. This is an indication that the uncalculated QCD higher-order corrections may be significant. Our results can be tested against the forthcoming data from Belle II and super $B$ factories.