CP violating B decays with R -parity violation
We study CP violating B decays in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with R-parity violation. We estimate how much R-parity violation modifies the SM predictions for CP asymmetries in B decays within the present bounds. The effects of R-parity- and lepton-number-violating couplings on the ratio of the decay amplitude due to R-parity violation to that of the SM can differ by one or two orders of magnitudes depending on the models of the left-handed quark mixing. It is possible to disentangle the R-parity violating effects from those of the SM and R-parity- conserving supersymmetric models within the present bounds comparing different CP violating decay amplitudes. We also study the effects of R-parity- and baryon-number-violating couplings and find that the effects could be large.

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: 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: 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: Causality problem in a holographic-dark-energy model
abstract: In the model of holographic dark energy, there is a notorious problem of circular reasoning between the introduction of future event horizon and the accelerating expansion of the universe. We examine the problem after dividing it into two parts, the causality problem of the equation of motion and the circular logic on the use of the future event horizon. We specify and isolate the root of the two problems as a boundary condition from the causal equation of motion, which can be determined from the initial data of the universe. We show that the causality will be kept if we define it based on our recognizability and the circular-logic problem can be reduced to imposing an initial condition. We additionally find that the model constant of the holographic dark energy is close to unity from the present data of the universe.

title: Dark energy, inflation and the cosmic coincidence problem
abstract: We show that holographic dark energy could explain why the current dark energy density is so small, if there was an inflation with a sufficient expansion in the early universe. It is also suggested that an inflation with the number of e-folds N ≃ 65 may solve the cosmic coincidence problem in this context. Assuming the inflation and the power-law acceleration phase today we obtain approximate formulas for the event horizon size of the universe and dark energy density as functions of time. A simple numerical study exploiting the formula well reproduces the observed evolution of dark energy. This nontrivial match between the theory and the observational data supports both inflation and holographic dark energy models.

title: Phenomenology of the radion in the Randall–Sundrum scenario at colliders
abstract: Phenomenology of a radion ( φ ) that stabilizes the modulus in the Randall–Sundrum scenario is considered. The radion couples to the trace of energy momentum tensor of the standard model (SM) with a strength suppressed only by a new scale ( Λ φ ) of an order of the electroweak scale. In particular, the effective coupling of a radion to two gluons is enhanced due to the trace anomaly of QCD. Therefore, its production cross section at hadron colliders could be enhanced, and the dominant decay mode of a relatively light radion is φ → gg , unlike the SM Higgs boson case. We also present constraints on the mass m φ and the new scale Λ φ from the Higgs search limit at LEP and perturbative unitarity bound.

title: CP violation in the semileptonic B(lepton 4) (B ---> D pi lepton neutrino) decays: multi - Higgs doublet model and scalar leptoquark models
abstract: $\mathrm{CP}$ violation from physics beyond the standard model is investigated in ${B}_{l4}$ decays: $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{B}D\ensuremath{\pi}l{\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{l}.$ In the decay process, we include various excited states as intermediate states decaying to the final hadrons, $D+\ensuremath{\pi}$. We consider the semileptonic decay to a tau lepton family as well. $\mathrm{CP}$ violation is implemented through complex scalar-fermion couplings in the multi-Higgs-doublet model and scalar-leptoquark models beyond the standard model. With these complex couplings, we calculate the $\mathrm{CP}$-odd rate asymmetry and the optimal asymmetry. We find that for ${B}_{\ensuremath{\tau}4}$ decays the optimal asymmetry is sizable and can be detected at $1\ensuremath{\sigma}$ level with about ${10}^{6}\char21{}{10}^{7}B$-meson pairs, for maximally allowed values of $\mathrm{CP}$-odd parameters in those extended models.

title: Relativistic corrections to the exclusive decays of C-even bottomonia into S-wave charmonium pairs
abstract: Within the nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD) factorization formalism, we compute the relativistic corrections to the exclusive decays of bottomonia with even charge conjugation parity into S-wave charmonium pairs at leading order in the strong coupling constant. Relativistic corrections are resummed for a class of color-singlet contributions to all orders in the charm-quark velocity v(c) in the charmonium rest frame. Almost every process that we consider in this work has negative relativistic corrections ranging from -20 to -35%. Among the various processes, the relativistic corrections of the next-to-leading order in v(c) to the decay rate for chi(b2) -> eta(c)(mS) + eta(c)(nS) with m, n = 1 or 2 are very large. In every case, the resummation of the relativistic corrections enhances the rate in comparison with the next-to-leading-order results. We compare our results with available predictions based on the NRQCD factorization formalism. The NRQCD predictions are significantly smaller than those based on the light-cone formalism by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.