The Higgs properties in the MSSM after the LHC Run-2

We scrutinize the parameter space of the SM-like Higgs boson in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) under current experimental constraints. The constraints are from (i) the precison electroweak data and various flavor observables; (ii) the direct 22 separate ATLAS searches in Run-1; (iii) the latest LHC Run-2 Higgs data and tri-lepton search of electroweakinos. We perform a scan over the parameter space and find that the Run-2 data can further exclude a part of parameter space. For the property of the SM-like Higgs boson, its gauge couplings further approach to the SM values with a deviation below 0.1\%, while its Yukawa couplings $hb\bar{b}$ and $h\tau\bar\tau$ can still sizably differ from the SM predictions by several tens percent.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure

Difficulty in the Fermi-Liquid-Based Theory for the In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy in Untwinned High-T_c Superconductor

Recently, Eremin and Manske [1] presented a oneband Fermi-liquid theory for the in-plane magnetic anisotropy in untwinned high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O6:85 (YBCO). They claimed that they found good agreement with inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectra. In this Comment, we point out that their conclusion on this important problem may be questionable due to an error in logic about the orthorhombicity delta_0 characterizing the lattice structure of YBCO. In Ref. [1], a single band at delta_0>0 is proved to be in accordance with the angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on untwinned YBCO. But in their Erratum in PRL[3], they admit that delta_0= -0.03 was used to fit the INS data. Hence publications [1,3] contain errors that we believe invalidate their approach.Comment: This is a Comment on the paper of I. Eremin, and D. Manske, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 067006(2005

Splitting of self-collimated beams in two-dimensional sonic crystals

An easy-to-implement scheme to split self-collimated acoustic beams in sonic crystals (SCs) is proposed by introducing line-defects into SCs, by which an incoming self-collimated beam can be split into a 90 degree-bended one and a transmitted one with an arbitrary power ratio by adjusting the value of defect size. An all-angle and wide-band splitting instrument is demonstrated with nearly perfect efficiency (more than 90%) for Gaussian beams at a wide range of incident angles. Splitting effect for a point source as input is also realized, in which two subwavelength images of the source, i.e., a bended one and a transmitted one, are formed by our designed splitting structure. Finally, the proposed one-to-two splitting scheme is generalized to one-to-N (N>2) cases by inserting more rows of line defects into the SC.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure