Dark matter variations

In this short presentation, we remind of significant unknowns regarding the distribution of Dark Matter in our immediate neighborhood, and review the recent improvements in the obtained limits on its abundance.Comment: 6 pages 1 figure uses \psfrag Corfu Summer Institute Proceeding

About Mass, CP and Extra Dimensions

We discuss the notion of mass, mostly for fermions, and its relation to the breaking of CP invariance, the natural symmetry of gauge interactions. In a first model, we show how compactification on a Vortex in 2 extra dimensions leads to a replication of generations in 3+1, with challenging mass patterns, and testable consequences in flavour-changing neutral currents (family-number conserving), both at low energies and at future colliders. In different model, we show how CP violation can result from compactification from 4+1 to 3+1 dimensions.Comment: conf proceedings CICHEP conference, Cair

Scalar glueballs: Constraints from the decays into η\eta or η′\eta'

We study the mixing of the scalar glueball into the isosinglet mesons $f_0 (1370)$, $f_0(1500)$, and $f_0(1710)$ to describe the two-body decays to pseudoscalars. We use an effective Hamiltonian and employ the two-angle mixing scheme for $\eta$ and $\eta'$. In this framework, we analyse existing data and look forward to new data into $\eta$ and $\eta'$ channels. For now, the $f_0 (1710)$ has the largest glueball component and a sizable branching ratio into $\eta\eta'$, testable at BESIII.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure. Included error bars from fit and added references. Matches PRD versio

Anatomy of Mixing-Induced CP Asymmetries in Left-Right-Symmetric Models with Spontaneous CP Violation

We investigate the pattern of CP violation in K, B_d and B_s mixing in a symmetrical SU(2)_R x SU(2)_L x U(1) model with spontaneous CP violation. We calculate the phases of the left and right quark mixing matrices beyond the small phase approximation and perform a careful analysis of all relevant restrictions on the model's parameters from Delta m_K, Delta m_B, epsilon, epsilon'/epsilon and the CP asymmetry in B->J/psi K_S. We find that, with current experimental data, the mass of the right-handed charged gauge boson, M2, is restricted to be in the range 2.75 to 13 TeV and the mass of the flavour-changing neutral Higgs boson, MH, in 10.2 to 14.6 TeV. This means in particular that the decoupling limit M2, MH -> infinity is already excluded by experiment. We also find that the model favours opposite signs of epsilon and sin 2beta and is excluded if sin 2beta > 0.1.Comment: 33 pages Latex with 11 Postscript-Figures (included

CP, T and fundamental interactions

We discuss the importance of the CP (simultaneous particle-antiparticle and left-right permutation) and T (time reversal) symmetries in the context of fundamental interactions. We show that they may provide clues to go beyond the 4-D gauge interactions. We insist on the fact that T violation is not associated to a degradation (like in entropy), but simply characterized by different trajectories.Comment: This is a "basic" introduction (non-technical) aimed at showing the importance of CP violation wrt gauge theorie

Gauge dilution and leptogenesis

In this paper, we examine how gauge interactions can dilute the lepton asymmetry in lepton induced baryogenesis. Constraints imposed on Majorana masses keep this dilution at an acceptable level.Comment: 5 page

Pi-conjugated systems based on chalcogenothiophene for applications in plastic electronics

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