2. GRAVITY 7. MICROSCOPIC PHYSICS 13. TOPOLOGY OF DEFECTS 18. ANOMALOUS NON-CONSERVATION OF FERMIONIC CHARGE 22. EDGE STATES AND FERMION ZERO MODES ON SOLITON 26. LANDAU CRITICAL VELOCITY 29. CASIMIR EFFECT AND VACUUM ENERGY

The Universe in a Helium Droplet

KamLAND has measured the flux of nu;(e)'s from distant nuclear reactors. We find fewer nu;(e) events than expected from standard assumptions about nu;(e) propagation at the 99.95% C.L. In a 162 ton.yr exposure the ratio of the observed inverse beta-decay events to the expected number without nu;(e) disappearance is 0.611+/-0.085(stat)+/-0.041(syst) for nu;(e) energies >3.4 MeV. In the context of two-flavor neutrino oscillations with CPT invariance, all solutions to the solar neutrino problem except for the "large mixing angle" region are excluded.

First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance

A complete analysis of FCNC and CP constraints in general SUSY extensions of the standard model

R-Parity-violating supersymmetry

https://inspirehep.net/files/86e05cbc808daf6eba87bc84e0cae03d

Higgs bosons in supersymmetric models, 1

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has reported a 2.8$\sigma$ excess in the $(2e)(2jets)$ channel around 2.1 TeV. Interpretation of this data is reconsidered in terms of the production of a right-handed weak gauge boson, $W_R$, of the left-right symmetric model and in an $SO(10)$ grand unified theory abiding by the Extended Survival Hypothesis. The left-right symmetric model can be consistent with this excess if (a) the heavy right-handed neutrino has a mass near $W_R$, or (b) if $g_L \neq g_R$, or (c) the right-handed CKM matrix is nontrivial. Combinations of the above possibilities are also viable. A $W_R$ with a mass in the TeV region if embedded in $SO(10)$ is not compatible with $g_L = g_R$. Rather, it implies $0.64 \leq g_R/g_L \leq 0.78$. Further, a unique symmetry-breaking route -- the order being left-right discrete symmetry breaking first, followed by $SU(4)_C$ and finally $SU(2)_R$ -- to the standard model is picked out. The $L \leftrightarrow R$ discrete symmetry has to be broken at around $10^{16}$ GeV. The grand unification scale is pushed to $10^{18}$ GeV making the detection of proton decay in ongoing searches rather unlikely. The $SU(4)_C$ breaking scale can be at its allowed lower limit of $10^6$ GeV so that $n - \bar{n}$ oscillation or flavour changing processes such as $K_L \rightarrow \mu e$ and $B_{d,s} \rightarrow \mu e$ may be detectable. The Higgs scalar multiplets responsible for $SO(10)$ symmetry breaking at various stages are uniquely identified so long as one adheres to a minimalist principle. We also remark, {\em en passant}, about a partially unified Pati-Salam model.

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Implications of the CMS search for W_R on Grand Unification

Can R-parity violating supersymmetry be seen in long baseline beta-beam experiments?

Exceptional sensitivity to neutrino parameters with a two-baseline Beta-beam set-up

Dimension-5 corrections to the gauge kinetic term of grand unified theories may capture effects of quantum gravity or string compactification. Such operators modify the usual gauge coupling unification prediction in a calculable manner. Here we examine SU(5), SO(10), and E(6) grand unified theories in the light of all such permitted operators and calculate the impact on the intermediate scales and the unification program. We show that in many cases at least one intermediate scale can be lowered to even 1-10 TeV, where a neutral Z' and possibly other states are expected.

Amitava Raychaudhuri

Papers

Implications of the CMS search for W_R on Grand Unification

Can R-parity violating supersymmetry be seen in long baseline beta-beam experiments?

Exceptional sensitivity to neutrino parameters with a two-baseline Beta-beam set-up

Grand unified theories with dimension-5 interactions: Gauge unification and intermediate scales

QCD effects in semi-inclusive neutrino processes