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1. Evidence for ground-state electron capture of $^{40}$K

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Hariasz, L., Stukel, M., Di Stefano, P. C. F., Rasco, B. C., Rykaczewski, K. P., Brewer, N. T., Stracener, D. W., Liu, Y., Gai, Z., Rouleau, C., Carter, J., Kostensalo, J., Suhonen, J., Davis, H., Lukosi, E. D., Goetz, K. C., Grzywacz, R. K., Mancuso, M., Petricca, F., Fijałkowska, A., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., Ninkovic, J., Lechner, P., Ickert, R. B., Morgan, L. E., Renne, P. R., and Yavin, I.

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Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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Potassium-40 is a widespread isotope whose radioactivity impacts estimated geological ages spanning billions of years, nuclear structure theory, and subatomic rare-event searches - including those for dark matter and neutrinoless double-beta decay. The decays of this long-lived isotope must be precisely known for its use as a geochronometer, and to account for its presence in low-background experiments. There are several known decay modes for $^{40}$K, but a predicted electron-capture decay directly to the ground state of argon-40 has never been observed, while theoretical predictions span an order of magnitude. The KDK Collaboration reports on the first observation of this rare decay, obtained using a novel combination of a low-threshold X-ray detector surrounded by a tonne-scale, high-efficiency $\gamma$-ray tagger at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A blinded analysis reveals a distinctly nonzero ratio of intensities of ground-state electron-captures ($I_{\text{EC}^0}$) over excited-state ones ($I_{\text{EC}^*}$) of $I_{\text{EC}^0} / I_{\text{EC}^*}=0.0095\stackrel{\text{stat}}{\pm}0.0022\stackrel{\text{sys}}{\pm}0.0010$ (68% CL), with the null hypothesis rejected at 4$\sigma$ [Stukel et al., DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.052503]. This unambiguous signal yields a branching ratio of $I_{\text{EC}^0}=0.098\%\stackrel{\text{stat}}{\pm}0.023\%\stackrel{\text{sys}}{\pm}0.010$, roughly half of the commonly used prediction. This first observation of a third-forbidden unique electron capture improves understanding of low-energy backgrounds in dark-matter searches and has implications for nuclear-structure calculations. A shell-model based theoretical estimate for the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life of calcium-48 is increased by a factor of $7^{+3}_{-2}$. Our nonzero measurement shifts geochronological ages by up to a percent; implications are illustrated for Earth and solar system chronologies., Comment: This is a companion submission to Stukel et al (KDK collaboration) "Rare $^{40}$K decay with implications for fundamental physics and geochronology" [arXiv:2211.10319; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.052503]. As such, both texts share some figures and portions of text. This version updates the text following its review and production process

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2022
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2. Rare $^{40}$K decay with implications for fundamental physics and geochronology

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Stukel, M., Hariasz, L., Di Stefano, P. C. F., Rasco, B. C., Rykaczewski, K. P., Brewer, N. T., Stracener, D. W., Liu, Y., Gai, Z., Rouleau, C., Carter, J., Kostensalo, J., Suhonen, J., Davis, H., Lukosi, E. D., Goetz, K. C., Grzywacz, R. K., Mancuso, M., Petricca, F., Fijałkowska, A., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., Ninkovic, J., Lechner, P., Ickert, R. B., Morgan, L. E., Renne, P. R., and Yavin, I.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Potassium-40 is a widespread, naturally occurring isotope whose radioactivity impacts subatomic rare-event searches, nuclear structure theory, and estimated geological ages. A predicted electron-capture decay directly to the ground state of argon-40 has never been observed. The KDK (potassium decay) collaboration reports strong evidence of this rare decay mode. A blinded analysis reveals a non-zero ratio of intensities of ground-state electron-captures ($I_{\text{EC}^0}$) over excited-state ones ($I_\text{EC*}$) of $ I_{\text{EC}^0} / I_\text{EC*} = 0.0095 \stackrel{\text{stat}}{\pm} 0.0022 \stackrel{\text{sys}}{\pm} 0.0010 $ (68% C.L.), with the null hypothesis rejected at 4$\sigma$. In terms of branching ratio, this signal yields $I_{\text{EC}^0} = 0.098\% \stackrel{\text{stat}}{\pm} 0.023\% \stackrel{\text{sys}}{\pm} 0.010\% $, roughly half of the commonly used prediction, with consequences for various fields [L. Hariasz et al., companion paper, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.108.014327]., Comment: This is a companion paper to Hariasz et al (KDK collaboration) "Evidence for ground-state electron capture of ${}^{40}$K" [arXiv:2211.10343; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.108.014327]. As such, both texts share some figures and portions of text. This version includes the journal DOI

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2022
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3. A novel experimental system for the KDK measurement of the $^{40}$K decay scheme relevant for rare event searches

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Stukel, M., Rasco, B. C., Brewer, N. T., Di Stefano, P. C. F., Rykaczewski, K. P., Davis, H., Lukosi, E. D., Hariasz, L., Constable, M., Davis, P., Dering, K., Fijałkowska, A., Gai, Z., Goetz, K. C., Grzywacz, R. K., Kostensalo, J., Ninkovic, J., Lechner, P., Liu, Y., Mancuso, M., Melcher, C. L., Petricca, F., Rouleau, C., Squillari, P., Stand, L., Stracener, D. W., Suhonen, J., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., and Yavin, I.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Potassium-40 ($^{40}$K) is a long-lived, naturally occurring radioactive isotope. The decay products are prominent backgrounds for many rare event searches, including those involving NaI-based scintillators. $^{40}$K also plays a role in geochronological dating techniques. The branching ratio of the electron capture directly to the ground state of argon-40 has never been measured, which can cause difficulty in interpreting certain results or can lead to lack of precision depending on the field and analysis technique. The KDK (Potassium (K) Decay (DK)) collaboration is measuring this decay. A composite method has a silicon drift detector with an enriched, thermally deposited $^{40}$K source inside the Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer. This setup has been characterized in terms of energy calibration, gamma tagging efficiency, live time and false negatives and positives. A complementary, homogeneous, method is also discussed; it employs a KSr$_2$I$_5$:Eu scintillator as source and detector., Comment: 20 pages, 24 figures, Submitted to NIM A

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2020
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4. The KDK (potassium decay) experiment

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Di Stefano, P. C. F., Brewer, N., Fijałkowska, A., Gai, Z., Goetz, K. C., Grzywacz, R., Hamm, D., Lechner, P., Liu, Y., Lukosi, E., Mancuso, M., Melcher, C., Ninkovic, J., Petricca, F., Rasco, B. C., Rouleau, C., Rykaczewski, K. P., Squillari, P., Stand, L., Stracener, D., Stukel, M., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., and Yavin, I.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Potassium-40 (${}^{40}$K) is a background in many rare-event searches and may well play a role in interpreting results from the DAMA dark-matter search. The electron-capture decay of ${}^{40}$K to the ground state of ${}^{40}$Ar has never been measured and contributes an unknown amount of background. The KDK (potassium decay) collaboration will measure this branching ratio using a ${}^{40}$K source, an X-ray detector, and the Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory., Comment: TAUP 2017 - XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics

Published
2017

5. A novel experimental system for the KDK measurement of the 40K decay scheme relevant for rare event searches

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Stukel, M., Rasco, B.C., Brewer, N.T., Di Stefano, P.C.F., Rykaczewski, K.P., Davis, H., Lukosi, E.D., Hariasz, L., Constable, M., Davis, P., Dering, K., Fijałkowska, A., Gai, Z., Goetz, K.C., Grzywacz, R.K., Kostensalo, J., Ninkovic, J., Lechner, P., Liu, Y., Mancuso, M., Melcher, C.L., Petricca, F., Rouleau, C., Squillari, P., Stand, L., Stracener, D.W., Suhonen, J., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., and Yavin, I.

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2021
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6. Simplified models for dark matter searches at the LHC

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Abdallah, J, Araujo, H, Arbey, A, Ashkenazi, A, Belyaev, A, Berger, J, Boehm, C, Boveia, A, Brennan, A, Brooke, J, Buchmueller, O, Buckley, M, Busoni, G, Calibbi, L, Chauhan, S, Daci, N, Davies, G, De Bruyn, I, De Jong, P, De Roeck, A, de Vries, K, Del Re, D, De Simone, A, Di Simone, A, Doglioni, C, Dolan, M, Dreiner, HK, Ellis, J, Eno, S, Etzion, E, Fairbairn, M, Feldstein, B, Flaecher, H, Feng, E, Fox, P, Genest, MH, Gouskos, L, Gramling, J, Haisch, U, Harnik, R, Hibbs, A, Hoh, S, Hopkins, W, Ippolito, V, Jacques, T, Kahlhoefer, F, Khoze, VV, Kirk, R, Korn, A, Kotov, K, Kunori, S, Landsberg, G, Liem, S, Lin, T, Lowette, S, Lucas, R, Malgeri, L, Malik, S, McCabe, C, Mete, AS, Morgante, E, Mrenna, S, Nakahama, Y, Newbold, D, Nordstrom, K, Pani, P, Papucci, M, Pataraia, S, Penning, B, Pinna, D, Polesello, G, Racco, D, Re, E, Riotto, AW, Rizzo, T, Salek, D, Sarkar, S, Schramm, S, Skubic, P, Slone, O, Smirnov, J, Soreq, Y, Sumner, T, Tait, TMP, Thomas, M, Tomalin, I, Tunnell, C, Vichi, A, Volansky, T, Weiner, N, West, SM, Wielers, M, Worm, S, Yavin, I, Zaldivar, B, Zhou, N, and Zurek, K

Subjects
Dark matter, Direct detection, Collider search for dark matter, Simplified models, Effective field theory, hep-ph, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract

This document a59Summary of the discussions and conclusions following from Dark Matter @ LHC 2014, held at Merton College, Oxford, on September 25-27, 2014. outlines a set of simplified models for dark matter and its interactions with Standard Model particles. It is intended to summarize the main characteristics that these simplified models have when applied to dark matter searches at the LHC, and to provide a number of useful expressions for reference. The list of models includes both s-channel and t-channel scenarios. For s-channel, spin-0 and spin-1 mediations are discussed, and also realizations where the Higgs particle provides a portal between the dark and visible sectors. The guiding principles underpinning the proposed simplified models are spelled out, and some suggestions for implementation are presented.

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2015

7. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

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Hewett, J. L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J. N., Casey, B. C. K., Collar, J., de Gouvea, A., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J. A., Jung, C. K., Lu, Z. T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J. R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J. L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C. E. M., Zeller, G. P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C. A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J. R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Asner, D. M., Babu, K. S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A. J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S. J., Briere, R. A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T. E., Bryman, D. A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, M. C., Cheng, C. H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N. H., Christensen, E., Christy, M. E., Chupp, T. E., Church, E., Cline, D. B., Coan, T. E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R. J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D. F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G. S., Demarteau, M., DeMille, D. P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M. S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M. R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, B., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S. R., Escobar, C., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J. E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Perez, P. Fileviez, Filippone, B., Fisher, P., Flemming, B. T., Flood, K. T., Forty, R., Frank, M. J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K. S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F. G., Gardner, S., Garrison, L., Gasparian, A., Geer, S., Gehman, V. M., Gershon, T., Gilchriese, M., Ginsberg, C., Gogoladze, I., Gonderinger, M., Goodman, M., Gould, H., Graham, M., Graham, P. W., Gran, R., Grange, J., Gratta, G., Green, J. P., Greenlee, H., Group, R. C., Guardincerri, E., Gudkov, V., Guenette, R., Haas, A., Hahn, A., Han, T., Handler, T., Hardy, J. C., Harnik, R., Harris, D. A., Harris, F. A., Harris, P. G., Hartnett, J., He, B., Heckel, B. R., Heeger, K. M., Henderson, S., Hertzog, D., Hill, R., Hinds, E. A, Hitlin, D. G., Holt, R. J., Holtkamp, N., Horton-Smith, G., Huber, P., Huelsnitz, W., Imber, J., Irastorza, I., Jaeckel, J., Jaegle, I., James, C., Jawahery, A., Jensen, D., Jessop, C. P., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Kagan, A. L., Kalita, M., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kephart, R., Kettell, S., Kim, Y. K., Kirby, M., Kirch, K., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Kobach, A., Kohl, M., Kopp, J., Kordosky, M., Korsch, W., Kourbanis, I., Krisch, A. D., Krizan, P., Kronfeld, A. S., Kulkarni, S., Kumar, K. S., Kuno, Y., Kutter, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lamm, M., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langacker, P., Lazarevic, S., Le, T., Lee, K., Lesko, K. T., Li, Y., Lindgren, M., Lindner, A., Link, J., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L. S., Littlejohn, B., Liu, C. Y., Loinaz, W., Lorenzon, W., Louis, W. C., Lozier, J., Ludovici, L., Lueking, L., Lunardini, C., MacFarlane, D. B., Machado, P. A. N., Mackenzie, P. B., Maloney, J., Marciano, W. J., Marsh, W., Marshak, M., Martin, J. W., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., McLaughlin, G., McKeen, D., McKeown, R., Meadows, B. T., Mehdiyev, R., Melconian, D., Merkel, H., Messier, M., Miller, J. P., Mills, G., Minamisono, U. K., Mishra, S. R., Mocioiu, I., Sher, S. Moed, Mohapatra, R. N., Monreal, B., Moore, C. D., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Moustakas, L. A., Mueller, G., Mueller, P., Muether, M., Mumm, H. P., Munger, C., Murayama, H., Nath, P., Naviliat-Cuncin, O., Nelson, J. K., Neuffer, D., Nico, J. S., Norman, A., Nygren, D., Obayashi, Y., O'Connor, T. P., Okada, Y., Olsen, J., Orozco, L., Orrell, J. L., Osta, J., Pahlka, B., Paley, J., Papadimitriou, V., Papucci, M., Parke, S., Parker, R. H., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Patch, A., Pati, J. C., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Paz, G., Perdue, G. N., Perevalov, D., Perez, G., Petti, R., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Pivovaroff, M., Plunkett, R., Polly, C. C., Pospelov, M., Povey, R., Prakesh, A., Purohit, M. V., Raby, S., Raaf, J. L., Rajendran, R., Rajendran, S., Rameika, G., Ramsey, R., Rashed, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Rebel, B., Redondo, J., Reimer, P., Reitzner, D., Ringer, F., Ringwald, A., Riordan, S., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, R., Robicheaux, F., Rominsky, M., Roser, R., Rosner, J. L., Rott, C., Rubin, P., Saito, N., Sanchez, M., Sarkar, S., Schellman, H., Schmidt, B., Schmitt, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schneps, J., Schopper, A., Schuster, P., Schwartz, A. J., Schwarz, M., Seeman, J., Semertzidis, Y. K., Seth, K. K., Shafi, Q., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharpe, S. R., Shiozawa, M., Shiltsev, V., Sigurdson, K., Sikivie, P., Singh, J., Sivers, D., Skwarnicki, T., Smith, N., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Song, Y. H., Soni, A., Souder, P., Sousa, A., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., Stavenga, G. C., Steffen, J. H., Stepanyan, S., Stoeckinger, D., Stone, S., Strait, J., Strassler, M., Sulai, I. A., Sundrum, R., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Takeuchi, T., Tanedo, P., Taneja, S., Tang, J., Tanner, D. B., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I., Thomas, J., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Tice, B. G., Tobar, M., Tolich, N., Toro, N., Towner, I. S., Tsai, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tunnell, C. D., Tzanov, M., Upadhye, A., Urheim, J., Vahsen, S., Vainshtein, A., Valencia, E., Van de Water, R. G., Van de Water, R. S., Velasco, M., Vogel, J., Vogel, P., Vogelsang, W., Wah, Y. W., Walker, D., Weiner, N., Weltman, A., Wendell, R., Wester, W., Wetstein, M., White, C., Whitehead, L., Whitmore, J., Widmann, E., Wiedemann, G., Wilkerson, J., Wilkinson, G., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winter, W., Wise, M. B., Wodin, J., Wojcicki, S., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Wurtele, J., Xin, T., Xu, J., Yamanaka, T., Yamazaki, Y., Yavin, I., Yeck, J., Yeh, M., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Young, A., Zimmerman, E., Zioutas, K., Zisman, M., Zupan, J., and Zwaska, R.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms., Comment: 229 pages

Published
2012

8. Simplified models for LHC new physics searches

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Alves, D, Arkani-Hamed, N, Arora, S, Bai, Y, Baumgart, M, Berger, J, Buckley, M, Butler, B, Chang, S, Cheng, HC, Cheung, C, Chivukula, RS, Cho, WS, Cotta, R, Dalfonso, M, Hedri, SE, Essig, R, Evans, JA, Fitzpatrick, L, Fox, P, Franceschini, R, Freitas, A, Gainer, JS, Gershtein, Y, Gray, R, Gregoire, T, Gripaios, B, Gunion, J, Han, T, Haas, A, Hansson, P, Hewett, J, Hits, D, Hubisz, J, Izaguirre, E, Kaplan, J, Katz, E, Kilic, C, Kim, HD, Kitano, R, Koay, SA, Ko, P, Krohn, D, Kuflik, E, Lewis, I, Lisanti, M, Liu, T, Liu, Z, Lu, R, Luty, M, Meade, P, Morrissey, D, Mrenna, S, Nojiri, M, Okui, T, Padhi, S, Papucci, M, Park, M, Perelstein, M, Peskin, M, Phalen, D, Rehermann, K, Rentala, V, Roy, T, Ruderman, JT, Sanz, V, Schmaltz, M, Schnetzer, S, Schuster, P, Schwaller, P, Schwartz, MD, Schwartzman, A, Shao, J, Shelton, J, Shih, D, Shu, J, Silverstein, D, Simmons, E, Somalwar, S, Spannowsky, M, Spethmann, C, Strassler, M, Su, S, Tait, T, Thomas, B, Thomas, S, Toro, N, Volansky, T, Wacker, J, Waltenberger, W, Yavin, I, Yu, F, Zhao, Y, and Zurek, K

Subjects
hep-ph, hep-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract

This document proposes a collection of simplified models relevant to the design of new-physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the characterization of their results. Both ATLAS and CMS have already presented some results in terms of simplified models, and we encourage them to continue and expand this effort, which supplements both signature-based results and benchmark model interpretations. A simplified model is defined by an effective Lagrangian describing the interactions of a small number of new particles. Simplified models can equally well be described by a small number of masses and cross-sections. These parameters are directly related to collider physics observables, making simplified models a particularly effective framework for evaluating searches and a useful starting point for characterizing positive signals of new physics. This document serves as an official summary of the results from the Topologies for Early LHC Searches workshop, held at SLAC in September of 2010, the purpose of which was to develop a set of representative models that can be used to cover all relevant phase space in experimental searches. Particular emphasis is placed on searches relevant for the first 50-500 pb 1 of data and those motivated by supersymmetric models. This note largely summarizes material posted at http://lhcnewphysics.org/, which includes simplified model definitions, Monte Carlo material, and supporting contacts within the theory community. We also comment on future developments that may be useful as more data is gathered and analyzed by the experiments. © 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Published
2012

10. First observation of the ground-state electron-capture of $^{40}$K

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Hariasz, L., Stukel, M., Di Stefano, P. C. F., Rasco, B. C., Rykaczewski, K. P., Brewer, N. T., Stracener, D. W., Liu, Y., Gai, Z., Rouleau, C., Carter, J., Kostensalo, J., Suhonen, J., Davis, H., Lukosi, E. D., Goetz, K. C., Grzywacz, R. K., Mancuso, M., Petricca, F., Fijałkowska, A., Wolińska-Cichocka, M., Ninkovic, J., Lechner, P., Ickert, R. B., Morgan, L. E., Renne, P. R., and Yavin, I.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), FOS: Physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Potassium-40 is a naturally-occurring isotope whose radioactivity impacts estimated geological ages spanning billions of years, nuclear structure theory, and subatomic rare-event searches -- including those for dark matter and neutrinoless double-beta decay. The decays of this long-lived isotope must be precisely known for its use as a geochronometer, and to account for its presence in low-background experiments. There are several known decay modes for potassium-40, but a predicted electron-capture decay directly to the ground state of argon-40 has never been observed. Though this decay impacts several fields, theoretical predictions span an order of magnitude. The KDK (potassium decay) collaboration reports on the first observation of this rare decay mode, using a novel combination of a low-threshold X-ray detector surrounded by a tonne-scale, high-efficiency $\gamma$-ray tagger at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A blinded analysis reveals a distinctly non-zero ratio of intensities of ground-state electron-captures ($I_{\text{EC}^0}$) over excited-state ones ($I_{\text{EC}^*}$) of $I_{\text{EC}^0} / I_{\text{EC}^*} = 0.0095 \stackrel{\text{stat}}{\pm} 0.0022 \stackrel{\text{sys}}{\pm} 0.0010 $ (68% CL), with the null hypothesis rejected at 4$\sigma$. In terms of branching ratio, this unambiguous signal yields $ I_{\text{EC}^0} = 0.098 \% \stackrel{\text{stat}}{\pm}0.023\% \stackrel{\text{sys}}{\pm} 0.010 $, roughly half of the commonly used prediction. This first observation of a third-forbidden unique electron capture improves our understanding of low-energy backgrounds in dark-matter searches and has implications for nuclear-structure calculations. For example, a shell-model based theoretical estimate for the neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life of calcium-48 is increased by a factor of $7^{+3}_{-2}$. Implications are illustrated for Earth and solar system chronologies., Comment: This is a companion submission to Stukel et al (KDK collaboration) "Rare ${}^{40}$K decay with implications for fundamental physics and geochronology". As such, both texts share some figures and portions of text. This version cross-references the companion arXiv submission in the text

Published
2022

11. Search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into four taus at LEP2

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Schael, S., Barate, R., Brunelière, R., De Bonis, I., Decamp, D., Goy, C., Jézéquel, S., Lees, J.-P., Martin, F., Merle, E., Minard, M.-N., Pietrzyk, B., Trocmé, B., Bravo, S., Casado, M. P., Chmeissani, M., Crespo, J. M., Fernandez, E., Fernandez-Bosman, M., Garrido, Ll., Martinez, M., Pacheco, A., Ruiz, H., Colaleo, A., Creanza, D., De Filippis, N., de Palma, M., Iaselli, G., Maggi, G., Maggi, M., Nuzzo, S., Ranieri, A., Raso, G., Ruggieri, F., Selvaggi, G., Silvestris, L., Tempesta, P., Tricomi, A., Zito, G., Huang, X., Lin, J., Ouyang, Q., Wang, T., Xie, Y., Xu, R., Xue, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, W., Abbaneo, D., Barklow, T., Buchmüller, O., Cattaneo, M., Clerbaux, B., Drevermann, H., Forty, R. W., Frank, M., Gianotti, F., Hansen, J. B., Harvey, J., Hutchcroft, D. E., Janot, P., Jost, B., Kado, M., Mato, P., Moutoussi, A., Ranjard, F., Rolandi, L., Schlatter, D., Teubert, F., Valassi, A., Videau, I., Badaud, F., Dessagne, S., Falvard, A., Fayolle, D., Gay, P., Jousset, J., Michel, B., Monteil, S., Pallin, D., Pascolo, J. M., Perret, P., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. R., Hansen, P. H., Kraan, A. C., Nilsson, B. S., Kyriakis, A., Markou, C., Simopoulou, E., Vayaki, A., Zachariadou, K., Blondel, A., Brient, J.-C., Machefert, F., Rougé, A., Videau, H., Ciulli, V., Focardi, E., Parrini, G., Antonelli, A., Antonelli, M., Bencivenni, G., Bossi, F., Capon, G., Cerutti, F., Chiarella, V., Laurelli, P., Mannocchi, G., Murtas, G. P., Passalacqua, L., Kennedy, J., Lynch, J. G., Negus, P., O’Shea, V., Thompson, A. S., Wasserbaech, S., Cavanaugh, R., Dhamotharan, S., Geweniger, C., Hanke, P., Hepp, V., Kluge, E. E., Putzer, A., Stenzel, H., Tittel, K., Wunsch, M., Beuselinck, R., Cameron, W., Davies, G., Dornan, P. J., Girone, M., Marinelli, N., Nowell, J., Rutherford, S. A., Sedgbeer, J. K., Thompson, J. C., White, R., Ghete, V. M., Girtler, P., Kneringer, E., Kuhn, D., Rudolph, G., Bouhova-Thacker, E., Bowdery, C. K., Clarke, D. P., Ellis, G., Finch, A. J., Foster, F., Hughes, G., Jones, R. W. L., Pearson, M. R., Robertson, N. A., Sloan, T., Smizanska, M., van der Aa, O., Delaere, C., Leibenguth, G., Lemaitre, V., Blumenschein, U., Hölldorfer, F., Jakobs, K., Kayser, F., Müller, A.-S., Renk, B., Sander, H.-G., Schmeling, S., Wachsmuth, H., Zeitnitz, C., Ziegler, T., Bonissent, A., Coyle, P., Curtil, C., Ealet, A., Fouchez, D., Payre, P., Tilquin, A., Ragusa, F., David, A., Dietl, H., Ganis, G., Hüttmann, K., Lütjens, G., Männer, W., Moser, H.-G., Settles, R., Villegas, M., Wolf, G., Beacham, J., Cranmer, K., Yavin, I., Boucrot, J., Callot, O., Davier, M., Duflot, L., Grivaz, J.-F., Heusse, Ph., Jacholkowska, A., Serin, L., Veillet, J.-J., Azzurri, P., Bagliesi, G., Boccali, T., Foà, L., Giammanco, A., Giassi, A., Ligabue, F., Messineo, A., Palla, F., Sanguinetti, G., Sciabà, A., Sguazzoni, G., Spagnolo, P., Tenchini, R., Venturi, A., Verdini, P. G., Awunor, O., Blair, G. A., Cowan, G., Garcia-Bellido, A., Green, M. G., Medcalf, T., Misiejuk, A., Strong, J. A., Teixeira-Dias, P., Clifft, R. W., Edgecock, T. R., Norton, P. R., Tomalin, I. R., Ward, J. J., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boumediene, D., Colas, P., Fabbro, B., Lançon, E., Lemaire, M.-C., Locci, E., Perez, P., Rander, J., Tuchming, B., Vallage, B., Litke, A. M., Taylor, G., Booth, C. N., Cartwright, S., Combley, F., Hodgson, P. N., Lehto, M., Thompson, L. F., Böhrer, A., Brandt, S., Grupen, C., Hess, J., Ngac, A., Prange, G., Borean, C., Giannini, G., He, H., Putz, J., Rothberg, J., Armstrong, S. R., Berkelman, K., Ferguson, D. P. S., Gao, Y., González, S., Hayes, O. J., Hu, H., Jin, S., Kile, J., McNamara, III, P. A., Nielsen, J., Pan, Y. B., von Wimmersperg-Toeller, J. H., Wiedenmann, W., Wu, J., Lan Wu, Sau, Wu, X., Zobernig, G., Dissertori, G., and The ALEPH collaboration

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2010
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13. A calculation of the time-of-flight distribution of trapped atoms

Author

Yavin, I., Weel, M., Andreyuk, A., and Kumarakrishnan, A.

Subjects
Time-of-flight mass spectrometry -- Analysis, Clouds -- Dynamics, Cloud physics -- Analysis, Physics
Abstract

(Received 30 July 2001; accepted 4 October 2001) We consider the ballistic expansion of a cloud of trapped atoms falling under the influence of gravity. Using a simple coordinate transformation, we derive an analytical expression for the time-of-flight signal. The properties of the signal can be used to infer the initial temperature of the cloud. We first assume a point size cloud with an isotropic velocity distribution to explain the physical basis of the calculation. The treatment is then generalized to include a finite-size cloud with an anisotropic velocity distribution, and an exact result for the signal is derived. The properties of the signal are discussed, and an intuitive picture is presented to explain how initial conditions determine the features of the signal. [DOI: 10.1119/1.1424266]

Published
2002

14. The KDK (potassium decay) experiment

Author

Di Stefano, P.C.F., primary, Brewer, N., additional, Fijałkowska, A., additional, Gai, Z., additional, Goetz, K.C., additional, Grzywacz, R., additional, Hamm, D., additional, Lechner, P., additional, Liu, Y., additional, Lukosi, E., additional, Mancuso, M., additional, Melcher, C., additional, Ninkovic, J., additional, Petricca, F., additional, Rasco, A. C., additional, Rouleau, C., additional, Rykaczewski, K.P., additional, Squillari, P., additional, Stand, L., additional, Stracener, D., additional, Stukel, M., additional, WoliĔska-Cichocka, M., additional, and Yavin, I., additional

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2020
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18. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

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Hewett, J.L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J.N., Casey, B.C.K., Collar, J., de Gouvea, A., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J.A., Jung, C.K., Lu, Z.T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J.R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J.L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C.E.M., Zeller, G.P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C.A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J.R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Arrieta Diaz, E., Asaadi, J., Asner, D.M., Babu, K.S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A.J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S.J., Briere, R.A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T.E., Bryman, D.A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, Mu-Chun, Cheng, C.H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N.H., Christensen, E., Christy, M.E., Chupp, T.E., Church, E., Cline, D.B., Coan, T.E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R.J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D.F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G.S., Demarteau, M., DeMille, D.P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M.S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M.R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, Bhaskar, Duyang, H., Dwyer, D.A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S.R., Escobar, C., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J.E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Fileviez Perez, P., Filippone, B., Fisher, P., Fleming, B.T., Flood, K.T., Forty, R., Frank, M.J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K.S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F.G., Gardner, S., Garrison, L., Gasparian, A., Geer, S., Gehman, V.M., Gershon, T., Gilchriese, M., Ginsberg, C., Gogoladze, I., Gonderinger, M., Goodman, M., Gould, H., Graham, M., Graham, P.W., Gran, R., Grange, J., Gratta, G., Green, J.P., Greenlee, H., Group, R.C., Guardincerri, E., Gudkov, V., Guenette, R., Haas, A., Hahn, A., Han, T., Handler, T., Hardy, J.C., Harnik, R., Harris, D.A., Harris, F.A., Harris, P.G., Hartnett, J., He, B., Heckel, B.R., Heeger, K.M., Henderson, S., Hertzog, D., Hill, R., Hinds, E.A., Hitlin, D.G., Holt, R.J., Holtkamp, N., Horton-Smith, G., Huber, P., Huelsnitz, W., Imber, J., Irastorza, I., Jaeckel, J., Jaegle, I., James, C., Jawahery, A., Jensen, D., Jessop, C.P., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Kagan, A.L., Kalita, M., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D.M., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kephart, R., Kettell, S., Kim, Y.K., Kirby, M., Kirch, K., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Kobach, A., Kohl, M., Kopp, J., Kordosky, M., Korsch, W., Kourbanis, I., Krisch, A.D., Krizan, P., Kronfeld, A.S., Kulkarni, S., Kumar, K.S., Kuno, Y., Kutter, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lamm, M., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langacker, P., Lazarevic, S., Le, T., Lee, K., Lesko, K.T., Li, Y., Lindgren, M., Lindner, A., Link, J., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L.S., Littlejohn, B., Liu, C.Y., Loinaz, W., Lorenzon, W., Louis, W.C., Lozier, J., Ludovici, L., Lueking, L., Lunardini, C., MacFarlane, D.B., Machado, P.A.N., Mackenzie, P.B., Maloney, J., Marciano, W.J., Marsh, W., Marshak, M., Martin, J.W., Mauger, C., McFarland, K.S., McGrew, C., McLaughlin, G., McKeen, D., McKeown, R., Meadows, B.T., Mehdiyev, R., Melconian, D., Merkel, H., Messier, M., Miller, J.P., Mills, G., Minamisono, U.K., Mishra, S.R., Mocioiu, I., Sher, S.Moed, Mohapatra, R.N., Monreal, B., Moore, C.D., Morfin, J.G., Mousseau, J., Moustakas, L.A., Mueller, G., Mueller, P., Muether, M., Mumm, H.P., Munger, C., Murayama, H., Nath, P., Naviliat-Cuncin, O., Nelson, J.K., Neuffer, D., Nico, J.S., Norman, A., Nygren, D., Obayashi, Y., O'Connor, T.P., Okada, Y., Olsen, J., Orozco, L., Orrell, J.L., Osta, J., Pahlka, B., Paley, J., Papadimitriou, V., Papucci, M., Parke, S., Parker, R.H., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Patch, A., Pati, J.C., Patterson, R.B., Pavlovic, Z., Paz, Gil, Perdue, G.N., Perevalov, D., Perez, G., Petti, R., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Pivovaroff, M., Plunkett, R., Polly, C.C., Pospelov, M., Povey, R., Prakesh, A., Purohit, M.V., Raby, S., Raaf, J.L., Rajendran, R., Rajendran, S., Rameika, G., Ramsey, R., Rashed, A., Ratcliff, B.N., Rebel, B., Redondo, J., Reimer, P., Reitzner, D., Ringer, F., Ringwald, A., Riordan, S., Roberts, B.L., Roberts, D.A., Robertson, R., Robicheaux, F., Rominsky, M., Roser, R., Rosner, J.L., Rott, C., Rubin, P., Saito, N., Sanchez, M., Sarkar, S., Schellman, H., Schmidt, B., Schmitt, M., Schmitz, D.W., Schneps, J., Schopper, A., Schuster, P., Schwartz, A.J., Schwarz, M., Seeman, J., Semertzidis, Y.K., Seth, K.K., Shafi, Q., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharpe, S.R., Shiozawa, M., Shiltsev, V., Sigurdson, K., Sikivie, P., Singh, J., Sivers, D., Skwarnicki, T., Smith, N., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Song, Y.H., Soni, A., Souder, P., Sousa, A., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., Stavenga, G.C., Steffen, J.H., Stepanyan, S., Stoeckinger, D., Stone, S., Strait, J., Strassler, M., Sulai, I.A., Sundrum, R., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Takeuchi, T., Tanedo, P., Taneja, S., Tang, J., Tanner, D.B., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I., Thomas, J., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Tice, B.G., Tobar, M., Tolich, N., Toro, N., Towner, I.S., Tsai, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tunnell, C.D., Tzanov, M., Upadhye, A., Urheim, J., Vahsen, S., Vainshtein, A., Valencia, E., Van de Water, R.G., Van de Water, R.S., Velasco, M., Vogel, J., Vogel, P., Vogelsang, W., Wah, Y.W., Walker, D., Weiner, N., Weltman, A., Wendell, R., Wester, W., Wetstein, M., White, C., Whitehead, L., Whitmore, J., Widmann, E., Wiedemann, G., Wilkerson, J., Wilkinson, G., Wilson, P., Wilson, R.J., Winter, W., Wise, M.B., Wodin, J., Wojcicki, S., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Wurtele, J., Xin, T., Xu, J., Yamanaka, T., Yamazaki, Y., Yavin, I., Yeck, J., Yeh, M., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Young, A., Zimmerman, E., Zioutas, K., Zisman, M., Zupan, J., and Zwaska, R.

Subjects
Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms. The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms.

Published
2012

19. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Author

Hewett, J. L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J. N., Casey, B. C. K., Collar, J., Gouvea, A., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J. A., Jung, C. K., Lu, Z. T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J. R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J. L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C. E. M., Zeller, G. P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C. A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J. R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Arrieta Diaz, E., Asaadi, J., Asner, D. M., Babu, K. S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A. J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S. J., Briere, R. A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T. E., Bryman, D. A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, M. C., Cheng, C. H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N. H., Christensen, E., Christy, M. E., Chupp, T. E., Church, E., Cline, D. B., Coan, T. E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R. J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D. F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G. S., Demarteau, M., Demille, D. P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M. S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M. R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, B., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S. R., Escobar, C., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J. E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Fileviez Perez, P., Filippone, B., Fisher, P., Flemming, B. T., Flood, K. T., Forty, R., Frank, M. J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K. S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F. G., Gardner, S., Garrison, L., Gasparian, A., Geer, S., Gehman, V. M., Gershon, T., Gilchriese, M., Ginsberg, C., Gogoladze, I., Gonderinger, M., Goodman, M., Gould, H., Graham, M., Graham, P. W., Gran, R., Grange, J., Gratta, G., Green, J. P., Greenlee, H., Group, R. C., Guardincerri, E., Gudkov, V., Guenette, R., Haas, A., Hahn, A., Han, T., Handler, T., Hardy, J. C., Harnik, R., Harris, D. A., Harris, F. A., Harris, P. G., Hartnett, J., He, B., Heckel, B. R., Heeger, K. M., Henderson, S., Hertzog, D., Hill, R., Hinds, E. A., Hitlin, D. G., Holt, R. J., Holtkamp, N., Horton-Smith, G., Huber, P., Huelsnitz, W., Imber, J., Irastorza, I., Jaeckel, J., Jaegle, I., James, C., Jawahery, A., Jensen, D., Jessop, C. P., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Kagan, A. L., Kalita, M., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kephart, R., Kettell, S., Kim, Y. K., Kirby, M., Kirch, K., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Kobach, A., Kohl, M., Kopp, J., Kordosky, M., Korsch, W., Kourbanis, I., Krisch, A. D., Krizan, P., Kronfeld, A. S., Kulkarni, S., Kumar, K. S., Kuno, Y., Kutter, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lamm, M., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langacker, P., Lazarevic, S., Le, T., Lee, K., Lesko, K. T., Li, Y., Lindgren, M., Lindner, A., Link, J., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L. S., Littlejohn, B., Liu, C. Y., Loinaz, W., Lorenzon, W., Louis, W. C., Lozier, J., Ludovici, L., Lueking, L., Lunardini, C., Macfarlane, D. B., Machado, P. A. N., Mackenzie, P. B., Maloney, J., Marciano, W. J., Marsh, W., Marshak, M., Martin, J. W., Mauger, C., Mcfarland, K. S., Mcgrew, C., Mclaughlin, G., Mckeen, D., Mckeown, R., Meadows, B. T., Mehdiyev, R., Melconian, D., Merkel, H., Messier, M., Miller, J. P., Mills, G., Minamisono, U. K., Mishra, S. R., Mocioiu, I., Moed Sher, S., Mohapatra, R. N., Monreal, B., Moore, C. D., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Leonidas Moustakas, Mueller, G., Mueller, P., Muether, M., Mumm, H. P., Munger, C., Murayama, H., Nath, P., Naviliat-Cuncin, O., Nelson, J. K., Neuffer, D., Nico, J. S., Norman, A., Nygren, D., Obayashi, Y., O Connor, T. P., Okada, Y., Olsen, J., Orozco, L., Orrell, J. L., Osta, J., Pahlka, B., Paley, J., Papadimitriou, V., Papucci, M., Parke, S., Parker, R. H., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Patch, A., Pati, J. C., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Paz, G., Perdue, G. N., Perevalov, D., Perez, G., Petti, R., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Pivovaroff, M., Plunkett, R., Polly, C. C., Pospelov, M., Povey, R., Prakesh, A., Purohit, M. V., Raby, S., Raaf, J. L., Rajendran, R., Rajendran, S., Rameika, G., Ramsey, R., Rashed, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Rebel, B., Redondo, J., Reimer, P., Reitzner, D., Ringer, F., Ringwald, A., Riordan, S., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, R., Robicheaux, F., Rominsky, M., Roser, R., Rosner, J. L., Rott, C., Rubin, P., Saito, N., Sanchez, M., Sarkar, S., Schellman, H., Schmidt, B., Schmitt, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schneps, J., Schopper, A., Schuster, P., Schwartz, A. J., Schwarz, M., Seeman, J., Semertzidis, Y. K., Seth, K. K., Shafi, Q., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharpe, S. R., Shiozawa, M., Shiltsev, V., Sigurdson, K., Sikivie, P., Singh, J., Sivers, D., Skwarnicki, T., Smith, N., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Song, Y. H., Soni, A., Souder, P., Sousa, A., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., Stavenga, G. C., Steffen, J. H., Stepanyan, S., Stoeckinger, D., Stone, S., Strait, J., Strassler, M., Sulai, I. A., Sundrum, R., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Takeuchi, T., Tanedo, P., Taneja, S., Tang, J., Tanner, D. B., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I., Thomas, J., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Tice, B. G., Tobar, M., Tolich, N., Toro, N., Towner, I. S., Tsai, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tunnell, C. D., Tzanov, M., Upadhye, A., Urheim, J., Vahsen, S., Vainshtein, A., Valencia, E., Water, R. G., Water, R. S., Velasco, M., Vogel, J., Vogel, P., Vogelsang, W., Wah, Y. W., Walker, D., Weiner, N., Weltman, A., Wendell, R., Wester, W., Wetstein, M., White, C., Whitehead, L., Whitmore, J., Widmann, E., Wiedemann, G., Wilkerson, J., Wilkinson, G., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winter, W., Wise, M. B., Wodin, J., Wojcicki, S., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Wurtele, J., Xin, T., Xu, J., Yamanaka, T., Yamazaki, Y., Yavin, I., Yeck, J., Yeh, M., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Young, A., Zimmerman, E., Zioutas, K., Zisman, M., Zupan, J., Zwaska, R., Center for Neutrino Physics, and Physics

Subjects
scattering [neutrino], semileptonic decay [nucleus], experimental methods, flavor: violation [lepton], Nuclear Theory, decay [K0], FOS: Physical sciences, annihilation [electron positron], violation [CP], High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), magnetic moment [muon], heavy quark, violation [lepton number], Nuclear Experiment, interaction [hadron hadron], antihydrogen, astrophysics, new physics, hep-ex, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, oscillation [neutrino], scattering [lepton], hep-ph, decay [B], electric moment [atom], oscillation [n anti-n], postulated particle, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, grand unified theory, electric moment [n], decay [p], Rockville 2011/12 [conference], High Energy Physics::Experiment, violation [parity]
Abstract

The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms., Comment: 229 pages

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2011
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21. Clozapine in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia patients: a case series study

Author

Yavin I, Roberto Mester, Abraham Weizman, Ilya Reznik, Rael D. Strous, B. Spivak, Moshe Kotler, Rafael Stryjer, and N Gonen

Subjects
Adult, Male, Treatment response, medicine.medical_specialty, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Refractory, Internal medicine, Medicine, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), Psychiatry, Clozapine, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Sex Characteristics, business.industry, General Medicine, Serotonin reuptake, medicine.disease, Obsessive compulsive symptoms, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cross-Sectional Studies, Treatment Outcome, Schizophrenia, Cohort, Female, Schizophrenic Psychology, Serotonin Antagonists, business, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Case series, medicine.drug, Antipsychotic Agents
Abstract

INTRODUCTION Obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms have been observed in a substantial proportion of schizophrenic patients. There are some reports describing the appearance de novo or reemergence of preexisting OC symptoms under clozapine (CLZ) therapy. However, there are also reports describing a positive effect of CLZ therapy in OC schizophrenic patients. It seems that comorbid OC symptoms are common among CLZ-treated refractory schizophrenic patients and are likely to be an integral part of their illness. The complex nature of the treatment response in this group of schizophrenic patients is as yet unclear. The effects of CLZ on OC symptoms may vary, with evidence of improvement in some and worsening among others. METHODS The present case series study describes our experience with CLZ as a sole agent (n = 10) or in combination with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (n = 5), in schizophrenic patients with prominent OC symptomatology. RESULTS Systematic analysis of clinical features of our patients, as well as findings in the literature to date, led us to suggest some factors that may predict response to CLZ treatment in treatment-resistant schizophrenic patients with prominent OC symptoms: 1) schizophrenic patients who began to exhibit OC symptoms within the course of the psychotic process need and might to be successfully treated with CLZ alone; 2) when OC symptomatology preceded the development of schizophrenic process, CLZ monotherapy is inefficient and may even worsen OC symptoms; therefore, it should be treated concomitantly with specific anti-obsessive agents; 3) in both groups there is a definite dose-related pro-obsessive influence of CLZ when it is given in high doses. DISCUSSION Further controlled investigations in a larger cohort of OC schizophrenic patients are needed to substantiate our hypothesis. OCD:Obsessive-compulsive disorder OCS:Obsessive-compulsive symptoms SRI:Serotonin reuptake inhibitors

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2004

22. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Author

Center for Neutrino Physics, Physics, Hewett, J. L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J. N., Casey, B. C. K., Collar, J., Gouvea, A. D., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J. A., Jung, C. K., Lu, Z. T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J. R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J. L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C. E. M., Zeller, Geralyn P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C. H., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C. A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J. R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Diaz, E. A., Asaadi, J., Asner, D. M., Babu, K. S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, A. B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A. J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S. J., Briere, R. A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T. E., Bryman, D. A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, M. C., Cheng, C. H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N. H., Christensen, E., Christy, M. E., Chupp, T. E., Church, E., Cline, D. B., Coan, T. E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R. J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D. F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G. S., Demarteau, M., DeMille, D. P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M. S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M. R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Zelimir, Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, B., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S. R., Escobar, C. O., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J. E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Perez, P. F., Filippone, B. W., Fisher, P., Fleming, B. T., Flood, K. T., Forty, R., Frank, M. J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K. S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F. 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The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms.

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2011

29. Calculation of the transfer efficiency between dual magneto-optical traps and simulation of a loffe trap Bose-Einstein condensation.

Author

Yavin, I., Mikaelian, T., and Kumarakrishnan, A.

Subjects
*MAGNETOOPTICAL devices, *ULTRAHIGH vacuum, *TRANSITION temperature, *BOSE-Einstein condensation
Abstract

Considers the problem of transferring a cold atomic cloud from a low-vacuum chamber to an ultra-high vacuum chamber, where it can be recaptured and cooled to the transition temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation. Initial Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution for the thermal cloud; Gaussian spatial density distribution; Effect of experimental parameters on the transfer efficiency; Numerical simulations of the magnetic field due to a simplified Ioffe-Pritchard trap.

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2003
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34. Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

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Emanuel Katz, Wolfgang Waltenberger, Michele Papucci, Scott Thomas, P. Hansson, JoAnne L. Hewett, David Shih, Joshua Berger, Philip Schuster, Tuhin S. Roy, Liam Fitzpatrick, Jessie Shelton, Martin Schmaltz, Keith Rehermann, Matthew Baumgart, Daniele S. M. Alves, Michael Spannowsky, Jing Shu, Sonia El Hedri, Ayres Freitas, Matthew D. Schwartz, Andy Haas, S. Schnetzer, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Myeonghun Park, Daniel Silverstein, Eric Kuflik, Pedro Schwaller, Spencer Chang, J.F. Gunion, Jing Shao, Kathryn M. Zurek, Jared Kaplan, Michael Park, Stephen Mrenna, David E. Morrissey, Matthew J. Strassler, Thomas Gregoire, Tim M. P. Tait, Ian M. Lewis, Veronica Sanz, Mihoko M. Nojiri, S. Arora, Itay Yavin, Matthew R. Buckley, Sunil Somalwar, Clifford Cheung, Pyungwon Ko, Ran Lu, Brooks Thomas, Patrick J. Fox, Joshua T. Ruderman, Sue Ann Koay, Ryuichiro Kitano, Tao Liu, Mariarosaria D'Alfonso, Yue Zhao, Jay G. Wacker, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Tomer Volansky, Ben Gripaios, Michael E. Peskin, Bart Butler, R. Cotta, Won Sang Cho, Ariel Schwartzman, Vikram Rentala, Hyung Do Kim, Natalia Toro, Sanjay Padhi, Mariangela Lisanti, Jay Hubisz, Dmitry Hits, Zhen Liu, Eder Izaguirre, Patrick Meade, Can Kilic, Maxim Perelstein, Rouven Essig, Jared A. Evans, Elizabeth H. Simmons, Shufang Su, James S. Gainer, Markus A. Luty, Felix Yu, Christian Spethmann, R. Sekhar Chivukula, Takemichi Okui, Roberto Franceschini, Yang Bai, David Krohn, R. N.C. Gray, Tao Han, Daniel J. Phalen, Yuri Gershtein, Alves, D., Arkani Hamed, Arora, S., Bai, Y., Baumgart, M., Berger, J., Buckley, M., Butler, B., Chang, S., Cheng, H. C., Cheung, C., Chivukula, R. S., Cho, W. S., Cotta, R., Dalfonso, M., Hedri, S. E., Essig, R., Evans, J., . A., Fitzpatrick, L., Fox, P., Franceschini, Roberto, Freitas, A., Gainer, J. S., Gershtein, Y., Gray, H., Gregoire, T., Gripaios, B., Gunion, J., Han, T., Haas, A., Hansson, P., Hewett, J., Hits, D., Hubisz, J., Izaguirre, E., Kaplan, D., Katz, E., Kilic, C., Kim, H. D., Kitano, R., Koay, S. A., Ko, P., Krohn, D., Kuflik, E., Lewis, I., Lisanti, M., Liu, T., Liu, Z., Lu, R., Luty, M., Meade, P., Morrissey, D., Mrenna, S., Nojiri, M., Okui, T., Padhi, S., Papucci, M., Park, M., Perelstein, M., Peskin, M., Phalen, D., Rehermann, K., Rentala, V., Roy, T., Ruderman, J. T., Sanz, V., Schmaltz, M., Schnetzer, S., Schuster, P., Schwaller, P., Schwartz, M. D., Schwartzman, A., Shao, J., Shelton, D., Shih, D., Shu, J., Silverstein, D., Simmons, E., Somalwar, S., Spannowsky, M., Spethmann, C., Strassler, M., Su, S., Tait, T., Thomas, B., Thomas, S., Toro, N., Volansky, T., Wacker, J., Waltenberger, W., Yavin, I., Yu, F., Zhao, Y., and Zurek, K.

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Collider physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Network topology, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle and Plasma Physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010306 general physics, Particle Physics - Phenomenology, Physics, Information retrieval, Large Hadron Collider, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Small number, Molecular, hep-ph, Observable, Nuclear & Particles Physics, 3. Good health, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Phase space
Abstract

This document proposes a collection of simplified models relevant to the design of new-physics searches at the LHC and the characterization of their results. Both ATLAS and CMS have already presented some results in terms of simplified models, and we encourage them to continue and expand this effort, which supplements both signature-based results and benchmark model interpretations. A simplified model is defined by an effective Lagrangian describing the interactions of a small number of new particles. Simplified models can equally well be described by a small number of masses and cross-sections. These parameters are directly related to collider physics observables, making simplified models a particularly effective framework for evaluating searches and a useful starting point for characterizing positive signals of new physics. This document serves as an official summary of the results from the "Topologies for Early LHC Searches" workshop, held at SLAC in September of 2010, the purpose of which was to develop a set of representative models that can be used to cover all relevant phase space in experimental searches. Particular emphasis is placed on searches relevant for the first ~50-500 pb-1 of data and those motivated by supersymmetric models. This note largely summarizes material posted at http://lhcnewphysics.org/, which includes simplified model definitions, Monte Carlo material, and supporting contacts within the theory community. We also comment on future developments that may be useful as more data is gathered and analyzed by the experiments., 40 pages, 2 figures. This document is the official summary of results from "Topologies for Early LHC Searches" workshop (SLAC, September 2010). Supplementary material can be found at http://lhcnewphysics.org

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2011

35. Rare ^{40}K Decay with Implications for Fundamental Physics and Geochronology.

Author

Stukel M, Hariasz L, Di Stefano PCF, Rasco BC, Rykaczewski KP, Brewer NT, Stracener DW, Liu Y, Gai Z, Rouleau C, Carter J, Kostensalo J, Suhonen J, Davis H, Lukosi ED, Goetz KC, Grzywacz RK, Mancuso M, Petricca F, Fijałkowska A, Wolińska-Cichocka M, Ninkovic J, Lechner P, Ickert RB, Morgan LE, Renne PR, and Yavin I

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Potassium-40 is a widespread, naturally occurring isotope whose radioactivity impacts subatomic rare-event searches, nuclear structure theory, and estimated geological ages. A predicted electron-capture decay directly to the ground state of argon-40 has never been observed. The KDK (potassium decay) collaboration reports strong evidence of this rare decay mode. A blinded analysis reveals a nonzero ratio of intensities of ground-state electron-captures (I_{EC^{0}}) over excited-state ones (I_{EC^{*}}) of I_{EC^{0}}/I_{EC^{*}}=0.0095±[over stat]0.0022±[over sys]0.0010 (68% C.L.), with the null hypothesis rejected at 4σ. In terms of branching ratio, this signal yields I_{EC^{0}}=0.098%±[over stat]0.023%±[over sys]0.010%, roughly half of the commonly used prediction, with consequences for various fields [27L. Hariasz et al., companion paper, Phys. Rev. C 108, 014327 (2023)PRVCAN2469-998510.1103/PhysRevC.108.014327].

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2023
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36. Improving identification of dijet resonances at hadron colliders.

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Izaguirre E, Shuve B, and Yavin I

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The experimental detection of resonances has played a vital role in the development of subatomic physics. The overwhelming multijet backgrounds at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) necessitate the invention of new techniques to identify resonances decaying into a pair of partons. In this Letter we introduce an observable that achieves a significant improvement in several key measurements at the LHC: the Higgs boson decay to a pair of b quarks; W±/Z0 vector-boson hadronic decay; and extensions of the standard model (SM) with a new hadronic resonance. Measuring the Higgs decay to b quarks is a central test of the fermion mass generation mechanism in the SM, whereas the W±/Z0 production rates are important observables of the electroweak sector. Our technique is effective in large parts of phase space where the resonance is mildly boosted and is particularly well suited for experimental searches dominated by systematic uncertainties, which is true of many analyses in the high-luminosity running of the LHC.

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2015
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37. Neutrino trident production: a powerful probe of new physics with neutrino beams.

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Altmannshofer W, Gori S, Pospelov M, and Yavin I

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The production of a μ+ μ- pair from the scattering of a muon neutrino off the Coulomb field of a nucleus, known as neutrino trident production, is a subweak process that has been observed in only a couple of experiments. As such, we show that it constitutes an exquisitely sensitive probe in the search for new neutral currents among leptons, putting the strongest constraints on well-motivated and well-hidden extensions of the standard model gauge group, including the one coupled to the difference of the lepton number between the muon and tau flavor, Lμ-Lτ. The new gauge boson Z', increases the rate of neutrino trident production by inducing additional (μγαμ)(νγ(α)ν) interactions, which interfere constructively with the standard model contribution. Existing experimental results put significant restrictions on the parameter space of any model coupled to muon number Lμ, and disfavor a putative resolution to the muon g-2 discrepancy via the loop of Z' for any mass mZ'≳400  MeV. The reach to the models' parameter space can be widened with future searches of the trident production at high-intensity neutrino facilities such as the LBNE.

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2014
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38. Efficacy of reboxetine in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in boys with intolerance to methylphenidate: an open-label, 8-week, methylphenidate-controlled trial.

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Cohen-Yavin I, Yoran-Hegesh R, Strous RD, Kotler M, Weizman A, and Spivak B

Subjects
Adolescent, Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors adverse effects, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity physiopathology, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity psychology, Child, Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors adverse effects, Humans, Male, Methylphenidate adverse effects, Morpholines adverse effects, Patient Dropouts, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Reboxetine, Treatment Outcome, Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors therapeutic use, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity drug therapy, Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors therapeutic use, Methylphenidate therapeutic use, Morpholines therapeutic use
Abstract

Objective: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood. Principal treatment options for ADHD today include the psychostimulants, mainly methylphenidate (MPH). However, approximately 30% to 50% of children and adults with ADHD either do not respond to or do not tolerate treatment with stimulants. In this 8-week open-label, MPH-controlled, parallel group design study, we investigate the efficacy of reboxetine, a new selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, in the treatment of boys with ADHD with a history of intolerance to MPH therapy., Method: Twenty-seven outpatient boys, aged 6 to 16 years, diagnosed with ADHD, participated in the study. Those with a history of intolerance to MPH therapy were assigned to treatment with reboxetine (2-8 mg/d), and the rest were assigned to treatment with MPH (10-20 mg/d) as the control group. The primary outcome measure for this study was the change in rating scores on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, ADHD Scale (DAS) that was assessed at baseline and at 8 weeks., Results: At the end of 8 weeks, both reboxetine and MPH treatment regimens resulted in significant improvement in ADHD symptoms. The change in the reduction in the total DAS score and the DAS subscale scores between the reboxetine group and the MPH group was not statistically significant in any of the scores., Conclusions: Although preliminary, results of this study indicate that the use of reboxetine, a new selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, in the treatment of ADHD could increase treatment options available for children who have shown intolerance or who are unresponsive to MPH.

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2009
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39. Z'-mediated supersymmetry breaking.

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Langacker P, Paz G, Wang LT, and Yavin I

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We consider a class of models in which supersymmetry breaking is communicated dominantly via a U1' gauge interaction, which also helps solve the mu problem. Such models can emerge naturally in top-down constructions and are a version of split supersymmetry. The spectrum contains heavy sfermions, Higgsinos, exotics, and Z' approximately 10-100 TeV, light gauginos approximately 100-1000 GeV, a light Higgs boson approximately 140 GeV, and a light singlino. A specific set of U1' charges and exotics is analyzed, and we present five benchmark models. The implications for the gluino lifetime, cold dark matter, and the gravitino and neutrino masses are discussed.

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2008
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