through a dark window

Looking through a cranial window

Editorial Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease with 200–500 million new infections and up to one million deaths annually. 1 Half the world's population is at risk of being infected by one of the five Plasmodium parasite species causing malaria in humans. P. falciparum is responsible for the most fatal outcomes occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. 2 Infection can progress very fast from...

Higgs decays as a window into the dark sector

A light vector boson, Zd, associated with a ‘‘dark sector’’ Uð1Þd gauge group has been introduced to explain certain astrophysical observations as well as low energy laboratory anomalies. In such models, the Higgs boson may decay into X þ Zd, where X 1⁄4 Z, Zd or . Here, we provide estimates of those decay rates as functions of the Zd coupling through either mass mixing (e.g., via an enlarged H...

Natural SUSY Dark Matter: A Window on the GUT Scale

One of the key motivations for supersymmetry is that it provides a natural candidate for dark matter. For a long time the density of this candidate particle fell within cosmological bounds across much of the SUSY parameter space. However with the precision results of WMAP, it has become apparent that the majority of the SUSY parameter space no longer fits the observed relic density. This has gi...

Monticello Through the Window

We present a case study in the use of virtual environment technology for cultural heritage applications, describing a collaborative effort to construct two cultural heritage exhibits for a five month exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. To illustrate the factors that shape museum exhibit design, we explore the initial conceptual phase and discuss our reasons for choosing certain designs...

Scene Perception: The World Through a Window