Calculations of sensitivities of future experiments are a necessary ingredient in experimental high energy physics. Especially in the context of measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters extensive studies are performed to arrive at the optimal configuration. In this note we clarify the definition of sensitivity as often applied in these studies. In addition we examine two of the most ...

Standard tools for the analysis of the (average) conditional association structure of the distribution on a multiway contingency table are log-linear models. A different association concept is that of marginal association and this paper describes how marginal log-linear parameters can be used to measure this aspect of association. The paper gives a non-technical discussion of these two aspects ...

We consider leptogenesis induced by soft supersymmetry breaking terms (“soft leptogenesis”), in the context of the inverse seesaw mechanism. In this model there are lepton number (L) conserving and L-violating soft supersymmetry-breaking B-terms involving the singlet sneutrinos which, together with the – generically small– L-violating parameter responsible of the neutrino mass, give a small mas...