The study of the properties of the top quark is one of the main goals of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics program. The experimental precision expected at the LHC requires the calculation of several top-quark related observables beyond leading order in the strong coupling constant. In this work we briefly review the status of the theoretical predictions for the top-quark production proces...

The expected final reach of the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) search experiment CDMS-II by the end of 2007 is a WIMP-nucleon crosssection sensitivity of 2.1 × 10−44 cm2. To proceed further in our search, we have proposed the SuperCDMS Phase A project that would deploy 42 1-inch thick Ge detectors, at a site deeper than the location of CDMS II, and reach a desired sensitivity goal o...

The Standard Model (SM) is a very successful description of particle physics up to the weak scale. It agrees with all the experimental data we have our disposal today. However, it has several shortcomings. We do not know the origin of the fermion masses, which in the SM arise from the Yukawa interactions with the Higgs doublet. These are extremely varied, with a Yukawa coupling for the top of o...

A case with synchronous carcinomas of the large bowel is presented along-with a brief review of the literature, the importance of colonoscopy in the detection of multiple colonic carcinomas is stressed.

The high energy cosmic ray flux impinging on the sun and earth for 4 Gyr is compared to the operation of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at design energy and luminosity. It is shown by two different calculations that both the integrated luminosity and the total hadronic interaction rate from the cosmic ray flux of comparable energy are many orders of magnitude larger than that of the LHC o...

Precise knowledge of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton is essential to relate data to theory at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I will give an overview of the determination of proton PDFs from global analysis of existing data taken at HERA, the Tevatron and fixedtarget experiments. Recent developments and current status will be described. In particular, a comparison will b...

Supramolecular chirality of crystals which display chirality only in the solid state was for the first time measured by diffuse reflectance circular dichroism (DRCD) spectroscopy for sublimable 1 : 1 pyrene (PYR)-p-benzoquinone (Q) complex, and its integrity was proved.

The theory of large one-shot simultaneous-play games with a biosocial typology has been presented in both the individualized and distributionalized forms— large individualized games (LIG) and large distributionalized games (LDG), respectively. Using an example of an LDG with two actions and a single trait in which some Nash equilibrium distributions cannot be induced by the Nash equilibria of t...

If the scale of quantum gravity is near a TeV, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be producing one black hole (BH) about every second, thus qualifying as a BH factory. With the Hawking temperature of a few hundred GeV, these rapidly evaporating BHs may produce new, undiscovered particles with masses approximately 100 GeV. The probability of producing a heavy particle in the decay depends...