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We investigate the rare radiative eta decay modes $\eta\to\pi^+\pi^-\gamma\gamma$ and $\eta\to\pi^0\pi^0\gamma\gamma$ within the framework of chiral perturbation theory at $O(p^4)$. We present photon spectra and partial decay rates for both…
In this paper we show that the excess of the tau tau events with respect to the Standard Model background predictions, observed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations and interpreted as the evidence of the Higgs-boson decay into a pair of…
Radial mixing in the pseudoscalar $\eta-\eta^{\prime}$ systems can be generated from hyperfine interactions and annihilation terms. For the $\eta-\eta^{\prime}$ system we find the effects of radial mixing are appreciable and seriously…
Isospin violating hadronic decays of the \eta and \eta' mesons into 3\pi mesons are driven by a term in the QCD Lagrangian proportional to the mass difference of the d and u quarks. The source giving large yield of the mesons for such decay…
We prove an optimal diffusive decay of the environment viewed by the particle in random walk among random independent conductances, with, as a main assumption, finite second moment of the conductance. Our proof, using the analytic approach…
Cosmic ray protons generate gamma-rays, neutrinos, and secondary electrons and positrons (e+/-) through pion-producing collisions with gas atoms. Any synchrotron or Inverse Compton (IC) radiation from secondary e+/- is therefore accompanied…
It is now a firmly established fact that all family lepton numbers are violated in Nature. In this paper we discuss the implications of this observation for future searches for rare tau decays in the supersymmetric see-saw model. Using the…
The possibility to observe the neutrino-less double $ \beta $ decay and thus to prove the Majorana nature of neutrino as well as provide a sensitive measure of its mass is a major challenge of to-day's neutrino physics. As an attractive…
Since a positive future detection of non-linearity in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy pattern might allow to descriminate among different mechanisms giving rise to cosmological adiabatic perturbations, we study the evolution of…
We have examined the anomalous electromagnetic moments of the tau lepton in the processes $e^{-}\gamma \to \nu_e\tau\bar{\nu}_\tau$ ($\gamma$ is the Compton backscattering photon) and $e^{-}e^{+} \to e^{-}\gamma^* e^{+} \to \nu_{e}\tau…
We show the discrepancy between the isospin-rotated $e^+e^-\to\eta\pi^-\pi^+$ cross-section -- measured by various collaborations -- and the Belle $\tau^-\to\eta\pi^-\pi^0\nu_\tau$ spectrum, which cannot be explained by heavy new physics…
Neutrinoless double beta decay, which is a very old and yet elusive process, is reviewed. Its observation will signal that lepton number is not conserved and the neutrinos are Majorana particles. More importantly it is our best hope for…
Neutrinoless double beta decay would be a key to understanding the nature of neutrino masses. The next generation of High Purity Germanium experiments will have to be operated with a background rate of better than 10^-5 counts/(kg y keV) in…
The pure leptonic or semileptonic character of tau decays makes them a good laboratory to test the structure of the weak currents and the universality of their couplings to the gauge bosons. The hadronic tau decay modes constitute an ideal…
We study the process $e^+e^- \to \pi^+\pi^-\eta \gamma$, where the photon is radiated from the initial state. About 8000 fully reconstructed events of this process are selected from the BaBar data sample with an integrated luminosity of…
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a very important process both from the particle and nuclear physics point of view. Its observation will severely constrain the existing models and signal that the neutrinos are massive Majorana particles.…
In this paper, I study the branching ratio of the rare radiative decay $B_s \to \nu \bar{\nu} \gamma$ in the framework of the Fourth-Generation Standard Model and the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model. It is shown that this quantity is a very…
We suggest that the decay modes of kaons with a pion and a pionium ($\pi^+\pi^-$ atom) in the final state can constitute a not yet considered background to the very rare decay $K\to\pi\nu\bar\nu$. In fact, a part of pioniums may escape the…
We study the $L\to l l' l' \nu_l \nu_L$ decays ($L=\tau,\mu$; $l,l'=\mu,e$) in the Standard Model (SM) and in the effective field theory (EFT) description of the weak charged current at low energy, both for polarized and unpolarized $L$,…
Recent experimental results for the ratio of the branching fractions of $\bar B \to D^{(*)}\tau \nu_\tau$ and $B\to D^{(*)} \mu \nu_\mu$ decays came as a surprise and lead to a discussion of possibility to constraining new physics through…