Hidden Valley Sanctuary

Bee sanctuary

The mysterious disappearance of entire bee colonies, known as colony collapse disorder or CCD, has mystified researchers for a couple of years now (see Curr. Biol. 17, R389). It was first observed in the US, where highly industrialised bee-keeping practices mean that colonies are shipped across the continent to work large areas of a single crop. But whether this stress or other factors are resp...

A Pure-Glue Hidden Valley I. States and Decays

It is possible that the standard model is coupled, through new massive charged or colored particles, to a hidden sector whose low energy dynamics is controlled by a pure Yang-Mills theory, with no light matter. Such a sector would have numerous metastable “hidden glueballs” built from the hidden gluons. These states would decay to particles of the standard model. We consider the phenomenology o...

SUSY Higgs mass and collider signals with a Hidden Valley

We propose a framework of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model that can ameliorate both the SUSY Higgs mass problem and the missing superpartner problem. New vectorlike matter fields couple to the Higgs and provide new loop contributions to its mass. New Yukawa couplings are sizable and large supersymmetry breaking is not needed to lift the Higgs mass. To avoid a Landau pole for the ...

Analysing the Effects of Environmental Recognition on Enhancing the Hidden Natural Landscape of Tajrish River-Valley and its Sociability

A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents

The Sanctuary project at UCSD is building a secure infrastructure for mobile agents, and examining the fundamental security limits of such an infrastructure. First, what do we mean by \secure"? An obvious issue is the privacy of computation. With standard approaches for agent-based systems, a malicious server has access to the complete internal state of an agent: software agents have no hopes o...