The structure of the MSSM is reviewed. We first motivate the particle content of the theory by examining the quantum numbers of the known standard model particles and by the requirement of anomaly cancellation. Once the particle content is fixed we can write down the most general renormalizable superpotential. However such a superpotential will contain terms breaking lepton and baryon number wh...

We consider the sparticle spectra that arise when anomaly mediation is the source of supersymmetry-breaking and the tachyonic slepton problem is solved by a Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term. We also show how this can lead to a minimal viable extension of anomaly mediation, in which the gauge symmetry associated with this D-term is broken at very high energies, leaving as its footprint in the low energy ...

Designers of medical computing applications increasingly require terminology support for their systems. Yet, terminology systems today lack standard methodologies for providing terminology support. This invariably means increased implementation time and expense for system developers who need to use terminologies in their applications. We introduce Terminology Query Language (TQL), a simple quer...

General purpose terminology server software facilitates coordinated use of multiple standard medical terminologies for diverse healthcare applications. SNOMED CT is an important clinical reference terminology, whose size and scope make advanced terminology server capabilities particularly useful. Moreover, capabilities tied to SNOMED CT’s special features and requirements can result in substant...

We extend work of G. Ahlbrandt and M. Ziegler to give a classiication of the nite covers with bre group of prime order p for the projective space over the eld with p elements, and for the Grassmannian of k-sets from a disintegrated set (for k 2 N). AMS classiication: 03C35 and 20B27. This paper is a contribution to the study of the ne detail of the class of (countable) totally categorical struc...

Background. Given the importance of English a global language and one of the four official languages used in FIFA, it is essential to acquaint students who are specialised in Physical Education with English sport terminology. Objectives. This study aims to determine the knowledge level of physical education students in Saudi universities’ faculties and departments in relation to English sports...

The regions in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with the minimal amount of fine-tuning of electroweak symmetry breaking are presented for general messenger scale. No a priori relations among the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters are assumed and fine-tuning is minimized with respect to all the important parameters which affect electroweak symmetry breaking. The superpartner spectra...

We consider very constrained versions of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (VCMSSMs) which, in addition to constraining the scalar masses m0 and gaugino masses m1/2 to be universal at some input scale, impose relations between the trilinear and bilinear soft supersymmetry breaking parameters A0 and B0. These relations may be linear, as in simple minimal supergravity mod...

The minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with universal soft breaking terms has a negligible effect on the rare c → uγ decay rate. We therefore study a general model with non-universal soft breaking terms constrained by vacuum stability and the experimental upper bound on the mass difference of the neutral charm mesons. It turns out that gluino exchange can enhance the standard model ra...