We note an intriguing coincidence in nuclear levels, that the subshells responsible for doubly magic numbers happen to bracket nuclei at the energies of the Standard Model bosons. This could show that these bosons actually contribute to the effective mesons of nuclear models. Dear Grubendol, I want to report you and the fellows of your society about some strange coincidences I have found in nuc...

Working in the framework of three chiral neutrinos with Majorana masses, we investigate a scenario first realized in an explicit model by Zee: that the neutrino mass matrix is strictly off-diagonal in the flavor basis, with all its diagonal entries precisely zero. This CP-conserving ansatz leads to two relations among the three mixing angles (θ1, θ2, θ3) and two squared mass differences. We imp...

We employ the Nambu Jona–Lasinio model to determine the vacuum pressure on the quarks in a baryon and hence their density inside. Then we estimate the baryonic masses by implementing the local density approximation for the mean field quark energies obtained in a uniform and isotropic system. We obtain a fair agreement with the experimental masses. PACS: 12.39.-x, 12.39.Ba, 12.39.Fe, 14.20.-c, 1...

We extend the recently proposed gluino axion model to include neutrino masses. We discuss how the canonical seesaw model and the Higgs triplet model may be realized in this framework. In the former case, the heavy singlet neutrinos are contained in superfields which do not have any vacuum expectation value, whereas the gluino axion is contained in one which does. We also construct a specific re...

The discrimination of benign and malignant types of mammographic masses is a major challenge for radiologists. The classic Eigenfaces method was recently adapted for the detection of masses in mammograms. In the work at hand we investigate if this method is also suited for the problem of distinguishing benign and malignant types of this mammographic lesion. We furthermore evaluate two extended ...

We consider minimal supersymmetric extension of standard electroweak model with Dirac neutrino masses. In such model for significant region of the parameters right-handed tau sneutrino is the lightest superparticle and right-handed charged tau slepton is the next to lightest superparticle. Due to the smallness of the neu-trino masses the right-handed tau slepton is long-lived particle that chan...

The paper presents a new microplane constitutive model for the inelastic behavior of jointed rock masses that takes into account the mechanical behavior and geometric characteristics of cracks and joints. The basic idea is that the microplane modeling of rock masses under general triaxial loading, including compression, requires the isotropic rock matrix and the joints to be considered as two d...

New approaches are developed that use measured data to adjust the analytical mass and sti ness matrices of a system so that the agreement between the analytical modes of vibration and the modal survey is improved. By adding known masses to the structure of interest, measuring the modes of vibration of this mass-modi ed system, and nally using this set of new data in conjunction with the initial...