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We propose an alternate, calculable mechanism of dark matter genesis,"thermal freeze-in," involving a Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP)interacting so feebly with the thermal bath that it never attains thermalequilibrium. As with the conventional "thermal freeze-out" productionmechanism, the relic abundance reflects a combination of initial thermaldistributions together with particle masses and couplings that can be measuredin the laboratory or astrophysically. The freeze-in yield is IR dominated bylow temperatures near the FIMP mass and is independent of unknown UV physics,such as the reheat temperature after inflation. Moduli and modulinos of stringtheory compactifications that receive mass from weak-scale supersymmetrybreaking provide implementations of the freeze-in mechanism, as do models thatemploy Dirac neutrino masses or GUT-scale-suppressed interactions. Experimentalsignals of freeze-in and FIMPs can be spectacular, including the production ofnew metastable coloured or charged particles at the LHC as well as thealteration of big bang nucleosynthesis.

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We study the Kowalevski expansions near singularities of the swinging Atwood's machine. We show that there is a infinite number of mass ratios $M/m$ where such expansions exist with the maximal number of arbitrary constants. These expansions are of the so--called weak Painlevé type. However, in view of these expansions, it is not possible to distinguish between integrable and non integrable cases.

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We review the theoretical and phenomenological aspects of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model: the Higgs sector including radiative corrections and the 2-loop beta-functions for all parameters of the general NMSSM; the tadpole and domain wall problems, baryogenesis; NMSSM phenomenology at colliders, B physics and dark matter; specific scenarios as the constrained NMSSM, Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking, U(1)'-extensions, CP and R-parity violation.

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The process of charged Higgs production in association with a top quark atthe LHC has been calculated at the complete NLO electroweak level both in a TwoHiggs Doublets Model and in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, assuminga mSUGRA breaking scheme. We have numerically explored the size of the one-loopcorrections in two typical supersymmetric scenarios, with particular attentionto the tan beta dependence, and we have found that they remain perturbativelysmall but possibly sizable, reaching a 20% limit for extreme values of tanbeta, when the complete set of Feynman diagrams is taken into account.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.060
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We elaborate on the relation between perturbative and power-like correctionsto short-distance sensitive QCD observables. We confront theoreticalexpectations with explicit perturbative calculations existing in literature. Asis expected, the quadratic correction is dual to a long perturbative series andone should use one of them but not both. However, this might be true only forvery long perturbative series, with number of terms needed in most casesexceeding by far the number of terms available. What has not been foreseen isthat the quartic corrections might also be dual to the perturbative series. Wereview possible reasons for this emerging duality. We also observe anapproximate geometric growth of the perturbative series for differentobservables evaluated in the euclidean region, signaling a simple structure ofthe series in large orders. Some phenomenological applications are discussed.The emerging values of the running light quark masses at 2 GeV, frompseudoscalar, e+e- to hadrons and tau-decay sum rules and including thequadratic corrections are: (m_u+m_d)(2)=8.7(1.3) MeV and m_s(2) = 106.2(15.4)MeV, while the one of the QCD coupling from tau-decay is: alpha_s(M_Z)=0.1192(10). These results are comparable with existing estimates.

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We review how our current understanding of the light element synthesis duringthe Big Bang Nucleosynthesis era may help shed light on the identity ofparticle dark matter.

Commentaires: Part of Focus on Dark Matter and Particle Physics. 20 pp.

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We directly extract (for the first time) the heavy-baryons octetmass-splittings due to SU(3) breaking using double ratios of QCD spectral sumrules(QSSR), which are less sensitive to the exact value and definition of theheavy quark mass and to the QCD continuum contributions than the simple ratioscommonly used in the current literature for determining the heavy baryonmasses. As a result, we can provide relatively accurate predictions of the Xi_Qand Omega_Q masses once the ones of the associated non-strange Lambda_Q andSigma_Q baryons are known from the data. It is remarkable to notice that theleading term controlling the mass-splittings is the ratio ss/dd of the quarkcondensate rather than the running mass m_s. The optimal choice of theinterpolating currents for the spin 1/2 baryons octet is the same as in thecase of light baryons with the mixing parameter b=-1/5 and confirms the firstQSSR results obtained in [1-3] for the non-strange Lambda_Q and Sigma_Qbaryons.