The existence of doubly charged Higgs bosons (${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$) is a distinctive feature of the Higgs triplet model (HTM), in which neutrinos obtain tree-level masses from the vacuum expectation value of a neutral scalar in a triplet representation of $SU(2{)}_{L}$. We point out that a large branching ratio for the decay of a singly charged Higgs boson to a doubly charged Higgs boson via ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{W}^{*}$ is possible in a sizeable parameter space of the HTM. From the production mechanism ${q}^{\ensuremath{'}}\overline{q}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{W}^{*}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{H}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}$ the above decay mode would give rise to pair production of ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$, with a cross section which can be comparable to that of the standard pair-production mechanism $q\overline{q}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{Z}^{*}({\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{*})\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{H}^{++}{H}^{--}$. We suggest that the presence of a sizeable branching ratio for ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{W}^{*}$ could significantly enhance the detection prospects of ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$ in the four-lepton channel. Moreover, the decays ${H}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{W}^{*}$ and ${A}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{W}^{*}$ from production of the neutral triplet scalars ${H}^{0}$ and ${A}^{0}$ would also provide an additional source of ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$, which can subsequently decay to ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$.
The conclusions of the Physics Working Group of the international scoping study of a future Neutrino Factory and super-beam facility (the ISS) are presented. The ISS was carried by the international community between NuFact05, (the 7th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories and Superbeams, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome, June 21-26, 2005) and NuFact06 (Ivine, California, 24{30 August 2006). The physics case for an extensive experimental programme to understand the properties of the neutrino is presented and the role of high-precision measurements of neutrino oscillations within this programme is discussed in detail. The performance of second generation super-beam experiments, beta-beam facilities, and the Neutrino Factory are evaluated and a quantitative comparison of the discovery potential of the three classes of facility is presented. High-precision studies of the properties of the muon are complementary to the study of neutrino oscillations. The Neutrino Factory has the potential to provide extremely intense muon beams and the physics potential of such beams is discussed in the final section of the report.
Singly and doubly charged Higgs bosons in the Higgs triplet model mediate the lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\overline{l}ll$ and $\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}e\ensuremath{\gamma}$. The lepton flavor violating decay rates are proportional to products of two triplet Yukawa couplings (${h}_{ij}$) which can be expressed in terms of the parameters of the neutrino mass matrix and an unknown triplet vacuum expectation value. We determine the parameter space of the neutrino mass matrix in which a signal for $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\overline{l}ll$ and/or $\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}e\ensuremath{\gamma}$ is possible at ongoing and planned experiments. The conditions for respecting the stringent upper limit for $\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\overline{e}ee$ are studied in detail, with emphasis given to the possibility of $|{h}_{ee}|\ensuremath{\simeq}0$, which can only be realized if Majorana phases are present.
This paper proposes an architecture for an open-domain conversational system and evaluates an implemented system. The proposed architecture is fully composed of modules based on natural language processing techniques. Experimental results using human subjects show that our architecture achieves significantly better naturalness than a retrieval-based baseline and that its naturalness is close to that of a rule-based system using 149K hand-crafted rules.
Remarkable progress has been made with conversational systems in recent years, and they are becoming much more common.However, many problems remain to be solved such as errors in speech recognition and the narrow range of tractable dialogue topics.In this article, we introduce our efforts to improve the dialogue quality of our dialogue systems and to prevent dialogue breakdown using multiple dialogue robots.