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- Research article
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Effects of supersymmetric threshold corrections on high-scale flavour textures
- Altan Çakir1Email author and
- Levent Solmaz2Email author
© Çakir and Solmaz 2008
- Received: 27 June 2007
- Accepted: 07 March 2008
- Published: 07 March 2008
Integration of superpartners out of the spectrum induces potentially large contributions to Yukawa couplings. Supersymmetric threshold corrections therefore influence the CKM matrix prediction in a non-trivial way. We study the effects of threshold corrections on high-scale flavor structures specified at the gauge coupling unification scale in supersymmetry. We first consider high-scale Yukawa textures which qualify as phenomenologically viable at tree level, and find that they are disqualified after incorporating the threshold corrections. Next, we consider Yukawa couplings, such as those with five texture zeroes, which are incapable of explaining flavor-changing processes. Incorporating threshold corrections, however, makes them phenomenologically viable textures. Therefore, supersymmetric threshold corrections are found to have an observable impact on Yukawa couplings of quarks, and any confrontation of high-scale textures with experiments at the weak scale must take into account such corrections.
PACS Codes: 12.60.Jv, 12.15.Hh
- Yukawa Coupling
- Threshold Correction
- Trilinear Coupling
- Flavor Violation
- Yukawa Matrice
1 Introduction and motivation
Supersymmetric theories with general soft breaking terms possess a number of flavor and CP violation sources [1]. In general, they are nested in the rigid and soft sectors of the theory, and bear no correlation or selection rules whatsoever. This is the case in supergravity and superstring scenarios where Kähler metric and superpotential couplings are all generic matrices in the space of fermion flavors and depend on the compactification scheme employed. This rather high degree of freedom in sources, textures and structures of the flavor mixings at GUT/string scale needs to be refined by confronting them with experimental data especially on rare processes. In general, testing high-scale flavor structures with experimental data involves three basic ingredients:
1. Specification of flavor textures in rigid and soft sectors at the messenger scale (which we take to be the MSSM gauge coupling unification scale Q = M GUT ~ 1016 GeV).
2. Rescaling of lagrangian parameters to low-scale Q = M weak ~ TeV via renormalization group flow. This stage is particularly important due to (i) largeness of the logs (log M GUT /M weak ) involved, and (ii) modifications of flavor structures because of mixings with others.
3. Integration out of the superpartners at M weak to achieve an effective theory which comprises the SM particle spectrum with possible imprints of supersymmety in various couplings. For FCNC phenomenology this step is important as it induces flavor-nonuniversal couplings of gauge and Higgs bosons to fermions.
Any high-scale flavor structure specified in step 1 is classified to be phenomenologically viable if it agrees with experimental data after step 3. The first two steps have been widely discussed in literature by identifying flavor violation sources in general supergravity [2–5] and confronting them with experimental data on fermion masses and mixings as well as various observables in kaon and beauty systems [5–9].
So far analysis of the third step above has been restricted to TeV-scale supersymmetry where gauge [10] and Higgs [11, 12] bosons have been found to develop flavor-changing couplings to fermions. In particular, emphasis has been put on the couplings of Z [10] and Higgs [13–18] to since mixing between second and third generation fermions exhibits a theoretically clean and experimentally wide room for new physics. These analyses have led to conclusion that flavor violation sources in sfermion sector can have a big impact on Higgs phenomenology as well as various rare processes in kaon and beauty systems [11, 12].
It is thus of prime phenomenological interest to know what impact the integration-out of sparticles can leave on high-scale flavor textures below M weak . Stating more specifically, can integrating sparticles out of the spectrum render a given high-scale otherwise-viable texture inappropriate or generate CKM matrix from solely the soft sector or modify effects of Yukawa couplings on the soft sector? These are some of the questions which will be addressed in the present work.
In Sec. 2 below we briefly discuss the formalism for determining effects of supersymmetric threshold corrections. We mainly follow results of [11, 12] therein. In Sec. 3, we first discuss in Sec. 3.1 sensitivities of the GUT-scale CKM-ruled, hierarchic and democratic Yukawa textures to supersymmetric threshold corrections when trilinear couplings are proportional to Yukawas. In Sec. 3.2 we investigate effects of flavor mixings in squark mass-squared matrices on textures analyzed in Sec. 3.1. In Sec. 3.3, we determine effects of threshold corrections on Yukawa textures which would not qualify physical at tree level. In Sec. 4 we conclude.
2 The formalism
encodes the rigid parameters μ and Yukawa couplings Yu,d,e(of up quarks, down quarks and of leptons) each being a 3 × 3 non-hermitian matrix in the space of fermion flavors.
where trilinear couplings like Yukawas themselves are non-hermitian flavor matrices whereas the sfermion mass-squareds are all hermitian. In general, all of the parameters in the second line and off-diagonal entries of the sfermion mass-squared matrices are endowed with CP-odd phases; they serve as sources of CP violation beyond the SM. The Yukawa matrices, trilinear couplings and sfermion mass-squareds facilitate flavor violation in processes mediated by sparticle loops. The MSSM possesses 21 mass parameters, 36 mixing angles and 40 CP-odd phases in addition to ones in the SM [19]. Consequently, there is a 97-dimensional parameter space to be scanned in confronting theory with experiments at M weak . In supergravity or string models the parameters of (1) and (2) are determined by compactification mechanism and structure of the internal manifold [2–4].
with t = (4π)-2 log Q/M GUT , shows explicitly how flavor structure of a given parameter, say , at a given scale Q senses those of the remaining parameters. Indeed, flavor mixings exhibited by at Q = M weak can stem from or Yu,dor or all of them. Therefore, a given pattern of flavor mixings in, for instance, kaon system can be sourced by various flavor matrices in rigid as well as soft sectors of the theory.
where Yd,u(M weak ) are solutions of the corresponding RGEs evaluated at Q = M weak , and γd,uand Γd,uare flavor matrices arising from squark-gluino and squark-Higgsino loops. Their explicit expressions can be found in [11, 12].
with similar expressions for other generations.
where left (right) window of in each entry refers to lower (upper) experimental bound on the associated CKM element. Clearly, the largest uncertainity occurs in |V td |. These matrix elements are measured at Q = M Z , and for a comparison with predictions of the effective theory below Q = M weak they have to be scaled from M Z up to M weak . This can be done without having a detailed knowledge of the particle spectrum of the effective 2HDM at M weak (as emphasized above, the effective theory may consist of some light superpartners in which case beta functions of certain couplings get modified as exemplified by analyses of b → sγ decay in effective supersymmetry [27, 28]) since RG running of the CKM elements is such that V CKM (1, 1), V CKM (1, 2), V CKM (2, 1), V CKM (2, 2) and V CKM (3, 3) do not evolve with energy scale, to an excellent approximation [29–31]. Therefore, it is rather safe to confront the CKM matrix predicted by the effective theory at M weak with the experimental results (7) entry by entry excluding, however, V CKM (1, 3), V CKM (3, 1), V CKM (2, 3) and V CKM (3, 2) for which renormalization effects can be sizeable.
In the next section, we will compute supersymmetric threshold corrections to Yukawa couplings of quarks for certain prototype flavor textures defined at Q = M GUT . In particular, we will evaluate radiatively corrected CKM matrix as well as couplings of the Higgs bosons to quarks to determine the impact of the decoupling of squarks out of the spectrum at M weak on scattering processes at energies accessible to present and future colliders.
3 High-scale textures and threshold corrections
First of all, for standardization and easy comparison with literature (e.g. with the computer codes ISAJET [32] and SOFTSUSY [33]) we take SPS1a' conventions for supersymmetric parameters [34]
tan β = 10, m0 = 70 GeV, A0 = -300 GeV, m1/2 = 250 GeV
and completely neglect supersymmetric CP-violating phases, as mentioned before.
Instead of scanning a 97-dimensional parameter space for specifying what high-scale parameter ranges are useful for what low-energy observables, which is actually what has to be done, we simplify the analysis by focussing on certain prototype textures at high scale. In general, for any flavor matrix in any sector of the theory there exist, boldly speaking, three extremes: (i) completely diagonal, (ii) hierarchical, and (iii) democratic textures. There are, of course, a continuous infinity of textures among these extremes; however, for definiteness and clarity in our analysis we will focus on these three structures.
3.1 Flavor violation from Yukawas and trilinear couplings
at the GUT scale. The soft mass-squareds, on the other hand, are taken entirely flavor conserving i.e. they are strictly diagonal and universal at the GUT scale. It is with direct proportionality of trilinear couplings with Yukawas and certain ansatze for Yukawa textures that, we will study below sensitivities of certain high-scale Yukawa structures to supersymmetric threshold corrections at the TeV scale.
3.1.1 CKM-ruled texture
with no flavor violation in the lepton sector: Y e = diag. (1.9 10-5, 4 10-3, 0.071). The flavor violation effects are entirely encoded in Y d which exhibits a CKM-ruled hierarchy in similarity to Yukawa textures analyzed in [5]i.e. this choice of boundary values of the Yukawas leads to correct CKM matrix [26] at M weak upon integration of the RGEs.
both measured in GeV at M weak = 1 TeV. Clearly, is essentially diagonal whereas (2, 3), (3, 2) and (2, 2) entries of are of the same size.
with = (497.11 GeV)2 diag. (1.15, 1.15, 0.69). The numerical values of the parameters above exhibit good agreement with well-known codes like ISAJET [32] and SOFTSUSY [33].
where left (right) window of in (i, j)-th entry refers to . Clearly, || agrees very well with || in (7) entry by entry. This qualifies (10) to be the correct high-scale texture given experimental FCNC bounds at Q = M Z . However, radiative corrections induced by decoupling of squarks, gluinos and Higgsinos at the supersymmetric threshold M weak = 1 TeV is seen to leave a rather strong impact on the CKM entries. Consider for instance (1, 1) entries of , and . Present experiments provide a 1.64σ significance to |(1, 1)| around a mean value of 0.745 as is seen from (7). The tree-level prediction, |(1, 1)|, takes the value of 0.9746 which is rather close to the center of the experimental interval. However, once supersymmetric threshold corrections are included this tree-level prediction gets modified to |(1, 1)| = 0.9795. This value is obviously far beyond the existing experimental limits as it is a 13.39σ effect. Similarly, |(1, 2)|, |(2, 1)|, |(2, 2)| and |(3, 3)| are, respectively, 12.36σ, 12.36σ, 11.95σ and 2.30σ effects. Obviously, deviation of |(i, j)| from |(i, j|) (comparison with experiments at Q = M Z is meaningful especially for (i, j) = (1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 1), (3, 3) entries whose scale dependencies are known to be rather mild [29–31]), when the latter falls well inside the experimentally allowed range, obviously violates existing experimental bounds in (7) by several standard deviations. Consequently, supersymmetric threshold corrections entirely disqualify the high-scale texture (10) being the correct texture to reproduce the FCNC measurements at the weak scale. This case study, based on numerical values for Yukawa entries in (10), manifestly shows the impact of supersymmetric threshold corrections on high-scale textures which qualify viable at tree level.
all measured in GeV. In this physical basis for quark fields, governs the strength of charged current vertices for each pair of up and down quarks. These mass predictions are to be evolved down to Q = M Z to make comparisons with experimental results. This evolution depends on the effective theory below M weak . Speaking conversely, the high-scale texture (10) as to be folded in such a way that resulting mass and mixing patterns for quarks agree with experiments below the sparticle threshold M weak .
3.1.2 Hierarchical texture
with no flavor violation in the lepton sector: Y e = diag. (1.9 10-5, 0.004, 0.071). Here both Y u and Y d exhibit a hierarchically organized pattern of entries. In a sense, the hierarchic nature of Y d in (10) is now extended to Y u so as to form a complete hierarchic pattern for quark Yukawas at the GUT scale.
both measured in GeV at M weak = 1 TeV. Clearly, in contrast to (11), now both and develop sizeable off-diagonal entries, as expected from (15).
whose average values show good agreement with (12) but certain off-diagonal entries exhibit significant enhancements when the corresponding entries of Yukawas and trilinear couplings are sizeable.
where left (right) window of in (i, j)-th entry refers to |(i, j)| (|(i, j)|). Clearly, || falls well inside the 1.64σ experimental interval in (7) entry by entry. In this sense, Yukawa matrices in (20) qualify to be the correct high-scale textures given present experimental determination of V CKM at Q = M Z . However, this agreement between experiment and theory gets spoiled strongly by the inclusion of supersymmetric threshold corrections. Indeed, as is shown comparatively by (23), violates the bounds in (7) significantly. More precisely, |(1, 1)|, |(1, 2)|, | (2, 1)|, |(2, 2)|, |(3, 3)| turn out to have 7.65σ, 6.83σ, 6.77σ, 6.79σ, 3.28σ significance levels, respectively. These significance levels are far beyond the existing experimental 1.64σ intervals depicted in (7). As a result, supersymmetric threshold corrections are found to entirely disqualify the high-scale texture (15) to be the correct texture to reproduce the FCNC measurements at the weak scale. This case study therefore shows the impact of supersymmetric threshold corrections on high-scale textures which qualify viable at tree level.
all measured in GeV. In this physical basis for quark fields, is responsible for charged current interactions in the effective theory below M weak . The morale of the analysis above is that, the high-scale flavor structures (15) are to be modified in such a way that agrees with with sufficient precision. Aftermath, the question is to predict quark masses appropriately at Q = M weak so that, depending on the particle spectrum of the effective theory beneath, existing experimental values of quark masses at Q = M Z are reproduced correctly.
3.1.3 Democratic texture
with no flavor violation in the lepton sector: Y e = diag. (1.9 10-5, 4 10-3, 0.071). Here both Y u and Y d exhibit an approximate democratic structure so that Yu,d(M weak ) generate correctly masses and mixings of the quarks at the weak scale. Clearly, in the exact democratic limit two of the quarks from each sector remain massless, and therefore, a realistic flavor structure is likely to come from small perturbations of the exact democratic texture [39–41]. Another important feature of exact democratic texture is that all higher powers of Yukawas reduce to Yukawas themselves up to a multiplicative factor, and this gives rise to linearization of and in turn direct solution of Yukawa RGEs in the form of an RG rescaling of the GUT scale texture [25]. These properties remain approximately valid for perturbed democratic textures like (20).
both measured in GeV at M weak = 1 TeV. Though not shown explicitly, each entry of is complex with a phase around 10-7 - 10-6 in size.
whose average values show good agreement with (12) and (17). The off-diagonal entries of each squark soft mass-squared are of similar size due to the democratic structure of the Yukawa couplings. The flavor-mixing entries are the largest among all three mass squareds.
where left (right) window of in (i, j)-th entry refers to |(i, j)| (| (i, j)|). Obviously, || agrees very well with || in (7) entry by entry. This qualifies (20) to be the correct high-scale texture given present experimental determination of V CKM at Q = M Z . The most striking aspect of (23) is the fact that supersymmetric threshold corrections push beyond the experimental bounds. More precisely, |(1, 1)|, |(1, 2)|, |(2, 1)|, |(2, 2)|, |(3, 3)| turn out to have 17.22σ, 14.21σ, 14.21σ, 15.22σ, 16.40σ significance levels, respectively. These are obviously far beyond the existing experimental 1.64σ significance intervals depicted in (7). As a result, supersymmetric threshold corrections are found to entirely disqualify the high-scale texture (20) to be the correct texture to reproduce the FCNC measurements at the weak scale.
Here, it is worthy of noting that deviation of |(i, j)| from | (i, j)| (for i, j = 1, 2) turns out to be similar in size for CKM-ruled (see eq. 13) and democratic (see eq. 23) textures. It is smallest for the hierarchical texture (see eq. 18). Therefore, CKM-ruled texture in (10) and democratic one in (20) exhibit a pronounced sensitivity to supersymmetric threshold corrections in comparison to hierarchical texture in (15).
all measured in GeV. In this physical basis for quark fields, is responsible for charged current interactions in the effective theory below M weak . The morale of the analysis above is that, the high-scale flavor structures (20) are to be modified in such a way that agrees with with sufficient precision. Aftermath, the question is to predict quark masses appropriately at Q = M weak so that, depending on the particle spectrum of the effective theory beneath, existing experimental values of quark masses at Q = M Z are reproduced correctly.
3.2 Inclusion of flavor violation from squark soft masses
In this section we extend GUT-scale flavor structures analyzed in Sec. 3.1 by switching on flavor mixings in certain squark soft mass-squareds. In other words, we maintain Yukawa textures to be one of (10), (15) or (20), and examine what happens to CKM prediction if squared masses of squarks possess non-trivial flavor mixings at the GUT scale.
with similar structures for and . Alternatively, if one adopts (10) or (15) setups the off-diagonal entries of squark soft mass-squareds at M weak are found to remain around which are much smaller than the on-diagonal ones. Therefore, Yukawa textures (and hence those of the trilinear couplings) studied in Sec. 3.1 lead one generically to hierarchic textures for squark soft mass-squareds at Q = M weak irrespective of how large the flavor mixings in (0) might be. In fact, predictions for CKM matrix remain rather close to those in Sec. 3.1 above. This is actually clear from (26) where off-diagonal entries of are seen to evolve into new mixing patterns via themselves and those of Yukawas and trilinear couplings. In conclusion, evolution of squark soft masses is fundamentally Yukawa-ruled and when Yukawas at the GUT scale are taken to shoot the measured value of CKM matrix, the mass insertions associated with (M weak ) are too small to give any significant contribution to Yu,d eff .
where small phases in off-diagonal entries of and are neglected. A comparison with (22) reveals spectacular enhancements in mass insertions pertaining and .
where left (right) window of in (i, j)-th entry refers to |(i, j)| (|(i, j)|). Obviously, || agrees very well with || as was the case in (23). This qualifies (20) to be the correct high-scale texture given present experimental determination of V CKM at Q = M Z . However, implementation of supersymmetric threshold corrections is seen to leave a big impact on certain entries of the physical CKM matrix. Indeed, |(1, 1)|, |(1, 2)|, |(2, 1)|, |(2, 2)|, |(3, 3)| turn out to have 6.06σ, 23.99σ, 23.89σ, 26.52σ, 4.35σ significance levels, respectively. These are to be contrasted with standard deviations computed for (23) in Sec. 3.1.3 above. Needless to say, these deviations are far beyond the experimental sensitivities and thus supersymmetric threshold corrections completely disqualify the flavor textures (20) in a way different than (23) due to new structures (27) and (29).
all measured in GeV. These mass predictions are close to those obtained within democratic texture. As in all cases discussed in Sec. 3.1. especially light quark masses fall outside the existing experimental bounds, and choice of the correct high-scale texture must reproduce both and quark masses in sufficient agreement with experiment.
3.3 A purely soft CKM ?
In Sec. 3.1 and 3.2 we have discussed how prediction for the CKM matrix depends crucially on the inclusion of the supersymmetric threshold corrections. This we did by negation i.e. we have taken certain Yukawa textures which are known to generate CKM matrix correctly at tree level, and then included threshold corrections to demonstrate how those the would-be viable flavor structures get disqualified.
In this section we will do the opposite i.e. we will take a Yukawa texture which is known not to work at all, and incorporate supersymmetric threshold corrections to show how it can become a viable one, at least approximately. For sure, a highly interesting limit would be to start with exactly diagonal Yukawas at the GUT scale and generate CKM matrix beneath M weak via purely soft flavor violation i.e. flavor violation from sfermion soft mass-squareds and trilinear couplings, alone. However, this limit seems difficult to realize, at least for SPS1a' parameter values, since it may require tuning of various parameters, in particular, soft mass-squareds of Higgs and quark sectors [11, 12]. Even if this is done by a fine-grained scan of the parameter space, it will possibly cost a great deal of fine-tuning. Indeed, threshold corrections depend on ratios of the soft masses [11], and generating a specific entry of the CKM matrix can require a judiciously arranged hierarchy among various soft mass parameters – a parameter region certainly away from the SPS1a' point.
with no flavor violation in the lepton sector: Y e = diag. (1.9 10-5, 0.004, 0.071). Both Y u and Y d are endowed with five texture zeroes, and they precisely conform to the structures found in effective theories coming from the heterotic string [43].
both measured in GeV. These trilinear couplings do not obey (9); they are given completely independent flavor structures, in particular, they exhibit (1) mixing between second and third generations. The first generation of squarks is decoupled from the rest completely.
where off-diagonal entries are seen to be hierarchically small so that contributions to Yu,d eff from squark soft mass-squareds are expected to be rather small.
where left (right) window of in (i, j)-th entry refers to |(i, j)| (|(i, j)|).
It is clear that by no means qualifies to be a realistic CKM matrix: |(i, j)| = 0 for (i, j) = (1, 3), (3, 1), (2, 3), (3, 2); moreover, Cabibbo angle is predicted to be one order of magnitude smaller. In addition, its diagonal elements turn out to be well outside the experimental limits. However, once supersymmetric threshold corrections are included certain entries are found to attain their experimentally preferred ranges. Indeed, |(1, 1)| and |(3, 1)| fall right at their upper bounds, and |(1, 3)| far exceeds the experimental bound. The predictions for these entries are not good enough; they need to be correctly predicted by further arrangements of the GUT-scale textures. Nevertheless, for the main purpose of illustrating how threshold corrections influence flavor structures at the IR end, the results above are good enough for what has to be shown since all other entries turn out to be in rather good agreement with experimental bounds. The case study illustrated here shows that, even unphysical Yukawa textures with five texture zeroes, can lead to acceptable CKM matrix predictions once supersymmetric threshold corrections are incorporated into Yukawa couplings.
all measured in GeV. These predictions are not violatively outside the experimental limits, except for the up quark mass. A rehabilitated choice for the GUT-scale textures (34) should lead to a fully consistent prediction for CKM matrix (with much better precision than in, especially the (1, 3), (3, 1) entries of (38) above) together with precise predictions for quark masses (modulo sizeable QCD corrections while running from Q = M weak down to hadronic scale).
4 Conclusion
In this work we have studied impact of integrating superpartners out of the spectrum on Yukawa couplings beneath the supersymmetry breaking scale. In Sec. 2 we have outlined the formalism. In Sec. 3.1 we have illustrated effects of threshold corrections with respect to certain high-scale Yukawa textures which are known, at tree level, to lead to experimentally acceptable CKM predictions at TeV scale. In Sec. 3.2 we have switched on flavor violation in squark soft mass-squareds to determine their effects on CKM prediction, and pointed out how important the flavor structure of the trilinear couplings at the GUT scale for squark soft masses to develop sizeable off-diagonal entries. In Sec. 3.3 above our approach was opposite to those in Sec. 3.1 and 3.2 in that we have investigated how threshold corrections can rehabilitate an unacceptable GUT-scale texture by using Yukawa couplings with five texture zeroes. Our main conclusion is that supersymmetric threshold corrections leave observable impact on Yukawa couplings of quarks; confrontation of high-scale textures with experiments at Q = M Z should take into account such corrections.
We have focussed mainly on SPS1a' point so as to standardize our predictions for various low-scale couplings and masses. Though not shown explicitly, predictions for Higgs boson masses as well as various other sparticle masses and couplings turn out to be in good agreement with experimental bounds (as a characteristic of SPS1a' point they should agree with laboratory and astrophysical bounds modulo small variations in certain parameters stemming from presence of the flavor violation sources). For supersymmetric parameter regions outside SPS1a', certain parameters are expected to vary significantly, especially at large tan β. However, scanning of such parameter regions will result mainly in strengthening of the statements arrived at rather conservative SPS1a' point in that supersymmetric threshold corrections should be taken into account in both bottom-up and top-down approaches to supersymmetric flavor problem.
We are grateful to D. A. Demir for invaluable discussions. The work of L. S. was partially supported by post-doctoral fellowship of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.
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Super CockRoach told me I should swing on by and say G'Day! I know him through LANX in Ballarat and had the pleasure of meeting him at one of the past LANs.
I'm representing CoD4 clan staticOrder (`sO) and would love to organise some scrims sometime. We're a new clan scrimming friendlies and CGo ladder. I'm currently out of the gaming loop until around Nov/Dec but will let the `sO lads know I've jumped on and said G'Day.
Our website is www.staticorder.com if you guys ever want to pop on over.
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For Top Players, Mets Count on Him
As baseball season swings into summer, the doctoral student and Hunter College statistics instructor spends much of his time conferring with New York Mets General Manager Omar Minaya and his management team, analyzing and evaluating players.
"I try to verify independently what people are seeing -- what appears to be true," says Baumer, the team's full-time statistician. Baumer -- a teacher of elementary statistics and probability whose interests include graph theory, combinatorics (the study of counting), discrete geometry and graph algorithms -- is a player in an emerging field that uses statistical methods to give a fuller picture of ball players' skills and performance. "It's actually two jobs," he says of his Mets position. First, he serves as an analyst and adviser on player evaluation. His second job involves building a website as well as a database of player statistics from feeds he gets from major league baseball sources and proprietary database providers.
Baumer, who grew up in Northampton, Mass. -- amid Red Sox Nation -- played ball in high school, as an infielder and pitcher. He majored in economics at Wesleyan, then earned a master's degree in applied math from the University of California, San Diego, in 2003. That summer, with the release of Moneyball, the best-selling book by Michael Lewis, the baseball establishment was turned on its head by statistics.
The book chronicled the unconventional approach of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who touted advanced statistical analyses of player performances over the collective (but often subjective) wisdom of managers, coaches and scouts.
Beane's strategy was to identify and scoop up undervalued players in order to compete with big-market clubs with more financial resources. Such tactics came to exemplify a burgeoning movement in baseball, known as the "sabermetrics," which attempted to create more objective measures of a player's ability to help his team win, giving rise to a new generation of statistical acronyms like WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched).
When Baumer returned home to Massachusetts, a sports economist introduced him to the Mets general manager and in 2004 he was hired as the team's statistician. A year later, he entered the Ph.D. program in mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
At last year's CUNY Statistics Seminar, Baumer presented a research paper that analyzed several sophisticated methods being proposed by researchers to evaluate players' sometimes-elusive defensive skills.
Baumer has now teamed up with another CUNY researcher, Dana Draghicescu of Hunter College's Department of Mathematics and Statistics, to develop better statistical models to assess batters' skills. Draghicescu, who grew up in Romania, earned a Ph.D. at the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland and then did a postdoctoral stint at the University of Chicago. Although she was trained as a theoretical statistician, she was interested in adapting her methodology to real-world applications, such as environmental and medical research. When she met Baumer, she says she knew little about baseball, but she did know one thing: Her expertise in analyzing and predicting environmental data, like precipitation patterns, through space, could also be useful in mapping "hot zones" -- the areas in or around the strike zone in which baseball batters are likely to hit the ball.
Draghicescu and Baumer recently discussed some of their hot-zone mapping techniques at the CUNY Statistics Seminar and in August will present a joint paper on their research at a major conference in Vancouver. While predicting outcomes in sporting events is always tricky, Baumer points out that baseball is "a very good game to do this kind of analysis." Not only are there hundreds of statistics, but given the rules and structure of the game, "data sets" are easier to assign to specific players than in some other sports. Nevertheless, "plenty of teams are drifting in that direction [of statistical analysis]," Baumer says. "You're seeing it a lot more in basketball, football and hockey."
If there's one thing that's certain, says Draghicescu, it's that Baumer will leave his mark as a statistician on America's pastime. "I predict that he will become an expert in this area," she says.


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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the ten live action short films that have been shortlisted for an Academy Award. Here they are in alphabetical order:
Je Pourrais Être Votre Grand-Mère (I Could Be Your Grandmother), Bernard Tanguy, director-producer (Rézina Productions)
Love at First Sight, Michael Davies, director and Sandra Gorel, producer (Spellbound Films)
Pentecost, Peter McDonald, director (EMU Productions)
Raju, Max Zähle, director and Stefan Gieren, producer (Hamburg Media School/Filmwerkstatt)
The Road Home, Rahul Gandotra, director-producer and Ameenah Ayub, producer (London Film School)
The Roar of the Sea, Ana Rocha Fernandes and Torsten Truscheit, directors (Niama Filmproduktion GmbH)
Sailcloth, Elfar Adalsteins, director-producer (Berserk Films)
The Shore, Terry George, director-producer (All Ashore Productions Limited)
Time Freak, Andrew Bowler, director and Gigi Causey, producer (Team Toad)
Tuba Atlantic, Hallvar Witzø, director (The Norwegian Film School/Den Norske Filmskolen)
Embarrassingly, in a previous post, I correctly predicted only one film on this list (Sailcloth)—but, in my defense, no less than 107 short films qualified—making it one of the most difficult lists to predict (at least that is what I am going to tell myself).
Congratulations to all the filmmakers!
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Many are asking: What happened to the Kimi-Lotus pace?
This is a race with high complexity. It is not as if they all are not of intensive complexity, yet this season's continued challenging tire management variability seems a confounding incremental bundle of variability to the otherwise complicated endeavour.
I feel intense complication into the first corner, with intense intra-team, and extra-team rivalries creating powerful stressors, increasing probabilities of destruction.
But if the safety car doesn't have to come out…
I would normally expect Vettel to lead by the second corner, and a Ferrari. Normally the knee jerk reaction would be to assume Fernando; but Filipe lines up behind Vettel, who, according to this theory, out-drags Rosberg to the first corner; Alonso behind Rosberg. If one assumes the Ferraris and Vettel to get the better of Rosberg-Mercedes, Rosberg can block, one, or the other, but not both, and possibly neither. This scenario continues with an intense Vettel-Alonso battle to Vettel's first stop, around… what, lap 10 of 11? Alonso drops the hammer for two, possibly three more, and likely, Massa having passed a topping or going Rosberg, by lap 14, certainly, takes the lead on the harder rubber. In this hypothetical scenario, Massa holds his victory's chances in his own hands! Can he drop the hammer, and reel off faster and faster laps, from the front, maximum tire preservation, to what? lap 22, maybe 23? Expect Massa to be on a two-stop strategy, possibly to cover Kimi?!? Kimi must pass Massa in the first stint to ave a viable chance of winning on a two stopper, which other close observers must have concluded, also.
After the first stop, there re just too many variables to really get a handle on a pattern of performance. For example, the Force Indias are THE FASTEST down the straights, and they have been pretty darn good on tire management; a Force India could win tomorrow! But…. there is such an intense, searing rivalry, burning beneath the surface, wil they get past the first corner intact, from a start where they are so close?
Their day could be here; maybe if good enough, a double podium?!?
And after all, why not Rosberg holding everybody back, take control of the race, manage the tires as far as anybody else starting on mediums, and advance dramatically on Massa still out on hards in a long-running first stint? Go Nico, go!
But maybe Lotus has maximized Kimi's already best preservational use of the primary constraining variable of this race, the rear tire wear. Maybe that means he has a harder time, 'digging-in', on a single lap jam; then again, maybe he'll go as far on the mediums as Massa on the hards.
There is just so much at play here, enjoy!


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Creole and Concert Music
Focusing on music during the colonial and antebellum periods, we might expect that the city was most associated with the famed slave dances at Congo Square, which laid the foundation for jazz. But while these dances were a spectacle that received their share of commentary, most people associated New Orleans with opera and ballroom dance. In the 1820s, a pair of émigrés from Saint-Domingue organized the first permanent opera company in the country and established New Orleans as an elite cultural center through celebrated tours to the Northeast. In 1827, when their troupe visited New York and gave the Northern debut of no less than 30 operas, the praise was unanimous. The New York American gushed, "This company is as good as those heard in the provinces of France and superior to those heard in the Capitals of Europe outside France."
At home, attendance at the opera reflected the diversity of the city's inhabitants. The French were partial to the company at the Théâtre d'Orléans in the Vieux Carré while the Americans flocked to the St. Charles Theater. Each company offered segregated seating for free people of color: in 1820, white patrons of the French opera house could purchase a season subscription for 60 dollars while gens de coleur libres paid 50 for their section. The musicians were predominantly European immigrants but also included Creoles of mixed European and African ancestry as well as American carpetbaggers.
Concert music also flourished in halls offering separate seating for whites, free people of color, and slaves. Among the city's many symphonic offerings there was the Negro Philharmonic Society, a full orchestra founded by black classical musicians. These were mostly French-speaking Creoles like Edmond Dédé, a violinist and composer who attended the Paris Conservatory and was part of a deep pedagogical tradition that included European and Creoles teachers and students.
Nearly every travel account of nineteenth-century New Orleans testifies to the city's penchant for ballroom dance. William C.C. Claiborne, the first American governor, recoiled at the countless private dances, subscription dances, society balls, public dances, and taxi dances where New Orleanians intermingled. After one month in the city, the governor wrote to Secretary of State James Madison and apologized for "calling your attention to the balls of New Orleans, but I do assure you, sir, they occupy much of the public mind."
Ballrooms were spaces where racial, ethnic, religious, and national identities were negotiated to the tunes of the latest contredanses. For example, in his monumental book – Music of New Orleans: The Formative Years -, historian Henry Kmen recounted a ball soon after the Louisiana Purchase where antagonisms between Americans, Creoles, and the French ancienne population played out on the dance floor: The Americans were agitating for the Virginia reel and the jig in place of the waltz and cotillion. To prevent just this the Creoles, for their part, turned out in force. Both sides carried arms to the conflict…Addressing the angry Americans, a [creole woman] cried: "We have been Spanish for thirty years and the Spaniards never forced us to dance the fandango; neither do we want to dance the reel or jig." The municipal authorities ruled that there should be a set order of two French quadrilles, one English quadrille, and one waltz in turn, while Governor Claiborne ordered that an officer and 15 troops be present at every public ball.
There were also "quadroon" balls, where elite white men danced with creole women as a preface to concubine arrangements known as plaçage, and "colored" balls that were theoretically restricted to blacks but were continually crashed by whites. A weekly ballroom schedule might include a night for whites only, another for white men and creole women, and a third for free colored only, but the ordinances enacted to maintain these boundaries were virtually ignored. The Globe Ballroom was closed in 1855 for allowing "tricolor" balls, and police raiding a free colored ball in 1834 found that two-thirds of the men they arrested were slaves.
The echoes of these musical pasts cannot be fully measured in the jazz, brass band, blues, and funk of latter-day New Orleans. These are the styles that come to mind today when we ask ourselves "What is New Orleans?" But for patrons at the Théâtre d'Orléans or the Globe Ballroom, just as for spectators at Congo Square, the city's musical reputation was built on the sheer plenitude of offerings and their freedom of accessibility.
- Matt Sakakeeny


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Chat works great but seems to be very public - unlike e.g. facebook where you can click on a friend's avatar and chat directly with them. Is this possible on a BuddyPress site with this chat plug-in?
Also what happens to all the chat logs - who gets to delete them? Can they be labelled with a name e.g. you could have a master class Q&A session that members could access later - but it would help to be able to give it a meaningful name.
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UPDATE: The lads just played a spirited version of "I Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor." Alex Turner wore a baby blue zip up sweatshirt. Bassist Andy Nicholson was bundled up in a black quilted winter coat. Drummer Matt Helders totally rocked a big ol' pair of tinted aviator shades. But what was that taped onto his drum kit? "ASBD?" or is it "ASBO?" What does that mean?
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ANOTHER UPDATE: Second song is "A Certain Little Alex looked a bit tired in some of those closeup shots. Holy crap! Alex just said, "That man just yawned," as he pointed to the audience in the last verse of the song. And woah, guitarist Jamie Cook just threw his guitar at the speaker, breaking the neck of his axe. Err…is it safe to say that the Monkeys were far from enthused by their experience on SNL?
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LAST UPDATE: And what was that?! While Matt Dillon was saying the thank yous for the night, Alex, Andy, and Jamie were huddled behind him talking amongst themselves, backs to the camera. Matt was standing next to Matt D wearing a red visor and still rocking the shades. Then when all the cast members were congratulating each other, Andy and Matt were just hugging each other, laughing. Oh boy…I wonder what's on their minds now.
I just happen to read this article about The Vines right before SNL and in it was this most appropriate quote from Alex Turner about watching his first live gig–which was the Vines: "I thought, 'That's what being a singer is all about. When we play, I'll do what Craig Nicholls does, be all spaced out.'"
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I recall tiptoeing out of the nursery one night after rocking my baby boy and putting him in his crib. I closed the door and turned to my husband and began explaining to him what had been on my mind while I rocked the baby.
I've got it figured out now. If the next baby is a boy, we can move the chair here and there will be room for another bed on that side of the room.
He smiled over his book. He knew what I knew, that it would all be OK.
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If we really had decided to be done with babies, then this little sweetheart would never have been born.
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- When this is easy progress to wearing no shoes.
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Running is basically a single-leg balancing movement where you transition and push off between legs as you run so this type of exercise makes sense. This reminds me of another single-leg exercise that has received much press lately, the 100 Up. Back at the beginning of November, Chris McDougal of Born to Run fame wrote an article in the New York Times called The Once and Future Way to Run in which he rejuvenates and old drill as found in an late 1800s text on running. Here is a video demonstrating the 100 Up. I have done this off and on for a few weeks more as an exercise to work my creaky hip (labral tear operation last July). It certainly can't hurt and it only takes a limited amount of time to do. Both of these exercises can be added to your tool bag of simple exercises to improve your running form.
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Well our first proper moving in day was today back at the High Island house, and this meant unboarding the gazebo among other chores. Every year we do this we find various creatures that have moved in. This years squatters were this delightful pair: American Tree Frogs, who looked a little put out that we moved their favored boards, and soon disappeared into the brush somewhere.
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