14630427
Spectral distortions at super-kamiokande
We examine the effect of the rise in the survival probability of the electron neutrinos with the decrease in the neutrino energy on the recoil electron spectrum at Super-Kamiokande.
16460683
MODEL INDEPENDENT CONSTRAINTS ON NON-ELECTRONIC FLAVORS IN THE SOLAR BORON NEUTRINO FLUX
We perform the most general model-independent analysis of the latest 391-Day Salt Phase SNO Data Set incorporating the super-Kamiokande ES flux measurement and obtain bounds on the antineutrino and sterile neutrino flux in the solar 8B neutrino flux reaching the detectors on the earth. The muon/tauon antineutrino flux is found to be disallowed at 1.4σ C.L. The sterile flux is found to be nonzero at about 1.26 standard deviations.
15297169
Phenomenological implications of a class of neutrino mass matrices
Phenomenological implications of a class of lepton mass matrices with parallel texture structure have been examined and phenomenologically interesting constraints on charged lepton and neutrino mass matrix parameters have been obtained.
16931053
CP-odd weak basis invariants and texture zeros
We construct the CP-odd weak basis invariants from the neutrino mass matrix in a weak basis, in which the charged lepton mass matrix is diagonal, and find the necessary and sufficient conditions for CP conservation. We study the interrelationships between different CP-odd weak basis invariants to examine their implications for the Dirac- and Majorana-type CP violating phases for the phenomenologically allowed Frampton-Glashow-Marfatia texture zero structures of the neutrino mass matrix.
119298119
Unitarity constraints on trimaximal mixing
When the neutrino mass eigenstate {nu}{sub 2} is trimaximally mixed, the mixing matrix is called trimaximal. The middle column of the trimaximal mixing matrix is identical to tribimaximal mixing and the other two columns are subject to unitarity constraints. This corresponds to a mixing matrix with four independent parameters in the most general case. Apart from the two Majorana phases, the mixing matrix has only one free parameter in the CP conserving limit. Trimaximality results in interesting interplay between mixing angles and CP violation. A notion of maximal CP violation naturally emerges here: CP violation is maximal for maximal 2-3 mixing. Similarly, there is a natural constraint on the deviation from maximal 2-3 mixing which takes its maximal value in the CP conserving limit.
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Phenomenology of Two-Texture Zero Neutrino Mass Matrices
The generic predictions of two-texture zero neutrino mass matrices in the flavor basis have been examined especially in relation to the degeneracies between mass matrices within a class and interesting constraints on the neutrino parameters have been obtained. It is shown that the knowledge of the octant of ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{23}$, the sign of $\mathrm{cos}﻿\ensuremath{\delta}$, and neutrino mass hierarchy can be used to lift these degeneracies.
120520180
Finite electron self-mass in a nonperturbative iterative scheme of quantum electrodynamics
Abstract We show that the electron self-mass δm is finite and equal to electron mass m in the recently proposed nonperturbative iterative scheme of quantum electrodynamics. This has to be contrasted with the logarithmically divergent expression which is obtained in second order perturbation theory.
119260370
Holographic Roberge-Weiss transitions
We investigate $ \mathcal{N} = 4 $ SYM coupled to fundamental flavours at nonzero imaginary quark chemical potential in the strong coupling and large N limit, using gauge/gravity duality applied to the D3-D7 system, treating flavours in the probe approximation. The interplay between $ {\mathbb{Z}_N} $ symmetry and the imaginary chemical potential yields a series of first-order Roberge-Weiss transitions. An additional thermal transition separates phases where quarks are bound/ unbound into mesons. This results in a set of Roberge-Weiss endpoints: we establish that these are triple points, determine the Roberge-Weiss temperature, give the curvature of the phase boundaries and confirm that the theory is analytic in μ2 when μ2 ≈ 0.
117424506
Energy of vanishing flow in heavy-ion collisions: Role of Coulomb interactions and asymmetry of a reaction
We aim to understand the role of Coulomb interactions as well as of different equations of state on the disappearance of transverse flow for various asymmetric reactions leading to same total mass. For the present study, the total mass of the system is kept constant (ATOT = 152) and asymmetry of the reaction is varied between 0.2 and 0.7. We find that the contribution of mean-field at low incident energies is more for nearly symmetric systems, while the trend is opposite at higher incident energies. The Coulomb interactions as well as different equations of state are found to affect the balance energy significantly for larger asymmetric reactions.
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Effect of spatial constraints on fragment production
Multifragmentation is the most extensively studied phenomena in this energy domain. In the past people have tried to develop various methods of clusterization[1]. Among these methods minimum spanning tree[1] is one of the fastest method. In the present study our aim is to understand the role of spatial constraints on fragmentation.
7522699
Nonperturbative quantum dynamics of a new inflation model
We consider an O(N) model coupled self-consistently to gravity in the semiclassical approximation, where the field is subject to {open_quotes}new inflation{close_quotes} type initial conditions. We study the dynamics self-consistently and non-perturbatively with non-equilibrium field theory methods in the large N limit. We find that spinodal instabilities drive the growth of non-perturbatively large quantum fluctuations which shut off the inflationary growth of the scale factor. We find that a very specific combination of these large fluctuations plus the inflaton zero mode assemble into a new effective field. This new field behaves classically and it is the object which actually rolls down. We show how this reinterpretation saves the standard picture of how metric perturbations are generated during inflation and that the spinodal growth of fluctuations dominates the time dependence of the Bardeen variable for superhorizon modes during inflation. We compute the amplitude and index for the spectrum of scalar density and tensor perturbations and argue that in all models of this type the spinodal instabilities are responsible for a {open_quotes}red{close_quotes} spectrum of primordial scalar density perturbations. A criterion for the validity of these models is provided and contact with the reconstruction program is established validating some of the results within amore » non-perturbative framework. The decoherence aspects and the quantum to classical transition through inflation are studied in detail by following the full evolution of the density matrix and relating the classicality of cosmological perturbations to that of long-wavelength matter fluctuations. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}« less