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A lunar‐based detector to search for relic supernovae antineutrinos
We discuss the motivation for and advantages of a lunar‐based detector capable of observing the relic antineutrino flux from all past supernovae at or close to the lowest theoretical estimates of the magnitude of flux.
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Scaling-variable distributions in high-energy inelastic neutrino interactions
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Prototype detector for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection
Abstract Necessary technical experience is being gained from successful construction and deployment of current prototype detectors to search for UHE neutrinos in Antarctica, Lake Baikal in Russia, and the Mediterranean. The prototype detectors have also the important central purpose of determining whether or not UHE neutrinos do in fact exist in nature by observation of at least a few UHE neutrino-induced leptons with properties that are not consistent with expected backgrounds. We discuss here the criteria for a prototype detector to accomplish that purpose in a convincing way even if the UHE neutrino flux is substantially lower than predicted at present.
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Some Recent Advances in Neutrino Physics
One answer to questions concerning the subject matter of elementary particle physics and its position within the physical sciences is that particle physics is the study of creation. To justify this idea, at least in part, consider the “big bang” model of creation of the universe. In that model the primeval fireball involved very high temperatures, estimated to be greater than 1011 degrees Kelvin (°K), which is to be compared with the interior temperature of the sun at about 107 degrees Kelvin. We believe the sun to be a nuclear furnace, generating its energy by individual nuclear interactions in the million electron volt (MeV) energy range. In the “big bang” the energies involved in the individual particle interactions would have been more than 104 times larger than in the sun, and thus in the tens of giga-electron volts (GeV). This is precisely the energy region of present-day high energy or elementary particle physics laboratory experiments. In this sense, then, laboratory experiments that study, even indirectly, lepton-lepton scattering or quark-quark interactions are revisiting creation.
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NEUTRINOS AND MUONS IN AREA 1.
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Comments on the letter «Limits on the electromagnetic production of heavy leptons»
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Repulsive Casimir forces.
We discuss repulsive Casimir forces between dielectric materials with nontrivial magnetic susceptibility. It is shown that considerations based on the naive pairwise summation of van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces may not only give an incorrect estimate of the magnitude of the total Casimir force but even the wrong sign of the force when materials with high dielectric and magnetic responses are involved. Indeed repulsive Casimir forces may be found in a large range of parameters, and we suggest that the effect may be realized in known materials. The phenomenon of repulsive Casimir forces may be of importance both for experimental study and for nanomachinery applications.
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Derivation of the critical temperature for the superfluid phase of hadronic matter
Abstract We give a quantitative derivation of the temperature at which superfluidity of hadronic matter ends. Using considerations similar to those used by Landau for 4 He, we find T c ⩽ 190 MeV in close agreement with Hagedorn's “limiting” temperature.
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Factorization of analytic representations in the unit disc and number-phase statistics of a quantum harmonic oscillator
The inner - outer part factorization of analytic representations in the unit disc is used for an effective characterization of the number-phase statistical properties of a quantum harmonic oscillator. It is shown that the factorization is intimately connected with the number-phase Weyl semigroup and its properties. In the Barut - Girardello analytic representation the factorization is implemented as a convolution. Several examples are given which demonstrate the physical significance of the factorization and its role for quantum statistics. In particular, we study the effect of phase-space interference on the factorization properties of a superposition state.
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Superfluidity of hadronic matter
SummaryThe mesons in the nucleon are associated with a Bose system with an energy excitation spectrum ε(p), wherep is the corresponding momentum. This spectrum can be investigated by studying the nucleon recoil in one-meson production processes. It turns out that
$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{p \to 0} (\varepsilon /p) \ne 0$$
. This is the Landau criterion for superfluidity. Herefrom we infer that hadronic matter is superfluid. Possible manifestations of this phenomenon in strong interactions are a bootstrap relation between the masses of mesonic and baryonic resonances, the shift of the δ-resonance in nuclei, the existence of a maximum resonance mass equivalent to an ionization point and the existence of a critical temperature of hadronic matter instead of a maximum temperature.RiassuntoI mesoni nel nucleone sono associati per mezzo di un sistema di bose con uno spettro di energie di eccitazione ε(p), dovep è l'impulso corrispondente. Si può analizzare questo spettro studiando il rinculo del nucleone nei processi di produzione di un mesone. Risulta che
$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{p \to 0} (\varepsilon /p) \ne 0$$
. Questo è il criterio di landau per la superfluidità. Da ciò si inferisce che la materia adronica è superfluida. Possibili manifestazioni di questo fenomeno nelle interazioni forti sono una relazione di bootstrap fra le masse delle risonanze mesoniche e barioniche, lo spostamento della risonanza δ nei nuclei, l'esistenza di una massa massima della risonanza equivalente ad un punto di ionizzazione e l'esistenza di una temperatura critica della materia adronica invece di una temperatura massima.РезюмеМезоны в нуклоне связываутся с Гозе-системой с энергетическим спектром возбуждения ε(p), гдеp есть соответствующии импульс. Этот спектр может быть исследован посредством изучения отдачи нуклона в процессе рождения одного пиона. Оказывается, что
$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{p \to 0} (\varepsilon /p) \ne 0$$
. Это представляет критерий Ландау для сверхтекучести, из которого мы делаем вывод, что адронное вещество является сверхтекучим. Возможные проявления этого явления в сильных взаимодействиях представляют: соотношения бутстрепа между массами мезонных и барионных резонансов, сдвиг δ резонанса в ядрах, существование резонансной массы, эквивалентной точке ионизации, и существование критической температуры адронного вещества вместо максимальной темпатуры.
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Generalized coherent states are unique Bell states of quantum systems with Lie-group symmetries
Entanglement is the main quantum mechanical feature that distinguishes between quantum and classical physics. A state of a quantum system, consisting of two subsystems, is called entangled if it cannot be represented as a direct product of states of the subsystems. The nonclassicality of such a situation is expressed mathematically by the violation of Bell’s inequality @1,2#. More specifically, let us consider a quantum system A ~e.g., a mode of the quantized radiation field or a spin-j particle!, which is split or decays into two subsystems B and C @3#. A pure quantum state that upon splitting will not violate Bell’s inequality ~i.e., a quantum state that possesses the basic attribute of classical physics ! has been called the Bell state @4#. It has been proven @4‐6# that a state that factorizes upon splitting into a direct product cannot violate Bell’s inequality, while a state that gives rise to an entangled ~i.e., nonproduct! state can always, by a suitable choice of local apparatus, be made to violate the inequality. Therefore the Bell state of the system A must factorize upon splitting into the direct product of states of the subsystems.