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Neutrino oscillations and the number of neutrino types
A brief treatment of neutrino oscillations, generalized to an arbitrary number of neutrino types, is given as the basis for design of a feasible experiment to search for neutrino oscillations using the neutrino beam produced at a high-energy proton accelerator.
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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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Comments on the letter «Limits on the electromagnetic production of heavy leptons»
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Observation of Elastic Neutrino and Antineutrino Scattering and Parity Violation in the Weak Hadronic Neutral Current
We have observed 30 events of the process νp → νp with a background expectation of 7 events. The ratio σ(νp → νp)/σ(νn → μ −p) is measured to be 0.17 ± 0.05 for 0.3 <q2 <0.9 (GeV/c)2 where — q2 is the square of the four-momentum transfer to the proton. We have also observed 22 events of the process νp → νp with a background expectation of 8 events. The ratio σ(νp → νp)/σ(νp → μ +n) is 0.2 ± 0.1 for the same q2 interval. These two measurements yield a ratio σ(νp → νp)/σ(νp → νp) = 0.4 ± 0.2, where the error is statistical. This difference between neutrino and antineutrino scattering suggests that the hadronic neutral current displays a significant parity-violating interference and that a purely vector Lorentz structure is unlikely.
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Study of Neutrino Interactions in Hydrogen and Deuterium. 1. Description of the Experiment and Study of the Reaction Neutrino d --> mu- p p(s)
This paper gives a detailed description of an experiment which studies the interactions of muon-type neutrinos in hydrogen and deuterium. The experiment was performed at the Zero Gradient Synchrotron using the wide-band neutrino beam incident on the Argonne 12-foot bubble chamber filled with hydrogen and deuterium. The neutrino energy spectrum peaks at 0.5 GeV and has a tail extending to 6 GeV. The shape and intensity of the flux is determined using measurements of pion yields from beryllium. The produced pions are focused by one or (for the latter part of the experiment) two magnetic horns. A total of 364000 pictures were taken with a hydrogen filling of the bubble chamber and 903 000 with a deuterium filling. The scanning and other analyses of the events are described. The most abundant reaction occurs off neutrons and is quasi-elastic scattering $\ensuremath{\nu}d\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}}p{p}_{s}$. The separation of these events from background channels is discussed. The total and differential cross sections are analyzed to obtain the axial-vector form factor of the nucleon. Our result, expressed in terms of a dipole form factor, gives an axial-vector mass of 0.95\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.09 GeV. A comparison is made to previous measurements using neutrino beams, and also to determinations based upon threshold pion electroproduction experiments. In addition, the data are used to measure the weak vector form factor and so check the conserved-vector-current hypothesis.
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Relation Between Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations
Abstract A relation between quantum and thermal fluctuations, called the generalized uncertainty relation, is derived and discussed. It is given in the terminology of thermo field dynamics. The relation enables us to separate the purely thermal fluctuation from the total fluctuation.
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Coherent and thermal coherent state
The characterization of coherent states as the quantum states that split into two uncorrelated beams is considered. The characterization leads to the study of coherent states at finite temperature—thermal coherent states (TCS’s). These TCS’s are defined within the formalism of thermo field dynamics (TFD). TFD allows a generalization of the uncertainty relation that accounts for both thermal and quantum fluctuations. The TCS is shown to be a minimal state for the generalized uncertainty relation.
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Thermal squeezed states in thermo field dynamics and quantum and thermal fluctuations
Abstract Thermal squeezed states (TSS) are introduced in thermo field dynamics (TFD). The characteristic function of a TSS is presented and applied to the calculation of various quantities of physical interest including a distinction between quantum and thermal fluctuations and the connection between squeezing and temperature effects.
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Study of Approximations in the Nuclear Pairing-Force Problem