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Solar Neutrino Oscillation Parameters after KamLAND
We explore the impact of the data from the KamLAND experiment in constraining
neutrino mass and mixing angles involved in solar neutrino oscillations. In
particular we discuss the precision with which we can determine the the mass
squared difference and the mixing angle
from combined solar and KamLAND data. We show that the precision with which
\Delta m^_{solar} can be determined improves drastically with the KamLAND
data but the sensitivity of KamLAND to the mixing angle is not as good. We
study the effect of enhanced statistics in KamLAND as well as reduced
systematics in improving the precision. We also show the effect of the SNO salt
data in improving the precision. Finally we discuss how a dedicated reactor
experiment with a baseline of 70 km can improve the
sensitivity by a large amount.Comment: Talk given at 4th International Conference on Nonaccelerator New
Physics (NANP 03), Dubna, Russia, 23-28 Jun 200
The Effect of Ramsauer Type Transmission Resonances on the Conductance Modulation of Spin Interferometers
We use a mean field approach to study the conductance modulation of gate
controlled semiconductor spin interferometers based on the Rashba spin-orbit
coupling effect. The conductance modulation is found to be mostly due to
Ramsauer type transmission resonances rather than the Rashba effect in typical
structures. This is because of significant reflections at the interferometer's
contacts due to large potential barriers and effective mass mismatch between
the contact material and the semiconductor. Thus, unless particular care is
taken to eliminate these reflections, any observed conductance modulation of
spin interferometers may have its origin in the Ramsauer resonances (which is
unrelated to spin) rather than the Rashba effect.Comment: 3 figure
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