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Four-Neutrino Scenarios
The main features of four-neutrino 3+1 and 2+2 mixing schemes are reviewed,
after a discussion on the necessity of at least four massive neutrinos if the
solar, atmospheric and LSND anomalies are due to neutrino oscillations.
Complete list of references on four-neutrino mixing at
http://www.to.infn.it/~giunti/neutrinoComment: 7 pages. Talk presented at NOW 2000, Conca Specchiulla (Otranto,
Italy), 9-16 Sep. 200
Estimate of CP Violation for the LBNE Project and $\delta_{CP}
Measurements of CP violation (CPV) and the basic parameter are
the goals of the LBNE Project, which is being planned. Using the expected
energy and baseline parameters for the LBNE Project, CPV and the dependence of
CPV on are estimated, to help in the planning of this project.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Three-Flavour Neutrino-Mixing Implications of the LSND Result
The LSND result is shown to fit into a minimal three-flavour neutrino-mixing
scenario capable of describing all known experimental facts provided the large
Delta M^2 = m_3^2 - m_2^2 \sim m_3^2 - m_1^2 lies in the range 2.5 x 10^{-1} <
Delta M^2 < 3.0 eV^2. In this range the value of P_{\mu\tau} is expected to be
about 5% or larger.Comment: 10 pages, 2 eps figures, LaTeX 2.09, revised for Physics Letters
Prey selection by an apex predator : the importance of sampling uncertainty.
The impact of predation on prey populations has long been a focus of ecologists, but a firm understanding of the factors influencing prey selection, a key predictor of that impact, remains elusive. High levels of variability observed in prey selection may reflect true differences in the ecology of different communities but might also reflect a failure to deal adequately with uncertainties in the underlying data. Indeed, our review showed that less than 10% of studies of European wolf predation accounted for sampling uncertainty. Here, we relate annual variability in wolf diet to prey availability and examine temporal patterns in prey selection; in particular, we identify how considering uncertainty alters conclusions regarding prey selection.
Over nine years, we collected 1,974 wolf scats and conducted drive censuses of ungulates in Alpe di Catenaia, Italy. We bootstrapped scat and census data within years to construct confidence intervals around estimates of prey use, availability and selection. Wolf diet was dominated by boar (61.5±3.90 [SE] % of biomass eaten) and roe deer (33.7±3.61%). Temporal patterns of prey densities revealed that the proportion of roe deer in wolf diet peaked when boar densities were low, not when roe deer densities were highest. Considering only the two dominant prey types, Manly's standardized selection index using all data across years indicated selection for boar (mean = 0.73±0.023). However, sampling error resulted in wide confidence intervals around estimates of prey selection. Thus, despite considerable variation in yearly estimates, confidence intervals for all years overlapped. Failing to consider such uncertainty could lead erroneously to the assumption of differences in prey selection among years. This study highlights the importance of considering temporal variation in relative prey availability and accounting for sampling uncertainty when interpreting the results of dietary studies
Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrinos: Status of subdominant oscillations
In the context of the recent (79.5 kTy) Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino
data, we concisely review the status of muonic-tauonic flavor oscillations and
of the subdominant electron or sterile neutrino mixing, in schemes with three
or four families and one dominant mass scale. In the three-family case, where
we include the full CHOOZ spectral data, we also show, through a specific
example, that ``maximal'' violations of the one-dominant mass scale
approximation are not ruled out yet.Comment: 8 pages + 10 figure
Implications of recent solar neutrino observations: an analysis of charged current data
We have analysed the recent results from the observation of charged current
\nu_e d \to e^- p p events from solar neutrinos by the Sudbury Neutrino
Observatory SNO assuming neutrino oscillations with three active flavours. The
data seem to prefer a low mass-squared difference and large mixing angle
solution (the so-called LOW solution) in (12) parameter space. However, when
combined with the Gallium charged current interaction data from Gallex and GNO,
distinct (1\sigma) allowed regions corresponding to the large mixing angle
(LMA) and small mixing angle (SMA) appear while the LOW solution is disfavoured
upto 3\sigma standard deviation. The physical electron neutrino survival
probability corresponding to these best fit solutions are then determined and
analysed for their energy dependence.Comment: 16 pages Latex file, with 5 epsf figures; one reference adde
Reconstructing the direction of reactor antineutrinos via electron scattering in Gd-doped water Cherenkov detectors
The potential of elastic antineutrino-electron scattering in a Gd-doped water
Cherenkov detector to determine the direction of a nuclear reactor antineutrino
flux was investigated using the recently proposed WATCHMAN antineutrino
experiment as a baseline model. The expected scattering rate was determined
assuming a 13-km standoff from a 3.758-GWt light water nuclear reactor and the
detector response was modeled using a Geant4-based simulation package.
Background was estimated via independent simulations and by scaling published
measurements from similar detectors. Background contributions were estimated
for solar neutrinos, misidentified reactor-based inverse beta decay
interactions, cosmogenic radionuclides, water-borne radon, and gamma rays from
the photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), detector walls, and surrounding rock. We show
that with the use of low background PMTs and sufficient fiducialization,
water-borne radon and cosmogenic radionuclides pose the largest threats to
sensitivity. Directional sensitivity was then analyzed as a function of radon
contamination, detector depth, and detector size. The results provide a list of
experimental conditions that, if satisfied in practice, would enable
antineutrino directional reconstruction at 3 significance in large
Gd-doped water Cherenkov detectors with greater than 10-km standoff from a
nuclear reactor.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
THE PALLADIOLIBRARY GEO-MODELS: AN OPEN 3D ARCHIVE TO MANAGE AND VISUALIZE INFORMATION-COMMUNICATION RESOURCES ABOUT PALLADIO
Abstract. The paper describes objectives, methods, procedures and outcomes of the development of the digital archive of Palladio works and documentation: the PALLADIOLibrary of Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio di Vicenza (CISAAP). The core of the application consists of fifty-one reality-based 3D models usable and navigable within a system grounded on GoogleEarth. This information system, a collaboration of four universities bearers of specific skills returns a comprehensive, structured and coherent semantic interpretation of Palladian landscape through shapes realistically reconstructed from historical sources and surveys and treated for GE with Ambient Occlusion techniques, overcoming the traditional display mode
Constraints from Neutrino Oscillation Experiments on the Effective Majorana Mass in Neutrinoless Double -Decay
We determine the possible values of the effective Majorana neutrino mass in the different phenomenologically viable three
and four-neutrino scenarios. The quantities () denote the elements of the neutrino mixing matrix and the
Majorana neutrino masses () are ordered as Assuming in the three-neutrino case and in the
four-neutrino case, we discuss, in particular, how constraints on
depend on the mixing angle relevant in solar neutrino oscillations and on the
three mass-squared differences obtained from the analyses of the solar,
atmospheric and LSND data. If neutrinoless double -decay proceeds via
the mechanism involving , conclusions about neutrinoless double
-decay can be drawn. If one of the two viable four-neutrino schemes
(Scheme A) is realized in nature, can be as large as 1 eV and
neutrinoless double -decay could possibly be discovered in the near
future. In this case a Majorana CP phase of the mixing matrix could be
determined. In the other four-neutrino scheme (Scheme B) there is an upper
bound on of the order of eV. In the case of three-neutrino
mixing the same is true if the neutrino mass spectrum is hierarchical, however,
if there exist two quasi-degenerate neutrinos and the first neutrino has a much
smaller mass, values of as large as eV are possible.Comment: 15 pages, REVTEX, 2 figures, final version to be published in Phys.
Lett.
Neutrino oscillations from the splitting of Fermi points
As was shown previously, oscillations of massless neutrinos may be due to the
splitting of multiply degenerate Fermi points. In this Letter, we give the
details and propose a three-flavor model of Fermi point splittings and neutrino
mixings with only two free parameters. The model may explain recent
experimental results from the K2K and KamLAND collaborations. There is also
rough agreement with the data on atmospheric neutrinos (SuperK) and solar
neutrinos (SNO), but further analysis is required. Most importantly, the Ansatz
allows for relatively strong T-violating (CP-nonconserving) effects in the
neutrino sector.Comment: 6 pages with jetplFRK.cls, v4: published versio
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