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Neutrinoless double-beta decay. A brief review
In this brief review we discuss the generation of Majorana neutrino masses
through the see-saw mechanism, the theory of neutrinoless double-beta decay,
the implications of neutrino oscillation data for the effective Majorana mass,
taking into account the recent Daya Bay measurement of theta_13, and the
interpretation of the results of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments.Comment: 22 page
Toxicidade aguda de Parathion Metil para Danio rerio (Teleostei, Cyprinidae), em condições tropicais.
Neste estudo a toxicidade de Parathion metil foi avaliada para Danio rerio, uma espécie de peixe usada como indicadora em ensaios toxicológicos
The Landau Distribution for Charged Particles Traversing Thin Films
The Landau distribution as well as its first and second momenta are well
suited for describing the energy loss of charged particles traversing a thin
layer of matter. At present, just rational approximations and asymptotic
expressions for these functions were obtained. In this paper we present a
direct calculation of the integral representation of these functions obtaining
perturbative and nonperturvative solutions expressed in terms of fast
convergent series. We also provide a simple numerical algorithm which allows to
control speed and precision of the results. The testing runs have provided, in
reasonable computing times, correct results up to 13-14 significant digits on
the density and distribution functions and 9-10 on the first and second
momenta. If necessary, this accuracy could be improved by adding more
coefficients to the algorithm.Comment: 29 pages, 4 Table
The feasibility of inventorying native vegetation and related resources form space photography
Photointerpretation of Gemini 4 photographs for inventorying native vegetatio
Bridge over troubled gas: clusters and associations under the SMC and LMC tidal stresses
We obtained SOAR telescope B and V photometry of 14 star clusters and 2
associations in the Bridge tidal structure connecting the LMC and SMC. These
objects are used to study the formation and evolution of star clusters and
associations under tidal stresses from the Clouds. Typical star clusters in the
Bridge are not richly populated and have in general relatively large diameters
(~30-35 pc), being larger than Galactic counterparts of similar age. Ages and
other fundamental parameters are determined with field-star decontaminated
photometry. A self-consistent approach is used to derive parameters for the
most-populated sample cluster NGC 796 and two young CMD templates built with
the remaining Bridge clusters. We find that the clusters are not coeval in the
Bridge. They range from approximately a few Myr (still related to optical HII
regions and WISE and Spitzer dust emission measurements) to about 100-200 Myr.
The derived distance moduli for the Bridge objects suggests that the Bridge is
a structure connecting the LMC far-side in the East to the foreground of the
SMC to the West. Most of the present clusters are part of the tidal dwarf
candidate D 1, which is associated with an H I overdensity. We find further
evidence that the studied part of the Bridge is evolving into a tidal dwarf
galaxy, decoupling from the Bridge.Comment: 15 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS, Accepted 2015 July 2
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