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Cross-Section Fluctuations in Chaotic Scattering
For the theoretical prediction of cross-section fluctuations in chaotic
scattering, the cross-section autocorrelation function is needed. That function
is not known analytically. Using experimental data and numerical simulations,
we show that an analytical approximation to the cross-section autocorrelation
function can be obtained with the help of expressions first derived by Davis
and Boose. Given the values of the average S-matrix elements and the mean level
density of the scattering system, one can then reliably predict cross-section
fluctuations
Status of Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
The present experimental status in the search for neutrinoless double beta
decay is reviewed, with emphasis on the first indication for neutrinoless
double beta decay found in the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment, giving first
evidence for lepton number violation and a Majorana nature of the neutrinos.
Future perspectives of the field are briefly outlined.Comment: 37 pages, latex, 23 figures, Published in Found. Phys. 32 (2002)
1181-1223 and Presented at Fourth Heidelberg International Conference on Dark
Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, DARK2002, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 -
9 February, 2002, eds. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R. Viollier,
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, (2002) 367-403 see Home Page of Heidelberg
Non-Accelerator Particle Physics Group:
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/non_acc/buecher.html#DARK200
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with enriched 76Ge in Gran Sasso 1990-2003
The results of the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment which searches with 11 kg of
enriched 76Ge for double beta decay in the GRAN Sasso underground laboratory
are presented for the full running period August 1990 - May 2003. The duty
cycle of the experiment was ~80%, the collected statistics is 71.7 kg y. The
background achieved in the energy region of the Q value for double beta decay
is 0.11 events/ kg y keV. The two-neutrino accompanied half-life is determined
on the basis of more than 100 000 events. The confidence level for the
neutrinoless signal has been improved to 4.2 sigma.Comment: 19 pages, latex, 9 figures, 2 table
Nonperiodic echoes from mushroom billiard hats
Mushroom billiards have the remarkable property to show one or more clear cut
integrable islands in one or several chaotic seas, without any fractal
boundaries. The islands correspond to orbits confined to the hats of the
mushrooms, which they share with the chaotic orbits. It is thus interesting to
ask how long a chaotic orbit will remain in the hat before returning to the
stem. This question is equivalent to the inquiry about delay times for
scattering from the hat of the mushroom into an opening where the stem should
be. For fixed angular momentum we find that no more than three different delay
times are possible. This induces striking nonperiodic structures in the delay
times that may be of importance for mesoscopic devices and should be accessible
to microwave experiments.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. E without the appendi
First Results from the HDMS experiment in the Final Setup
The Heidelberg Dark Matter Search (HDMS) is an experiment designed for the
search for WIMP dark matter. It is using a special configuration of Ge
detectors, to efficiently reduce the background in the low-energy region below
100 keV. After one year of running the HDMS detector prototype in the Gran
Sasso Underground Laboratory, the inner crystal of the detector has been
replaced with a HPGe crystal of enriched Ge. The final setup started
data taking in Gran Sasso in August 2000. The performance and the first results
of the measurement with the final setup are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, revtex, 7 figures, Home Page of Heidelberg Non-Accelerator
Particle Physics Group: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/non_acc
Scattering Experiments with Microwave Billiards at an Exceptional Point under Broken Time Reversal Invariance
Scattering experiments with microwave cavities were performed and the effects
of broken time-reversal invariance (TRI), induced by means of a magnetized
ferrite placed inside the cavity, on an isolated doublet of nearly degenerate
resonances were investigated. All elements of the effective Hamiltonian of this
two-level system were extracted. As a function of two experimental parameters,
the doublet and also the associated eigenvectors could be tuned to coalesce at
a so-called exceptional point (EP). The behavior of the eigenvalues and
eigenvectors when encircling the EP in parameter space was studied, including
the geometric amplitude that builds up in the case of broken TRI. A
one-dimensional subspace of parameters was found where the differences of the
eigenvalues are either real or purely imaginary. There, the Hamiltonians were
found PT-invariant under the combined operation of parity (P) and time reversal
(T) in a generalized sense. The EP is the point of transition between both
regions. There a spontaneous breaking of PT occurs
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