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Addendum: Neutrino Mass Hierarchy Determination Using Reactor Antineutrinos
We update our study of neutrino mass hierarchy determination using a high
statistics reactor electron anti-neutrino experiment in the light of the recent
evidences of a relatively large non-zero value of \theta_{13} from the Daya Bay
and RENO experiments. We find that there are noticeable modifications in the
results, which allow a relaxation in the detector's characteristics, such as
the energy resolution and exposure, required to obtain a significant
sensitivity to, or to determine, the neutrino mass hierarchy in such a reactor
experiment.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Journal of High Energy Physics
(JHEP
Neutrino Mass Hierarchy Determination Using Reactor Antineutrinos
Building on earlier studies, we investigate the possibility to determine the
type of neutrino mass spectrum (i.e., "the neutrino mass hierarchy") in a high
statistics reactor electron antineutrino experiment with a relatively large
KamLAND-like detector and an optimal baseline of 60 Km. We analyze
systematically the Fourier Sine and Cosine Transforms (FST and FCT) of
simulated reactor antineutrino data with reference to their specific mass
hierarchy-dependent features discussed earlier in the literature. We perform
also a binned \chi^2 analysis of the sensitivity of simulated reactor electron
antineutrino event spectrum data to the neutrino mass hierarchy, and determine,
in particular, the characteristics of the detector and the experiment (energy
resolution, visible energy threshold, exposure, systematic errors, binning of
data, etc.), which would allow us to get significant information on, or even
determine, the type of the neutrino mass spectrum. We find that if \sin^2
2\theta_{13} is sufficiently large, \sin^2 2\theta_{13} \gtap 0.02, the
requirements on the set-up of interest are very challenging, but not impossible
to realize.Comment: 32 pages, 27 figures, accepted in Journal of High Energy Physic
String Theory near a Conifold Singularity
We demonstrate that type II string theory compactified on a singular
Calabi-Yau manifold is related to string theory compactified at the
self-dual radius. We establish this result in two ways. First we show that
complex structure deformations of the conifold correspond, on the mirror
manifold, to the problem of maps from two dimensional surfaces to . Using
two dimensional QCD we show that this problem is identical to string
theory. We then give an alternative derivation of this correspondence by
mapping the theory of complex structure deformations of the conifold to
Chern-Simons theory on . These results, in conjunction with similar
results obtained for the compactification of the heterotic string on , provide strong evidence in favour of S-duality between type II strings
compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold and the heterotic string on .Comment: 10 pages, harvmac. Some changes to manuscript and a reference adde
Exact noncommutative solitons in p-adic strings and BSFT
The tachyon field of p-adic string theory is made noncommutative by replacing
ordinary products with noncommutative products in its exact effective action.
The same is done for the boundary string field theory, treated as the p -> 1
limit of the p-adic string. Solitonic lumps corresponding to D-branes are
obtained for all values of the noncommutative parameter theta. This is in
contrast to usual scalar field theories in which the noncommutative solitons do
not persist below a critical value of theta. As theta varies from zero to
infinity, the solution interpolates smoothly between the soliton of the p-adic
theory (respectively BSFT) to the noncommutative soliton.Comment: 1+14 pages (harvmac b), 1 eps figure, v2: references added, typos
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D-branes and the Conifold Singularity
We analyze in detail the description of type IIB theory on a Calabi-Yau
three-fold near a conifold singularity in terms of intersecting D-branes. In
particular we study the singularity structure of higher derivative -terms of
the form where is the gravitational superfield. This
singularity is expected to be due to a one -loop contribution from a charged
soliton hypermultiplet becoming massless at the conifold point. In the
intersecting D-brane description this soliton is described by an open string
stretched between the two D-branes. After identifying the graviphoton vertex as
a closed string operator we show that 's have the expected singularity
structure in the limit of vanishing soliton mass.Comment: Latex file, 14 page
The XX--model with boundaries. Part I: Diagonalization of the finite chain
This is the first of three papers dealing with the XX finite quantum chain
with arbitrary, not necessarily hermitian, boundary terms. This extends
previous work where the periodic or diagonal boundary terms were considered. In
order to find the spectrum and wave-functions an auxiliary quantum chain is
examined which is quadratic in fermionic creation and annihilation operators
and hence diagonalizable. The secular equation is in general complicated but
several cases were found when it can be solved analytically. For these cases
the ground-state energies are given. The appearance of boundary states is also
discussed and in view to the applications considered in the next papers, the
one and two-point functions are expressed in terms of Pfaffians.Comment: 56 pages, LaTeX, some minor correction
Performance of Concrete Exposed to Corrosive Environment
A comprehensive programme to investigate the behaviour of portland cement concrete exposed to corrosive environment was chalked out in this short duration study.The programme composed of compressive strength study, weight loss study , effect of carbonation, pH test study and study of ultrasonic pulse velocity test. Investigation to study the performance of portland cement concrete of M20 strength exposed to corrosive environment ( 5% H2SO4 Solution, 5% HC 1 Solution, 10% (NH4SO4 Solution and 10% NaOH Sol- ution ) revealed that the concrete cube deteriorated more in acidic environment than alkaline environment. The stre-ngth of PCC exposed to aggressive medium reduced signif- icantly after exposure of 28 days. This reduction in strength was mainly due to expansive salt formation . The formation of expansive salt also resulted in loss of cem-entitious properties and loss of weight. The concrete exposed to H2SO4 solution was found least durable . This study also shows that higher the ultrasonic pulse velocity lower is the corrosion . This paper presents an approach of investigation along with analysis of test results of PCC exposed to corrosive environment
Boundary breathers in the sinh-Gordon model
We present an investigation of the boundary breather states of the
sinh-Gordon model restricted to a half-line. The classical boundary breathers
are presented for a two parameter family of integrable boundary conditions.
Restricting to the case of boundary conditions which preserve the \phi -->
-\phi symmetry of the bulk theory, the energy spectrum of the boundary states
is computed in two ways: firstly, by using the bootstrap technique and
subsequently, by using a WKB approximation. Requiring that the two descriptions
of the spectrum agree with each other allows a determination of the
relationship between the boundary parameter, the bulk coupling constant, and
the parameter appearing in the reflection factor derived by Ghoshal to describe
the scattering of the sinh-Gordon particle from the boundary.Comment: 16 pages amslate
Toda Lattice Models with Boundary
We consider the soliton solutions in 1- and (1+1)-dimensional Toda lattice
models with a boundary. We make use of the solutions already known on a full
line by means of the Hirota's method. We explicitly construct the solutions
satisfying the boundary conditions. The -symmetric boundary
condition can be introduced by the two-soliton solutions naturally.Comment: 9 pages, latex, no figure
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