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Does the Borexino experiment have enough resolution to detect the neutrino flavor day-night asymmetry?
The Earth's density distribution can be approximately considered piecewise
continuous at the scale of two-flavor oscillations of neutrinos with energies
about 1 MeV. This quite general assumption appears to be enough to analytically
calculate the day-night asymmetry factor. Using the explicit time averaging
procedure, we show that, within the leading-order approximation, this factor is
determined by the electron density immediately before the detector, i.e. in the
Earth's crust. Within the approximation chosen, the resulting asymmetry factor
does not depend either on the properties of the inner Earth's layers or on the
substance and the dimensions of the detector. For beryllium neutrinos, we
arrive at the asymmetry factor estimation of about , which
is at least one order of magnitude beyond the present experimental resolution,
including that of the Borexino experiment.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures; Talk given at the 17th International Seminar on
High Energy Physics "QUARKS'2012" (Yaroslavl, Russia, June 4-10, 2012); to
appear in the Proceedings volum
Mechanochemical conversion of acetylene in quartz – ultrafine metal powder system
We have studied the effect of nano-sized metal powders (Zn, Ni), obtained by electric explosion of wires, on mechanochemical conversions of acetylene in the presence of quartz. In the process of acetylene mechanical treatment (MT) in the presence of quartz, benzene is formed. During the mechanical grinding of quartz in planetary-centrifugal mills, active radical sites are formed on quartz surface. It is possible to suppose that due to the influence of mechanical energy acetylene triple bond breaks to form ethyl radicals, which are subjected to chemosorption on active quartz sites with subsequent formation of benzene. The addition of ultrafine Zn powder decreased, while Ni powder considerably increased benzene yield. In the process of MT, particles of ultrafine Zn powder are agglomerated which results in the decrease of its catalytic activity. The increase in benzene yield at the use of ultrafine Ni powder as the additives is associated with catalytic conversion of acetylene into benzene on the newly formed nickel surface. The injection of ultrafine Zn and Ni powders in quartz-acetylene system caused no changes in quantitative composition of acetylene conversion products but affected the amounts of one or other component formation
Electromagnetic properties of neutrinos
A short review on electromagnetic properties of neutrinos is presented. In
spite of many efforts in the theoretical and experimental studies of neutrino
electromagnetic properties, they still remain one of the main puzzles related
to neutrinos.Comment: The talk presented by A.Studenikin at the International Conference on
Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Rome (Italy), July 1-5, 200
Controlling circular polarization of light emitted by quantum dots using chiral photonic crystal slab
We study the polarization properties of light emitted by quantum dots that
are embedded in chiral photonic crystal structures made of achiral planar GaAs
waveguides. A modification of the electromagnetic mode structure due to the
chiral grating fabricated by partial etching of the wave\-guide layer has been
shown to result in a high circular polarization degree of the quantum
dot emission in the absence of external magnetic field. The physical nature of
the phenomenon can be understood in terms of the reciprocity principle taking
into account the structural symmetry. At the resonance wavelength, the
magnitude of is predicted to exceed 98%. The experimentally achieved
value of % is smaller, which is due to the contribution of
unpolarized light scattered by grating defects, thus breaking its periodicity.
The achieved polarization degree estimated removing the unpolarized nonresonant
background from the emission spectra can be estimated to be as high as 96%,
close to the theoretical prediction
Essential spectra of difference operators on \sZ^n-periodic graphs
Let (\cX, \rho) be a discrete metric space. We suppose that the group
\sZ^n acts freely on and that the number of orbits of with respect to
this action is finite. Then we call a \sZ^n-periodic discrete metric
space. We examine the Fredholm property and essential spectra of band-dominated
operators on where is a \sZ^n-periodic discrete metric space.
Our approach is based on the theory of band-dominated operators on \sZ^n and
their limit operators.
In case is the set of vertices of a combinatorial graph, the graph
structure defines a Schr\"{o}dinger operator on in a natural way. We
illustrate our approach by determining the essential spectra of Schr\"{o}dinger
operators with slowly oscillating potential both on zig-zag and on hexagonal
graphs, the latter being related to nano-structures
Pair Plasma Dominance in the Parsec-Scale Relativistic Jet of 3C345
We investigate whether a pc-scale jet of 3C345 is dominated by a normal
plasma or an electron-positron plasma. We present a general condition that a
jet component becomes optically thick for synchrotron self-absorption, by
extending the method originally developed by Reynolds et al. The general
condition gives a lower limit of the electron number density, with the aid of
the surface brightness condition, which enables us to compute the magnetic
field density. Comparing the lower limit with another independent constraint
for the electron density that is deduced from the kinetic luminosity, we can
distinguish the matter content. We apply the procedure to the five components
of 3C345 (C2, C3, C4, C5, and C7) of which angular diameters and radio fluxes
at the peak frequencies were obtainable from literature. Evaluating the
representative values of Doppler beaming factors by their equipartition values,
we find that all the five components are likely dominated by an
electron-positron plasma. The conclusion does not depend on the lower cutoff
energy of the power-law distribution of radiating particles.Comment: 17 page
VSOP and Ground-based VLBI Imaging of the TeV Blazar Markarian 421 at Multiple Epochs
We present thirty VLBI images of the TeV blazar Markarian 421 (1101+384) at
fifteen epochs spanning the time range from 1994 to 1997, and at six different
frequencies from 2.3 to 43 GHz. The imaged observations include a
high-resolution 5 GHz VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) observation with
the HALCA satellite on 1997 November 14; full-track VLBA observations from 1994
April, 1996 November, and 1997 May at frequencies between 5 and 43 GHz; six
epochs of VLBA snapshot observations at frequencies between 2 and 15 GHz from
Radio Reference Frame studies; and five geodetic VLBI observations at 2 and 8
GHz from the archive of the Washington VLBI Correlator Facility located at the
U.S. Naval Observatory. The dense time coverage of the images allows us to
unambiguously track components in the parsec-scale jet over the observed time
range. We measure the speeds of three inner jet components located between 0.5
and 5 mas from the core (0.3 to 3 pc projected linear distance) to be 0.19 +/-
0.27, 0.30 +/- 0.07, and -0.07 +/- 0.07 c (H_{0}=65 km s^{-1} Mpc^{-1}). If the
sole 43 GHz image is excluded, all measured speeds are consistent with no
motion. These speeds differ from tentative superluminal speeds measured by
Zhang & B\aa\aa th from three epochs of data from the early 1980's. Possible
interpretations of these subluminal speeds in terms of the high Doppler factor
demanded by the TeV variability of this source are discussed.Comment: 18 pages, including 7 figures, emulateapj.sty, accepted by The
Astrophysical Journal; modified text describing Radio Reference Frame
observation
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