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Covariant Treatment of Neutrino Spin (Flavour) Conversion in Matter under the Influence of Electromagnetic Fields
Within the recently proposed Lorentz invariant formalism for description of
neutrino spin evolution in presence of an arbitrary electromagnetic fields
effects of matter motion and polarization are considered.Comment: Extended version of contribution to "Particle Physics on Boundary of
Millenniums" (Proceedings of the 9th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary
Particle Physics, World Scientific, Singapure
Dark matter implications of the WMAP-Planck Haze
Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding
areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains
ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both
signals through prompt emission at gamma-rays and secondary emission at
microwave frequencies from interactions of high-energy electrons produced in
annihilation with the Galactic magnetic fields has attracted much interest in
recent years. We investigate the DM interpretation of the Galactic Center
gamma-ray excess by searching for the associated synchrotron in the WMAP-Planck
data. Considering various magnetic field and cosmic-ray propagation models, we
predict the synchrotron emission due to DM annihilation in our Galaxy, and
compare it with the WMAP-Planck data at 23-70GHz. In addition to standard
microwave foregrounds, we separately model the microwave counterpart to the
Fermi Bubbles and the signal due to DM, and use component separation techniques
to extract the signal associated with each template from the total emission. We
confirm the presence of the Haze at the level of 7% of the total sky intensity
at 23GHz in our chosen region of interest, with a harder spectrum than the synchrotron from regular cosmic-ray electrons. The data do
not show a strong preference towards fitting the Haze by either the Bubbles or
DM emission only. Inclusion of both components provides a better fit with a DM
contribution to the Haze emission of 20% at 23GHz, however, due to significant
uncertainties in foreground modeling, we do not consider this a clear detection
of a DM signal. We set robust upper limits on the annihilation cross section by
ignoring foregrounds, and also report best-fit DM annihilation parameters
obtained from a complete template analysis. We conclude that the WMAP-Planck
data are consistent with a DM interpretation of the gamma-ray excess.Comment: 34 pages, 9 figure
Instability-induced formation and non-equilibrium dynamics of phase defects in polariton condensates
We study, theoretically and numerically, the onset and development of
modulational instability in an incoherently pumped spatially homogeneous
polariton condensate. Within the framework of mean-field theory, we identify
regimes of modulational instability in two cases: 1) Strong feedback between
the condensate and reservoir, which may occur in scalar condensates, and 2)
Parametric scattering in the presence of polarization splitting in spinor
condensates. In both cases we investigate the instability induced textures in
space and time including non-equilibrium dynamics of phase dislocations and
vortices. In particular we discuss the mechanism of vortex destabilization and
formation of spiraling waves. We also identify the presence of topological
defects, which take the form of half-vortex pairs in the spinor case, giving an
"eyelet" structure in intensity and dipole type structure in the spin
polarization. In the modulationally stable parameter domains, we observe
formation of the phase defects in the process of condensate formation from an
initially spatially incoherent low-density state. In analogy to the
Kibble-Zurek type scaling for nonequilibrium phase transitions, we find that
the defect density scales with the pumping rate.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, revised manuscript sent to Phys. Rev.
Ion Association Effects of Lipophilic Quaternary Ammonium Salts in Ion-Exchange and Potentiometric Selectivity
Strong effects of ion association on the anion-exchange selectivity in systems water -solutions of high quaternary ammonium salts (QAS) in organic solvents as well as on the potentiometric selectivity of plasticized polyvinylchloride (PVC) membranes containing QAS as ion exchangers have been established experimen¬tally and substantiated theoretically. Based on the linear Gibbs energy relations (LGER) and ion association theory by Eigen-Denison-Ramsey-Fuoss, an approach to separate estimation of the parts played by the solvation and ion association fac¬tors in ion-exchange and potentiometric selectivity has been proposed. The results obtained serve as the basis for revision of the formed notions about QAS as of «nonselective» ion exchangers and enable the development of methods for the con¬trol of ion-exchange and potentiometric selectivity using the factor of ion associa¬tion. Specifically, it has been demonstrated that variation of steric accessibility of the QAS exchange center is a powerful means to control the selectivity.
It has been found experimentally that due to varying steric accessibility of the QAS exchange center the selectivity values have changed by 3 orders of magnitu¬de in case of single- charged anions exchanged for single-charged ones and by more than 7 orders - in case of double-charged anions exchanged for the sing¬le-charged ones. The above-mentioned effects revealed also in the potentiometric selectivity of QAS-based PVC membranes and to some extent - in the potentiometric selectivity of the membranes based on neutral anion carriers, doped with QAS for provision of anion permselectivity, are of great practical importance for the development of ISE with improved selectivity
Analysis of Transient Processes in a Radiophysical Flow System
Transient processes in a third-order radiophysical flow system are studied
and a map of the transient process duration versus initial conditions is
constructed and analyzed. The results are compared to the arrangement of
submanifolds of the stable and unstable cycles in the Poincare section of the
system studied.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
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