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Sterile neutrinos, dark matter, and resonant effects in ultra high energy regimes
Interest in light dark matter candidates has recently increased in the
literature; some of these works consider the role of additional neutrinos,
either active or sterile. Furthermore, extragalactic neutrinos have been
detected with energies higher than have ever been reported before. This opens a
new window of opportunities to the study of neutrino properties that were
unreachable up to now. We investigate how an interaction potential between
neutrinos and dark matter might induce a resonant enhancement in the
oscillation probability, an effect that may be tested with future neutrino
data.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, to be published in PL
Sub-arcsecond Morphology of Planetary Nebulae
Planetary nebulae (PNe) can be roughly categorized into several broad
morphological classes. The high quality images of PNe acquired in recent years,
however, have revealed a wealth of fine structures that preclude simplistic
models for their formation. Here we present narrow-band, sub-arcsecond images
of a sample of relatively large PNe that illustrate the complexity and variety
of small-scale structures. This is especially true for bipolar PNe, for which
the images reveal multi-polar ejections and, in some cases, suggest turbulent
gas motions. Our images also reveal the presence or signs of jet-like outflows
in several objects in which this kind of component has not been previously
reported.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in PAS
The reactor antineutrino anomaly and low energy threshold neutrino experiments
Short distance reactor antineutrino experiments measure an antineutrino
spectrum a few percent lower than expected from theoretical predictions. In
this work we study the potential of low energy threshold reactor experiments in
the context of a light sterile neutrino signal. We discuss the perspectives of
the recently detected coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in future
reactor antineutrino experiments. We find that the expectations to improve the
current constraints on the mixing with sterile neutrinos are promising. We also
analyse the measurements of antineutrino scattering off electrons from short
distance reactor experiments. In this case, the statistics is not competitive
with inverse beta decay experiments, although future experiments might play a
role when compare it with the Gallium anomaly.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, matches published versio
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