574 research outputs found
Nuclear Physics with Electroweak Probes
In recent years, the italian theoretical Nuclear Physics community has played
a leading role in the development of a unified approach, allowing for a
consistent and fully quantitative description of the nuclear response to
electromagnetic and weak probes. In this paper I review the main achievements
in both fields, point out some of the open problems, and outline the most
promising prospects.Comment: Invited Talk at the XII Workshop on Theoretical Nuclear Physics in
Italy, Cortona, October 8-10, 200
Matter effects in long baseline experiments, the flavor content of the heaviest (or lightest) neutrino and the sign of Delta m^2
The neutrinos of long baseline beams travel inside the Earth's crust where
the density is approximately rho = 2.8 g cm^-3. If electron neutrinos
participate in the oscillations, matter effects will modify the oscillation
probabilities with respect to the vacuum case. Depending on the sign of Delta
m^2 an MSW resonance will exist for neutrinos or anti-neutrinos with energy
approximately E_nu(res) = 4.7 |\Delta m^2|/(10^-3 eV^2) GeV. For Delta m^2 in
the interval indicated by the Super-Kamiokande experiment this energy range is
important for the proposed long baseline experiments.
For positive Delta m^2 the most important effects of matter are a 9% (25%)
enhancement of the transition probability P(nu_mu -> nu_e) for the KEK to
Kamioka (Fermilab to Minos and CERN to Gran Sasso) beam(s) in the energy region
where the probability has its first maximum, and an approximately equal
suppression of P(antinu_mu -> antinu_e). For negative Delta m^2 the effects for
neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are interchanged. Producing beams of neutrinos and
antineutrinos and measuring the oscillation probabilities for both (nu_mu ->
nu_e) and (antinu_mu -> antinu_e) transitions can solve the sign ambiguity in
the determination of Delta m^2.Comment: Latex, 28 pages, 12 postscript figure
Atmospheric neutrino flux from 3-dimensional simulation
The atmospheric muon and neutrino flux have been simulated using the same
approach which successfully accounted for the recent secondary proton, electron
and positron flux measurements in orbit by the AMS experiment. For the muon
flux, a good agreement is obtained with the CAPRICE and HEAT data for altitudes
ranging from sea level up to about 38 km. The general features of the
calculated atmospheric neutrino flux are reported and discussed. The flux
obtained at the Super-Kamiokande experiment location are reported and compared
with other calculations. For low neutrino energies the flux obtained is
significantly smaller than that used in the data analysis of underground
experiment. The simulation results for the SOUDAN experiment site are also
reported.Comment: 33 pages, 27 figures, 12 tables, final version for Phys. Rev.
The Unified Model & Evolution of Active Galaxies: Implications from a Spectropolarimetric Study
We extend the analysis presented in Tran (2001) of a spectropolarimetric
survey of the CfA and 12micron samples of Seyfert 2 galaxies (S2s). We confirm
that S2s with hidden broad line regions (HBLRs) tend to have hotter
circumnuclear dust temperatures, show mid-IR spectra more characteristic of S1
galaxies, and are intrinsically more luminous than non-HBLR S2s. The level of
obscuration and circumnuclear star formation, however, appear to be similar
between HBLR and non-HBLR S2 galaxies, based on an examination of various
observational indicators. HBLR S2s, on average, share many similar large-scale,
presumably isotropic, characteristics with Seyfert 1 galaxies (S1s), as would
be expected if the unified model is correct, while non-HBLR S2s generally do
not. The active nuclear engines of non-HBLR S2s then, appear to be truly weaker
than HBLR S2s, which in turn, are fully consistent with being S1s viewed from
another direction. There is also evidence that the fraction of detected HBLR
increases with radio power of the AGN. Thus, not all Seyfert 2 galaxies may be
intrinsically similar in nature, and we speculate that evolutionary processes
may be at work.Comment: 15 pages with embedded figs, ApJ in press, vol. 583, 2003 Feb. 1. v2:
minor corrections to text, some typos removed; updated reference list: some
added, some remove
Gamma rays and neutrinos from the Crab Nebula produced by pulsar accelerated nuclei
We investigate the consequences of the acceleration of heavy nuclei (e.g.
iron nuclei) by the Crab pulsar. Accelerated nuclei can photodisintegrate in
collisions with soft photons produced in the pulsar's outer gap, injecting
energetic neutrons which decay either inside or outside the Crab Nebula. The
protons from neutron decay inside the nebula are trapped by the Crab Nebula
magnetic field, and accumulate inside the nebula producing gamma-rays and
neutrinos in collisions with the matter in the nebula. Neutrons decaying
outside the Crab Nebula contribute to the Galactic cosmic rays. We compute the
expected fluxes of gamma-rays and neutrinos, and find that our model could
account for the observed emission at high energies and may be tested by
searching for high energy neutrinos with future neutrino telescopes currently
in the design stage.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX uses revtex.sty, submitted to Phys. Rev.
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Highly anisotropic g-factor of two-dimensional hole systems
Coupling the spin degree of freedom to the anisotropic orbital motion of
two-dimensional (2D) hole systems gives rise to a highly anisotropic Zeeman
splitting with respect to different orientations of an in-plane magnetic field
B relative to the crystal axes. This mechanism has no analogue in the bulk band
structure. We obtain good, qualitative agreement between theory and
experimental data, taken in GaAs 2D hole systems grown on (113) substrates,
showing the anisotropic depopulation of the upper spin subband as a function of
in-plane B.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Global Analysis of the post-SNO Solar Neutrino Data for Standard and Non-Standard Oscillation Mechanisms
What can we learn from solar neutrino observations? Is there any solution to
the solar neutrino anomaly which is favored by the present experimental
panorama? After SNO results, is it possible to affirm that neutrinos have mass?
In order to answer such questions we analyze the current available data from
the solar neutrino experiments, including the recent SNO result, in view of
many acceptable solutions to the solar neutrino problem based on different
conversion mechanisms, for the first time, using the same statistical
procedure. This allows us to do a direct comparison of the goodness of the fit
among different solutions, from which we can discuss and conclude on the
current status of each proposed dynamical mechanism. These solutions are based
on different assumptions: (a) neutrino mass and mixing, (b) non-vanishing
neutrino magnetic moment, (c) the existence of non-standard flavor-changing and
non-universal neutrino interactions and (d) the tiny violation of the
equivalence principle. We investigate the quality of the fit provided by each
one of these solutions not only to the total rate measured by all the solar
neutrino experiments but also to the recoil electron energy spectrum measured
at different zenith angles by the Super-Kamiokande collaboration. We conclude
that several non-standard neutrino flavor conversion mechanisms provide a very
good fit to the experimental data which is comparable with (or even slightly
better than) the most famous solution to the solar neutrino anomaly based on
the neutrino oscillation induced by mass.Comment: Minor changes in the solar magnetic field profile used, and some
refferences added. Final version to appear in PR
The neutrino cross section and upward going muons
The charged current cross section for neutrinos with energy of a few GeV is
reanalysed. In this energy range the cross section for the lowest multiplicity
exclusive channels is an important fraction of and the
approximation of describing the cross section with deep inelastic scattering
formulae may be inaccurate. Possible consequences of our reanalysis of the
cross section in the interpretation of the data obtained by deep underground
detectors on --induced upward going muons (both stopping and passing) are
discussed.Comment: 9 pages, REVTEX, 1 uu-encoded compressed file with 3 figure
The Lake Baikal neutrino experiment: selected results
We review the present status of the lake Baikal Neutrino Experiment and
present selected physical results gained with the consequetive stages of the
stepwise increasing detector: from NT-36 to NT-96. Results cover atmospheric
muons, neutrino events, very high energy neutrinos, search for neutrino events
from WIMP annihilation, search for magnetic monopoles and environmental
studies. We also describe an air Cherenkov array developed for the study of
angular resolution of NT-200.Comment: 25 pages, 12 figures. To appear in the Procrrdings of International
Conference on Non-Accelerator New Physics, June 28 - July 3, 1999, Dubna,
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Can lepton flavor violating interactions explain the atmospheric neutrino problem?
We investigate whether flavor changing neutrino interactions (FCNIs) can be
sufficiently large to provide a viable solution to the atmospheric neutrino
problem. Effective operators induced by heavy boson exchange that allow for
flavor changing neutrino scattering off quarks or electrons are related by an
rotation to operators that induce anomalous tau decays. Since
violation is small for New Physics at or above the weak scale, one
can use the upper bounds on lepton flavor violating tau decays or on lepton
universality violation to put severe, model-independent bounds on the relevant
non-standard neutrino interactions. Also -induced flavor changing neutral
currents, due to heavy singlet neutrinos, are too small to be relevant for the
atmospheric neutrino anomaly. We conclude that the FCNI solution to the
atmospheric neutrino problem is ruled out.Comment: 16 pages, no figures, Late
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