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Hidden Interactions of Sterile Neutrinos As a Probe For New Physics
Recent results from neutrino experiments show evidence for light sterile
neutrinos which do not have any Standard Model interactions. In this work we
study the hidden interaction of sterile neutrinos with an "MeV scale" gauge
boson (the HI model) with mass and leptonic coupling .
By performing an analysis on the HI model using the data of the MINOS
neutrino experiment we find that the values above are excluded
by more than C.L., where is the Fermi constant and is the
field strength of the HI model. Using this model we can also probe other
new physics scenarios. We find that the region allowed by the
discrepancy is entirely ruled out for MeV. Finally, the
secret interaction of sterile neutrinos has been to solve a conflict between
the sterile neutrinos and cosmology. It is shown here that such an interaction
is excluded by MINOS for . This exclusion,
however, does depend on the value of .Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, Improved version with new figures and further
details. Accepted in PR
TRACE-derived temperature and emission measure profiles along long-lived coronal loops: the role of filamentation
In a recent letter (ApJ 517, L155) Lenz et al. have shown the evidence of
uniform temperature along steady long coronal loops observed by TRACE in two
different passbands (171 A and 195 A filters). We propose that such an evidence
can be explained by the sub-arcsecond structuring of the loops across the
magnetic field lines. In this perspective, we present a model of a bundle of
six thin parallel hydrostatic filaments with temperature stratification
dictated by detailed energy balance and with temperatures at their apex ranging
between 0.8 and 5 MK. If analyzed as a single loop, the bundle would appear
isothermal along most of its length.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figs, LaTeX text, PostScript figure
Deep ROSAT-HRI observation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1399
We present the preliminary results of a deep (167 ks) ROSAT HRI observation
of the cD galaxy NGC1399 in the Fornax cluster. We find, in agreement with
previous observations, an extended (41 Kpc adopting a distance of 19 Mpc)
gaseous halo with a luminosity of L_X=(4.41\pm 0.04)x10^{41} erg/s. The 5
arcsec resolution of the data allows us to detect a very complex and asymmetric
structure of the halo with respect to the optical galaxy. Moreover the analysis
of the radial structure reveals the presence of a multi-component profile not
consistent with a simple King model over the whole 40 Kpc. We do not detect the
presence of a central source and pose an upper limit to the luminosity of a
possible active nucleus. Due to the length of the observation, comparable to
that of a deep survey, we detect a large number of sources within the HRI FOV,
in slight excess with respect to the estimates based on previous surveys. We
study the flux distribution of the sources, their temporal behaviour and their
spatial distribution with respect to the central galaxy.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures (6 in color), 1 table; uses subfigure.sty,
supertabular.sty, lscape.sty, color.sty; To be published in the proceeding of
"X-ray Astronomy 2000" (Mondello (Palermo), September 2000
Revising Limits on Neutrino-Majoron Couplings
Any theory that have a global spontaneously broken symmetry will imply the
existence of very light neutral bosons or massless bosons (sometimes called
Majorons). For most of these models we have neutrino-Majoron couplings, that
appear as additional branching ratios in decays of mesons and leptons. Here we
present an updated limits on the couplings between the electron, muon and tau
neutrinos and Majorons. For such we analyze the possible effects of Majoron
emission in both meson and lepton decays. In the latter we also include an
analysis of the muon decay spectrum. Our results are
, and
at 90 % C. L., where .Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Atmospheric neutrinos: LMA oscillations, Ue3 induced interference and CP-violation
We consider oscillations of the low energy (sub-GeV sample) atmospheric
neutrinos in the three neutrino context. We present the semi-analytic study of
the neutrino evolution and calculate characteristics of the e-like events
(total number, energy spectra and zenith angle distributions) in the presence
of oscillations. At low energies there are three different contributions to the
number of events: the LMA contribution (from electron-neutrino oscillations
driven by the solar oscillation parameters), the Ue3-contribution proportional
to s13**2, and the Ue3 - induced interference of the two amplitudes driven by
the solar oscillation parameters. The interference term is sensitive to the
CP-violation phase. We describe in details properties of these contributions.
We find that the LMA, the interference and Ue3 contributions can reach 5 - 6%,
2 - 3% and 1 - 2 % correspondingly. An existence of the significant (> 3 - 5 %)
excess of the e-like events in the sub-GeV sample and the absence of the excess
in the multi-GeV range testifies for deviation of the 2-3 mixing from maximum.
We consider a possibility to measure the deviation as well as the CP- violation
phase in future atmospheric neutrino studies.Comment: 30 pages, RevTeX4.0, 11 figures; improved figure
Coronal loop hydrodynamics. The solar flare observedon November 12 1980 revisited: the UV line emission
We revisit a well-studied solar flare whose X-ray emission originating from a
simple loop structure was observed by most of the instruments on board SMM on
November 12 1980. The X-ray emission of this flare, as observed with the XRP,
was successfully modeled previously. Here we include a detailed modeling of the
transition region and we compare the hydrodynamic results with the UVSP
observations in two EUV lines, measured in areas smaller than the XRP rasters,
covering only some portions of the flaring loop (the top and the foot-points).
The single loop hydrodynamic model, which fits well the evolution of coronal
lines (those observed with the XRP and the \FeXXI 1354.1 \AA line observed with
the UVSP) fails to model the flux level and evolution of the \OV 1371.3 \AA
line.Comment: A&A, in press, 6 pages, 5 figure
Quantum mechanics explained
The physical motivation for the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics
is made clear and compelling by starting from an obvious fact - essentially,
the stability of matter - and inquiring into its preconditions: what does it
take to make this fact possible?Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures. v2: revised in response to referee comment
A Short Travel for Neutrinos in Large Extra Dimensions
Neutrino oscillations successfully explain the flavor transitions observed in
neutrinos produced in natural sources like the center of the sun and the earth
atmosphere, and also from man-made sources like reactors and accelerators.
These oscillations are driven by two mass-squared differences, solar and
atmospheric, at the sub-eV scale. However, longstanding anomalies at
short-baselines might imply the existence of new oscillation frequencies at the
eV-scale and the possibility of this sterile state(s) to mix with the three
active neutrinos. One of the many future neutrino programs that are expected to
provide a final word on this issue is the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program (SBN)
at FERMILAB. In this letter, we consider a specific model of Large Extra
Dimensions (LED) which provides interesting signatures of oscillation of extra
sterile states. We started re-creating sensitivity analyses for sterile
neutrinos in the 3+1 scenario, previously done by the SBN collaboration, by
simulating neutrino events in the three SBN detectors from both muon neutrino
disappearance and electron neutrino appearance. Then, we implemented neutrino
oscillations as predicted in the LED model and also we have performed
sensitivity analysis to the LED parameters. Finally, we studied the SBN power
of discriminating between the two models, the 3+1 and the LED. We have found
that SBN is sensitive to the oscillations predicted in the LED model and have
the potential to constrain the LED parameter space better than any other
oscillation experiment, for . In case SBN observes a
departure from the three active neutrino framework, it also has the power of
discriminating between sterile oscillations predicted in the 3+1 framework and
the LED ones.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, 2 table
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