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Limits on nu_e and anti-nu_e disappearance from Gallium and reactor experiments
The deficit observed in the Gallium radioactive source experiments is
interpreted as a possible indication of the disappearance of electron
neutrinos. In the effective framework of two-neutrino mixing we obtain
and . The compatibility of this result with the data of the Bugey and
Chooz reactor short-baseline antineutrino disappearance experiments is studied.
It is found that the Bugey data present a hint of neutrino oscillations with
and , which is compatible with the Gallium allowed region of the
mixing parameters. This hint persists in the combined analyses of Bugey and
Chooz data, of Gallium and Bugey data, and of Gallium, Bugey, and Chooz data.Comment: 21 pages. Final version to be published in Phys. Rev.
On the choice of temperature profile at solving the heat conduction equation in spherical coordinates by the method of thermal balance integral
Solutions of the heat conduction equation for a sphere and an area limited from within by a spherical cavity have been obtained by means of the integrated method. The influence of the choice of the temperature profile on efficiency of the approached analytical solution is shown. The variant of solution specification in transitive area is offered
Two New Species of \u3ci\u3eRhabdias\u3c/i\u3e (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) from the Marine Toad, \u3ci\u3eBufo marinus\u3c/i\u3e (L.) (Lissamphibia: Anura: Bufonidae), in Central America
Two new Rhabdias species are described from the lungs of the cane toad Bufo marinus (L.) from Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Rhabdias alabialis n. sp. differs from other known species of the genus by the remarkable morphology of its head end, i.e., the absence of lips or pseudolabia, the slitlike oral opening, and the triangular shape of the buccal capsule in apical view. Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala n. sp. is identified as a form previously known in Central and South America as Rhabdias sphaerocephala Goodey, 1924, a species initially described from toads in Europe. The new species is differentiated from R. sphaerocephala based on head-end morphology and sequences of nuclear rDNA
Two New Species of \u3ci\u3eRhabdias\u3c/i\u3e (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) from the Marine Toad, \u3ci\u3eBufo marinus\u3c/i\u3e (L.) (Lissamphibia: Anura: Bufonidae), in Central America
Two new Rhabdias species are described from the lungs of the cane toad Bufo marinus (L.) from Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Rhabdias alabialis n. sp. differs from other known species of the genus by the remarkable morphology of its head end, i.e., the absence of lips or pseudolabia, the slitlike oral opening, and the triangular shape of the buccal capsule in apical view. Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala n. sp. is identified as a form previously known in Central and South America as Rhabdias sphaerocephala Goodey, 1924, a species initially described from toads in Europe. The new species is differentiated from R. sphaerocephala based on head-end morphology and sequences of nuclear rDNA
Detection of Giant Radio Pulses from the Pulsar PSR B0656+14
Giant pulses (GPs) have been detected from the pulsar PSR B0656+14. A pulse
that is more intense than the average pulse by a factor of 120 is encountered
approximately once in 3000 observed periods of the pulsar. The peak flux
density of the strongest pulse, 120 Jy, is a factor of 630 higher than that of
the average pulse. The GP energy exceeds the energy of the average pulse by up
to a factor of 110, which is comparable to that for other known pulsars with
GPs, including the Crab pulsar and the millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21. The
giant pulses are a factor of 6 narrower than the average pulse and are
clustered at the head of the average pulse. PSR B0656+14 along with PSR
B0031-07, PSR B1112+50, and PSR J1752+2359 belong to a group of pulsars that
differ from previously known ones in which GPs have been detected without any
extremely strong magnetic field on the light cylinder.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; originally published in Russian in
Pis'ma Astron. Zh., 2006, v.32, 650; translated by George Rudnitskii; the
English version will be appear in Astronomy Letter
Sensitivity of depth of maximum and absorption depth of EAS to hadron production mechanism
Comparison of experimental data on depth of extensive air showers (EAS) development maximum in the atmosphere, T sub M and path of absorption, lambda, in the lower atmosphere of EAS with fixed particle number in the energy region eV with the results of calculation show that these parameters are sensitive mainly to the inelastic interaction cross section and scaling violation in the fragmentation and pionization region. The data are explained in a unified manner within the framework of a model in which scaling is violated slightly in the fragmentation region and strongly in the pionization region at primary cosmic rays composition close to the normal one and a permanent increase of inelastic interaction cross section. It is shown that, while interpreting the experimental data, disregard of two methodical points causes a systematic shift in T sub M: (1) shower selection system; and (2) EAS electron lateral distribution when performing the calculations on basis of which the transfer is made from the Cerenkov pulse FWHM to the depth of shower maximum, T sub M
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