Looking for strangeness with neutrino-nucleon scattering

The possibility to determine the axial strange form factor of the nucleon from elastic neutrino-nucleon scattering experiments is studied. The existing experimental information is shortly mentioned and several observables which could be measured in the near future at new neutrino facilities are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, contribution to : "NuFact 03", 5th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams, Columbia University, New York, 5-11 June 200

Shear Viscosity of Quark Matter

We consider the shear viscosity of a system of quarks and its ratio to the entropy density above the critical temperature for deconfinement. Both quantities are derived and computed for different modeling of the quark self-energy, also allowing for a temperature dependence of the effective mass and width. The behaviour of the viscosity and the entropy density is argued in terms of the strength of the coupling and of the main characteristics of the quark self-energy. A comparison with existing results is also discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure

Conditions for detecting CP violation via neutrinoless double beta decay

Neutrinoless double beta decay data together with information on the absolute neutrino masses obtained from the future KATRIN experiment and/or astrophysical measurements give a chance to find CP violation in the lepton sector with Majorana neutrinos. We derive and discuss necessary conditions which make discovery of such CP violation possible for the future neutrino oscillation and mass measurements data.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, RevTe

The ratio of e±pe^{\pm}p scattering cross sections predicted from the global fit of elastic epep data

We present predictions for the value of the cross section ratio $\sigma(e^+p \to e^+p)/\sigma(e^-p \to e^-p)$, determined from our fit of the elastic $ep$ cross section and polarization data. In this fit we took into account the phenomenological two-photon exchange dispersive correction. The cross section ratios which are expected to be measured by the VEPP-3 experiment are computed. The kinematical region which will be covered by the E04-116 JLab experiment is also considered. It is shown that for both experiments the predicted cross section ratios deviate from unity within more than $3\sigma$.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure

An Analytic Approach to the Wave Packet Formalism in Oscillation Phenomena

We introduce an approximation scheme to perform an analytic study of the oscillation phenomena in a pedagogical and comprehensive way. By using Gaussian wave packets, we show that the oscillation is bounded by a time-dependent vanishing function which characterizes the slippage between the mass-eigenstate wave packets. We also demonstrate that the wave packet spreading represents a secondary effect which plays a significant role only in the non-relativistic limit. In our analysis, we note the presence of a new time-dependent phase and calculate how this additional term modifies the oscillating character of the flavor conversion formula. Finally, by considering Box and Sine wave packets we study how the choice of different functions to describe the particle localization changes the oscillation probability.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, AMS-Te