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Phase oscillations in superfluid 3He-B weak links
Oscillations in quantum phase about a mean value of , observed across
micropores connecting two \helium baths, are explained in a Ginzburg-Landau
phenomenology. The dynamics arises from the Josephson phase relation,the
interbath continuity equation, and helium boundary conditions. The pores are
shown to act as Josephson tunnel junctions, and the dynamic variables are the
inter bath phase difference and fractional difference in superfluid density at
micropores. The system maps onto a non-rigid, momentum-shortened pendulum, with
inverted-orientation oscillations about a vertical tilt angle , and
other modes are predicted
Probing Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations in the LENS Detector
Sterile neutrino conversion in meter scale baselines can be sensitively
probed using monoenergetic, sub-MeV, flavor pure e-neutrinos from an artificial
MCi source and the unique technology of LENS designed to oberve the low energy
solar neutrino spectrum via tagged CC e-neutrino capture in 115-In.
Active-sterile oscillations can be directly observed in the granular LENS
detector itself to critically test and extend resuls of short baseline
accelerator and reactor experiments.Comment: 4pages, 4 figures, text and figure change
Solar Neutrinos: Spin Flavour Precession and LMA
The time dependence that appears to be hinted by the data from the first 13
years of the solar neutrino Gallium experiments is viewed as resulting from a
partial conversion of active neutrinos to light sterile ones through the
resonant interaction between the magnetic moment of the neutrino and a varying
solar field. A summary of the model and its predictions are presented for the
forthcoming experiments Borexino and LENS.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to 12th Lomonosov Conference in
Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow, Aug 24-31 (2005
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