7,909 research outputs found
Sensitivity of T2KK to the non-standard interaction in propagation
Assuming only the non-zero electron and tau neutrino components
, , of the non-standard
matter effect and postulating the atmospheric neutrino constraint
, we study the
sensitivity to the non-standard interaction in neutrino propagation of the T2KK
neutrino long-baseline experiment. It is shown that T2KK can constrain the
parameters , . It is
also shown that if and are large, then T2KK
can determine the Dirac phase and the phase of separately,
due to the information at the two baselines. We also provide an argument that
the components must be small for
the disappearance oscillation probability to be consistent with high-energy
atmospheric neutrino data, which justifies our premise that these quantities
are negligible.Comment: 29 pages, 25 figures, uses revtex4-1. Several places including typos
revised. New references adde
Loose mechanochemical coupling of molecular motors
In living cells, molecular motors convert chemical energy into mechanical
work. Its thermodynamic energy efficiency, i.e. the ratio of output mechanical
work to input chemical energy, is usually high. However, using two-state
models, we found the motion of molecular motors is loosely coupled to the
chemical cycle. Only part of the input energy can be converted into mechanical
work. Others is dissipated into environment during substeps without
contributions to the macro scale unidirectional movement
Systematic limits on sin^2{2theta_{13}} in neutrino oscillation experiments with multi-reactors
Sensitivities to sin^2{2theta_{13}} without statistical errors (``systematic
limit'') are investigated in neutrino oscillation experiments with multiple
reactors. Using an analytical approach, we show that the systematic limit on
sin^2{2theta_{13}} is dominated by the uncorrelated systematic error sigma_u of
the detector. Even in an experiment with multi-detectors and multi-reactors, it
turns out that most of the systematic errors including the one due to the
nature of multiple sources is canceled as in the case with a single reactor
plus two detectors, if the near detectors are placed suitably. The case of the
KASKA plan (7 reactors and 3 detectors) is investigated in detail, and it is
explicitly shown that it does not suffer from the extra uncertainty due to
multiple reactors.Comment: 26 pages, 10 eps-files, revtex
Spontaneous alloying in binary metal microclusters - A molecular dynamics study -
Microcanonical molecular dynamics study of the spontaneous alloying(SA),
which is a manifestation of fast atomic diffusion in a nano-sized metal
cluster, is done in terms of a simple two dimensional binary Morse model.
Important features observed by Yasuda and Mori are well reproduced in our
simulation. The temperature dependence and size dependence of the SA phenomena
are extensively explored by examining long time dynamics. The dominant role of
negative heat of solution in completing the SA is also discussed. We point out
that a presence of melting surface induces the diffusion of core atoms even if
they are solid-like. In other words, the {\it surface melting} at substantially
low temperature plays a key role in attaining the SA.Comment: 15 pages, 12 fgures, Submitted to Phys.Rev.
Absence of self-averaging in the complex admittance for transport through random media
A random walk model in a one dimensional disordered medium with an
oscillatory input current is presented as a generic model of boundary
perturbation methods to investigate properties of a transport process in a
disordered medium. It is rigorously shown that an admittance which is equal to
the Fourier-Laplace transform of the first-passage time distribution is
non-self-averaging when the disorder is strong. The low frequency behavior of
the disorder-averaged admittance, where , does not coincide with the low frequency behavior of the admittance for any
sample, . It implies that the Cole-Cole plot of
appears at a different position from the Cole-Cole plots of of any
sample. These results are confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulations.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev.
Interactions of a String Inspired Graviton Field
We continue to explore the possibility that the graviton in two dimensions is
related to a quadratic differential that appears in the anomalous contribution
of the gravitational effective action for chiral fermions. A higher dimensional
analogue of this field might exist as well. We improve the defining action for
this diffeomorphism tensor field and establish a principle for how it interacts
with other fields and with point particles in any dimension. All interactions
are related to the action of the diffeomorphism group. We discuss possible
interpretations of this field.Comment: 12 pages, more readable, references adde
Line nodes in the superconducting gap function of noncentrosymmetric CePt_3Si
The superconducting gap structure of recently discovered heavy fermion
CePt_3Si without spatial inversion symmetry was investigated by thermal
transport measurements down to 40 mK. In zero field a residual T-linear term
was clearly resolved as T-> 0, with a magnitude in good agreement with the
value expected for a residual normal fluid with a nodal gap structure, together
with a T^2-dependence at high temperatures. With an applied magnetic fields,
the thermal conductivity grows rapidly, in dramatic contrast to fully gapped
superconductors, and exhibits one-parameter scaling with T/sqrt{H}. These
results place an important constraint on the order parameter symmetry, that is
CePt_3Si is most likely to have line nodes.Comment: 5pages, 3figures, accpted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Orientation and solvatochromism of dyes in liquid crystals.
The orientation and solvatochromism of some dye molecules in a liquid crystal have been investigated. Interactions with the host and the structure of the dye molecule affect the macroscopic alignment of dichroic dye molecules in a liquid crystal: It was observed that some dye molecules show a large bathochromic shift of their absorption maxima in the liquid crystal host relative to the situation in isotropic solvents. It is suggested that this is due to the occurrence of a much weaker reaction field in the anisotropic, rigid host. These dye molecules show little or no apparent order in the anisotropic host despite the observation of a reduction in the electro optic switching time when the dye is present. The highest degree of macroscopic alignment was observed for a merocyanine compound, which showed the smallest solvatochromic shift in the liquid crystal host. These results are discussed in terms of the steric, dipolar and hydrogen bond interactions between the guest and the host
- …