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Indirect Detection of CMSSM Neutralino Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes
We review the prospects of detecting supersymmetric dark matter in the
framework of the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and compare
indirect with direct detection capabilities.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, presented by J. Orloff at the York IDM02 workshop
(http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phys/idm2002
Neutrino Indirect Detection of Neutralino Dark Matter in the CMSSM
We study potential signals of neutralino dark matter indirect detection by
neutrino telescopes in a wide range of CMSSM parameters. We also compare with
direct detection potential signals taking into account in both cases present
and future experiment sensitivities. Only models with neutralino annihilation
into gauge bosons can satisfy cosmological constraints and current neutrino
indirect detection sensitivities. For both direct and indirect detection, only
next generation experiments will be able to really test this kind of models.Comment: 16 pages, 19 figures; v4: a few clarifications and significant
improvement of reference
Jamming transition of a granular pile below the angle of repose
We study experimentally the relaxation towards mechanical equilibrium of a
granular pile which has just experienced an avalanche and discuss it in the
more general context of the granular jamming transition. Two coexisting
dynamics are observed in the surface layer: a short time exponential decay
consisting in rapid and independent moves of grains and intermittent bursts
consisting in spatially correlated moves lasting for longer time. The
competition of both dynamics results in long-lived intermittent transients, the
total duration of which can late more than a thousand of seconds. We measure a
two-time relaxation function, and relate it via a simple statistical model to a
more usual two-time correlation function which exhibits strong similarities
with auto-correlation functions found in aging systems. Localized perturbation
experiments also allow us to test the pile surface layer receptivity.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
R-local Delaunay inhibition model
Let us consider the local specification system of Gibbs point process with
inhib ition pairwise interaction acting on some Delaunay subgraph specifically
not con taining the edges of Delaunay triangles with circumscribed circle of
radius grea ter than some fixed positive real value . Even if we think that
there exists at least a stationary Gibbs state associated to such system, we do
not know yet how to prove it mainly due to some uncontrolled "negative"
contribution in the expression of the local energy needed to insert any number
of points in some large enough empty region of the space. This is solved by
introducing some subgraph, called the -local Delaunay graph, which is a
slight but tailored modification of the previous one. This kind of model does
not inherit the local stability property but satisfies s ome new extension
called -local stability. This weakened property combined with the local
property provides the existence o f Gibbs state.Comment: soumis \`{a} Journal of Statistical Physics 27 page
Trap models with slowly decorrelating observables
We study the correlation and response dynamics of trap models of glassy
dynamics, considering observables that only partially decorrelate with every
jump. This is inspired by recent work on a microscopic realization of such
models, which found strikingly simple linear out-of-equilibrium
fluctuation-dissipation relations in the limit of slow decorrelation. For the
Barrat-Mezard model with its entropic barriers we obtain exact results at zero
temperature for arbitrary decorrelation factor . These are then
extended to nonzero , where the qualitative scaling behaviour and all
scaling exponents can still be found analytically. Unexpectedly, the choice of
transition rates (Glauber versus Metropolis) affects not just prefactors but
also some exponents. In the limit of slow decorrelation even complete scaling
functions are accessible in closed form. The results show that slowly
decorrelating observables detect persistently slow out-of-equilibrium dynamics,
as opposed to intermittent behaviour punctuated by excursions into fast,
effectively equilibrated states.Comment: 29 pages, IOP styl
Global fluctuations and Gumbel statistics
We explain how the statistics of global observables in correlated systems can
be related to extreme value problems and to Gumbel statistics. This
relationship then naturally leads to the emergence of the generalized Gumbel
distribution G_a(x), with a real index a, in the study of global fluctuations.
To illustrate these findings, we introduce an exactly solvable nonequilibrium
model describing an energy flux on a lattice, with local dissipation, in which
the fluctuations of the global energy are precisely described by the
generalized Gumbel distribution.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; final version with minor change
Involutive constrained systems and Hamilton-Jacobi formalism
In this paper, we study singular systems with complete sets of involutive
constraints. The aim is to establish, within the Hamilton-Jacobi theory, the
relationship between the Frobenius' theorem, the infinitesimal canonical
transformations generated by constraints in involution with the Poisson
brackets, and the lagrangian point (gauge) transformations of physical systems
Analysis of the low-energy differential cross sections of the CHAOS Collaboration
This paper presents the results of an analysis of the low-energy
differential cross sections, acquired by the CHAOS Collaboration at TRIUMF
\cite{chaos,denz}. We first analyse separately the and the
elastic-scattering measurements on the basis of standard low-energy
parameterisations of the - and p-wave -matrix elements. After the removal
of the outliers, we subject the truncated elastic-scattering
databases into a common optimisation scheme using the ETH model \cite{glmbg};
the optimisation failed to produce reasonable values for the model parameters.
We conclude that the problems we have encountered in the analysis of these data
are due to the shape of the angular distributions of their
differential cross sections
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