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Expressions of Effective Hamiltonian Parameters of XY4 Molecules in the Tetrahedral Formalism
1998
We have derived expressions of second-order effective Hamiltonian parameters of XY4 molecules in the tetrahedral formalism (1992, J. P. Champion et al., "Spectroscopy of the Earth's Atmosphere and Interstellar Medium: Spherical Top Spectra," Academic Press, San Diego). They are written as a function of the force constants of the potential expanded in terms of the dimensionless normal coordinates. These expressions can be used in the isolated band scheme as well as in the polyad one. The ambiguity of the effective Hamiltonian parameters is treated. Relations between the parameters for q2 and q4 terms and Hecht's anharmonicity constants (1960, K. T. Hecht, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 5, 355-389) in th…
Search for Muon Neutrino and Antineutrino Disappearance in MiniBooNE
2009
The MiniBooNE Collaboration reports a search for nu(mu) and nu(mu) disappearance in the Delta m(2) region of 0.5-40 eV(2). These measurements are important for constraining models with extra types of neutrinos, extra dimensions, and CPT violation. Fits to the shape of the nu(mu) and nu(mu) energy spectra reveal no evidence for disappearance at the 90% confidence level (C.L.) in either mode. The test of nu(mu) disappearance probes a region below Delta m(2)=40 eV(2) never explored before.
Gravitational Waves from Disks Around Spinning Black Holes: Simulations in Full General Relativity
2020
We present fully general-relativistic numerical evolutions of self-gravitating tori around spinning black holes with dimensionless spin $a/M = 0.7$ parallel or anti-parallel to the disk angular momentum. The initial disks are unstable to the hydrodynamic Papaloizou-Pringle Instability which causes them to grow persistent orbiting matter clumps. The effect of black hole spin on the growth and saturation of the instability is assessed. We find that the instability behaves similarly to prior simulations with non-spinning black holes, with a shift in frequency due to spin-induced changes in disk orbital period. Copious gravitational waves are generated by these systems, and we analyze their det…
Effect of low mass dark matter particles on the Sun
2010
We study the effect of dark matter (DM) particles in the Sun, focusing in particular on the possible reduction of the solar neutrinos flux due to the energy carried away by DM particles from the innermost regions of the Sun, and to the consequent reduction of the temperature of the solar core. We find that in the very low-mass range between 4 and 10 GeV, recently advocated to explain the findings of the DAMA and CoGent experiments, the effects on neutrino fluxes are detectable only for DM models with very small, or vanishing, self-annihilation cross section, such as the so-called asymmetric DM models, and we study the combination of DM masses and Spin Dependent cross sections which can be e…
Anti-phase wave patterns in a ring of electrically coupled oscillatory neurons
2013
International audience; Space-time dynamics of the network system modeling collective behavior of electrically coupled nonlinear cells is investigated. The dynamics of a local cell is described by the dimensionless Morris-Lecar system. It is shown that such a system yields a special class of traveling localized collective activity so called "anti-phase wave patterns". The mechanisms of formation of the patterns are discussed and the region of their existence is obtained by using the weakly coupled oscillators theory.
Effects of nonlinear sweep in the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg effect
2002
We study the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg (LZS) effect for a two-level system with a time-dependent nonlinear bias field (the sweep function) W(t). Our main concern is to investigate the influence of the nonlinearity of W(t) on the probability P to remain in the initial state. The dimensionless quantity epsilon = pi Delta ^2/(2 hbar v) depends on the coupling Delta of both levels and on the sweep rate v. For fast sweep rates, i.e., epsilon << l and monotonic, analytic sweep functions linearizable in the vicinity of the resonance we find the transition probability 1-P ~= epsilon (1+a), where a>0 is the correction to the LSZ result due to the nonlinearity of the sweep. Further increase …
A Wilson-Yukawa Model with undoubled chiral fermions in 2D
1997
We consider the fermion spectrum in the strong coupling vortex phase of a lattice fermion-scalar model with a global $U(1)_L\times U(1)_R$, in 2D, in the context of a recently proposed two-cutoff lattice formulation. The fermion doublers are made massive by a strong Wilson-Yukawa coupling, but in contrast with the standard formulation of these models, in which the light fermion spectrum was found to be massive and vectorlike, we find massless undoubled fermions with chiral quantum numbers at finite lattice spacing. When the global symmetry is gauged, this model is expected to give rise to a chiral gauge theory.
A study of free convection in air around horizontal cylinders of different diameters based on holographic interferometry. Temperature field equations…
2002
Abstract Holographic interferometry is used to study free convection in air around horizontal cylinders of different diameters and equal length, involving different surface temperatures, with the aim of defining the corresponding temperature fields. Interferograms were obtained to determine the temperature (T) of each point as well as its distance (x) from the surface of the cylinder. These values in turn made it possible to define functions (of an exponential nature in our case), T=f(x), that satisfactorily reproduced the temperature fields. Posteriorly, these functions were used to calculate the local convection coefficients, determining their dependency upon temperature and the direction…
Thermal conduction by dark matter with velocity and momentum-dependent cross-sections
2014
We use the formalism of Gould and Raffelt to compute the dimensionless thermal conduction coefficients for scattering of dark matter particles with standard model nucleons via cross-sections that depend on the relative velocity or momentum exchanged between particles. Motivated by models invoked to reconcile various recent results in direct detection, we explicitly compute the conduction coefficients $\alpha$ and $\kappa$ for cross-sections that go as $v_{\rm rel}^2$, $v_{\rm rel}^4$, $v_{\rm rel}^{-2}$, $q^2$, $q^4$ and $q^{-2}$, where $v_{\rm rel}$ is the relative DM-nucleus velocity and $q$ is the momentum transferred in the collision. We find that a $v_{\rm rel}^{-2}$ dependence can sig…
Dark sectors with dynamical coupling
2019
Coupled dark matter-dark energy scenarios are modeled via a dimensionless parameter $��$, which controls the strength of their interaction. While this coupling is commonly assumed to be constant, there is no underlying physical law or symmetry that forbids a time-dependent $��$ parameter. The most general and complete interacting scenarios between the two dark sectors should therefore allow for such a possibility, and it is the main purpose of this study to constrain two possible and well-motivated coupled cosmologies by means of the most recent and accurate early and late-time universe observations. We find that CMB data alone prefers $��(z) >0$ and therefore a smaller amount of dark ma…