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Constraints on Non-Commutative Physics Scale with Neutrino-Electron Scattering
Neutrino-electron scatterings ($\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{-}e$) are purely leptonic processes with robust standard model predictions. Their measurements can therefore provide constraints to physics beyond the standard model. Noncommutative (NC) field theories modify space-time commutation relations, and allow neutrino electromagnetic couplings at the tree level. Their contribution to the neutrino-electron scattering cross section was derived. Constraints were placed on the NC scale parameter ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{\mathrm{NC}}$ from $\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{-}e$ experiments with reactor and accelerator neutrinos. The most stringent limit of ${\ensuremath{\Lambda}}_{\mathrm{NC}}g3.3\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ at 95% confidence level improves over the direct bounds from collider experiments.
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Factorization of fragmentation cross-sections in heavy-ion collisions at 1A GeV
Fe-, Kr- and Xe-induced heavy-ion reactions at ~ 1 A GeV show factorization in the production cross-sections only for light fragments. Both "strong" and "weak" factorization are found for light fragments. The cross-sections of these fragments are described in detail within the prescription of cold breakup of spectator residues.
118409510
Characteristics of alpha projectile fragments emission in interaction of nuclei with emulsion
The properties of the relativistic alpha fragments produced in interactions of 84Kr at around 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsion are investigated. The experimental results are compared with the similar results obtained from various projectiles with emulsion interactions at different energies. The total, partial nuclear cross-sections and production rates of alpha fragmentation channels in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and their dependence on the mass number and initial energy of the incident projectile nucleus are investigated. The yields of multiple alpha fragments emitted from the interactions of projectile nuclei with the nuclei of light, medium and heavy target groups of emulsion-detector are discussed and they indicate that the projectile-breakup mechanism seems to be free from the target mass number. It is found that the multiplicity distributions of alpha fragments are well described by the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling presentation. The mean multiplicities of the freshly produced or newly created charged secondary particles, normally known as shower and secondary particles associated with target in the events where the emission of alpha fragments were accompanied by heavy projectile fragments having Z ≥ 3 seem to be constant as the alpha fragments multiplicity increases, and exhibit a behavior independent of the alpha fragments multiplicity.
119072934
Transverse mass spectra and scaling of hadrons at RHIC and LHC energies
We present a systematic study of transverse mass spectra ($m_T$) of mesons and baryons at RHIC and LHC energies. In an earlier study, it was shown that all the mesons produced in p+p and d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV follow $m_T$ scaling while in Au+Au collisions at same energy the mesons with strange and charm quark contents do not follow $m_T$ scaling which can be attributed to medium modifications. 
We extend this study for baryons produced in all above colliding systems at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. Although all available baryon spectra behave differently from mesons but are found to scale with protons for both p+p and d+Au collisions. In case of Au+Au collisions, the strange baryons behave differently from protons. 
This study has also been performed on the meson spectra in p+p collisions at 62.4 GeV which lies in between the highest RHIC energy and SPS energy where the $m_T$ scaling was first observed and we arrive at same conclusions as those at 200 GeV. 
We test the $m_T$ scaling at LHC with the first meson spectra measured in p+p collisions at 900 GeV and find that the $m_T$ spectra of kaons and $\phi$ do not scale with pions. Thus $m_T$ scaling which was working well up to p+p collisions at 200 GeV seems to be broken. Here we use all data measured in the mid rapidity region. Baryon to meson ratio is studied as a function of $m_T$, at different energies and for different systems and is found that this ratio for p+p at 900 GeV is quite different from that in p+p collisions at RHIC energies.
119107308
Hadron spectra in p+p collisions at RHIC and LHC energies
We present the systematic analysis of transverse momentum (pT) spectra of identified hadrons in p+p collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ( and 200 GeV) and at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies (, 2.76 and 7.0 TeV) using phenomenological fit functions. We review various forms of Hagedorn and Tsallis distributions and show their equivalence. We use Tsallis distribution which successfully describes the spectra in p+p collisions using two parameters, Tsallis temperature T which governs the soft bulk spectra and power n which determines the initial production in partonic collisions. We obtain these parameters for pions, kaons and protons as a function of center-of-mass energy . It is found that the parameter T has a weak but decreasing trend with increasing . The parameter n decreases with increasing which shows that production of hadrons at higher energies are increasingly dominated by point like qq scatterings. Another important observation is with increasing , the separation between the powers for protons and pions narrows down hinting that the baryons and mesons are governed by same production process as one moves to the highest LHC energy.
117487117
The TEXONO research program on low-energy neutrino and astroparticle physics
AbstractThis article reviews the research program and efforts of the TEXONO Collaboration on neutrino and astroparticles. The main program is on reactor-based low-energy neutrino physics at the Kuo-Sheng Power Plant in Taiwan. The facilities of the laboratory are described. A limit on the neutrino magnetic moment of μν(
$$\bar \nu _e $$
) < 1.3 × 10−10 μB at 90% C.L. has been achieved from measurements with a high-purity germanium detector. Other research programs at Kuo-Sheng are surveyed.
123580858
Unitarity upper bound on the absorptive parts of elastic scattering amplitudes
We derive a unitarity upper bound on the absorptive part A(s, t) of the elastic-scattering amplitude in the physical region. In the diffraction peak region the bound on A(s, t)/A(s, 0) is a function only of the parameter σ tot 2 (−t)/4πσ el . Assuming the diffraction scattering to be purely absorptive and spin independent we find the pp, pp, and π ± p data to lie a little below the theoretical upper bound. Further the experimental curve of X(t)/X(0) vs −4tX(0)/σ el , where X(t)≡dσ/dt, seems "universal."
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Rigorous sum rules and bounds on pion-pion scattering lengths
Abstract We deduce from axiomatic field theory rigorous sum rules, and upper and lower bounds on S-and P-wave ππ scattering lenghts in terms of physical region forward ππ amplitudes, and also absolute sum rule inequalities on those amplitudes involving pion mass alone.
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GRAND UNIFICATION AND THE BIG BANG COSMOLOGY
121664310
Energy and action of the colour fields around static quarks
Abstract Results on the profiles of the confining tube in the energy and action densities are discussed. Lattice sum rules are tested in detail.
119834941
Analytic continued fraction theory for a class of confinement potentials
We study a general class of confinement potentials in Schrödinger theory using the analytic theory of continued fractions. We construct an infinite continued fraction representation for the Green's function and study its convergence, its analytic properties in the major coupling constant and its relation to the perturbation series. We prove the existence of normalizable confined state eigensolutions with equally spaced energy levels if certain constraints on the coupling constants of the theory are satisfied: we also show that under a separate set of constraints neither bound nor confined states exist.