119188201
Emission characteristics of the projectile fragments at relativistic energy
A projectile (84Kr36) having kinetic energy around 1 A GeV has been used to expose NIKFI BR-2 emulsion target at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. A total of 700 inelastic events has been identified and used in the present studies on projectile fragments. The emission angle of the projectile fragments are strongly affected by charge of the other projectile fragments emitted at same time with different emission angle is observed. The angular distribution studies show symmetrical nature for lighter charge projectile fragments. The symmetrical nature decreased with the charge of projectile fragments. We have observed at ~4o of emission angle for double charge projectile fragments, the momentum transfer during interaction is similar for various target species of emulsion. We have also observed a small but significant amplitude peaks on both side of the big peak for almost all light charge projectile fragments having different delta angle values. It reflects that there are a few percent of projectile fragments that are coming from the decay of heavy projectile fragments or any other process.
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.
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.
123203919
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.
119626652
Bosonic string theories with new boundary conditions
We show that the classical Nambu-Goto string inD dimensions admits Poincaré invariance ind dimensions (d⩽D) if (i)d − 2 of the transverse co-ordinatesxi are periodic and the rest quasi-periodic involving a real orthogonal matrix with (D − d) (D − d − 1)/2 free parameters, or if (ii)d − 2 ofxi obey Neumann and the rest obey a boundary condition involvingN free parameters, whereN=(D − d)2/2 ifD − d is even, andN=[(D − d)2 − 1]/2 ifD − d is odd.
117752946
Study of neutron-induced background and its effect on the search of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $\rm^{124}Sn$
Neutron-induced background has been studied in various components of the TIN.TIN detector, which is under development for the search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in $\rm^{124}Sn$. Fast neutron flux $\sim10^{6}~n~cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ covering a broad energy range ($ \sim0.1$ to $ \sim18$~MeV) was generated using $^{9}Be(p,n)^{9}B$ reaction. In addition, reactions with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons were also studied using $^{7}Li(p,n)^{7}Be$ reaction. Among the different cryogenic support structures studied, Teflon is found to be preferable compared to Torlon as there is no high energy gamma background ($E_\gamma >$ 1 MeV). Contribution of neutron-induced reactions in $\rm ^{nat, 124} $Sn from other Sn isotopes (A = 112 -- 122) in the energy region of interest, namely, around the $Q_{\beta\beta}$ of $\rm^{124}Sn$ ($E \sim$ 2.293 MeV), is also investigated.
121168534
Fractionally charged non-leaking dyons and fermions in a bag
We consider a fermion of chargee confined to a spherical bag with a Dirac monopole of strengthg at its centre. We find that the boundary conditions making the lowest angular momentum hamiltonian self-adjoint are characterized by a unitary matrixU, and the corresponding vacuum charge has a fractional part 2|eg|α/π where detU = -exp (2iα). Boundary conditions for conservation of helicity,CP, CT andPT are displayed. We demonstrate the possibility of a fractionally charged dyon whose interaction with a fermion conserves helicity. We also show thatthe simultaneous validity of helicity, CP, CT and PT requires integer vacuum charge.
84922592
Bounds on Form Factors and Propagators
119959917
Bounds on elastic absorptive parts
We reduce the general problem of obtaining bounds on elastic absorptive parts of a scattering amplitude subject to unitarity restrictions and any number of constraints involving partial wave amplitudes linearly to a form where it can be directly applied to any such problem. A series of bounds on absorptive parts for positive momentum transfer square t, within the Lehmann-Martin ellipse, is derived. These involve a knowledge of the first few momentum transfer derivatives of the absorptive part in the forward direction, i.e., t = 0. Upper and lower bounds on the higher t-derivatives of the absorptive part at t = 0 are also given.