13987741
Recent results and status of TEXONO experiments
This article reviews the research program and efforts for the TEXONO Col- laboration on neutrino and astro-particle physics. The "flagship" program is on reactor- based neutrino physics at the Kuo-Sheng (KS) Power Plant in Taiwan. A limit on the neutrino magnetic moment of µ ¯ �e < 1.3 × 10 10 µB at 90% confidence level was derived from measurements with a high purity germanium detector. Other physics topics at KS, as well as the various R&D program, are discussed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
123436462
Universal theory of weak interactions in the paracharge scheme and quark-lepton analogy
AbstractA universal theory of weak interaction is constructed by exploiting an analogy inherent between the four leptons and the four quarks of the paracharge scheme proposed recently to deal with theψ-particles. The leptons (νe,νμ,eL,μL) are assigned to the representation (1/2, 1/2) and the quarks (p, nW)L and (χ,λW)L to the representations (1/2, 0) and (0, 1/2), respectively, of the groupO4 (L stands for the left-handed projections and W for the Cabibbo rotated orthogonal combinations ofn andλ). Universality is ensured by embedding the above (weak)O4 into thesimple groupO5 and gauging the latter. In the final effective weak interaction, besides the conventionalV-A charged-current part, a (V-A)neutral current interaction (consistent with the present data) is naturally present. The neutral current has a
$$\bar \nu _\mu \nu _\mu $$
 term but no
$$\bar \nu _e \nu _e $$
 term, thus providing a crucial test of the theory.
122262432
Fluctuation theorems for the Feynman fluid model of inclusive reactions
121929737
Factorization limit on photon-photon cross section
A lower bound on the photon-photon total cross section following from factorization of Regge singularities is presented. The bound seems to lie quite close to the recent PETRA measurements when the gamma-gamma c.m. energy is above 6 GeV.
121365081
UPPER BOUNDS ON THE ELASTIC DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION.
We derive improved axiomatic upper bounds on the elastic unpolarized differential cross section, dσdΩ, at high energies for the scattering of particles with arbitrary spin. We prove that 
dσdω⩽s→∞σel4φ{(L+1)2[PL(cos θ)]2+sin2θ[PL′(cos θ)]2} 
with L=12Sto In sσel), where s and t are, respectively, the squares of the c.m. energy and the c.m. momentum transfer; θ is the c.m. scattering angle. Further to, is the mass of the lowest mass state that couples to the crossed t-channel (being equal to twice the pion mass for ππ and πN scattering). This result has the following important consequences: 
1. 
(i) for forward scattering, 
dσdtt=0⩽s→∞σel4t0Insσel2 
 
 
2. 
(ii) for fixed θ ≠ 0, π, 
dσdω(s;cosθ)⩽s→∞14φ2st0σelsinθInsσel 
and 
 
3. 
(iii) for fixed negative t, 
 
 
 
dσdω(s,t)⩽s→∞18φt0s−tσelInsσel 
 
 
We also give an upper bound on differential cross section involving the diffraction peak width but not having an explicit ln s dependence.
119180215
Characterization and modeling of a low background HPGe detector
Abstract A high efficiency, low background counting setup has been made at TIFR consisting of a special HPGe detector ( ~ 70 % ) surrounded by a low activity copper+lead shield. Detailed measurements are performed with point and extended geometry sources to obtain a complete response of the detector. An effective model of the detector has been made with GEANT4 based Monte Carlo simulations which agrees with experimental data within 5%. This setup will be used for qualification and selection of radio-pure materials to be used in a cryogenic bolometer for the study of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in 124Sn as well as for other rare event studies. Using this setup, radio-impurities in the rock sample from India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) site have been estimated.