Neutrino oscillations induced by two-loop radiative mechanism

Two-loop radiative mechanism, when combined with an U(1)_L′ symmetry generated by L_e − L_μ − L_τ (=L′), is shown to provide an estimate of Δm²/Δm²_atm εm_e/m_τ, where ε measures the U(1)_L′-breaking. Since Δm²_atm 3.5×10⁻³ eV², we find that Δm² ε10⁻⁶ eV², which will fall into the allowed region of the LOW solution to the solar neutrino problem for ε 0.1.     

Systematic thermopower measurements of the thallium cuprates Tl(Ba,Sr)2Cam−1CumO2m+3−δ and Tl2Ba2Cam−1CumO2m+4+δ

The thermoelectric power (TEP) S versus temperature has been systematically investigated for several series of the superconducting cuprates Tl(Ba,Sr)₂Ca_m−1Cu_mO_2m+3−δ (m = 2, 3) and Tl₂Ba₂Ca_m−1Cu_mO_2m+4+δ (m = 1, 2, 3). The consideration of the S(T_c) curves allows two important points to be found evidence for. The first one deals with the fact that all these superconducting thallium cuprates are systematically overdoped whatever T_c, and whatever the number of Cu or Tl layers; no underdoped superconducting cuprate could be obtained. The second point shows that there exist two classes of Tl cuprates: the weakly overdoped cuprates that exhibit a T_{c max} ≥ 100 K (all the triple copper layer cuprates and the 2212 cuprates) and those which can be heavily doped that exhibit a T_{c max} ≤ 90 K (the 2201 and the 1212 cuprates). The different behavior of thallium cuprates compared to YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ and to bismuth cuprates is discussed.     

Fabrication, microstructure and critical current density of screen-printed Ag-(Bi, Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox superconducting tapes

The influence of the sintering conditions on the microstructure and critical current density J_c has been studied on screen-printed Ag-(Bi, Pb)₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O_x tapes with a ceramics mono-layer core. Three kinds of fabrication processes, which consist of a combination of cold working (rolling and/or pressing) and sintering, are applied. Four times repetition of pressing and sintering after the pre-sintering produces the highest c-axis alignment and achieves J_c= 1.5 × 10⁴ A/cm² (77 K, 0 T). The J_c versus θ data with an angle θ between B and the c-axis elucidate the relation between the anisotropy ratio γ=J_c(Bc)/J_c(B|c and the half-height angular width Δθ of a peak for Bc. This is related to both grain alignment and the J_c value. An increase in J_c, which comes from an improvement for grain alignment, enhances γ and narrows Δθ. The J_c versus θ data are fitted to the expression J_c(B, θ)=J _c(B, 90°)/[(γ−1)|cos θ|ⁿ+1] by regarding both γ and n as adjustable parameters. Fabrication of screen-printed tapes with multilayers (1≤N≤5) is presented, where the critical current increases from 8.0 A to 30.2 A at 77 K and 0 T as N increases.     

Pressure-induced superconducting ternary hydride H3SXe: A theoretical investigation

In general, heavy elements contribute only to acoustic phonon modes, which are less important for the superconductivity of hydrides. However, it was revealed that the heavier elements could enhance the phonon-mediated superconductivity in ternary hydrides. In the H₃S–Xe system, a novel H₃SXe compound was discovered by first-principle calculations. The structural phase transitions of H3SXe under high pressures were studied. The R-3m phase of H₃SXe was predicted to appear at pressures above 80 GPa, which transitions to C2/m, P-3m1, and Pm-3m phases at pressures of 90, 160, and 220 GPa, respectively. It has been anticipated that the Pm-3m-H₃SXe phase with a similar structural feature as that of Im-3m-H₃S is a potential high-temperature superconductor with a T_c of 89 K at 240 GPa. The T_c value of H₃SXe is lower than that of H₃S at high pressure. The “H₃S” host lattice of Pm- 3m-H₃SXe is a crucial factor influencing the T_c value. The Xe atoms could accelerate the hydrogen-bond symmetrization. With the increase of the atomic number, the T_c value linearly increases in the H₃S–noble-gas-element system. This indicates that the superconductivity can be modulated by changing the relative atomic mass of the noble-gas element.     

Density profile and flow of miscible fluid with dissimilar constituent masses

A computer simulation model is used to study the density profile and flow of a miscible gaseous fluid mixture consisting of differing constituent masses (m_A=m_B/3) through an open matrix. The density profile is found to decay with the height ∝exp (−m_A(B)h), consistent with the barometric height law. The flux density shows a power-law increase ∝(p_c−p)^μ with μ2.3 at the porosity 1−p above the pore percolation threshold 1−p_c.     

Continuous photoluminescence, time resolved photoluminescence and optically detected magnetic resonance measurements of PbI2 nanometer-sized particles, embedded in SiO2 films

The nanometer sized particles of PbI₂ were embedded in SiO₂ films. X-ray diffraction and the TEM pictures showed the preservation of the bulk layered structure and symmetry. The PL spectrum of the nano-particles exhibited a pronounced blue shift of the exciton band due to quantum size effect. The Lead Iodide represents an exceptionally small exciton Bohr radius (a_B = 19 Å) and a special case in which m_e m_h. The prepared samples contained particles with mean radii, a, in the range a_B < a < 3a_B. Within this limit (with m_e m_h), the experimental results suggest that the electron is localized nearly at the center of the particle, enabling the hole to move around it. Thus, the size confinement permits the creation of an acceptor-like exciton. The PL spectrum revealed additional states, associated with stoichiometric defects either at the interior or surface sites of the nano-particles. These defects act either as donor or acceptor states. The dynamics of the various recombination processes has been investigated by measuring the time resolved PL spectra. The results show a multiexponential behavior of the various recombination emission bands, indicating the occurrence of trapping and detrapping processes. Analysis of these results suggests that the existence of surface states give rise to these complex radiative decay processes. The correlation between donor-acceptor recombination emission bands in the aforementioned samples and lattice imperfections was examined, utilizing optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectroscopy. The results identified the following imperfection sites: an acceptor site associated with an isotropic Lead vacancy defect, [V⁻]_pb²⁺ and a donor site, associated with an anisotropic Iodine vacancy, [V⁰]_Iodine.     

Effect of Pr and Ca substitution on superconductivity in Y(1−x−yPrxCay)Ba2Cu3O7−δ

Pr substituted at constant Ca concentration for Y in (Y_1−x−yPr_xCa_y)Ba₂Cu₃O_7−δ superconductors have been prepared under identical conditions and the temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity of these samples are measured. The resistively determined values of T_c decrease linearly with increasing x (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.2) for constant y = 0.10 and 0.15 which provides convincing evidence that the suppression of superconductivity by Pr is mainly due to magnetic pair breaking. The suppression of superconductivity can also be correlated to the observed changes in oxygen content determined by iodometric analysis and to the average Cu-valences. However, it is found that the observed suppression of T_c cannot be compensated by appropriate hole doping with Ca.     

Layer dependence of the superconducting transition temperature of HgBa2Can−1CunO2n+2+δ

High-pressure methods have been used to synthesize multiphase compositions in the Hg---12{n−1}n homologous series. The phase assemblages were examined by optical, electron diffraction and X-ray diffraction techniques, and their stoichiometries verified by electron microprobe. Transport and magnetic susceptibility measurements were combined with the results of the phase analysis to establish superconducting transition temperatures for both as-prepared and O₂- or Ar-annealed materials. It was found that the transition temperature peaks at T_c = 134 K for N = 3 and then decreases abruptly for n>4, reaching T_c<90 K for n7.     

Composite scalars in ee collisions and radiative Z decays

Starting point is the hypothesis that the observed Z→e⁺e⁻γ decays are mediated by a (composite) spin 0 boson X with 40m_X50 GeV. The consequences for e⁺e⁻→e⁺e⁻, e⁺e⁻→γγ and e⁺e⁻→ hadrons at PETRA are explored. PETRA experiments turn out to be sensitive up to masses m_X50 GeV; the best indicator for m_X 48 GeV is the angular distribution of Bhabha scattering.     

Minimal SUSY SO(10), b–τ unification and large neutrino mixings

We show that the assumption of type II seesaw mechanism for small neutrino masses coupled with b–τ mass unification in a minimal SUSY SO(10) model leads not only to a natural understanding of large atmospheric mixing angle (θ₂₃) among neutrinos, as recently noted, but also to large solar angle (θ₁₂) and a small θ₁₃≡U_e3 as required to fit observations. No additional symmetries are required to obtain large neutrino mixings. The proposed long baseline neutrino experiments will provide a crucial test of this model since it predicts U_e30.16.     

A hybrid mode of one- and two-surface multipactor on grooved dielectric surface

A hybrid mode of one- and two-surface multipactor on the grooved dielectric surface is studied in detail using both an analytical approach and two-dimensional particle-in-cell(2D PIC) simulations. When the groove width L eE_0/(4πm_ef~2),there are one-surface multipactor and one-order two-surface multipactor on the grooved dielectric surface, and only one slope of the groove has the multipactor anytime. When L eE0/(4πme f~2), both slopes may have the multipactors. The electron surface density of the multipactor discharge has a sharp increase at the length L = eE_0/(4πm_ef~2).     

Magnetic phase transition in (Fe,Mn)65Ni35 alloys

Magnetization measurements on the Fe₆₀Mn₅Ni₃₅ and Fe₅₀Mn₁₅Ni₃₅ alloy samples were carried out in the temperature range 80T300 K and in magnetic fields up to 8 kOe. The Fe₆₀Mn₅Ni₃₅ was found to order ferromagnetically with a Curie temperature, T_c, above 300 K. From the temperature dependence of the spontaneous magnetization, M_s, it was concluded that the magnetic behavior of Fe₆₀Mn₅Ni₃₅ follows Wohlfarth theory of weak itinerant ferromagnet. The Fe₅₀Mn₁₅Ni₃₅ sample exhibits a magnetic phase transition from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism at T_c=242 K. The critical amplitudes and critical exponents (β, γ and δ) have been determined by using Arrott plots, Kouvel–Fisher method and scaling plots of the reduced magnetization and reduced magnetic field. The values of β, γ and δ are discussed and compared with the results obtained for various theoretical models and also with the experimentally determined values for related systems obtained by others.     

Temperature dependence of the critical current in YBa2Cu3O7−δ and Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8 Josephson junctions

We have studied the stationary Josephson effect on YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ (T_c=90 K) and Bi₂Sr₂Ca₁Cu₂ O₈ (T_c=80 K and 87 K for two samples of different origin) ceramic based junctions. The temperature dependence of the critical current near T_c has been found as I_c≈(T_c-T) for the Y-Ba-Cu-O samples indicating that they should be classified as S-N-I-N-S type junctions. The I-V curves of the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu samples show the typical behaviour of S-I-S structures. Using Ambegaokar-Baratoff's theory for Bi₂Sr₂Ca₁Cu₂O₈, the temperature dependence of the superconducting state gap Δ(T) was calculated and it was evaluated that 1.452Δ(0)/k_BT_c3.5.     

Considerations concerning the radiative corrections to muon decay in the Fermi and Standard theories

The FAC, PMS, and BLM optimization methods are applied to the QED corrections to the muon lifetime in the Fermi V-A theory. The FAC and PMS scales are close to m_e, while the BLM scale nearly coincides with the geometric average √m_em_μ. The optimized expressions are employed to estimate the third order coefficient in the (m_μ) expansion and the theoretical error of the perturbative series. Using arguments based on effective field theory and a simple examination of Feynman diagrams, it is shown that, if contributions of (m_μ²/M_W²) are neglected, the corrections to muon decay in the SM factorize into the QED correction of the Fermi V-A theory and the electroweak amplitude g²/(1 − Δr), both of which are strictly scale-independent. We use the results to clarify how the QED corrections to muon decay and the Fermi constant G_F should be used in the SM, and what is the natural choice of scales if running couplings are employed.     

Correlation lengths and E8 mass spectrum of the dilute A3 lattice model

The exact perturbation approach is used to derive the elementary correlation lengths ξ_i and related mass gaps mi of the two-dimensional dilute A_L lattice model in regimes 1 and 2 for L odd from the Bethe ansatz solution. In regime 2 the A₃ model is the E₈ lattice realisation of the two-dimensional Ising model in a magnetic field at T = T_c The calculations for the A₃ model in regime 2 start from the eight thermodynamically significant string types found in previous numerical studies. These string types are seen to be consistent in the ordered high field limit. The eight masses obtained reduce with the approach to criticality to the ES masses predicted by Zamolodchikov, thus providing a further direct lattice determination of the Es mass spectrum.     

The contribution of Bc mesons to the search for B → τ ντ decays at LEP

We study the contribution of B_c mesons to the search for B → τν_τ decays. We find that at LEP the contributions from B_u and B_c mesons can be comparable. This observation can have a relevant impact on the extraction of constraints on new physics (such as charged-Higgs contributions) from current LEP limits on B → τν final states. Inclusion of the B_c contribution can reduce the current L3 limit on tan β/M_H from 0.38 GeV⁻¹ (90% CL) down to 0.27 GeV⁻¹ (90% CL).     

Relative production of vector and pseudoscalar states for light- and heavy-flavour mesons

The relative fractions of vector, V, and pseudoscalar, P, primary mesons produced in and decays, and primary light-flavour mesons produced in fragmentation processes are explained by the hyperfine mass splitting. The difference in corresponding fractions arises from the difference in the constituent quark masses , m_s, m_c and m_b:

The production ratios for strange, charm and beauty mesons evaluated from the ρ/(3π) ratio, measured at LEP for primary produced ρ and π, agree with the results of LEP and lower energy e⁺e⁻ experiments.     

Synthesis and characterization of the Aurivillius phases Bi2 − xPbxSr1 − xNdxNb2O9

The n = 2 Aurivillius phase Bi_{2 − x}Pb_xSr_{1 − x}Nd₂O₉ was successfully synthesized as a ceramic material over the whole range of simultaneous, charge compensated substitution x = 0–1.0. Structural investigations were performed by Rietveld refinement applying different space groups Fmmm and A2₁am, and additionally by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS) on the Nd L_III-edge, confirming the accommodation of Nd on the atomic sites of Sr, which implies the substitution of Bi³⁺ by the isoelectronic Pb²⁺. The ferroelectric transition temperature T_c = 270 °C of the substituted powders with x = 0.4 and 1.0 is distinctly reduced compared to the unsubstituted sample with T_c = 450 °C. In temperature resolved powder X-ray diffraction patterns no structural phase transition could be detected.     

Magnetic ordering in U4Cu4P7 single crystal

The magnetic ordering in the tetragonal ternary compound U₄Cu₄P₇ has been studied by neutron diffraction. It orders below T_N = 146 K with an antiferromagnetic structure of wave vector k = (001). The magnetic ordering corresponds to a stacking of ferromagnetic (001) uranium planes according to the sequences m₁, m₁, m₂, -m₂, -m₁, -m₁, -m₂, m₂ where m₁ and m₂ represent the magnetic moment, directed along the tetragonal axis of the two uranium sites U(1) (0,0,± z₁) and U(2) (0,0, ± z₂) respectively. The magnetic moments on these two sites have different temperature dependencies as well as well as they reach the different values of 1.1 and 2.2.μ_B for the U(1) and U(2) sites, respectively.     

Anomalous magnetotransport phenomena in θ-(BEDT-TTF)2I3

Anomalous magnetotransport phenomena have been observed in θ-(BEDT-TTF)₂I₃ crystals at temperatures below 15 K. The magnetoresistance M : (1) is a linear function of the magnetic field H, (2) is not affected by the angle between the electric current and the magnetic field, (3) but depends on the magnetic field orientation with respect to the crystal axis. Magnetoresistance is expressed as M = (aH²_a + bH²_b + cH²_c)₀^-3/2/H in terms of H = (H_a, H_b, H_c), the zero field resistivity ₀, and parameters a, b, and c which are independent of temperature and magnetic field. We have found that b a > c. Magnetoresistance up to 40 is observed for H = 7T along the b-axis at T = 1.5K.