Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from GW170817 with the Baikal-GVD Neutrino Telescope

JETP Letters - The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short...     

Modernization of the Carpet-2 array of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

The state of the art and the project of modernization of the extensive-air-shower array Carpet-2 of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences are described. The modernized array will allow the performance of detailed study of variations in the cosmic ray intensity, the energy spectra and composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range 10¹³–10¹⁶ eV, and the anisotropy of primary cosmic rays with energies above 10¹³ eV.     

Search for Higgs Boson in UHE Cosmic Rays

Considering the SM Higgs boson mass in the range of (95–235) GeV, we present here a mechanism for indirect searches of this scalar in UHE cosmic rays interactions. The mechanism is the decay of Higgs bosons which are produced through bubble formation due to vacuum excitation in an UHE cosmic rays interactions with air nuclei. We develop a model of hadronic interaction based on algorithms of the GENCL code of the UA5 experiment of CERN and some physics of CORSIKA code (Karlsruhe report), incorporating a fraction of energy transfer to bubble formation through vacuum excitation and subsequent multiparticle production via conversion of Higgs boson to heavy fermion pairs. Such events are expected to have high multiplicity and excess muons. This mechanism has significant effect starting from E _P 10¹⁸eV. It is found that the average muon number decreases gradually upto 175 GeV Higgs boson mass and remain practically constant thereafter for all primary energies (E _P) above 10¹⁸ eV and for all fractions of energy transfer (f _e 0.01–0.5). The fluctuation of muon multiplicity decreases with E _P and increases very slowly with Higgs mass upto 175 GeV, remaining practically invariant thereafter.     

伽马射线吸收系数测量方法的研究

利用γ射线穿过物质时强度遵从指数衰减规律,选取不同的吸收材料进行γ射线吸收系数的测量,结果准确可靠,从而验证了实验室开设γ射线吸收系数测量实验方案的可行性。     

利用羊八井广延大气簇射阵列探测来自壳型超新星遗迹G40.5-0.5的TeV Gamma射线发射

利用羊八井广延大气簇射阵列从2000年10月到2001年9月的数据,对壳型超新星 遗迹G40.5-0.5可能的TeV gamma射线发射进行了探测. 用对扩展源的二维分析方法发现一个最高超出为4.4σ的天区,EGRET不明源GeV J1907+0557非常接近 这一最高超出天区的中心.     

Search for Majorana Neutrino Signal in B_c Meson Rare Decay

We study the B c meson rare decay in order to search for the Majorana neutrino signal. It is found that the corresponding decay rate is sensitive to the Majorana neutrino mass and mixing angles. The signal of B±c→ l±1l±2 M induced by the Majorana neutrino within the mass region mπmnmB may be observed at LHCb.     

Search for a TeV Gamma Rays Emission from the Shell-like SNP G40.5-0.5 Using the Yangbajing Extend Air Shower Array

Using observation data of the Yangbajing extensive air shower array from October 2000 to September 2001, the TeV gamma rays from the shell-like SNR G40.5-0.5 direction were detected. A region with the highest excess of 4.4σ was found using two dimensional analysis method.The position of EGRET unidentified source GeV J1907+0557 is near the centrer of the region.     

Mössbauer Spectrometer with Novel Moving System and Resonant Detection of Gamma Rays

Temperature-dependent ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy has been used to elucidate the hyperfine parameters and dynamical behavior of the metal atom in several organo-iron complexes which have one or more η⁵ P₅ ring structures as ligated groups. The spin-lattice relaxation of the (paramagnetic) one-electron oxidation products occurs on a time scale fast compared to τ_1/2 (ME) at temperatures in the range 85 < T < 320 K.     

Initial Search for Triggered Gamma Emission from 178Hfm2 Using the YSU Miniball Array

Experiments with the long-lived, high-K isomer ¹⁷⁸Hf^m2 have been recognized as intriguing tests of multi-quasiparticle state structures and their interactions with external radiation. A triggered release of the energy stored by this isomer, 2.5 MeV per nucleus or 1.2 GJ/gram, in the form of a gamma-ray burst might prove valuable for numerous applications. The observation of “accelerated” decay of ¹⁷⁸Hf^m2 during irradiation by 90-keV bremsstrahlung has already been reported, but with poor statistical accuracy due to the experimental approach. That approach employed single Ge detectors to seek increases in the areas of peaks at energies corresponding to transitions in the spontaneous decay of the isomer. The need for better quality data to confirm those results has motivated the development of improved detection concepts. One such concept was utilized here to perform an initial search for low-energy (<20 keV) triggered gamma emission from ¹⁷⁸Hf^m2 using the YSU miniball detector array. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Ultra-High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy with the Carpet Air Shower Array at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - The Carpet facility of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory (Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences) was put into operation...     

寻找来自原始黑洞蒸发的TeV γ射线暴

用兴隆站的两台大气切伦科夫望远镜ACT2和ACT3在1995—1997年间的观测数据,寻找来自原始黑洞(PBH)蒸发终态的0.1sTeVγ射线暴.分析这些资料没发现有这样的γ射线暴.据此估算出在太阳系附近、在99%的置信水平下原始黑洞的蒸发率-密度的上限为3×10⁸/年·pc3.     

Studying the muon and hadron components of extensive air showers with the Carpet-2 array

The method of separating muons and hadrons recorded by the Muon Detector of the Carpet-2 air shower array of Baksan Neutrino Observatory (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences) is described. The results of studying characteristics of the muon and hadron components of extensive air showers (EAS) with N _e ≥ 10⁵ are presented. For the range of distances 40–55 m from shower axes the numbers of hadrons with energies higher than 30 GeV and muons with energies above 1 GeV are obtained as functions of the shower size N _e .     

Direct Search for keV-Sterile Neutrino in Nuclear Decay. Troitsk Nu-Mass (Scientific Summary)

JETP Letters - We present a brief review of experimental status in searching for hypothetical sterile neutrino in nuclear decay in laboratory testing. The main idea is based on search for an...     

Search for Neutrino Bursts from Collapsing Stars by Means of the LVD and BUST Detectors

A long-term and stable operation of the LVD and BUST detectors in searches for neutrino bursts from gravitational star collapses is demonstrated, and a random origin of background pulses in the detectors is confirmed thereby. The experimental results obtained by means of the LSD and BUST detectors on February 23, 1987, are considered in detail. The probability for the possible backgroundmimicked coincidences of clusters of pulses recorded in the LSD detector at 2 : 52 UT with a group of correlations of pulses within 1 s between LSD and BUST in the interval from 1 : 45 to 3 : 45 UT is estimated. Also, coincidences of the background pulses in the LVD and BUST detectors over the period of about eight years are analyzed. The results obtained in this way give sufficient grounds to conclude that the cluster of pulses recorded by the LSD detector on February 23, 1987, at 2 : 52 UT and the coincidences of individual pulses in the LSD and BUST detectors are events associated with the gravitational collapse of SN 1987A.     

Search for the Galactic Disk and Halo Components in the Arrival Directions of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos

The arrival directions of 40 neutrino events with energies ?100 TeV, observed by the IceCube experiment, are studied. Their distribution in the Galactic latitude and in the angular distance to the Galactic Center allow searching for the Milky-Way disk and halo-related components, respectively. No statistically significant evidence for the disk component is found, though even 100% disk origin of the flux is allowed at the 90% confidence level. Contrary, the Galactic Center–Anticenter dipole anisotropy, specific for dark-matter decays (annihilation) or for interactions of cosmic rays with the extended halo of the circumgalactic gas, is clearly favored over the isotropic distribution (the probability of fluctuation of the isotropic signal is ~2%).     

Parameterization for Neutrino Mixing Matrix with Deviated Unitarity

Neutrino oscillation experiments provide the first evidence on non-zero neutrino masses and indicate new physics beyond the standard model. With Majorana neutrinos introduced to acquire tiny neutrino masses, it leads to the existence of more than three neutrino species, implying that the ordinary neutrino mixing matrix is only a part of the whole extended unitary mixing matrix and thus no longer unitary. We give a parameterization for a non-unitary neutrino mixing matrix under seesaw framework and further present a method to test the unitarity of the ordinary neutrino mixing matrix.