Showing papers in "Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics in 2006"

TL;DR: The Relativistic Continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory as mentioned in this paper takes into account the pairing correlation and the coupling to (discretized) continuum via Bogolisubov transformation in a microscopic and self-consistent way.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of the nuclear force in the framework of chiral effective field theory of QCD and its applications to processes involving few nucleons are discussed. But they do not consider the nuclear forces in terms of the number of nucleons.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the underpinnings of the standard Newton-Einstein theory of gravity and identify where it could possibly go wrong, and discuss the logical independence from each other of the general covariance principle, the equivalence principle and the Einstein equations, and how to constrain the matter energymomentum tensor which serves as the source of gravity.

TL;DR: A review of the progress of Λ hypernuclear spectroscopy is described and future prospects are presented in this article, where the strengths of the spin-dependent Λ-nucleon interaction in the p -shell region were derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive phenomenological analysis of a vast amount of data from neutrino flavor oscillation and non-oscillation searches, performed within the standard scenario with three massive and mixed neutrinos, and with particular attention to subleading effects, is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of parton saturation/color glass condensate physics in the context of deuteron-gold (d + Au ) collisions at RHIC is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the modern status of basic low energy QCD parameters is reviewed and it is demonstrated that the recent data allow one to determine the light quark mass ratios with an accuracy of 10-15%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the physics related to kaon and antikaon production in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies are reviewed, and the status of theoretical predictions as well as experimental evidence for medium effects such as repulsive/attractive mass shifts for K + / K − are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed method of multipole decomposition analysis is presented to extract GT strengths from the continuum spectra of the Zr 90 (p, n ) and (n, p ) reactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the (d, 2 He) charge exchange reaction at intermediate energies has been shown to be a powerful spectroscopic tool capable of providing new and sometimes unexpected insight into nuclear structure phenomena.

TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of neutrino mass and mixing parameters, as derived from an up-to-date phenomenological analysis of world neutrinos oscillation and non-oscillation data, performed within the standard three-neutrino mixing framework, is reviewed.

TL;DR: The possibility of filling the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with liquid scintillator (called SNO+) after the physics program with heavy water is completed at the end of 2006 is investigated as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors verify the fundamental Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn (GDH) sum rule for the proton at the level of 8% including the systematic uncertainties from extrapolations to unmeasured energy regions.

TL;DR: In this article, a new project for Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy (LENA) consisting of a 50-kt scintillation detector is presented, which may provide further important information on astrophysical processes such as supernova physics, solar physics and elementary particle physics as well as geophysics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the early cooling evolution of strongly magnetized stars in a color-locked phase with high gap 100 MeV and demonstrate how this model may explain the main features of the gamma-ray burst phenomena and also yield a strong star kick.

TL;DR: The Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (KATRIN) as discussed by the authors is the only laboratory that can provide the infrastructure necessary to perform a direct measurement of the absolute mass of the electron (anti)neutrino by means of a precise spectroscopy of the tritium β -spectrum near its endpoint.

TL;DR: The status and prospects of neutrino telescope projects in the Mediterranean Sea are discussed in this paper, where the authors focus on the current (ANTARES, NEMO, NESTOR) and future (KM3NeT) neutrinos.

TL;DR: In this paper, the basics of neutrino cosmology are reviewed, from the question of neutrer decoupling and the presence of sterile neutrinos to the effects of neutrons on the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the current situation along with MARE's evolution and prospects, as well as two experiments, MIBETA and MANU, are pooling their experience in this field with other groups to form an international collaboration to address the challenging goal of an experiment with 0.2 eV sensitivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the electromagnetic design of the KATRIN main spectrometer and the layout of the inner electrode system in particular are described, as well as the inner electrodes' layout.

TL;DR: In this article, the neutrino mass has been, is, and will be interesting as a probe to physics at very high energy scales as well as early cosmology, and the authors discuss briefly why neutrinos have been, and are, interesting as probes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the effect of the arrival angle and the corresponding most probable primary cosmic ray energy on the probability of visible air-showers at a tuned altitude and direction.

TL;DR: The current state of the art for the detection of double beta decay is the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) detector as mentioned in this paper, which is operated at a temperature of ∼10mK in a dilution refrigerator under a heavy shield in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory at a depth of about 3500m.

TL;DR: The COBRA experiment as mentioned in this paper used a large number of CdZnTe semiconductor detectors to perform a search for various double beta decay modes, and the current status of the experiment is presented, as well as first results.

TL;DR: In this article, the effective neutrino mass studied by 0 ν β β, unique features and the present status of MOON (Molybdenum Observatory Of Neutrinos) for high-sensitivity 0 − β β studies with 100Mo in the quasi-degenerate and inverted hierarchy regions, and direct detection of WIMPs by measuring atomic X-rays following inner-shell ionization by WIMP nuclear interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of deformation on the two-neutrino double beta decay for ground state to ground state transitions in all the nuclei whose half-lives have been measured.

TL;DR: The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) as mentioned in this paper was proposed to enhance the sensitivity on the neutrino mass by an ultra-precise measurement of the tritium β decay spectrum near the endpoint by another order of magnitude down to 0.2 eV/c 2.

TL;DR: The basics of neutrino oscillations are discussed in this article, where the importance of the time-energy uncertainty relation is stressed and the evidence for neutrinos oscillations is summarized.

TL;DR: In this article, the Gerda experiment was used to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76 Ge using germanium diodes in ultrapure liquid nitrogen or liquid argon.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of diffractive dissociation of pions interacting with nuclear targets is discussed and compared with other studies of color transparency (CT) and several future directions in this field are discussed.