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CONTENTS – VOLUME 72 (January–June 2009) Number 1, January Special issue on Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomena
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Early physics with ATLAS and CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert De Roeck Prospects for Higgs boson searches at the Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B Mellado Recent relativistic heavy ion collider results on photon, dilepton and heavy quark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr´d´ric Fleuret e e Electroweak symmetry breaking and beyond the Standard Model physics – A review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gautam Bhattacharyya Transverse spin and momentum correlations in quantum chromodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leonard P Gamberg All-order results for soft and collinear gluons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lorenzo Magnea Non-collinearity in high energy processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P J Mulders Charmonium states in quark-gluon plasma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Su Houng Lee and Kenji Morita Future of neutrino experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Takaaki Kajita Neutrino oscillations: Present status and outlook . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Schwetz Supersymmetry breaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emilian Dudas Supersymmetry status and phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alexander Belyaev Precocious signs of new physics: Are we eight now? . . . . . . . . . . .Amarjit Soni Developments in inflationary cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arjun Berera The neutrino mass matrix and (selected) variants of A4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martin Hirsch Challenging the Standard Model with the muon g − 2 . . . . . . . . . . . M Passera D –D mixing and new physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandip Pakvasa The see-saw mechanism: Neutrino mixing, leptogenesis and lepton flavour violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W Rodejohann
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Dictionary of Large Hadron Collider signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Belyaev, I A Christidi, A de Roeck, R M Godbole, B Mellado, A Nyffeler, C Petridou and D P Roy Physics beyond Standard Model: Working group 3 report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monoranjan Guchait and Sudhir K Vempati Working group report: Collider and flavour physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debajyoti Choudhury, Asesh K Datta and Anirban Kundu WHEPP-X: Report on the working group on cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M Kaplinghat and L Sriramkumar Working group report: Neutrino physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sandhya Choubey and D Indumathi Working group report: Quantum chromodynamics sub-group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asmita Mukherjee Working group report: Quark gluon plasma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pradip Roy and Bedangadas Mohanty List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Rapid Communication Slow light with symmetric gap plasmon guides with finite width metal claddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S Dutta Gupta Research Articles Formulation of statistical mechanics for chaotic systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vishnu M Bannur and Ramesh Babu Thayyullathil Efficient use of correlation entropy for analysing time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K P Harikrishnan, R Misra and G Ambika Determination of Ga production parameters by different reactions using ALICE and TALYS codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mahdi Sadeghi, Tayeb Kakavand, Leila Mokhtari and Zohreh Gholamzadeh Equilibrium and pre-equilibrium emissions in proton-induced reactions on 203,205 Tl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Kaplan, A Aydin, E Tel and B Sarer ¸ Empirical relation and establishment of shell effects in (n, 2n) reaction crosssections at 14 MeV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sneh Lata Goyal and Pratibha Gur Reaction mechanism study of Li( Li, He) reaction at above Coulomb barrier energies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V V Parkar, V Jha, S Santra, B J Roy, K Ramachandran, A Shrivastava, K Mahata, A Chatterjee and S Kailas Simple parametrization of photon mass energy absorption coefficients of H-, C-, N- and O-based samples of biological interest in the energy range 200–1500 keV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V Manjunathaguru and T K Umesh
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Volume Contents Ultrasonic investigations in intermetallics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Devraj Singh and D K Pandey Magnetoelectronic transport of the two-dimensional electron gas in CdSe single quantum wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P K Ghosh, A Ghosal and D Chattopadhyay Effects of quantum coupling on the performance of metal-oxide-semiconductor field transistors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ling-Feng Mao Bianchi type-V cosmological models with perfect fluid and heat flow in Saez– Ballester theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shri Ram, M Zeyauddin and C P Singh Locally-rotationally-symmetric Bianchi type-V cosmology in general relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C P Singh Brief Reports Effects of three-body atomic interaction and optical lattice on solitons in quasi-one-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sk Golam Ali, B Talukdar and Aparna Saha A relativistic quark–diquark model for the nucleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cristian Leonardo Gutierrez and Maurizio De Sanctis
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Research Articles An integral transform of Green’s function, off-shell Jost solution and T-matrix for Coulomb–Yamaguchi potential in coordinate representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .U Laha Weak gravitational field and Coriolis potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Z Y Turakulov Generalized isothermal models with strange equation of state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S D Maharaj and S Thirukkanesh Effect of a fluctuating parameter mismatch and the associated time-scales on coupled Rossler oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manu P John, P U Jijo and V M Nandakumaran Nilpotent symmetry invariance in the non-Abelian 1-form gauge theory: Superfield formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R P Malik and B P Mandal Vibrational spectra of nickel metalloporphyrins: An algebraic approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Srinivasa Rao Karumuri, Joydeep Choudhury, Nirmal Kumar Sarkar and Ramendu Bhattacharjee Fragmentation of positronium in collision with Li ion including electron loss to the continuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S Roy and C Sinha Optical computation based on nonlinear total reflectional optical switch at the interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jianqi Zhang and Huan Xu
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The effect of composition, electron irradiation and quenching on ionic conductivity in a new solid polymer electrolyte: (PEG)x NH4 I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R Damle, P N Kulkarni and S V Bhat Electron paramagnetic resonance parameters of Mn ion in h-BaTiO3 crystal from a two-mechanism model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wu Xiao-Xuan, Fang Wang, Feng Wen-Lin and Zheng Wen-Chen Reduction mechanism of Ni2+ into Ni nanoparticles prepared from different precursors: Magnetic studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R S Ningthoujam, N S Gajbhiye and Sachil Sharma Channel length scaling and the impact of metal gate work function on the performance of double gate-metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Rechem, S Latreche and C Gontrand Extension of CASCADE.04 to estimate neutron fluence and dose rates and its validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H Kumawat, V Kumar and P Srinivasan Brief Report Ground state of an arbitrary triangle with a Calogero–Sutherland–Moser potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sudhir R Jain
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Review Article Size-dependent melting of nanoparticles: Hundred years of thermodynamic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .K K Nanda Research Articles Indigenous design and fabrication of a 6.5 T superconducting magnet and a magnetotransport measurement set-up . . . . . . .P Khatua and A K Majumdar Detection of directional energy damping in vibrating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B R Amruth and Souri Banerjee The solution of the Schr¨dinger equation for coupled quadratic and quartic o potentials in two dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ram Mehar Singh, Fakir Chand and S C Mishra A new approach to two-charge fuzzball geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rui-Yan Yu Transient state work fluctuation theorem for a classical harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to a harmonic bath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rajarshi Chakrabarti Masses and magnetic moments of triple heavy flavour baryons in hypercentral model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bhavin Patel, Ajay Majethiya and P C Vinodkumar Neutron and proton shell closure in the superheavy region via cluster radioactivity in 280−314 116 isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K P Santhosh and R K Biju Dependence of gain and phase-shift on crystal parameters and pump intensity in unidirectional photorefractive ring resonators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M K Maurya, T K Yadav and R A Yadav 629 637 617
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Volume Contents Generation of ultrafast pulse via combined effects of stimulated Raman scattering and non-degenerate two-photon absorption in silicon nanophotonic chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jianwei Wu, Fengguang Luo and Mingcui Cao Zero-field splitting of T2 term for 3d ions in tetragonal symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Qun Wei and Qi-Ming Xu Chaos in the solar wind flow near Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shollykutty John and P J Kurian Brief Reports Alpha radioactivity for proton-rich even Pb isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arati Devi, S Prakash and I Mehrotra Modifications induced in the polycarbonate Makrofol KG polymer by Li (50 MeV) ion irradiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jaskiran Kaur, S K Chakarvarti, D Kanjilal and Surinder Singh
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Research Articles Complementarity controversy in wave–particle duality revisited . . . . . . D Sen Quantum-classical correspondence of the Dirac equation with a scalar-like potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mai-Lin Liang, Shun-Lin Shu and Bing Yuan Bianchi Type V magnetized string dust cosmological models with Petrov-type degenerate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raj Bali and Umesh K Pareek Experimental studies of the transient fluctuation theorem using liquid crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soma Datta and Arun Roy Superfield approach to symmetry invariance in quantum electrodynamics with complex scalar fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R P Malik and B P Mandal Multiple recycling of fuel in prototype fast breeder reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G Pandikumar, V Gopalakrishnan and P Mohanakrishnan Electric field distribution and simulation of avalanche formation due to the passage of heavy ions in a parallel grid avalanche counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Kanjilal and S Saha Stability of gold cages (Au16 and Au17 ) at finite temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prachi Chandrachud, Kavita Joshi, Sailaja Krishnamurty and D G Kanhere Self-interstitial configuration in molybdenum studied by modified analytical embedded atom method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jian-Min Zhang, Fang Wang and Ke-Wei Xu Crystal growth, electrical and photophysical properties of Tl2 S layered single crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A M Badr, H A Elshaikh and I M Ashraf 765 777 787 797 805 819
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Inter-dot coupling effects on transport through correlated parallel coupled quantum dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shyam Chand, G Rajput, K C Sharma and P K Ahluwalia Inflation with hyperbolic potential in the braneworld model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dilip Paul, Bikash Chandra Paul and Xin-He Meng
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Research Articles The auxiliary elliptic-like equation and the exp-function method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hong Li and Jin-Liang Zhang Role of asymmetries in the chaotic dynamics of the double-well Duffing oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V Ravichandran, S Jeyakumari, V Chinnathambi, S Rajasekar and M A F Sanju´n a Evolution of optical pulses in the presence of third-order dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debabrata Pal, Sk Golam Ali and B Talukdar Theoretical studies of mutual diffusivities and surface properties in Cd–Ga liquid alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B C Anusionwu, C A Madu and C E Orji Dielectric properties of CdS nanoparticles synthesized by soft chemical route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R Tripathi, A Kumar and T P Sinha The corrections to scaling within Mazenko’s theory in the limit of low and high dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N P Rapapa and M Fabiane Studies of the g factors and the superhyperfine parameters for Ni3+ in the fluoroperovskites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y X Hu, S Y Wu, X F Wang and L L Li A-site substitution-controlled dielectric dispersion in lead-free sodium bismuth titanate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M Raghavender, G S Kumar and G Prasad Simulation of reflectivity spectrum for non-absorbing multilayer optical thin films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V A Kheraj, C J Panchal, M S Desai and V Potbhare Transport properties of poly(GACT)–poly(CTGA) deoxyribonucleic acid: A ladder model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S A Ketabi and A A Fouladi Coupling between drainage and coarsening in wet foam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S Saha, S Bhaumik and A Roy Brief Report Phonon dispersion relation of liquid metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P B Thakor, P N Gajjar and A R Jani Subject Index of Volume 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Author Index of Volume 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045 1051 1057 915
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