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hep-ph2002

Frame Dependence of the Pair Contribution to the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor in a Light-Front Approach

J. P. B. C. de Melo, T. Frederico, E. Pace +1

The frame dependence of the pair-term contribution to the electromagnetic form factor of the pion is studied within the Light Front approach. A symmetric ansatz for the pion Bethe-…

astro-ph2002★ 130 cited

The Cosmic-Ray Proton and Helium Spectra measured with the CAPRICE98 balloon experiment

M. Boezio, V. Bonvicini, P. Schiavon +36

A new measurement of the primary cosmic-ray proton and helium fluxes from 3 to 350 GeV was carried out by the balloon-borne CAPRICE experiment in 1998. This experimental setup comb…

hep-th2002★ 175 cited

On the geometry of higher-spin gauge fields

D. Francia, A. Sagnotti

We review a recent construction of the free field equations for totally symmetric tensors and tensor-spinors that exhibits the corresponding linearized geometry. These equations ar…

hep-th2002★ 183 cited

Classical gauge instantons from open strings

M. Billo, M. Frau, F. Fucito +3

We study the D3/D(-1) brane system and show how to compute instanton corrections to correlation functions of gauge theories in four dimensions using open string techniques. In part…

astro-ph2002★ 25 cited

Antimatter research in Space

Piergiorgio Picozza, Aldo Morselli

Two of the most compelling issues facing astrophysics and cosmology today are to understand the nature of the dark matter that pervades the universe and to understand the apparent…

nlin.CD2002★ 10 cited

Intermittency in Turbulence: Multiplicative random process in space and time

Roberto Benzi, Luca Biferale, Federico Toschi

We present a simple stochastic algorithm for generating multiplicative processes with multiscaling both in space and in time. With this algorithm we are able to reproduce a synthet…

hep-th2002★ 225 cited

Multi-Instanton Calculus and Equivariant Cohomology

Ugo Bruzzo, Francesco Fucito, Jose F. Morales +1

We present a systematic derivation of multi-instanton amplitudes in terms of ADHM equivariant cohomology. The results rely on a supersymmetric formulation of the localization formu…

astro-ph2002★ 58 cited

Search for Dark Matter with GLAST

Aldo Morselli, Andrea Lionetto, Alessandro Cesarini +2

The detection of exotic cosmic rays due to pair annihilation of dark matter particles in the Milky Way halo is a viable techniques to search for supersymmetric dark matter candidat…

gr-qc2002★ 53 cited

Study of the coincidences between the gravitational wave detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS in 2001

P. Astone, D. Babusci, M. Bassan +23

We report the result from a search for bursts of gravitational waves using data collected by the cryogenic resonant detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS during the year 2001, for a tota…

physics.ins-det2002★ 1 cited

Preliminary results of an aging test of RPC chambers for the LHCb Muon System

Andrea Bizzeti, Giovanni Carboni, Gianmaria Collazuol +7

The preliminary results of an aging test performed at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility on a single--gap RPC prototype developed for the LHCb Muon System are presented. The resul…

hep-lat2002★ 18 cited

The lattice scale at large beta in quenched QCD

M. Guagnelli, R. Petronzio, N. Tantalo

In this paper we extend the estimate of the value of the lattice spacing a in units of the r0 scale at values of the bare coupling larger than those available. By using results fro…

nucl-ex2002★ 87 cited

PWIA Extraction of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor from Quasi-Elastic 3He(e,e') at Q^2 = 0.3 to 0.6 (GeV/c)^2

W. Xu

A high precision measurement of the transverse spin-dependent asymmetry A_{T'} in ^3 vec{He}(vec{e},e') quasielastic scattering was performed in Hall A at Jefferson Lab at values o…

hep-th2002★ 187 cited

Free geometric equations for higher spins

D. Francia, A. Sagnotti

We show how allowing non-local terms in the field equations of symmetric tensors uncovers a neat geometry that naturally generalizes the Maxwell and Einstein cases. The end results…

nucl-ex2002★ 27 cited

Precise Measurement of Sigma Beam Asymmetry for Positive Pion Photoproduction on the Proton from 800 to 1500 Mev

O. Bartalini, V. Bellini, J. -P. Bocquet +31

The Sigma beam asymmetry for positive pion photoproduction on the proton has been measured over an angular range of 40-170 deg at photon energies from 0.8 to 1.5 GeV. The resulting…

astro-ph2002★ 14 cited

Testing for non-Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background in harmonic space: an empirical process approach

Frode K. Hansen, Domenico Marinucci, Paolo Natoli +1

We present a new, model-independent approach for measuring non-Gaussianity of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern. Our approach is based on the empirical distr…

gr-qc2002★ 26 cited

Effect of cosmic rays on the resonant gravitational wave detector NAUTILUS at temperature T=1.5 K

P. Astone, D. Babusci, M. Bassan +19

The interaction between cosmic rays and the gravitational wave bar detector NAUTILUS is experimentally studied with the aluminum bar at temperature of T=1.5 K. The results are comp…

hep-ex2002★ 50 cited

Measurement of Gamma(phi -> eta' gamma)/Gamma(phi -> eta gamma) and the pseudoscalar mixing angle

The KLOE Collaboration

We have measured the radiative decays phi -> eta gamma, phi ->etaprime gamma selecting pi+ pi- gamma gamma gamma final state in a sample of about 5 times 10^7 phi mesons produced a…

hep-lat2002★ 38 cited

f_B and two scales problems in lattice QCD

M. Guagnelli, F. Palombi, R. Petronzio +1

A novel method to calculate f_B on the lattice is introduced, based on the study of the dependence of finite size effects upon the heavy quark mass of flavoured mesons and on a non…

astro-ph2002★ 2 cited

Scalar field dark energy and Cosmic Microwave Background

C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, S. Matarrese +2

A dynamical scalar field represents the simplest generalization of a pure Cosmological Constant as a candidate to explain the recent evidence in favour of the accelerated cosmic ex…

astro-ph2002★ 4 cited

WIMP Search by DAMA at Gran Sasso

R. Bernabei, M. Amato, P. Belli +11

DAMA is searching for rare processes by developing and using several kinds of radiopure scintillators: in particular, NaI(Tl), liquid Xenon and CaF(Eu). Here only the results r…

nucl-th2002★ 75 cited

Pair term in the Electromagnetic Current within the Front-Form Dynamics: Spin-0 Case

J. P. B. C. de Melo, T. Frederico, E. Pace +1

The frame and scale dependence of the pair-term contribution to the electromagnetic form factor of a spin-zero composite system of two-fermions is studied within the Light Front. T…

hep-ex2002★ 164 cited

Study of the Decay phi --> pi0 pi0 gamma with the KLOE Detector

KLOE Collaboration

We have measured the branching ratio BR(phi --> pi0 pi0 gamma) with the KLOE detector using a sample of ~5x10^7 phi decays. phi mesons are produced at DAFNE, the Frascati phi-facto…

hep-ex2002★ 114 cited

Study of the Decay phi --> eta pi0 gamma with the KLOE detector

The KLOE Collaboration

In a sample of 5.3x10^7 phi-decays observed with the KLOE detector at the Frascati phi-factory Dafne we find 605 eta pi0 gamma events with eta --> gammaγand 197 eta pi0 gamma event…

hep-ph2002★ 19 cited

Measurement of the branching fraction for the decay KS --> pi e nu

The KLOE Collaboration

We present a measurement of the branching ratio BR(KS --> pi e nu) performed using the KLOE detector. KS mesons are produced in the reaction e+ e- --> phi --> KS KL at the DAFNE co…