Based on an improved model of the moon absorption Jovian radiation belt particles, we investigate quantitatively and comprehensively probabilities particle lifetimes due to encounters with four inner moons Jupiter (Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa) inside L < 10. Our results demonstrate that resultant average energetic protons electrons vary dramatically between ?0.1 days well above 1,000 days, show...

The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) experiments EGRET and COMPTEL observed the Virgo sky region continuously for 7 weeks between December 10, 1996 and January 28, 1997. The prominent quasar 3C 273 was found to be the brightest source in γ-rays and was significantly detected by EGRET and COMPTEL. The EGRET experiment observed a time-variable flux at energies above 100 MeV, which reached in ...

We study the consequences of superconducting quark cores (with color-flavor-locked phase as representative example) for evolution of temperature profiles and the cooling curves in quark-hadron hybrid stars and in hypothetical self-bounded objects having no a hadron shell (quark core neutron stars). The quark gaps are varied from 0 to ∆q = 50 MeV. For hybrid stars we find time scales of 1÷5, 5÷1...

Experimental evidence for K̄-nuclear quasibound states is briefly reviewed. Theoretical and phenomenological arguments for and against deep K̄-nucleus potentials which might allow for narrow quasibound states are reviewed, with recent calculations suggesting that ΓK̄ ≥ 100 MeV for BK̄ ≤ 100 MeV. Results of RMF calculations that provide a lower limit of ΓK̄ ∼ 50± 10 MeV on the width of deeply bound s...

We present a search for electron-recoil signatures from the charged-current absorption of fermionic dark matter using EXO-200 detector. report an average electron recoil background rate $6.8 \times 10^{-4}\, \mathrm{cts}\,\mathrm{kg}^{-1}\mathrm{yr}^{-1}\mathrm{keV}^{-1}$ above $4\,\mathrm{MeV}$ and find no statistically significant excess over our projection. Using total ${}^{136}\mathrm{Xe}$ ...

Precise determinations of the masses of the W boson and of the top quark could stringently test the radiative structure of the Standard Model (SM) or provide evidence for new physics. We analyze the excellent prospects at a muon collider for measuring MW and mt in the W W and t t threshold regions. With an integrated luminosity of 10 (100) fb , the W -boson mass could be measured to a precision...

Recent theoretical and experimental improvements in the determination of charm and bottom quark masses are discussed. The final results, mc(3GeV) = 986(13)MeV and mb(mb) = 4163(16)MeV represent, together with a closely related lattice determination mc(3 GeV) = 986(10)MeV, the presently most precise determinations of these two fundamental Standard Model parameters. A critical analysis of the the...