Pramana – journal of physics
CONTENTS – VOLUME 54
(January–June 2000)
Number 1
Special Issue on Neutrino Physics
Preface ...... 1
Neutrino mass and oscillation: An introductory review ...... DPRoy 3 Transmission of neutrinos through matter ...... L Wolfenstein 21
Solar neutrino problem in light of super-Kamiokande data ...... S Uma Sankar 27
Neutrino oscillations: Recent results and future directions ...... Amitava Raychaudhuri 35 Parametric resonance in neutrino oscillations in matter ...... EKhAkhmedov 47
Neutrino anomalies without oscillations ...... Sandip Pakvasa 65
Determination of cosmological parameters: An introduction for non-specialists ...... Palash B Pal 79
Cosmic microwave background anisotropy constraints on relict neutrinos ...... Subhendra Mohanty 93
Models of neutrino masses and baryogenesis ...... Utpal Sarkar 101 Neutrino spectrum from theory and experiments ...... Anjan S Joshipura 119
Neutrino masses from SUSY: Different contributions and their implications ...... Sudhir K Vempati 133
Neutrino mass patterns, Ê -parity violating supersymmetry and associated phe- nomenology...... Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya 147
Constraintsonthreeflavorneutrinomixing ...... Mohan Narayan 155
Supernova constraints on neutrino mass and mixing ...... Srubabati Goswami 173 Variables for probing neutrino oscillation at super-Kamiokande and the Sudbury NeutrinoObservatory...... Debasish Majumdar 185
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Introduction to a field-theoretical treatment of neutrino oscillations ...... P Stockinger 203
Number 2 Research Articles
Static charged spheres with anisotropic pressure in general relativity ......
...... J Krishna Rao, M Annapurna and M M Trivedi 215
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c ½ b decay in the heavy quark effective theory ...... R Mohanta and A K Giri 227
Renormalization of seesaw neutrino masses in the standard model with two-Higgs doublets ...... N Nimai Singh and S Biramani Singh 235
Skyrme–Hartree–Fock approach to the change of level occupancy of low mass halonuclei...... Rupayan Bhattacharya 247 Estimation of light transport parameters in biological media using coherent backscattering...... S Anantha Ramakrishna and K Divakara Rao 255
A comparison of the intensity contours of fringes due to multiple reflection and spatialholeburninginsemiclassicaltheoryoflaser ...... Rita Moni Borah and G D Baruah 269
Nonlinear wave propagation through a ferromagnet with damping in (2 ·1) di- mensions...... S G Bindu and V C Kuriakose 275
Correlation between deformation bleaching and mechanoluminescence in colouredalkalihalidecrystals...... B P Chandra, M Ramrakhiani, P Sahu and A M Rastogi 287
Phonon frequency shift and effect of correlation on the electron–phonon interac- tioninheavyfermionsystems ...... B Ojha, P Nayak and S N Behera 305
Role of vanadium in Bi-2223 ceramics ...... D R Mishra, S V Sharma and R G Sharma 317
Rapid Communication A simpler and elegant algorithm for computing fractal dimension in higher di- mensionalstatespace...... S Ghorui, A K Das and N Venkatramani L331
Number 3 Research Articles
Coupled dilaton and electromagnetic field in cylindrically symmetric spacetime ...... A Banerjee, S Chatterjee and Tanwi Ghosh 337 Contents iii
Parity of the band head at 3710 keV in 99 Rh using clover detector as Compton polarimeter ...... R Palit, H C Jain, P K Joshi, S Nagaraj, B V T Rao,
S N Chintalapudi and S S Ghugre 347
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Incomplete fusion reactions in O· Ho...... Anil Sharma, B Bindu Kumar, S Mukherjee, S Chakrabarty, B S Tomar, A Goswami, G K Gubbi, S B Manohar, A K Sinha and S K Datta 355
Onsomeproblemsofthemaximumentropyansatz ......
...... K Bandyopadhyay, K Bhattacharyya and A K Bhattacharya 365 ½ Transition probabilities for two-photon H(1s–2s)andHe(1½ s–2 s) transitions: A partial-closureapproach...... Monika Bassi and K L Baluja 377 Tunneling through a time-dependent barrier – a numerical study ...... Pranab Sarkar 385
Dynamics of two coupled chaotic multimode Nd:YAG lasers with intracavity fre- quency doubling crystal ...... Thomas Kuruvilla and V M Nandakumaran 393
Pump induced normal mode splittings in phase conjugation in a Kerr nonlinear waveguide...... S Dutta Gupta 403 Random matrix model for disordered conductors ......
...... Zafar Ahmed and Sudhir R Jain 413
¿ 6:¾ Bilayer exchange coupling and Neel temperature of YBa ¾ Cu O ......
...... Govind, A Pratap, Ajay and R S Tripathi 423 ¾ Optical properties of 1T and 2H phases of TaS ¾ and TaSe ...... Sangeeta Sharma, S Auluck and M A Khan 431 Brief Reports
OnHamiltonianformulationofcosmologies...... K D Krori and S Dutta 441
Absorption characteristics of bacteriorhodopsin molecules ...... H K T Kumar and K Appaji Gowda 447
Number 4
Special Issue: Proceedings of the XIII DAE Symposium on High Energy Physics
Foreword ...... 453
Recent results from LEP ...... AGurtu 455
Baryogenesis ...... U A Yajnik 471 iv Contents
Recent advances in lattice gauge theories ...... RVGavai 487
Higgs and SUSY searches at future colliders ...... Rohini M Godbole 499 Large hadron collider physics program: Compact muon solenoid experiment ...... J B Singh 519
Review of recent results in deep inelastic scattering ...... D Indumathi 533
Understandingfieldsusingstrings:Areview...... Sunil Mukhi 543 Quarkgluonplasma ...... C P Singh 561
Electromagnetic signals of quark gluon plasma ...... Bikash Sinha 573
Recent results from CERN SPS experiments and the future heavy ion programme ...... YPViyogi 589 Three flavour oscillation interpretation of neutrino data ...... S Uma Sankar 603
Thesolarneutrinoproblem...... Harrison B Prosper 611
Electroweak couplings of the lepton...... John Swain 623
Anoverviewofprogressinstringtheory...... Jnanadeva Maharana 629 Supersymmetric unification in the light of neutrino mass ...... Charanjit S Aulakh 639
Recent developments in high energy physics ...... S N Ganguli 661
List of Participants ...... 679
Number 5 Review Articles
Pressure induced phase transition behaviour in f -electron based dialuminides ...... P Ch Sahu and N V Chandra Shekar 685
Research Articles Quantumkeydistributionusingthreebasisstates ...... Subhash Kak 709
Collapse of a charged radiating star with shear . . . S D Maharaj and M Govender 715
Particle production in higher derivative theory ...... G P Singh, A Beesham and R V Deshpande 729 Bulk viscosity of strange quark matter in density dependent quark mass model ...... J D Anand, N Chandrika Devi, V K Gupta and S Singh 737 Contents v
Bubbling and bistability in two parameter discrete systems ...... G Ambika and N V Sujatha 751
Unstable plasma characteristics in mirror field electron cyclotron resonance mi- crowaveionsource ...... S K Angra, Parshant Kumar, R R Dongaonkar and R P Bajpai 763
Coherent structures in presence of dust charge fluctuations ...... M Kakati and K S Goswami 771 Impact of electron irradiation on particle track etching response in polyallyl digly- col carbonate (PADC) ...... R Mishra, S P Tripathy, A Kulshrestha, A Srivastava, S Ghosh, K K Dwivedi, D T Khathing, M M uller¨ and D Fink 777 Possible lattice formation of new materials within a piezoelectric semiconductor plasma ...... M Salimullah, S Ghosh and M R Amin 785
Number 6
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e e ! ØØ Effect of anomalous ØbÏ vertex on decay-lepton distributions in and CP-violatingasymmetries ...... Saurabh D Rindani 791
Structureinformationfromfusionbarriers ...... S V S Sastry and S Santra 813
Effect of polarization on population transfer in H ¾ by stimulated Raman transition withpartiallyoverlappinglaserpulses ...... Swaralipi Ghosh, Sanjay Sen, S S Bhattacharyya and Samir Saha 827
Computer simulation of proton channelling in silicon ...... N K Deepak, K Rajasekharan and K Neelakandan 845
Supercooling across first-order phase transitions in vortex matter ...... P Chaddah and S B Roy 857
Multifractal behaviour of Ò-simplex lattice ...... Sanjay Kumar, D Giri and Sujata Krishna 863
On Mossbauer dynamics in Nb ¿ Sn ...... Ashok Razdan 871 Growth morphology of zinc tris(thiourea) sulphate crystals ...... Sunil Verma, M K Singh, V K Wadhawan and C H Suresh 879
Subject Index ...... 889
Author Index ...... 895