We investigate, if the cosmic ray positron fraction, as reported by the HEAT and AMS collaborations, is compatible with the annihilation of neutralinos in the supergravity inspired Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Model (CMSSM), thus complementing previous investigations, which did not consider constraints from unification, electroweak symmetry breaking and the present Higgs limits at LEP. We...

Some most representative results for semicrystalline polymers by positron annihilation spectroscopy method, showing the influence of crystallinity and morphology of samples on positron annihilation characteristics, are reminded. The latest finding of the author’s experiment on modified polyamide 6 is presented. The latter reveals that the interfacial zone between a lamella and an amorphous regi...

A general method for calculating next-to-leading order cross sections in perturbative QCD is presented. The algorithm is worked out for calculating N -jet cross sections in hadron-hadron collisions. The generalization of the scheme to performing caclulations for other QCD process, such as electron-positron annihilation or in deep inelastic scattering is also straightforward. As an illustration ...

A problem to account for the direct electron-positron annihilation in positron-hydrogen scattering above the positronium formation threshold has been resolved within the time independent formalism. The generalization of the optical theorem is derived for the case when an absorption potential is present in the Hamiltonian. With this theorem the annihilation cross section is fully determined by s...