October 2006 arXiv papers — page 8

Tina A. C. Maiolo, Fabio Della Sala, Luigi Martina, Giulio Soliani

Quantum entanglement is a concept commonly used with reference to the existence of certain correlations in quantum systems that have no classical interpretation. It is a useful resource to enhance the mutual information of memory channels or to accelerate some quantum processes as, for example, the factorization in Shor's Algorithm. Moreover, entanglemen

Peter J. Mosley, Sarah Croke, Ian A. Walmsley, Stephen M. Barnett

We present the first experimental demonstration of the maximum confidence measurement strategy for quantum state discrimination. Applying this strategy to an arbitrary set of states assigns to each input state a measurement outcome which, when realized, gives the highest possible confidence that the state was indeed present. The theoretically optimal measure

Marco Lucamarini, David Vitali, Paolo Tombesi

We study the detection of weak coherent forces by means of an optomechanical device formed by a highly reflecting isolated mirror shined by an intense and highly monochromatic laser field. Radiation pressure excites a vibrational mode of the mirror, inducing sidebands of the incident field, which are then measured by heterodyne detection. We determine the se

Wm. C. McHarris

Some of the so-called imponderables and counterintuitive puzzles associated with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics appear to have alternate, parallel explanations in terms of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. These include the mocking up of exponetial decay in closed systems, possible nonlinear extensions of Bell's inequalities, spontaneous

Francesco Buscemi, Massimiliano F. Sacchi

We propose two experimental schemes for quantum state discrimination that achieve the optimal tradeoff between the probability of correct identification and the disturbance on the quantum state.

Chui-Ping Yang

This is to reply to the comment of Kenigsberg and Mor on our previous work ``Efficient many-party controlled teleportation of multi-qubit quantum information via entanglement''[Phys. Rev. A 70, 022329 (2004)].

R. W. McKeown, D. E. Reyna

There has been an increasing interest in the monitoring of nuclear fuel for power reactors by detecting the anti-neutrinos produced during operation. Small liquid scintillator detectors have already demonstrated sensitivity to operational power levels, but more sensitive monitoring requires improvements in the efficiency and uniformity of these detectors. In

Sandor Varro

The reflection and transmission of a few-cycle Ti:Sa laser pulse iminging on a thin plasma layer have been analysed on the basis of classical electrodynamics. An approximate analytic solution has been given for the coupled Maxwell-Lorentz equations describing the dynamics of the surface current and the composite radiation field. The nonlinearities stemming f

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, P. Salieres

In recent publications, it has been shown that high-order harmonic generation can be manipulated by employing a time-delayed attosecond pulse train superposed to a strong, near-infrared laser field. It is an open question, however, which is the most adequate way to approximate the attosecond pulse train in a semi-analytic framework. Employing the Strong-Fiel

Marco V. Tognetti, Helder M. Crespo

The possibility of soliton self-compression of ultrashort laser pulses down to the few-cycle regime in photonic crystal fibers is numerically investigated. We show that efficient sub-two-cycle temporal compression of nanojoule-level 800 nm pulses can be achieved by employing short (typically 5-mm-long) commercially available photonic crystal fibers and pulse

Zinovy Malkin

Three topics related to computation of the combined IVS EOP series are discussed. The first one is the consistency of the VLBI EOP series with the IERS reference frames ITRF and ICRF. Not all IVS analysis centers use ITRF/ICRF as reference system for EOP solutions. Some of them realize global solution for simultaneous determination of CRF, TRF and EOP with n

M. Hohnisch, O. Kutoviy

A result about projections of Gibbs measures from a particular class arising in economic modeling is proved.

P. -E. Vert, J. Lecoq, G. Montarou, N. Pauna

The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical imaging field through Positron Emission Tomography (PET). As a wish of explanation, the two overriding weaknesse

J. A. Tjon, S. J. Wallace

An eikonal expansion is developed in order to provide systematic corrections to the eikonal approximation through order 1/k^2, where k is the wave number. The expansion is applied to wave functions for the Klein-Gordon equation and for the Dirac equation with a Coulomb potential. Convergence is rapid at energies above about 250 MeV. Analytical results for th

Lothar Tiator

The isobar models eta-MAID and eta'-MAID have been used to analyze new data on quasi-free eta photoproduction on the deuteron from Bonn and recent eta' data on the proton from Jlab. In eta photoproduction on the neutron a bump around W=1700 MeV was observed which could possibly arise from a narrow P11 state that is discussed as a non-strange member o

L. Tiator, S. Kamalov

The unitary isobar model MAID is used for a partial wave analysis of pion photoproduction and electroproduction data on the nucleon. In particular we have taken emphasis on the region of the Delta(1232) resonance and have separated the resonance and background amplitudes with the K-matrix approach. This leads to electromagnetic properties of the dressed Delt

D. Drechsel, L. Tiator

We present an overview of dynamic and related models for pion electroproduction on the nucleon due to Delta(1232) excitation. The electromagnetic multipoles and their ratios obtained from these models and from effective field theories are compared, and the existing contradictory results for the pion cloud effects are discussed.

T. Melde, W. Plessas, B. Sengl

Relativistic constituent quark models generally describe three-quark systems with particular interactions. The corresponding invariant mass eigenvalue spectra and pertinent eigenstates should exhibit the multiplet structure anticipated for baryon resonances. Taking into account the flavour content, spin structure, and spatial distribution of the baryon wave

Wojciech Satula

Low-energy nuclear structure is not sensitive enough to resolve fine details of nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction. Insensitivity of infrared physics to the details of short-range strong interaction allows for consistent, free of ultraviolet divergences, formulation of local theory at the level of local energy density functional (LEDF) including, on the same f

B. Sengl, T. Melde, W. Plessas

The description of baryon resonance decays represents a major challenge of strong interaction physics. We will report on a relativistic approach to mesonic decays of light and strange baryon resonances within constituent quark models. The calculations are performed in the point-form of relativistic quantum mechanics, specifically focussing on the strange sec

J. G. Chen, W. Xu, W. Guo, Y. G. Ma

The design for the proto type of the Shanghai Laser Electron Gamma Source (SLEGS) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) is introduced. Some detailed descriptions for design of related instruments are provided. The proto type can produce X-ray with energy of 10 keV order. A description of the kinematics of Compton backscattering mechanism and

Mike Lukas, Dmitry Pelinovsky, P. G. Kevrekidis

We address persistence and stability of three-dimensional vortex configurations in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation and develop a symbolic package based on Wolfram's MATHEMATICA for computations of the Lyapunov--Schmidt reduction method. The Lyapunov--Schmidt reduction method is a theoretical tool which enables us to study continuations

P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Susanto, Z. Chen

While fundamental-mode discrete solitons have been demonstrated with both self-focusing and defocusing nonlinearity, high-order-mode localized states in waveguide lattices have been studied thus far only for the self-focusing case. In this paper, the existence and stability regimes of dipole, quadrupole and vortex soliton structures in two-dimensional lattic

A. K. Karlis, P. K. Papachristou, F. K. Diakonos, V. Constantoudis

Fermi acceleration in a Fermi-Ulam model, consisting of an ensemble of particles bouncing between two, infinitely heavy, stochastically oscillating hard walls, is investigated. It is shown that the widely used approximation, neglecting the displacement of the walls (static wall approximation), leads to a systematic underestimation of particle acceleration. A

S. Huang, C. Chandre, T. Uzer

We present a control procedure to reduce the stochastic ionization of hydrogen atom in a strong microwave field by adding to the original Hamiltonian a comparatively small control term which might consist of an additional set of microwave fields. This modification restores select invariant tori in the dynamics and prevents ionization. We demonstrate the proc

Marta Mazzocco, Man Yue Mo

In this paper we study the Hamiltonian structure of the second Painleve hierarchy, an infinite sequence of nonlinear ordinary differential equations containing PII as its simplest equation. The n-th element of the hierarchy is a non linear ODE of order 2n in the independent variable $z$ depending on n parameters denoted by ${t}_1,...,{t}_{n-1}$ and $α_n$. We

David Gomez-Ullate, Niky Kamran, Robert Milson

Our goal in this paper is to extend the theory of quasi-exactly solvable Schrodinger operators beyond the Lie-algebraic class. Let $\cP_n$ be the space of n-th degree polynomials in one variable. We first analyze "exceptional polynomial subspaces" which are those proper subspaces of $\cP_n$ invariant under second order differential operators which do

Alexander L. Frenkel, David Halpern

Nonlinear stages of the recently uncovered instability due to insoluble surfactant at the interface between two fluids are investigated for the case of a creeping plane Couette flow with one of the fluids a thin film and the other one a much thicker layer. Numerical simulation of strongly nonlinear longwave evolution equations which couple the film thickness

Martin Oberlack, Marta Waclawczyk

In the present paper the classical point symmetry analysis is extended from partial differential to functional differential equations with functional derivatives. In order to perform the group analysis and deal with the functional derivatives we extend the quantities such as infinitesimal transformations, prolongations and invariant solutions. For the sake o

Ying-Qing Wu

A Dehn surgery on a knot $K$ in $S^3$ is exceptional if it produces a reducible, toroidal or Seifert fibred manifold. It is known that a large arborescent knot admits no such surgery unless it is a type II arborescent knot. The main theorem of this paper shows that up to isotopy there are exactly three large arborescent knots admitting exceptional surgery, e

Ying-Qing Wu

Let $F$ be a closed essential surface in a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with a toroidal cusp $N$. The depth of $F$ in $N$ is the maximal distance from points of $F$ in $N$ to the boundary of $N$. It will be shown that if $F$ is an essential pleated surface which is not coannular to the boundary torus of $N$ then the depth of $F$ in $N$ is bounded above by a con

Ying-Qing Wu

Let $K= K(w,b,t)$ be a 1-bridge braid in a solid torus $V$, and let $γ$ be a $(p,q)$ curve on the torus $T = \partial V$ of the exterior $M_K$ of $K$. It will be shown that Dehn filling on $T$ along $γ$ produces a solid torus if and only if $p$ and $q$ satisfy one of four conditions determined by the parameters $(w,b,t)$ of the knot $K$. This solves the clas

Ying-Qing Wu

A regular $n$-gon inscribing a knot is a sequence of $n$ points on a knot, such that the distances between adjacent points are all the same. It is shown that any smooth knot is inscribed by a regular $n$-gon for any $n$.

Ying-Qing Wu

Abby Thompson proved that if a link $K$ is in thin position but not in bridge position then the knot complement contains an essential meridional planar surface, and she asked whether some thin level surface must be essential. This note is to give a positive answer to this question, showing that the if a link is in thin position but not bridge position then a

Kevin Wildrick

The classical uniformization theorem states that any simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to the disk, the plane, or the sphere, each equipped with a standard conformal structure. We give a similar uniformization for Ahlfors 2-regular, linearly locally connected metric planes; instead of conformal equivalence, we are concerned with quas

Geoffrey Grimmett, Dominic Welsh

In writing this biographical memoir of John Hammersley, we have tried to communicate something of the character of the person, and of the impact of his scientific achievements across lattice models (for example, percolation, self-avoiding walks, first-passage percolation, dimer models), stochastic processes (including subadditive ergodic theory), Monte Carlo

Hossein Movasati

In the present article we define the algebra of differential modular forms and we prove that it is generated by Eisenstein series of weight $2,4$ and 6. We define Hecke operators on them, find some analytic relations between these Eisenstein series and obtain them in a natural way as coefficients of a family of elliptic curves. The fact that a complex manifo

William M Briggs

The title, a headline, and a typical one, from a newspaper's "Health & Wellness" section, usually written by a reporter who has just read a medical journal, can only be the result of an inductive argument, which is an argument from known contingent premisses to the unknown. What are the premisses and what is unknown for this headline and what doe

Michael Farber, Mark Grant

In this paper we study symmetric motion planning algorithms, i.e. such that the motion from one state A to another B, prescribed by the algorithm, is the time reverse of the motion from B to A. We experiment with several different notions of topological complexity of such algorithms and compare them with each other and with the usual (non-symmetric) concept

Rolf Aaberge, Steinar Bjerve, Kjell Doksum

We consider concepts and models for measuring inequality in the distribution of resources with a focus on how inequality varies as a function of covariates. Lorenz introduced a device for measuring inequality in the distribution of income that indicates how much the incomes below the u$^{th}$ quantile fall short of the egalitarian situation where everyone ha

Alice Fialowski, Martin Schlichenmaier

In two earlier articles we constructed algebraic-geometric families of genus one (i.e. elliptic) Lie algebras of Krichever-Novikov type. The considered algebras are vector fields, current and affine Lie algebras. These families deform the Witt algebra, the Virasoro algebra, the classical current, and the affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras respectively. The constr

Peter Eichelsbacher, Wolfgang Konig

We construct the conditional version of $k$ independent and identically distributed random walks on $\R$ given that they stay in strict order at all times. This is a generalisation of so-called non-colliding or non-intersecting random walks, the discrete variant of Dyson's Brownian motions, which have been considered yet only for nearest-neighbor walks o

Aris Spanos

R. A. Fisher founded modern statistical inference in 1922 and identified its fundamental problems to be: specification, estimation and distribution. Since then the problem of statistical model specification has received scant attention in the statistics literature. The paper traces the history of statistical model specification, focusing primarily on pioneer

Islam Boussaada, A. Raouf Chouikha

Under conditions of Levinson-Smith type, we prove the existence of a $τ$-periodic solution for the perturbed generalized Liénard equation u''+ϕ(u,u')u'+ψ(u)=εω(\frac{t}τ,u,u') with periodic forcing term. Also we deduce sufficient condition for existence of a periodic solution for the equation u''+\sum_{k=0}^{2s+1} p_k(u){u'}^k

Deborah G. Mayo, D. R. Cox

After some general remarks about the interrelation between philosophical and statistical thinking, the discussion centres largely on significance tests. These are defined as the calculation of $p$-values rather than as formal procedures for ``acceptance'' and ``rejection.'' A number of types of null hypothesis are described and a principle fo

Cheng Cheng

This research deals with massive multiple hypothesis testing. First regarding multiple tests as an estimation problem under a proper population model, an error measurement called Erroneous Rejection Ratio (ERR) is introduced and related to the False Discovery Rate (FDR). ERR is an error measurement similar in spirit to FDR, and it greatly simplifies the anal

Henrik Holm

Given a precovering (also called contravariantly finite) class F there are three natural approaches to a homological dimension with respect to F: One based on Ext functors relative to F, one based on F-resolutions, and one based on Schanuel classes relative to F. In general these approaches do not give the same result. In this paper we study relations betwee

Joseph P. Romano, Azeem M. Shaikh

Consider the problem of testing multiple null hypotheses. A classical approach to dealing with the multiplicity problem is to restrict attention to procedures that control the familywise error rate ($FWER$), the probability of even one false rejection. However, if $s$ is large, control of the $FWER$ is so stringent that the ability of a procedure which contr

Michael Cuntz

We prove that the Fourier matrices for the imprimitive complex reflection groups introduced by Malle define fusion algebras with not necessarily positive but integer structure constants. Hence they define Z-algebras. As a result, we obtain that all known Fourier matrices belonging to spetses define algebras with integer structure constants.

Juliet Popper Shaffer

There are many different notions of optimality even in testing a single hypothesis. In the multiple testing area, the number of possibilities is very much greater. The paper first will describe multiplicity issues that arise in tests involving a single parameter, and will describe a new optimality result in that context. Although the example given is of mini

Tanja Gernhard, Daniel Ford, Rutger Vos, Mike Steel

The reconstruction of large phylogenetic trees from data that violates clocklike evolution (or as a supertree constructed from any m input trees) raises a difficult question for biologists - how can one assign relative dates to the vertices of the tree? In this paper we investigate this problem, assuming a uniform distribution on the order of the inner verti

Ulrich Goertz

Using Ram's theory of alcove walks, we give a proof of the Bernstein presentation of the affine Hecke algebra. The method works also in the case of unequal parameters. We also discuss how these results help in studying sheaves of nearby cycles on affine flag manifolds.

Gábor J. Székely

Generalized t-tests are constructed under weaker than normal conditions. In the first part of this paper we assume only the symmetry (around zero) of the error distribution (i). In the second part we assume that the error distribution is a Gaussian scale mixture (ii). The optimal (smallest) critical values can be computed from generalizations of Student'

Samuel Boissiere, Marc A. Nieper-Wisskirchen

In the study of the rational cohomology of Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth surface, it is particularly interesting to understand the characteristic classes of the tautological bundles and the tangent bundle. In this note we pursue this study. We first collect all results appearing separately in the literature and prove some new formulas using T. Ohmoto

Elke Eisenschmidt, Matthias Köppe, Alexandre Laugier

We introduce a new class of optimization problems called integer Minkowski programs. The formulation of such problems involves finitely many integer variables and nonlinear constraints involving functionals defined on families of discrete or polyhedral sets. We show that, under certain assumptions, it is possible to reformulate them as integer linear program

Erich L. Lehmann

Likelihood ratio tests are intuitively appealing. Nevertheless, a number of examples are known in which they perform very poorly. The present paper discusses a large class of situations in which this is the case, and analyzes just how intuition misleads us; it also presents an alternative approach which in these situations is optimal.

Marc A. Nieper-Wisskirchen

Let X be the quasi-projective symplectic surface that is given by the total space of the invertible sheaf O(-2) over the projective line. Let Hilb X be the family of Hilbert schemes of points on X. We give and prove a closed formula expressing any multiplicative characteristic class evaluated on the Hilb X in terms of the standard Fock space description of t

Donghi Lee

Let F_2 be a free group of rank 2. We prove that there is an algorithm that decides whether or not, for given two elements u, v of F_2, u and v are translation equivalent in F_2, that is, whether or not u and v have the property that the cyclic length of phi(u) equals the cyclic length of phi(v) for every automorphism phi of F_2. This gives an affirmative so

Kira Adaricheva, Agata Pilitowska, David Stanovsky

We establish a condition (so called generalized entropic property), equivalent to the fact that for every algebra A from a given variety V, the set of all subalgebras of A is a subuniverse of the complex algebra of A. We investigate the relationship between the generalized entropic property and the entropic law. Further, we study the identities satisfied by

E. G. Sklyarenko, G. Skordev

An integer-valued fixed point index for compositions of acyclic multivalued maps is constructed. This integer-valued fixed point index has the properties: additivity, homotoy invariance, normalization, commutativity, multiplicativity. The acyclicity is with respect to the Cech cohomology with integer coefficients. The technique of chain approximation is used

Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Cristodor Ionescu

Recently, the regular local rings of prime characteristic were characterized in terms of the finiteness of injective dimension of the Frobenius map. We obtain relative versions of this result.

Bhaskar Bagchi, Basudeb Datta

Via a computer search, Altshuler and Steinberg found that there are 1296 +1 combinatorial 3-manifolds on nine vertices, of which only one is non-sphere. This exceptional 3-manifold $K^{3}_{9}$ triangulates the twisted $S^{2}$-bundle over $S^{1}$. It was first constructed by Walkup. In this paper, we present a computer-free proof of the uniqueness of this non

I. Heckenberger, H. Yamane

The root systems appearing in the theory of Lie superalgebras and Nichols algebras admit a large symmetry extending properly the one coming from the Weyl group. Based on this observation we set up a general framework in which the symmetry object is a groupoid. We prove that in our context the groupoid is generated by reflections and Coxeter relations. This a

Victor de la Pena, Henryk Gzyl, Patrick McDonald

Let $G$ be a finite tree with root $r$ and associate to the internal vertices of $G$ a collection of transition probabilities for a simple nondegenerate Markov chain. Embedd $G$ into a graph $G^\prime$ constructed by gluing finite linear chains of length at least 2 to the terminal vertices of $G.$ Then $G^\prime$ admits distinguished boundary layers and the

Gideon Amir, Itai Benjamini, Gady Kozma

We analyze random walk in the upper half of a three dimensional lattice which goes down whenever it encounters a new vertex, a.k.a. excited random walk. We show that it is recurrent with an expected number of returns of square-root log n.

Hun Hee Lee

We consider two operator space versions of type and cotype, namely $S_p$-type, $S_q$-cotype and type $(p,H)$, cotype $(q,H)$ for a homogeneous Hilbertian operator space $H$ and $1\leq p \leq 2 \leq q\leq \infty$, generalizing "$OH$-cotype 2" of G. Pisier. We compute type and cotype of some Hilbertian operator spaces and $L_p$ spaces, and we investiga

Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Marc Lachièze-Rey

We present a survey of rigourous quantization results obtained in recent works on quantum free fields in de Sitter space. For the "massive'' cases which are associated to principal series representations of the de Sitter group SO\_0(1,4), the construction is based on analyticity requirements on the Wightman two-point function. For the "massle

Heng-Yu Chen, Nick Dorey, Keisuke Okamura

In this paper we discuss the asymptotic spectrum of the spin chain description of planar N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills. The states appearing in the spectrum belong to irreducible representations of the unbroken supersymmetry SU(2|2) x SU(2|2) with non-trivial extra central extensions. The elementary magnon corresponds to the bifundamental representation while boundsta

Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo, Alberto Ramos

We use the Bradlow parameter expansion to construct the metric tensor in the space of solutions of the Bogomolny equations for the Abelian Higgs model on a two-dimensional torus. Using this metric we study the dynamics and scattering of vortices on the torus within the geodesic approximation. For small torus volumes the metric is determined in terms of a sma

Riccardo Catena, Massimo Pietroni, Luca Scarabello

The physical equivalence of Einstein and Jordan frame in Scalar Tensor theories has been explained by Dicke in 1962: they are related by a local transformation of units. We discuss this point in a cosmological framework. Our main result is the construction of a formalism in which all the physical observables are frame-invariant. The application of this appro

V. Jakubsky, J. Smejkal

We implement recent results of pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to description of relativistic massive particle with spin-one. We derive a one-parameter family of Lorentz invariant positive-definite scalar products on the space of solutions of Proca equation.

Florian Bauer

In a 6D model, where the extra dimensions form a discretised curved disk, we investigate the mass spectra and profiles of gravitons and Dirac fermions. The discretisation is performed in detail leading to a star-like geometry. In addition, we use the curvature of the disk to obtain the mass scales of this model in a more flexible way. We also discuss some ap

Jamila Douari, Arafa H Aly

The fluctuations of funnel solutions of intersecting D1 and D3 branes are quite explicitly discussed by treating different modes and different directions of the fluctuation at the presence of world volume electric field. The boundary conditions are found to be Neumann boundary conditions.

Hiroyuki Abe

We show some structures of moduli stabilization and supersymmetry breaking caused by gaugino condensations with the gauge couplings depending on two moduli which often appear in the four-dimensional effective theories of superstring compactifications.

Mikhail Gorchtein

Two-photon exchange (TPE) contributions to elastic electron-proton scattering in the forward regime are considered. The imaginary part of TPE amplitude in these kinematics is related to the DIS nucleon structure functions. The real part of the TPE amplitude is obtained from the imaginary part by means of dispersion relations. We demonstrate that the dispersi

Thomas Dent

We review astrophysical, cosmological and terrestrial evidence for and against the constancy of fundamental parameters of particle physics, and discuss theoretical issues of unification and scalar-mediated forces, finding that the current rate of variation is bounded by limits on violations of the weak equivalence principle.

M. E. Carrington

We study next-to-leading order contributions to the soft static fermion dispersion relation in hot QED. We derive an expression for the complete next-to-leading order contribution to the retarded fermion self-energy. The real and imaginary parts of this expression give the next-to-leading order contributions to the mass and damping rate of the fermionic quas

D. Cabrera, L. Tolos, A. Ramos, A. Polls

We study the kaon nuclear optical potential including the effect of the Θ^+ pentaquark in a self-consistent approach, starting from an extension of the Juelich meson-exchange potential as bare kaon-nucleon interaction. Significant differences between a fully self-consistent calculation and the low-density Tρapproximation are observed. Whereas te influence of

Stephen M. West

It is known that the cosmological baryon density ($Ω_{\rm{b}}$) and dark matter density ($Ω_{\rm{dm}}$) have strikingly similar values. However, in most theories of the early Universe, each density is explained by separate dynamics and consequently there is no compelling reason for this observation. In this note, I briefly review a model in which the dark ma

V. R. Zoller

The color dipole analysis of nuclear effects in charge current DIS is presented. The emphasis is put on the pronounced effect of left-right asymmetry of shadowing in neutrino-nucleus DIS at small values of Bjorken $x$. Strikingly different scaling behavior of nuclear shadowing for the left-handed andright-handed $W^+$ is predicted. Large, about 25%, shadowin

M. I. Vysotsky

A simple extension of the Standard Model demonstrates that New Physics non-reachable through direct production at LHC can induce up to 10% corrections to the length of the unitarity triangle side, extracted from $Δm_{B_d}$.

Giuliano Panico

Models with gauge-Higgs unification on a flat space are typically affected by common problems, the main of which are the prediction of a too small top and Higgs mass and a too low compactification scale. We show how, by breaking the SO(4,1) Lorentz symmetry in the bulk and introducing a Z_2 ``mirror'' symmetry, a potentially realistic model arises, i

Ignazio Scimemi, Elvira Gamiz, Joaquim Prades

We discuss the recent Cabibbo's proposal to measure the pion-pion scattering lengths combination a0-a2 from the cusp effect in the pi0-pi0 energy spectrum at threshold for K+ to (pi0 pi0 pi+) and KL to (pi0 pi0 pi0). We estimate the theoretical uncertainty of the a0-a2 determination at NLO in our approach and obtain that it is not smaller than 5% for K+

Xiao-Gang He, Jusak Tandean, G. Valencia

The HyperCP collaboration has observed three events for the decay Sigma^+ -> p mu^+ mu^- which may be interpreted as a new particle of mass 214.3 MeV. However, existing data from kaon and B-meson decays severely constrain this interpretation, and it is nontrivial to construct a model consistent with all the data. In this letter we show that the ``HyperCP par

Ken-ichi Okumura

We analyze thermal relic abundance of neutralino dark matter and discuss future prospects of its direct and indirect detections in mirage mediation.

Makoto Oka

Exotic multi-quark states are examined in the quark model and in QCD. Current status of theoretical studies of the pentaquark Theta^+ is reported. We show recent analyses of multi-quark components of baryons. A novel method to extract a compact excited state in the lattice QCD is applied. We also discuss how to determine mixings of different Fock components

Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson

We describe a simple model, based on the preon model of Shupe and Harari, in which the binding of preons is represented topologically. We then demonstrate a direct correspondence between this model and much of the known phenomenology of the Standard Model. In particular we identify the substructure of quarks, leptons and gauge bosons with elements of the bra

K. J. Juge, A. O. Cais, M. B. Oktay, M. J. Peadon

We present results for the charmonium spectrum from $N_f=2$ dynamical QCD simulations on $12^3\times 80$ anisotropic lattices. Using all-to-all propagators we determine the ground and excited states of S, P and D waves and hybrids. We also evaluate the disconnected (OZI suppressed) contribution to the $η_c$ and $J/Ψ$

Prolay Kumar Mal

During Run II of the Tevatron collider, DØcollaboration has made extensive searches for the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons ($ϕ$), produced in $\rm p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\rm \sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV. Two such analyses, addressing inclusive $ϕ$ production with $ϕ\toτ^+τ^-$, and associated $ϕb(\bar{b})$ production with $ϕ\to b\bar{b}$ are reported here. No excess of ev

Juraj Bracinik

The HERA experiments have collected interesting luminosity samples with both polarized and unpolarized lepton beams. The polarized CC data are directly sensitive to right handed charged currents. The data are in agreement with the SM predicting their absence. Effects of Z-exchange have been seen in the lepton beam charge and polarization assymetries. A combi

Igor V. Gorelov

We present the latest results on the spectroscopy of orbitally excited strange bottom mesons from 1 fb^{-1} of CDF data. The measurements are performed with fully reconstructed B- decays collected by the CDF II detector at the sqrt(s)-energy of 1.96 TeV in both the di-muon and the fully hadronic trigger paths.

Frank Hellmann, Mauricio Mondragon, Alejandro Perez, Carlo Rovelli

We discuss the definition of quantum probability in the context of "timeless" general--relativistic quantum mechanics. In particular, we study the probability of sequences of events, or multi-event probability. In conventional quantum mechanics this can be obtained by means of the ``wave function collapse" algorithm. We first point out certain di

Manuel Tessmer, Achamveedu Gopakumar

Stellar-mass compact binaries in eccentric orbits are almost guaranteed sources of gravitational waves for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We present a prescription to compute accurate and efficient gravitational-wave polarizations associated with bound compact binaries of arbitrary eccentricity and mass ratio moving in slowly precessing orbits. We compa

A. A. Popov, R. K. Muharlyamov

The spherically symmetric perturbations in the spatially flat Friedman models are considered. It is assumed that the Friedmannian density and pressure are related through a linear equation of state. The perturbation is joined smoothly with an unperturbed Friedmann's background at the sound horizon of perturbation. Such junction is in accordance with the

Yaneer Bar-Yam

Einstein's general relativity relates the curvature of space time, a second order differential property, to the stress-energy-momentum tensor. In this paper we ask whether it is possible to develop a first order theory relating space-time angles to the energy-momentum vector. We suggest several concepts that would be relevant, including quantum mechanica

Roldao da Rocha, Carlos H Coimbra-Araujo

We investigate, in Randall-Sundrum braneworld scenario, the relationship between perturbations of gravitational and electromagnetic waves in a black hole neighboorhood, proposing an extra-dimensional braneworld extension of the traditional formalism. Mutual transformations of electromagnetic and gravitational fields due to the strong fields in Reissner-Nords

Babajide Afolabi, Odile Thiery

In this paper, our aim is to propose a model that helps in the efficient use of an information system by users, within the organization represented by the IS, in order to resolve their decisional problems. In other words we want to aid the user within an organization in obtaining the information that corresponds to his needs (informational needs that result

Kun-hong Liu, Yong Xu, De-Shuang Huang

Traffic grooming is widely employed to reduce the number of ADM's and wavelengths. We consider the problem of grooming of dynamic traffic in WDM tree and star networks in this paper. To achieve better results, we used the bifurcation techniques to the grooming of arbitrary dynamic traffic in a strictly non-blocking manner in networks. Three splitting methods

Mathieu D'Aquin, Fadi Badra, Sandrine Lafrogne, Jean Lieber

In case-based reasoning, the adaptation step depends in general on domain-dependent knowledge, which motivates studies on adaptation knowledge acquisition (AKA). CABAMAKA is an AKA system based on principles of knowledge discovery from databases. This system explores the variations within the case base to elicit adaptation knowledge. It has been successfully

Ping Li, Trevor J. Hastie, Kenneth W. Church

For dimension reduction in $l_1$, the method of {\em Cauchy random projections} multiplies the original data matrix $\mathbf{A} \in\mathbb{R}^{n\times D}$ with a random matrix $\mathbf{R} \in \mathbb{R}^{D\times k}$ ($k\ll\min(n,D)$) whose entries are i.i.d. samples of the standard Cauchy C(0,1). Because of the impossibility results, one can not hope to reco