September 2013 arXiv papers — page 3

James Kuelbs, Joel Zinn

We study some problems inherent with certain forms of functional depth, in particular, zero depth and lack of consistency.

Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Evan D. Skillman, Danielle Berg, John M. Cannon

Leo P is a low-luminosity dwarf galaxy discovered through the blind HI Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey. The HI and follow-up optical observations have shown that Leo P is a gas-rich dwarf galaxy with both active star formation and an underlying older population, as well as an extremely low oxygen abundance. Here, we measure the distance to Leo P by

B. De Marco, G. Ponti, G. Miniutti, T. Belloni

We present the analysis of the X-ray variability and spectral timing properties of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 5408 X-1, one of the most variable ULXs known so far. The variability properties are used as a diagnostic of the accretion state of the source and to derive estimates of the black hole (BH) mass. The observed high level of fast X-ray va

Michael Kazhdan, Randal Burns, Bobby Kasthuri, Jeff Lichtman

We propose a new gradient-domain technique for processing registered EM image stacks to remove the inter-image discontinuities while preserving intra-image detail. To this end, we process the image stack by first performing anisotropic diffusion to smooth the data along the slice axis and then solving a screened-Poisson equation within each slice to re-intro

Luis Pericchi, Carlos Pereira

Our purpose, is to put forward a change in the paradigm of testing by generalizing a very natural idea exposed by Morris DeGroot (1975) aiming to an approach that is attractive to all schools of statistics, in a procedure better suited for the needs of science. DeGroot's seminal idea is to base testing statistical hypothesis on minimizing the weighted su

Cristina G. Fernandes, Carlos E. Ferreira, Álvaro J. P. Franco, Rafael C. S. Schouery

We consider the unit-demand envy-free pricing problem, which is a unit-demand auction where each bidder receives an item that maximizes his utility, and the goal is to maximize the auctioneer's profit. This problem is NP-hard and unlikely to be in APX. We present four new MIP formulations for it and experimentally compare them to a previous one due to Sh

Saptarshi Bhattacharjee, S Arunkumar, Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay

This paper presents a novel approach towards identification of human beings from the statistical analysis of their lip prints. Lip features are extracted by studying the spatial orientations of the grooves present in lip prints of individuals using standard edge detection techniques. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal groove features are analysed using connec

Michael G. Elliot

Inferences about the evolution of continuous traits based on reconstruction of ancestral states has often been considered more error-prone than analysis of independent contrasts. Here we show that both methods in fact yield identical estimators for the correlation coefficient and regression gradient of correlated traits, indicating that reconstructed ancestr

Irene Klein, Thorsten Schmidt, Josef Teichmann

We investigate default-free bond markets where the standard relationship between a possibly existing bank account process and the term structure of bond prices is broken, i.e. the bank account process is not a valid numéraire. We argue that this feature is not the exception but rather the rule in bond markets when starting with, e.g., terminal bonds as numér

Domenico Orlando

We present a string theory realization for the correspondence between quantum integrable models and supersymmetric gauge theories. The quantization results from summing the effects of fundamental strings winding around a compact direction. We discuss the examples of the XXZ gauge/Bethe correspondence and five-dimensional Ω--deformed SYM on M x S^1.

Paul R. Anderson, Emil Mottola

We show that global de Sitter space is unstable to particle creation, even for a massive free field theory with no self-interactions. The O(4,1) de Sitter invariant state is a definite phase coherent superposition of particle and anti-particle solutions in both the asymptotic past and future, and therefore is not a true vacuum state. In the closely related c

Carolyn Auchter, Chen-Kuan Chou, Thomas W. Noel, Boris B. Blinov

We report on the demonstration of ion-photon entanglement and Bell inequality violation in a system of trapped 138Ba+ ions. Entanglement between the Zeeman sublevels of the ground state of a single 138Ba+ ion and the polarization state of a single 493 nm photon emitted by the ion with a fidelity of $0.84\pm0.01$ was achieved, along with a Bell signal of 2.3,

M. Mapelli, F. Annibali, L. Zampieri, R. Soria

The point-like X-ray source HLX-1, close to the S0 galaxy ESO 243-49, is one the strongest intermediate-mass black hole candidates, but the nature of its counterpart is still puzzling. By means of N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, we investigate the hypothesis that the HLX-1 counterpart is the nucleus of a bulgeless satellite galaxy, which

Greg Landsberg

In this overview talk, I give highlights of the first three years of the LHC operations at high energy, spanning heavy-ion physics, standard model measurements, and searches for new particles, which culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2012. I'll discuss what we found about the properties of the new particle

Michela Mapelli, Alessia Gualandris, Tristen Hayfield

The Galactic centre (GC) is a crowded environment: observations have revealed the presence of (molecular, atomic and ionized) gas, of a cusp of late-type stars, and of ~100 early-type stars, about half of which lying in one or possibly two discs. In this paper, we study the perturbations exerted on a thin stellar disc (with outer radius ~0.4 pc) by a molecul

F. Köhlinger, R. W. Schmidt

We present a revised strong lensing mass reconstruction of the galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145. The X-ray luminous cluster at redshift z=0.451 has already been studied intensively in the past. Based on information of two such previous (strong-)lensing studies by Halkola et al. (2008) and Bradac et al. (2008), as well as by incorporating newly available data f

Megumi Shidatsu, Yoshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Nakahira, Chris Done

We report the results from X-ray studies of the newly discovered black hole candidate MAXI J1305-704 based on Suzaku and Swift observations in the low/hard and high/soft states, respectively. The long Suzaku observation shows two types of clear absorption dips, both of which recur on a dip interval of 9.74 +- 0.04 hours, which we identify with the orbital pe

Anatoly Dymarsky, Stefano Massai

Placing D3 or anti-D3-branes at the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler background results in uplifting the baryonic branch of the moduli space of the dual field theory. In this paper we derive a mass formula for the scalar particle associated with the motion along the baryonic branch, from both open and closed string points of view. We show that both methods give

J. J. Hermes, M. H. Montgomery, A. Gianninas, D. E. Winget

We report the discovery of two new pulsating extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarfs (WDs), SDSS J161431.28+191219.4 (hereafter J1614) and SDSS J222859.93+362359.6 (hereafter J2228). Both WDs have masses <0.25 Msun and thus likely harbor helium cores. Spectral fits indicate these are the two coolest pulsating WDs ever found. J1614 has Teff = 8880 +/- 170 K and

Jan Pflamm-Altenburg, Rosa A. Gonzalez-Lópezlira, Pavel Kroupa

It is widely accepted that the distribution function of the masses of young star clusters is universal and can be purely interpreted as a probability density distribution function with a constant upper mass limit. As a result of this picture the masses of the most-massive objects are exclusively determined by the size of the sample. Here we show, with very h

Alex Hayat, Christoph Lange, Lee A. Rozema, Rockson Chang

We demonstrate macroscopic coherence between quantum condensates generated at different times, separated by more than the particle dephasing time. This is possible due to the dressed light-matter nature of exciton-polaritons, which can be injected resonantly by optical excitation at well-defined momenta. We show that the build-up of coherence between condens

P. Ocvirk, D. Aubert, J. Chardin, A. Knebe

We present the results of a set of numerical simulations aimed at studying reionization at galactic scale. We use a high resolution simulation of the formation of the Milky Way-M31 system to simulate the reionization of the local group. The reionization calculation was performed with the post-processing radiative transfer code ATON and the underlying cosmolo

Sugata Kaviraj

We estimate an empirical lower limit for the fraction of cosmic star formation that is triggered by minor mergers in the local Universe. Splitting the star-formation budget by galaxy morphology, we find that early-type galaxies (ETGs) host ~14% of the budget, while Sb/Sc galaxies host the bulk (~53%) of the local star formation activity. Recent work indicate

M. Ajello, R. W. Romani, D. Gasparrini, M. S. Shaw

Fermi has provided the largest sample of gamma-ray selected blazars to date. In this work we use a uniformly selected set of 211 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) objects detected by it Fermi during its first year of operation. We have obtained redshift constraints for 206 out of the 211 BL Lacs in our sample making it the largest and most complete sample of BL Lacs avai

Sujit Sarkar

The atoms trapped in microcavities and interacting through the exchange of virtual photons can be modeled as an anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 lattice. We study the dynamics of the geometric phase of this system under the linear quenching process of laser field detuning which shows the XX criticality of the geometric phase in presence of single Rabi frequen

Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Svend-Age Biehs

Using a block of three separated solid elements, a thermal source and drain together with a gate made of an insulator-metal transition material exchanging near-field thermal radiation, we introduce a nanoscale analog of a field-effect transistor which is able to control the flow of heat exchanged by evanescent thermal photons between two bodies. By changing

Nobuo Sato

Currently, the gluon distribution function is mainly constrained by jet data. Yet, its high-x behaviour is largely unknown. This kinematic region is important, for instance, for the understanding of the production of a massive state at forward rapidities at the LHC. In the past, single inclusive direct photon data from fixed target experiments was used to co

Kerstin E. Kunze, Eiichiro Komatsu

Observational limits on $y$- and $μ$-type distortions can constrain properties of magnetic fields in the early universe. For a Gaussian, random, and non-helical field, $μ$ and $y$ are calculated a function of the present-day strength of the field, $B_0$, smoothed over a certain Gaussian width, $k_c^{-1}$, and spectral index, $n_B$, defined by $P_B(k)\propto

Elizabeth Worcester

This presentation describes a measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter, sin^2(2theta_13), from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. Disappearance of electron antineutrinos at a distance of ~2 km from a set of six reactors, where the reactor flux is constrained by near detectors, has been clearly observed. The result, based on the ratio of observed t

Don Bunk, Jay Hubisz, Bithika Jain

We explore the phenomenology of virtual spin-1 contributions to the h to gamma gamma and h to Z gamma decay rates in gauge extensions of the standard model. We consider generic lorentz and gauge invariant vector self-interactions, which can have non-trivial structure after diagonalizing the quadratic part of the action. Such features are phenomenologically r

Yernat M. Assylbekov, Yang Yang

We study the reconstruction of the attenuation and absorption coefficients in a stationary linear transport equation from knowledge of albedo operator in dimension $n\geq 3$ on a Riemannian manifold in the presence of a magnetic field. We show the direct boundary value problem is well posed under two types of subcritical conditions. We obtain uniqueness and

Sergey Borisenko, Quinn Gibson, Danil Evtushinsky, Volodymyr Zabolotnyy

The three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, which has been predicted theoretically, is a new electronic state of matter. It can be viewed as 3D generalization of graphene, with a unique electronic structure in which conduction and valence band energies touch each other only at isolated points in momentum space (i.e. the 3D Dirac points), and thus it cannot b

Matthieu Castro, Tharcísyo Duarte, José Dias do Nascimento

Magnetic fields of late-type stars are presumably generated by a dynamo mechanism at the interface layer between the radiative interior and the outer convective zone. The Rossby number, which is related to the dynamo process, shows an observational correlation with activity. It represents the ratio between the rotation period of the star and the local convec

Christian Weedbrook, Carlo Ottaviani, Stefano Pirandola

We study the security of two-way quantum cryptography at different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the optical range down to the microwave range. In particular, we consider a two-way quantum communication protocol where Gaussian-modulated thermal states are subject to random Gaussian displacements and finally homodyned. We show how its secu

Matthieu Castro, Giancarlo Pace, José Dias do Nascimento

Mixing mechanisms bring the Li from the base of the convective zone to deeper and warmer layers where it is destroyed. These mechanisms are investigated by comparing observations of Li abundances in stellar atmospheres to models of stellar evolution. Observations in open cluster are especially suitable for this comparison, since their age and metallicity are

I. Chattopadhyay, S. Mandal, H. Ghosh, S. Garain

The thermal state of the fluid is governed by the ratio of the thermal and the rest energy. This brings the composition of the fluid into the picture. Although, fluid composed of lighter particles (e.g: electron-positron pair plasma) at same temperature, is more relativistic compared to fluids with finite baryon loading, but this is not necessarily true when

Jesus M Cortes, Mathieu Desroches, Serafim Rodrigues, Romain Veltz

Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity (STSP) strongly affects the neural dynamics of cortical networks. The Tsodyks and Markram (TM) model for STSP accurately accounts for a wide range of physiological responses at different types of cortical synapses. Here, we report for the first time a route to chaotic behavior via a Shilnikov homoclinic bifurcation that dynamic

L. Alarie-Vezina, P. Desrosiers, P. Mathieu

The explicit formula for the superconformal singular vectors in the Neveu-Schwarz sector has been obtained recently, via its symmetric polynomial representation, as a sum of Jack superpolynomials. Here we present the analogous, but slightly more complicated, closed-form expression for the Ramond singular vectors.

Anelia Somekh-Baruch

The fundamental limits of channels with mismatched decoding are addressed. A general formula is established for the mismatch capacity of a general channel, defined as a sequence of conditional distributions with a general decoding metrics sequence. We deduce an identity between the Verdú-Han general channel capacity formula, and the mismatch capacity formula

Rui Wang

We present studies of the production and spectroscopy of some members of the B-hadron family. We reconstruct B ground states in their hadronic decay modes with a J/ψ or Υ in the final state. These studies are based on the 2011 7 TeV dataset collected by the ATLAS detector.

The Daya Bay Collaboration

In 2012 the Daya Bay experiment made an unambiguous observation of reactor antineutrino disappearance over kilometer-long baselines and determined that the neutrino mixing angle $θ_{13}$ is non-zero. The measurements of Daya Bay have provided the most precise determination of $θ_{13}$ to date. This whitepaper outlines the prospects for precision studies of r

H. Ejiri, S. R. Elliott

Solar neutrinos can interact with the source isotope in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments through charged current and neutral current interactions. The charged-current product nucleus will then beta decay with a Q-value larger than the double beta decay Q-value. As a result, this process can populate the region of interest and be a background to the

Cristina G. Fernandes, Rafael C. S. Schouery

We consider the Max-Buying Problem with Limited Supply, in which there are $n$ items, with $C_i$ copies of each item $i$, and $m$ bidders such that every bidder $b$ has valuation $v_{ib}$ for item $i$. The goal is to find a pricing $p$ and an allocation of items to bidders that maximizes the profit, where every item is allocated to at most $C_i$ bidders, eve

Ramon Herrera, Marco Olivares, Nelson Videla

Brane and warped Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati inflationary universe models in the context of intermediate inflation are studied. In both models we consider that the energy density is a standard scalar field and we discuss the evolution of the universe during the slow-roll inflation. Also, we describe the conditions for these models. The corresponding Wilkinson Mi

K. Sainath, F. L. Teixeira, B. Donderici

We develop a general-purpose formulation, based on two-dimensional spectral integrals, for computing electromagnetic fields produced by arbitrarily-oriented dipoles in planar-stratified environments, where each layer may exhibit arbitrary and independent anisotropy in both the (complex) permittivity and permeability. Among the salient features of our formula

Hani Abdeen, Osama Shata, Abdelkarim Erradi

Interfaces are recognized as an important mechanism to define contracts governing interactions between semi-independent software modules. Well-designed interfaces significantly reduce software complexity and ease maintainability by fostering modularization, hiding implementation details and minimizing the impact caused by changes in the software implementati

Philipp Mayr, Peter Mutschke

Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries, although they offer value-added effects for users. In this paper we will explore how statistical modelling of scholarship, such as Bradfordizing or network analysis of coauthorship network, can improve retrieval services for specific communities, as well as f

Nicolae Strungaru

In this paper we prove that given a weakly almost periodic measure $μ$ supported inside some model set $Λ(W)$ with closed window $W$, then the strongly almost periodic component $μ_S$ and the null weakly almost periodic component $μ_0$ are both supported inside $Λ(W)$. As a consequence we prove that given any translation bounded measure $ω$, supported inside

João P. G. Pinto, Goktug Karpat, Felipe F. Fanchini

It is known that quantum discord might experience a sudden transition in its dynamics when calculated for certain Bell-diagonal states (BDS) that are in interaction with their surroundings. We examine this phenomenon known as the sudden change of quantum discord, considering the case of two qubits independently interacting with dephasing reservoirs. We first

Shigemi Ohta

The current status of some nucleon isovector observables, the vector charge, \(g_V\), axial charge, \(g_A\), quark momentum fraction, \(\langle x \rangle_{u-d}\), and quark helicity fraction, \(\langle x \rangle_{Δu - Δd}\), calculated using recent RBC/UKQCD 2+1-flavor dynamical domain-wall fermions (DWF) lattice QCD ensembles are reported: with Iwasaki gaug

Ashwin Pananjady, Vivek Kumar Bagaria, Rahul Vaze

We consider the problem of a social group of users trying to obtain a &#34;universe&#34; of files, first from a server and then via exchange amongst themselves. We consider the selfish file-exchange paradigm of give-and-take, whereby two users can exchange files only if each has something unique to offer the other. We are interested in maximizing the number

Henk Bruin, Renaud Leplaideur

We examine the renormalization operator determined by the Fibonacci substitution. We exhibit a fixed point and determine its stable leaf (under iteration of the operator). Then, we study the thermodynamic formalism for po- tentials in this stable leaf, and prove they have a freezing phase transition, with ground state supported on the attracting quasi-crysta

D. Paredes-Barato, C. S. Adams

In this work we propose a hybrid scheme to implement a photonic controlled-z (CZ) gate using photon storage in highly-excited Rydberg states, which controls the effective photon-photon interaction using resonant microwave fields. Our scheme decouples the light propagation from the interaction and exploits the spatial properties of the dipole blockade phenome

Santosh K. Das, Francesco Scardina, Salvatore Plumari, Vincenzo Greco

The propagation of heavy flavor through the quark gluon plasma has been treated commonly within the framework of Langevin dynamics, i.e. assuming the heavy flavor momentum transfer is much smaller than the light one. On the other hand a similar suppression factor $R_{AA}$ has been observed experimentally for light and heavy flavors. We present a thorough stu

Matz Liebel, Christoph Schnedermann, Philipp Kukura

Coupling of nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom mediates energy flow in molecules after optical excitation. The associated coherent dynamics in polyatomic systems, however, remain experimentally unexplored. Here, we combined transient absorption spectroscopy with electronic population control to reveal nuclear wavepacket dynamics during the S2-S1 inter

Daniel Craik

Constraints on the CKM angle γare presented from GLW, ADS, and GGSZ analyses of B+- -> D K+- at the LHCb experiment. The branching fractions of B0 -> D0bar K+ π- and Bs -> D0bar K- π+ are also reported, measured relative to the related mode B0 -> D0bar π+ π-.

Bojan D. Banjac, Branko J. Malesevic, Maja M. Petrovic, Marija Dj. Obradovic

In this paper we consider Erdös-Mordell inequality and its extension in the plane of triangle to the Erdös-Mordell curve. Algebraic equation of this curve is derived, and using modern computer tools in mathematics, we verified one conjecture that relates to Erdös-Mordell curve.

Walter F. Mascarenhas

We present examples of divergence for the BFGS and Gauss Newton methods. These examples have objective functions with bounded level sets and other properties concerning the examples published recently in this journal, like unit steps and convexity along the search lines. As these other examples, the iterates, function values and gradients in the new examples

Chris Mansell, Silvia Bergamini

We propose the use of Rydberg interactions and ensembles of cold atoms in mixed state for the implementation of a protocol for deterministic quantum computation with one quantum bit (DQC1) that can be readily operated in high dimensional Hilbert spaces. We propose an experimental test for the scalability of the protocol and to study the physics of discord. F

A. S. de Castro

The Fourier series method is used to solve the homogeneous equation governing the motion of the harmonic oscillator. It is shown that the general solution to the problem can be found in a surprisingly simple way for the case of the simple harmonic oscillator. It is also shown that the damped harmonic oscillator is susceptible to the analysis.

G. Corach, P. Massey, M. Ruiz

Parseval frames have particularly useful properties, and in some cases, they can be used to reconstruct signals which were analyzed by a non-Parseval frame. In this paper, we completely describe the degree to which such reconstruction is feasible. Indeed, notice that for fixed frames $\cF$ and $\cX$ with synthesis operators $F$ and $X$, the operator norm of

Mauro de Amorim, Ricardo Fabbri, Lucia Maria dos Santos Pinto, Francisco Duarte Moura Neto

This work aims at generating a model of the ocean surface and its dynamics from one or more video cameras. The idea is to model wave patterns from video as a first step towards a larger system of photogrammetric monitoring of marine conditions for use in offshore oil drilling platforms. The first part of the proposed approach consists in reducing the dimensi

I. A. Nechaev, E. V. Chulkov

We present a theoretical study of dispersion of states which form the bulk band-gap edges in the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Te3. Within density functional theory, we analyze the effect of atomic positions varying within the error range of the available experimental data and approximation chosen for the exchange-correlation functional on the b

Sideny I. Resnick, Joyjit Roy

We look at joint regular variation properties of MA($\infty$) processes of the form $\mathbf{X} = (X_k, k \in \mathbb{Z})$ where $X_k = \sum_{j=0}^{\infty} ψ_j Z_{k-j}$ and the sequence of random variables $(Z_i, i \in \mathbb{Z})$ are i.i.d. with regularly varying tails. We use the setup of $\mathbb{M}_{\mathbb{O}}$-convergence and obtain hidden regular var

Björn Sothmann, Rafael Sánchez, Andrew N. Jordan, Markus Büttiker

We analyze a heat engine based on a hot cavity connected via quantum wells to electronic reservoirs. We discuss the output power as well as the efficiency both in the linear and nonlinear regime. We find that the device delivers a large power of about 0.18 W/cm^2 for a temperature difference of 1 K nearly doubling the power than can be extracted from a simil

D. S. Roshal, C. Yu. Petrov, A. E. Myasnikova, S. B. Rochal

General topological principles how to transfer the planar orders onto a sphere are considered. Formation of extended topological defects (ETDs), which have a reconstructed inner structure surrounded by perfect initial order, is discussed. Topological charge of the ETD can be determined from the shape of a characteristic polygon bounding the defect. Relation

V. Gonzalez-Perez, E. Jennings, M. -C. Cousinou, S. Escoffier

We study the comoving relative velocities, v12, of model isolated galaxy pairs at z=0.5. For this purpose, we use the predictions from the GALFORM semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and evolution based on a Lambda cold dark matter cosmology consistent with the results from WMAP7. In real space, we find that isolated pairs of galaxies are predicted to

L. B. Castro, A. S. de Castro

Missing bound-state solutions for fermions in the background of a Cornell potential consisting of a mixed scalar-vector-pseudoscalar coupling is examined. Charge-conjugation operation, degeneracy and localization are discussed.

Martin Kassabov, Francesco Matucci

Intersection growth concerns the asymptotic behavior of the index of the intersection of all subgroups of a group that have index at most n. In this note we show that the intersection growth of some groups may not be a nicely behaved function by showing the following seemingly contradictory results: (a) for any group G the intersection growth function i_G(n)

Indranil Chattopadhyay, Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We study the properties of a steady, multi-species, low angular momentum accretion flow around a Schwarzschild black hole. Each species is described by a relativistic equation of state. We find that the transonic properties depend strongly on the composition of the flow. We find that an electron-positron pair plasma is the least relativistic one. This flow p

Jianming Bian

The NO$ν$A experiment is a long-baseline accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the upgraded Fermilab NuMI beam and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance at its far detector in Ash River, Minnesota. Goals of the experiment include measurements of $θ_{13}$, the neutrino-mass hierarchy and the CP-violating ph

D. P. Watts, D. I. Glazier, P. Aguar-Bartolomé, L. K. Akasoy

We report the first large-acceptance measurement of polarization transfer from a polarized photon beam to a recoiling nucleon, pioneering a novel polarimetry technique with wide application to future nuclear and hadronic physics experiments. The commissioning measurement of polarization transfer in the $^{1}H$($\vecγ$,$\vec{p}$)$π^{0}$ reaction in the range

Niklaus Berger, Heiko Augustin, Sebastian Bachmann, Moritz Kiehn

The Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay mu+ -> e+e-e+, aiming for a branching fraction sensitivity of 10^-16. This requires an excellent momentum resolution for low energy electrons, high rate capability and a large acceptance. In order to minimize multiple scattering, the amount of material has to be as small as possible. These c

Claudio Cazorla, Jordi Boronat

We theoretically investigate the ground-state properties of a molecular para-hydrogen (p-H2) film in which crystallization is energetically frustrated by embedding sodium (Na) atoms periodically distributed in a triangular lattice. In order to fully deal with the quantum nature of p-H2 molecules, we employ the diffusion Monte Carlo method and realistic semi-

Brice-Olivier Demory, Julien de Wit, Nikole Lewis, Jonathan Fortney

We present new visible and infrared observations of the hot Jupiter Kepler-7b to determine its atmospheric properties. Our analysis allows us to 1) refine Kepler-7b&#39;s relatively large geometric albedo of Ag=0.35+-0.02, 2) place upper limits on Kepler-7b thermal emission that remains undetected in both Spitzer bandpasses and 3) report a westward shift in

Archontia C. Giannopoulou, Daniel Lokshtanov, Saket Saurabh, Ondrej Suchy

In the Tree Deletion Set problem the input is a graph G together with an integer k. The objective is to determine whether there exists a set S of at most k vertices such that G-S is a tree. The problem is NP-complete and even NP-hard to approximate within any factor of OPT^c for any constant c. In this paper we give a O(k^4) size kernel for the Tree Deletion

Celine Degrande, Oscar Eboli, Bastian Feigl, Barbara Jäger

In this Snowmass 2013 white paper, we review the effective field theory approach for studies of non-standard electroweak interactions in electroweak vector boson pair and triple production and vector boson scattering. We present an overview of the implementation of dimension six and eight operators in MadGraph5, VBFNLO, and WHIZARD, and provide relations bet

Ashaq Hussain Sofi, Muhammad Ashraf Shah

In this paper we will analyse the inner product for a general tensor field theory. We will first analyse a generalized inner product for scalar field theories. Then we will use it to construct a inner product for tensor field theories. We will use this inner product to construct the two-point function.

Sevda Avci, Jared M. Allred, Omar Chmaissem, Duck-Young Chung

We report the results of a systematic investigation of the phase diagram of the iron-based superconductor system, Ba1-xNaxFe2As2, from x = 0.1 to x = 1.0 using high resolution neutron and x-ray diffraction and magnetization measurements. We find that the coincident structural and magnetic phase transition to an orthorhombic (O) structure with space group Fmm

Alexander Lytchak, Burkhard Wilking

We show that a Riemannian foliation on a topological $n$-sphere has leaf dimension 1 or 3 unless n=15 and the Riemannian foliation is given by the fibers of a Riemannian submersion to an 8-dimensional sphere. This allows us to classify Riemannian foliations on round spheres up to metric congruence.

Walter Grimus, Patrick Otto Ludl

The recent enormous improvement of our knowledge of the neutrino oscillation parameters has motivated us to reinvestigate the allowed ranges of the elements of the neutrino mass matrix in the basis where the charged-lepton mass mass matrix is diagonal. Moreover, we have studied the correlations of the elements of the neutrino mass matrix. The result of this

Angela Klamt

We compute the homology of the complex of formal operations on the Hochschild complex of differential graded commutative algebras as defined by Wahl and prove that these can be built as infinite sums of operations obtained from Loday&#39;s shuffle operations, Connes&#39; boundary operator and the shuffle product.

Manolis Ploumidis, Nikolaos Pappas, Vasilios A. Siris, Apostolos Traganitis

This study explores the throughput and delay that can be achieved by various forwarding schemes employing multiple paths and different degrees of redundancy focusing on linear network coding. The key contribution of the study is an analytical framework for modeling the throughput and delay for various schemes considering wireless mesh networks where, unicast

Serge Rosenblum, Orel Bechler, Itay Shomroni, Roy Kaner

We experimentally demonstrate first-order (fold) and second-order (cusp) catastrophes in the density of an atomic cloud reflected from an optical barrier in the presence of gravity, and show their corresponding universal asymptotic behavior. The cusp point enables robust, field-free refocusing of an expanding atomic cloud with a wide velocity distribution. S

Greg Byrne, Juan Cebral

We use an autonomous three-dimensional dynamical system to study embedded vortex structures that are observed to form in computational fluid dynamic simulations of patient-specific cerebral aneurysm geometries. These structures, described by a vortex which is enclosed within a larger vortex flowing in the opposite direction, are created and destroyed in phas

Jörgen Backelin

The structure of all triangle free graphs G = (V,E) with |E| - 6|V| + 13α(G) = 0 is determined, yielding an affirmative answer to a question of Stanisław Radziszowski and Donald Kreher.

Jesper Schou

With the increasing quality of asteroseismic observations it is important to minimize the random and systematic errors in mode parameter estimates. To this end it is important to understand how the oscillations relate to the directly observed quantities, such as intensities and spectra, and to derived quantities, such as Doppler velocity. Here I list some of

David M. South

The international study group on data preservation in high energy physics, DPHEP, achieved a milestone in 2012 with the publication of its eagerly anticipated large scale report, which contains a description of data preservation activities from all major high energy physics collider-based experiments and laboratories. DPHEP will evolve to a new collaboration

Indranil Chattopadhyay

Matter makes a transition from non-relativistic to relativistic regime, as it falls onto a black hole. We employ a relativistic equation of state, abbreviated as RC, to study multi-species fluid flow around black holes. We show that pair-plasma fluid around a black hole is thermally not relativistic. In order to make it relativistic, a finite baryon loading

Lars Olsen

We introduce multifractal pressure and dynamical multifractal zeta-functions providing precise information of a very general class of multifractal spectra, including, for example, the fine multifractal spectra of self-conformal measures and the fine multifractal spectra of ergodic Birkhoff averages of continuous functions.

Shobha Bagai, Chandrashekhar Nishad

The study investigates the problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free convection over a non-isothermal axisymmetric body under the action of transverse magnetic field. The body is embedded in a porous medium saturated with electrically conducting non-Newtonian power law fluid. In order to obtain similarity solution, it is assumed that the viscosity of the flu

Luigi Spinoglio, Kalliopi Dasyra, Alberto Franceschini, Carlotta Gruppioni

The main energy-generating mechanisms in galaxies are black hole (BH) accretion and star formation (SF) and the interplay of these processes is driving the evolution of galaxies. MIR/FIR spectroscopy are able to distinguish between BH accretion and SF, as it was shown in the past by infrared spectroscopy from the space by the Infrared Space Observatory and S

C. Kuckein, C. Denker, M. Verma

High-resolution spectra of a giant solar quiescent filament were taken with the Echelle spectrograph at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT; Tenerife, Spain). A mosaic of various spectroheliograms (Hα, Hα +/- 0.5Å and Na D2) were chosen to examine the filament at different heights in the solar atmosphere. In addition, full-disk images (He I 10830Å and Ca II K) o

C. Kuckein, R. Centeno, V. Martínez Pillet

Several scenarios explaining how filaments are formed can be found in literature. In this paper, we analyzed the observations of an active region filament and critically evaluated the observed properties in the context of current filament formation models. This study is based on multi-height spectropolarimetric observations. The inferred vector magnetic fiel

S. Fouladi, R. Orfi

It is shown that if G is a finite p-group of coclass 2 with p > 2, then G has a noninner automorphism of order p.

J. Bouvier, S. P. Matt, S. Mohanty, A. Scholz

This chapter aims at providing the most complete review of both the emerging concepts and the latest observational results regarding the angular momentum evolution of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. In the time since Protostars & Planets V, there have been major developments in the availability of rotation period measurements at multiple ages and in d

S. Piantelli, G. Casini, P. R. Maurenzig, A. Olmi

The odd-even staggering of the yield of final reaction products has been studied as a function of proton (Z) and neutron (N) numbers for the collisions 84 Kr+112 Sn and 84 Kr+124 Sn at 35 MeV/nucleon, in a wide range of elements (up to Z ~ 20). The experimental data show that staggering effects rapidly decrease with increasing size of the fragments. Moreover

Kaustubh Agashe, Oleg Antipin, Mihailo Backović, Aaron Effron

The framework of a warped extra dimension with the Standard Model (SM) fields propagating in it is a very well-motivated extension of the SM since it can address both the Planck-weak and flavor hierarchy problems of the SM. We consider signals at the 14 and 33 TeV large hadron collider (LHC) resulting from the direct production of the new particles in this f

Stefan Le Coz, Tai-Peng Tsai

We look for solutions to generic nonlinear Schrödinger equations build upon solitons and kinks. Solitons are localized solitary waves and kinks are their non localized counter-parts. We prove the existence of infinite soliton trains, i.e. solutions behaving at large time as the sum of infinitely many solitons. We also show that one can attach a kink at one e

Daniel Asenjo, Jacob D. Stevenson, David J. Wales, Daan Frenkel

We report a study of the basins of attraction for potential energy minima defined by different minimisation algorithms for an atomic system. We find that whereas some minimisation algorithms produce compact basins, others produce basins with complex boundaries or basins consisting of disconnected parts. Such basins deviate from the &#34;correct&#34; basin of