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Shock induced boundary layer over a semi-infinite flat plate. Part 1: Flow in the immediate vicinity of the shock wave
Laminar, two dimensional boundary layer generated in immediate vicinity of plane shock wave moving over flat plate into gas initially at res
The utilization of pentoses by yeasts and the composition of plant gums
Publication authorized March 6, 1926."Part of a thesis presented to the Graduate School of the University of Missouri in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"--P. [3].Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-29)
Emerging physical unclonable functions with nanotechnology
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are increasingly used for authentication and identification applications as well as the cryptographic key generation. An important feature of a PUF is the reliance on minute random variations in the fabricated hardware to derive a trusted random key. Currently, most PUF designs focus on exploiting process variations intrinsic to the CMOS technology. In recent years, progress in emerging nanoelectronic devices has demonstrated an increase in variation as a consequence of scaling down to the nanoregion. To date, emerging PUFs with nanotechnology have not been fully established, but they are expected to emerge. Initial research in this area aims to provide security primitives for emerging integrated circuits with nanotechnology. In this paper, we review emerging nanotechnology-based PUFs
dc readout experiment at the Caltech 40m prototype interferometer
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) operates a 40m prototype interferometer on the Caltech campus. The primary mission of the prototype is to serve as an experimental testbed for upgrades to the LIGO interferometers and for gaining experience with advanced interferometric techniques, including detuned resonant sideband extraction (i.e. signal recycling) and dc readout (optical homodyne detection). The former technique will be employed in Advanced LIGO, and the latter in both Enhanced and Advanced LIGO. Using dc readout for gravitational wave signal extraction has several technical advantages, including reduced laser and oscillator noise couplings as well as reduced shot noise, when compared to the traditional rf readout technique (optical heterodyne detection) currently in use in large-scale ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors. The Caltech 40m laboratory is currently prototyping a dc readout system for a fully suspended interferometric gravitational wave detector. The system includes an optical filter cavity at the interferometer's output port, and the associated controls and optics to ensure that the filter cavity is optimally coupled to the interferometer. We present the results of measurements to characterize noise couplings in rf and dc readout using this system
Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron star merger GW170817
The binary neutron star merger GW170817 was accompanied by radiation across
the electromagnetic spectrum and localized to the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance
of 41+/-3 Mpc. The radio and X-ray afterglows of GW170817 exhibited delayed
onset, a gradual rise in the emission with time as t^0.8, a peak at about 150
days post-merger, followed by a relatively rapid decline. To date, various
models have been proposed to explain the afterglow emission, including a
choked-jet cocoon and a successful-jet cocoon (a.k.a. structured jet). However,
the observational data have remained inconclusive as to whether GW170817
launched a successful relativistic jet. Here we show, through Very Long
Baseline Interferometry, that the compact radio source associated with GW170817
exhibits superluminal motion between two epochs at 75 and 230 days post-merger.
This measurement breaks the degeneracy between the models and indicates that,
while the early-time radio emission was powered by a wider-angle outflow
(cocoon), the late-time emission was most likely dominated by an energetic and
narrowly-collimated jet, with an opening angle of <5 degrees, and observed from
a viewing angle of about 20 degrees. The imaging of a collimated relativistic
outflow emerging from GW170817 adds substantial weight to the growing evidence
linking binary neutron star mergers and short gamma-ray bursts.Comment: 42 pages, 4 figures (main text), 2 figures (supplementary text), 2
tables. Referee and editor comments incorporate
Signals for Vector Leptoquarks in Hadronic Collisions
We analyze systematically the signatures of vector leptoquarks in hadronic
collisions. We examine their single and pair productions, as well as their
effects on the production of lepton pairs. Our results indicate that a machine
like the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be able to unravel the existence
of vector leptoquarks with masses up to the range of -- TeV.Comment: 15 pages and 5 figures (available upon request or through anonymous
ftp), revtex3, IFUSP-P 108
Comparison of Strangeness Production between A+A and p+p Reactions from 2 to 160 AGeV
The measured K ratios from heavy-ion reactions are compared with
the K ratios from p+p reactions over the energy range 2-160 AGeV. The
K/ enhancement in heavy-ion reactions is largest at the lower energies,
consistent with strangeness production in secondary scattering becoming
relatively more important than initial collisions near the kaon production
threshold. The enhancement decreases steadily from 4 to 160 AGeV, suggesting
that the same enhancement mechanism of hadronic rescattering and decay of
strings may be applicable over this full energy range. Based on existing data,
the mid-rapidity K ratio is predicted to be for the
forthcoming Pb+Pb reactions at 40 AGeV/c.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Random Walks for Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity
Random walk methods are used to calculate the moments of negative image
equilibrium distributions in synaptic weight dynamics governed by spike-timing
dependent plasticity (STDP). The neural architecture of the model is based on
the electrosensory lateral line lobe (ELL) of mormyrid electric fish, which
forms a negative image of the reafferent signal from the fish's own electric
discharge to optimize detection of sensory electric fields. Of particular
behavioral importance to the fish is the variance of the equilibrium
postsynaptic potential in the presence of noise, which is determined by the
variance of the equilibrium weight distribution. Recurrence relations are
derived for the moments of the equilibrium weight distribution, for arbitrary
postsynaptic potential functions and arbitrary learning rules. For the case of
homogeneous network parameters, explicit closed form solutions are developed
for the covariances of the synaptic weight and postsynaptic potential
distributions.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 15 subfigures; uses revtex4, subfigure, amsmat
A New and Elementary CP^n Dyonic Magnon
We show that the dressing transformation method produces a new type of dyonic
CP^n magnon in terms of which all the other known solutions are either
composites or arise as special limits. In particular, this includes the
embedding of Dorey's dyonic magnon via an RP^3 subspace of CP^n. We also show
how to generate Dorey's dyonic magnon directly in the S^n sigma model via the
dressing method without resorting to the isomorphism with the SU(2) principle
chiral model when n=3. The new dyon is shown to be either a charged dyon or
topological kink of the related symmetric-space sine-Gordon theories associated
to CP^n and in this sense is a direct generalization of the soliton of the
complex sine-Gordon theory.Comment: 21 pages, JHEP3, typos correcte
On contribution of three-body forces to interaction at intermediate energies
Available data on large-angle nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering
below the pion threshold give a signal for three-body forces. There is a
problem of separation of possible subtle aspects of these forces from off-shell
effects in two-nucleon potentials.
By considering the main mechanisms of the process, we show qualitatively that
in the quasi-binary reaction with the final spin singlet
NN-pair in the S-state the relative contribution of the 3N forces differs
substantially from the elastic channel.
It gives a new testing ground for the problem in question.Comment: 9 pages, Latex, 3 Postscript figure
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