Exploratory studies for the position-space approach to hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g−2g-2

The well-known discrepancy in the muon $g-2$ between experiment and theory demands further theory investigations in view of the upcoming new experiments. One of the leading uncertainties lies in the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution (HLbL), that we address with our position-space approach. We focus on exploratory studies of the pion-pole contribution in a simple model and the fermion loop without gluon exchanges in the continuum and in infinite volume. These studies provide us with useful information for our planned computation of HLbL in the muon $g-2$ using full QCD.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, Lattice 2017 proceedings, Granada, Spai

"Some of us need to be taken care of": young adults' perspectives on support and help in drug reducing interventions in coercive contexts in Denmark and the UK

This paper provides an account of young people’s experiences of and perspectives on help and support in drug reducing interventions. It is based on interviews with young people age 14–25 who were in contact with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and, at the same time, participated in a drug reducing intervention. The interview data forms part of the EU funded EPPIC project. Two main themes emerged from the young peoples’ accounts that cut across different types of interventions and social systems in both countries. The first revolves around the ‘system’ of welfare, criminal justice, health and educational services and the barriers young people encountered in navigating the system to find help. The second revolves around the young people’s experiences with professionals, including what they appreciated and what they found problematic in professionals’ approach to them. Basing our analysis on data from two different countries, we are able to emphasize similarities in the young peoples’ perspectives, despite being enrolled in different drug reducing and CJS interventions. The insights gained indicate a need for systems and service changes that can facilitate a better balance between building individual resilience and providing appropriate, timely and adequate support within a ‘resilience-building environmen

Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_\mu$ is one of two hadronic effects limiting the precision of the Standard Model prediction for this precision observable, and hence the new-physics discovery potential of direct experimental determinations of $a_\mu$. In this contribution, we report on recent progress in the calculation of this effect achieved both via dispersive and lattice QCD methods.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; submitted as proceedings contribution for the 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physic

A Lindley-type equation arising from a carousel problem

Abstract: In this paper we consider a system with two carousels operated by one picker. The items to be picked are randomly located on the carousels and the pick times follow a phasetype distribution. The picker alternates between the two carousels, picking one item at a time. Important performance characteristics are the waiting time of the picker and the throughput of the two carousels. The waiting time of the picker satisfies an equation very similar to Lindley’s equation for the waiting time in the P H/U/1 queue. Although the latter equation has no simple solution, it appears that the one for the waiting time of the picker can be solved explicitly. Furthermore, it is well known that the mean waiting time in the P H/U/1 queue depends on to the complete inter-arrival time distribution, but numerical results show that, for the carousel system, the mean waiting time and throughput are rather insensitive to the pick-time distribution

Chloroplast DNA characters, phylogeny, and classification of Lathyrus (Fabaceae)

Mapped cpDNA restriction site characters were analyzed cladistically and the resulting phylogenetic hypotheses were used to test monophyly and relationships of the infrageneric classification of Lathyrus (Fabaceae) proposed by Kupicha (1983, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 41: 209–244). The validity of previously proposed classification systems and questions presented by these classification schemes were explored. Two cpDNA regions, rpoC (rpoC1, its intron, part of rpoC2, and their intergenic spacer) and IR- (psbA, trnH-GUG, part of ndhF, and their intergenic spacers), were analyzed for 42 Lathyrus and two Vicia species. PCR (polymerase chain reaction) amplified rpoC and IR- products digested with 31 and 27 restriction endonucleases, respectively, resulted in 109 potentially informative characters. The strict consensus tree suggests that several of Kupicha’s sections may be combined in order to constitute clades. The widespread section Orobus and the South American section Notolathyrus should be combined. Section Lathyrus, characterized by a twisted style, should either include sections Orobon and Orobastrum or be redefined as three sections, one of which is characterized by a 100 base pair deletion in the IR- region. Finally, a weighted parsimony analysis positions sections Clymenum (excluding L. gloeospermus) and Nissolia, both with phyllodic leaves, as sister sections. The affiliation of Lathyrus gloeospermus (section Clymenum) remains problematic.Chloroplast DNA characters, phylogeny, and classification of Lathyrus (Fabaceae) Published version can be found at American Journal of Botany: http://www.amjbot.org/content/vol85/issue3/Keywords: inverted repeat, Lathyrus, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Fabaceae, molecular phylogeny, classification, mapped restriction site polymorphism, rpoCKeywords: inverted repeat, Lathyrus, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Fabaceae, molecular phylogeny, classification, mapped restriction site polymorphism, rpo

Measurement-Adaptive Cellular Random Access Protocols

This work considers a single-cell random access channel (RACH) in cellular wireless networks. Communications over RACH take place when users try to connect to a base station during a handover or when establishing a new connection. Within the framework of Self-Organizing Networks (SONs), the system should self- adapt to dynamically changing environments (channel fading, mobility, etc.) without human intervention. For the performance improvement of the RACH procedure, we aim here at maximizing throughput or alternatively minimizing the user dropping rate. In the context of SON, we propose protocols which exploit information from measurements and user reports in order to estimate current values of the system unknowns and broadcast global action-related values to all users. The protocols suggest an optimal pair of user actions (transmission power and back-off probability) found by minimizing the drift of a certain function. Numerical results illustrate considerable benefits of the dropping rate, at a very low or even zero cost in power expenditure and delay, as well as the fast adaptability of the protocols to environment changes. Although the proposed protocol is designed to minimize primarily the amount of discarded users per cell, our framework allows for other variations (power or delay minimization) as well.Comment: 31 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. Springer Wireless Networks 201

Explodierende Staatsschulden, drohende Staatsbankrotte: Was kommt auf uns zu?

Seit Ausbruch der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ist weltweit ein enormer Anstieg staatlicher Defizite und Schuldenstände zu beobachten. Was bedeutet die Entwicklung für die Europäische Währungsunion? Charles B. Blankart und Erik R. Fasten, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, finden es wünschenswert, »vom Nichtauslösungsartikel auszugehen und diesen mit einem Verfahren wie dem des Eurostabilitätspaktes zu verbinden. Die Mitgliedstaaten sagen Hilfe zur Restrukturierung zu. Aber wenn dies alles nichts fruchtet, so steht am Ende … nicht die Auslösung, sondern der Staatsbankrott«. Jörn Axel Kämmerer und Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Bucerius Law School, Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft, Hamburg, sehen die Europäische Union vor einem äußerst schmalen Grat. Die EU dürfe das Bail-out-Verbot nicht zum Schaden des Euro in einer Weise aufweichen, dass »die Ausnahme zur Regel« werde. Aber sie könne auch nicht untätig bleiben. Jörg Asmussen, Bundesministerium der Finanzen, unterstreicht, dass sich der Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt als fiskalpolitisches Koordinierungsinstrument bewährt habe. Auf der anderen Seite werden jetzt die Regeln wieder restriktiver angewandt. Dies bedeute, dass alle Mitgliedstaaten ihre Haushalts- und/oder Strukturprobleme aus eigener Kraft in den Griff bekommen müssen. Für Christian Tietje, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, bleibt es zunächst immer bei der Selbstverantwortung der Staaten der Eurogruppe für ihre Wirtschaftspolitik, finanzielle Solidaritätsmaßnahmen müssen die Ultima Ratio im Euroraum bleiben. Michael Kühl und Renate Ohr, Universität Göttingen, sind der Meinung, dass hochverschuldete Länder, wie z.B. Griechenland, selbst einen Weg finden müssen, ihre Staatsfinanzen zu konsolidieren

Large deviations for a damped telegraph process

In this paper we consider a slight generalization of the damped telegraph process in Di Crescenzo and Martinucci (2010). We prove a large deviation principle for this process and an asymptotic result for its level crossing probabilities (as the level goes to infinity). Finally we compare our results with the analogous well-known results for the standard telegraph process