Charge Asymmetries in Semileptonic B Decays

I present measurements made by the D0 collaboration of the time-integrated flavor-specific semileptonic charge asymmetry in the decays of the Bs and Bd mesons that have undergone flavor mixing, asls and asld, using 10.4 fb^-1 of proton-antiproton collisions collected by the D0 detector during Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The results are asls = [-1.12 \pm 0.74 (stat) \pm 0.17 (syst) ]% and asld = [0.68 \pm 0.45 (stat.) \pm 0.14 (syst.)]% which are the two most precise published results and are in agreement with standard model predictions. These results are combined with the like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry, aslb, and recent preliminary results from the LHCb and BaBar experiments to obtain new world averages.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Proc. 14th Int. Conf. on B-Physics at Hadron Machines (Beauty 2013), Bologna, Italy, April 8-12, 201

Jet Physics at the Tevatron

Results are presented from analyses of jet data produced in pbarp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1960 GeV collected with the DZero and CDF detectors during 2002--03 at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Preliminary measurements of the inclusive jet cross section, the dijet mass spectrum, and jet structure are presented.Comment: Invited talk at the XXIII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC03), Zeuthen, Germany, June 2003, 10 pages, LaTeX, 18 eps figures. SAAT0

Augmented Mitotic Cell Count using Field Of Interest Proposal

Histopathological prognostication of neoplasia including most tumor grading systems are based upon a number of criteria. Probably the most important is the number of mitotic figures which are most commonly determined as the mitotic count (MC), i.e. number of mitotic figures within 10 consecutive high power fields. Often the area with the highest mitotic activity is to be selected for the MC. However, since mitotic activity is not known in advance, an arbitrary choice of this region is considered one important cause for high variability in the prognostication and grading. In this work, we present an algorithmic approach that first calculates a mitotic cell map based upon a deep convolutional network. This map is in a second step used to construct a mitotic activity estimate. Lastly, we select the image segment representing the size of ten high power fields with the overall highest mitotic activity as a region proposal for an expert MC determination. We evaluate the approach using a dataset of 32 completely annotated whole slide images, where 22 were used for training of the network and 10 for test. We find a correlation of r=0.936 in mitotic count estimate.Comment: 6 pages, submitted to BVM 2019 (bvm-workshop.org

Engineering prediction of turbulent skin friction and heat transfer in high-speed flow

A large collection of experimental turbulent-skin-friction and heat-transfer data for flat plates and cones was used to determine the most accurate of six of the most popular engineering-prediction methods; the data represent a Mach number range from 4 to 13 and ratio of wall to total temperature ranging from 0.1 to 0.7. The Spalding and Chi method incorporating virtual-origin concepts was found to be the best prediction method for Mach numbers less than 10; the limited experimental data for Mach numbers greater than 10 were not well predicted by any of the engineering methods except the Coles method

Is there a Jordan geometry underlying quantum physics?

There have been several propositions for a geometric and essentially non-linear formulation of quantum mechanics. From a purely mathematical point of view, the point of view of Jordan algebra theory might give new strength to such approaches: there is a ``Jordan geometry'' belonging to the Jordan part of the algebra of observables, in the same way as Lie groups belong to the Lie part. Both the Lie geometry and the Jordan geometry are well-adapted to describe certain features of quantum theory. We concentrate here on the mathematical description of the Jordan geometry and raise some questions concerning possible relations with foundational issues of quantum theory.Comment: 30 page

Comment on "Correlation between Compact Radio Lout Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays"

In a recent paper, Farrar and Biermann argue that there is a strong correlation between the direction of the five highest-energy cosmic-ray events and compact, radio-loud quasars. This Comment shows that this analysis contains several inconsistencies and errors so that the significance of any such correlation is certainly greatly overestimated and perhaps nonexistent.Comment: 2 pages, REVTE