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Spin effects in the fragmentation of transversely polarized and unpolarized quarks
We study the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark into a non
collinear (k_T not= 0) spinless hadron and the fragmentation of an unpolarized
quark into a non collinear transversely polarized spin 1/2 baryon. These
nonperturbative properties are described by spin and k_T dependent
fragmentation functions and are revealed in the observation of single spin
asymmetries. Recent data on the production of pions in polarized semi-inclusive
DIS and long known data on Lambda polarization in unpolarized p-N processes are
considered: these new fragmentation functions can describe the experimental
results and the single spin effects in the quark fragmentation turn out to be
surprisingly large.Comment: 5 pages + 2 eps figures, uses aipproc.sty and epsfig.sty. Talk
delivered by M. Anselmino at the "14th International Spin Physics Symposium",
SPIN2000, October 16-21, 2000, Osaka, Japa
Transverse Lambda polarization in unpolarized semi-inclusive DIS
The long-standing problem of transverse Lambda polarization in high-energy
collisions of unpolarized hadrons can be tackled by considering new, spin and
k_T-dependent quark fragmentation functions for an unpolarized quark into a
polarized, spin-1/2 hadron. Simple phenomenological parameterizations of these
new "polarizing fragmentation functions", which describe quite well the
experimental data on Lambda and Lambda-bar hyperons produced in p-A processes,
are utilized and extended here to give predictions for transverse Lambda
polarization in semi-inclusive DISComment: LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 ps figures, uses sprocl.sty and epsfig.sty; Talk
delivered by F. Murgia at the IX International Workshop on Deep Inelastic
Scattering (DIS2001), Bologna, 27 April - 1 May 200
3D Point Cloud Reconstruction from Single Plenoptic Image
Novel plenoptic cameras sample the light field crossing the main camera lens. The information available in a plenoptic image must be processed, in order to create the depth map of the scene from a single camera shot. In this paper a novel algorithm, for the reconstruction of 3D point cloud of the scene from a single plenoptic image, taken with a consumer plenoptic camera, is proposed. Experimental analysis is conducted on several test images, and results are compared with state of the art methodologies. The results are very promising, as the quality of the 3D point cloud from plenoptic image, is comparable with the quality obtained with current non-plenoptic methodologies, that necessitate more than one image
Structure of the magnetoionic medium around the FR Class I radio galaxy 3C 449
The goal of this work is to constrain the strength and structure of the
magnetic field associated with the environment of the radio source 3C 449,
using observations of Faraday rotation, which we model with a structure
function technique and by comparison with numerical simulations. We assume that
the magnetic field is a Gaussian, isotropic random variable and that it is
embedded in the hot intra-group plasma surrounding the radio source. For this
purpose, we present detailed rotation measure images for the polarized radio
source 3C 449, previously observed with the Very Large Array at seven
frequencies between 1.365 and 8.385 GHz. We quantify the statistics of the
magnetic-field fluctuations by deriving rotation measure structure functions,
which we fit using models derived from theoretical power spectra. We quantify
the errors due to sampling by making multiple two-dimensional realizations of
the best-fitting power spectrum.We also use depolarization measurements to
estimate the minimum scale of the field variations. We then make
three-dimensional models with a gas density distribution derived from X-ray
observations and a random magnetic field with this power spectrum. Under these
assumptions we find that both rotation measure and depolarization data are
consistent with a broken power-law magnetic-field power spectrum, with a break
at about 11 kpc and slopes of 2.98 and 2.07 at smaller and larger scales
respectively. The maximum and minimum scales of the fluctuations are around 65
and 0.2 kpc, respectively. The average magnetic field strength at the cluster
centre is 3.5 +/-1.2 micro-G, decreasing linearly with the gas density within
about 16 kpc of the nucleus.Comment: 19 pages; 14 figures; accepted for publication on A&A. For a high
quality version use ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/general/guidetti
Lambda polarization in unpolarized hadron reactions
The transverse polarization observed in the inclusive production of Lambda
hyperons in the high energy collisions of unpolarized hadrons is tackled by
considering a new set of spin and kT dependent quark fragmentation functions.
Simple phenomenological expressions for these new ``polarizing fragmentation
functions'' are obtained by a fit of the data on Lambda's and Lambdabar's
produced in p-N processes.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, uses epsfig.sty. Talk delivered by U. D'Alesio at
the International Workshop "Symmetries and Spin, Praha-Spin-2000", July
17-22, 2000, Pragu
Magnetic Fields and Faraday Rotation in Clusters of Galaxies
We present a numerical approach to investigate the relationship between
magnetic fields and Faraday rotation effects in clusters of galaxies. We can
infer the structure and strength of intra-cluster magnetic fields by comparing
our simulations with the observed polarization properties of extended cluster
radio sources such as radio galaxies and halos. We find the observations
require a magnetic field which fluctuates over a wide range of spatial scales
(at least one order of magnitude). If several polarized radio sources are
located at different projected positions in a galaxy cluster, as is the case
for A119, detailed Faraday rotation images allow us to constrain both the
magnetic field strength and the slope of the power spectrum. Our results show
that the standard analytic expressions applied in the literature overestimate
the cluster magnetic field strengths by a factor of about 2. We investigate the
possible effects of our models on beam depolarization of radio sources whose
radiation traverses the magnetized intracluster medium. Finally, we point out
that radio halos may provide important information about the spatial power
spectrum of the magnetic field fluctuations on large scales. In particular,
different values of the index of the power spectrum produce very different
total intensity and polarization brightness distributions.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&
A shrinking Compact Symmetric Object: J11584+2450?
We present multi-frequency multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
observations of J11584+2450. These observations clearly show this source,
previously classified as a core-jet, to be a compact symmetric object (CSO).
Comparisons between these new data and data taken over the last 9 years shows
the edge brightened hot spots retreating towards the core (and slightly to the
west) at approximately 0.3c. Whether this motion is strictly apparent or
actually physical in nature is discussed, as well as possible explanations, and
what implications a physical contraction of J11584+2450 would have for current
CSO models.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in Ap
Citation prediction by leveraging transformers and natural language processing heuristics
In scientific papers, it is common practice to cite other articles to substantiate claims, provide evidence for factual assertions, reference limitations, and research gaps, and fulfill various other purposes. When authors include a citation in a given sentence, there are two considerations they need to take into account: (i) where in the sentence to place the citation and (ii) which citation to choose to support the underlying claim. In this paper, we focus on the first task as it allows multiple potential approaches that rely on the researcher's individual style and the specific norms and conventions of the relevant scientific community. We propose two automatic methodologies that leverage transformers architecture for either solving a Mask-Filling problem or a Named Entity Recognition problem. On top of the results of the proposed methodologies, we apply ad-hoc Natural Language Processing heuristics to further improve their outcome. We also introduce s2orc-9K, an open dataset for fine-tuning models on this task. A formal evaluation demonstrates that the generative approach significantly outperforms five alternative methods when fine-tuned on the novel dataset. Furthermore, this model's results show no statistically significant deviation from the outputs of three senior researchers
Young but fading radio sources: searching for remnants among compact steep-spectrum radio sources
The incidence of young but fading radio sources provides important
information on the life cycle of radio emission in radio-loud active galactic
nuclei. Despite its importance for constraining the models of radio source
evolution, there are no systematic studies of remnants in complete samples of
young radio sources. We report results on the study of 18 compact
steep-spectrum (CSS) radio sources, selected from the statistically complete
B3-VLA CSS sample, characterized by a steep optically-thin spectrum (alpha >
1.0) and no core detection in earlier studies. Our deep multi-frequency Very
Large Array (VLA), pc-scale Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), and eMERLIN
observations allowed us to locate the core component in 10 objects. In 3 CSS
sources there is no clear evidence of present-time active regions, suggesting
they are likely in a remnant phase. Among sources with core detection, we find
3 objects that have no clear active regions (hotspots) at the edges of the
radio structure, suggesting that the radio emission may have just restarted.
Our results support a power-law distribution of the source ages, although the
poor statistics prevents us from setting solid constraints on the percentage of
remnants and restarted sources in sub-populations of radio sources.Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRA
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