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UHECR narrow clustering correlating IceCube through-going muons
The recent UHECR events by AUGER and the Telescope Array (TA) suggested that
wide clusterings as the North and South, named Hot Spot, are related to near
AGNs such as the one in M82 and Cen A. In the same frame since 2008 we assumed
that the UHECR are made by light and lightest nuclei to explain the otherwise
embarrassing absence of the huge nearby Virgo cluster, absence due to the
fragility and the opacity of lightest nuclei by photo-dissociation from Virgo
distances. Moreover UHECR map exhibits a few narrow clustering, some near the
galactic plane, as toward SS 433 and on the opposite side of the plane at
celestial horizons: we tagged them in 2014 suggesting possible near source
active also as a UHE neutrino. Indeed since last year, 2015, highest IceCube
trough-going muons, UHE up-going neutrino events at hundreds TeV energy, did
show (by two cases over three tagged in North sky) the expected overlapping of
UHE neutrinos signals with narrow crowding UHECR. New data with higher energy
threshold somehow re-confirmed our preliminary proposal; new possible sources
appear by a additional correlated UHE-neutrino versus UHE-neutrino and-or with
narrow UHECR clustering events. A possible role of relic neutrino mass
scattering by ZeV neutrino arised.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Scale-setting, flavour dependence and chiral symmetry restoration
We determine the flavour dependence of the renormalisation-group-invariant
running interaction through judicious use of both unquenched Dyson-Schwinger
equation and lattice results for QCD's gauge-sector two-point functions. An
important step is the introduction of a physical scale setting procedure that
enables a realistic expression of the effect of different numbers of active
quark flavours on the interaction. Using this running interaction in concert
with a well constrained class of dressed--gluon-quark vertices, we estimate the
critical number of active lighter-quarks above which dynamical chiral symmetry
breaking becomes impossible: ; and hence in whose
neighbourhood QCD is plausibly a conformal theory.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 table
Group field theory with non-commutative metric variables
We introduce a dual formulation of group field theories, making them a type
of non-commutative field theories. In this formulation, the variables of the
field are Lie algebra variables with a clear interpretation in terms of
simplicial geometry. For Ooguri-type models, the Feynman amplitudes are
simplicial path integrals for BF theories. This formulation suggests ways to
impose the simplicity constraints involved in BF formulations of 4d gravity
directly at the level of the group field theory action. We illustrate this by
giving a new GFT definition of the Barrett-Crane model.Comment: 4 pages; v3 published versio
Graph-based task libraries for robots: generalization and autocompletion
In this paper, we consider an autonomous robot that persists
over time performing tasks and the problem of providing one additional
task to the robot's task library. We present an approach to generalize
tasks, represented as parameterized graphs with sequences, conditionals,
and looping constructs of sensing and actuation primitives. Our approach
performs graph-structure task generalization, while maintaining task ex-
ecutability and parameter value distributions. We present an algorithm
that, given the initial steps of a new task, proposes an autocompletion
based on a recognized past similar task. Our generalization and auto-
completion contributions are eective on dierent real robots. We show
concrete examples of the robot primitives and task graphs, as well as
results, with Baxter. In experiments with multiple tasks, we show a sig-
nicant reduction in the number of new task steps to be provided
Foreseeing Neutrino spectra in Deep Core
Atmospheric muon neutrino in Deep Core (whose rate and spectra might be soon
available) should exhibit a suppression (due to tens GeV up-going muon neutrino
converted into tau flavor) that must be imprinted in out-coming rate spectra.
We estimate here our independent muon neutrino spectra based on SK and its
projected record on Deep Core Channels. Our estimate (based on cosmic rays,
muon records and tested Super-Kamiokande (SK) data) differs both in shape and
in rate from other previous published spectra. The expected rate might exhibit
a minimum near channel 6 of Deep Core strings and it should manifest strong
signature for flavor mixing (mostly between channel 4--15)and a relevant
anomaly for eventual CPT violation (MINOS like) written at channel 3--6,whose
statistical weight (mainly at channel 5) might soon confirm or dismiss MINOS
CPT claim. At the flux minimum around channel 6, (a flux suppressed respect the
non oscillated case at least by an order of magnitude) the atmospheric neutrino
paucity offers a better windows to a twenty GeV Neutrino Astronomy. Therefore
by doubling the string array we may foresee a richer rate and a more complete
(zenith and azimuth) atmospheric neutrino distribution and an exciting first
twenty GeV Astronomy.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
A revisitation of the 1888 H.Hertz experiment
We propose a revisitation of the original experiment performed by H. Hertz in
1888. With a simple setup it is possible to produce electromagnetic waves with
a frequency in the range of 3 MHz. By performing Fourier analysis of the signal
captured by a resonant antenna it is possible to study the behaviour of the RLC
series circuit, frequency splitting of coupled resonances and finally the
characteristics of the near-field emitted by the loop antenna
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