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SUSY Dark Matter In Light Of CDMS/XENON Limits
In this talk we briefly review the current CDMS/XENON constraints on the
neutralino dark matter in three popular supersymmetric models: the minimal
(MSSM), the next-to-minimal (NMSSM) and the nearly minimal (nMSSM). The
constraints from the dark matter relic density and various collider experiments
are also taken into account. The conclusion is that for each model the current
CDMS/XENON limits can readily exclude a large part of the parameter space
allowed by other constraints and the future SuperCDMS or XENON100 can cover
most of the allowed parameter space. The implication for the Higgs search at
the LHC is also discussed. It is found that in the currently allowed parameter
space the MSSM charged Higgs boson is quite unlikely to be discovered at the
LHC while the neutral Higgs bosons and may be accessible at the LHC in
the parameter space with a large parameter.Comment: talk given at 2nd International Workshop on Dark Matter, Dark Energy
and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, Nov 5-6, 2010, Hsinchu, Taiwan (to appear in
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Reliability of P mode event classification using contemporaneous BiSON and GOLF observations
We carried out a comparison of the signals seen in contemporaneous BiSON and
GOLF data sets. Both instruments perform Doppler shift velocity measurements in
integrated sunlight, although BiSON perform measurements from the two wings of
potassium absorption line and GOLF from one wing of the NaD1 line.
Discrepancies between the two datasets have been observed. We show,in fact,
that the relative power depends on the wing in which GOLF data observes. During
the blue wing period, the relative power is much higher than in BiSON datasets,
while a good agreement has been observed during the red period.Comment: 7 pages, HELAS II: Helioseismology, Asteroseismology, and MHD
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Potential role for clinical calibration to increase engagement with and application of home telemonitoring: a report from the HeartCycle programme
Aims: There is a need for alternative strategies that might avoid recurrent admissions in patients with heart failure. Home Telemonitoring (HTM) to monitor patientâs symptoms from a distance may be useful. This study attempts to assess changes in HTM vital signs in response to daily life activities (variations in medication, salt intake, exercise and stress) and to stablish which variations affect weight, blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR). Methods and results: We assessed 76 patients with heart failure (mean age 76 ± 10.8 years, 75% male, mainly in NYHA class II/III and from ischaemic etiology cause). Patients were given a calendar of interventions scheduling activities approximately twice-a-week before measuring their vital signs. Eating salty food or a large meal were the activities that had a significant impact on weight gain (+0.3 kg; p<0.001 and p=0.006, respectively). Exercise and skipping a dose of medication other than diuretics increased heart rate (+3 bpm, p=0.001 and almost +2 bpm, p=0.016, respectively). Conclusions: Our HTM system was able to detect small changes in vital signs related to these activities. Further studies should assess if providing such a schedule of activities might be useful for patient education and could improve long-term adherence to recommended lifestyle changes
Hyperquadratic power series in F3((Tâ1)) with partial quotients of degree 1
In this note, we describe a large family of nonquadratic continued fractions in the field F3((Tâ1)) of power series over the finite field F3. These continued fractions are remarkable for two reasons: first, they satisfy an algebraic equation with coefficients in F3[T] given explicitly, and, second, all the partial quotients in the expansion are polynomials of degree 1. In 1986, in a basic article in this area of research, Mills and Robbins (J. Number Theory 23:388â404, 1986) gave the first example of an element belonging to this family
Privacy-Preserving Trust Management Mechanisms from Private Matching Schemes
Cryptographic primitives are essential for constructing privacy-preserving
communication mechanisms. There are situations in which two parties that do not
know each other need to exchange sensitive information on the Internet. Trust
management mechanisms make use of digital credentials and certificates in order
to establish trust among these strangers. We address the problem of choosing
which credentials are exchanged. During this process, each party should learn
no information about the preferences of the other party other than strictly
required for trust establishment. We present a method to reach an agreement on
the credentials to be exchanged that preserves the privacy of the parties. Our
method is based on secure two-party computation protocols for set intersection.
Namely, it is constructed from private matching schemes.Comment: The material in this paper will be presented in part at the 8th DPM
International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM 2013
INTEGRAL timing and localization performance
In this letter we report on the accuracy of the attitude, misalignment, orbit
and time correlation which are used to perform scientific analyses of the
INTEGRAL data. The boresight attitude during science pointings has an accuracy
of 3 arcsec. At the center of the field, the misalignments have been calibrated
leading to a location accuracy of 4 to 40 arcsec for the different instruments.
The spacecraft position is known within 10 meters. The relative timing between
instruments could be reconstructed within 10 microsec and the absolute timing
within 40 microsec.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A+A letters, INTEGRAL
special issu
Transverse component of the magnetic field in the solar photosphere observed by Sunrise
We present the first observations of the transverse component of photospheric
magnetic field acquired by the imaging magnetograph Sunrise/IMaX. Using an
automated detection method, we obtain statistical properties of 4536 features
with significant linear polarization signal. Their rate of occurrence is 1-2
orders of magnitude larger than values reported by previous studies. We show
that these features have no characteristic size or lifetime. They appear
preferentially at granule boundaries with most of them being caught in downflow
lanes at some point in their evolution. Only a small percentage are entirely
and constantly embedded in upflows (16%) or downflows (8%).Comment: Accepted for the Sunrise Special Issue of ApJ
SUNRISE/IMaX observations of convectively driven vortex flows in the Sun
We characterize the observational properties of the convectively driven
vortex flows recently discovered on the quiet Sun, using magnetograms,
Dopplergrams and images obtained with the 1-m balloon-borne Sunrise telescope.
By visual inspection of time series, we find some 3.1e-3 vortices/(Mm^2 min),
which is a factor of 1.7 larger than previous estimates. The mean duration of
the individual events turns out to be 7.9 min, with a standard deviation of 3.2
min. In addition, we find several events appearing at the same locations along
the duration of the time series (31.6 min). Such recurrent vortices show up in
the proper motion flow field map averaged over the time series. The typical
vertical vorticities are <= 6e-3 1/sec, which corresponds to a period of
rotation of some 35 min. The vortices show a preferred counterclockwise sense
of rotation, which we conjecture may have to do with the preferred vorticity
impinged by the solar differential rotation.Comment: To appear in ApJL. 5 Figs, 4 pages. The two animations associated
with the work can be downloaded from
http://www.iac.es/proyecto/solarhr/imaxvortex.html References updated in V
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