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MicroRadarNet: a network of integrated high-resolution weather micro radars to service tracking and forecasting of local precipitation patterns
Studi Sebaran Parameter Fisika Kimia Di Perairan Porong Kabupaten Sidoarjo
Perairan Muara Sungai Porong Kabupaten Sidoarjo merupakan daerah yang di sekitarnya masih banyak terdapat pemukiman, pertambakan atau perikanan budidaya. Pembuangan limbah dan lumpur ke Sungai Porong semakin memperparah beban Sungai Porong dari polutan yang berakibat air menjadi keruh, sedimentasi lumpur dan kualitas air di wilayah tersebut menurun tajam. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui sebaran konsentrasi parameter kualitas air yang meliputi suhu, kekeruhan, salinitas, pH dan DO di Perairan Porong, Kab. Sidoarjo. Metode penelitian yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif, yang diterapkan pada 12 titik stasiun. Pengambilan sampel dilaksanakan pada tanggal 18 Desember 2013. Data yang dikumpulkan sebagai variabel ukur adalah suhu, kekeruhan, salinitas, pH, DO dan kecepatan serta arah arus. Variabel pendukung meliputi data arah dan kecepatan arus dan peta bathimetri wilayah Perairan Porong. Data yang diperoleh selanjutnya dianalisis menggunakan program arc GIS 10, sehingga menghasilkan output berupa distribusi spasial. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa untuk parameter suhu mempunyai nilai sebaran berkisar 22-22,9 â°C. Parameter konsentrasi kekeruhan memiliki nilai sebaran berkisar 3,6-20,5 NTU, salinitas memiliki nilai sebaran berkisar 20-20,9 ppm, pH memiliki nilai sebaran berkisar 7-7,91 dan DO memiliki nilai sebaran 5-6,1 mg/l. Sebaran parameter fisika kimia perairan adalah menuju ke laut dengan arah ke Timur, dengan nilai konsentrasi yang berbeda antara satu parameter dengan parameter lainnya. Sebaran antar stasiun untuk konsentrasi DO semakin menjauhi muara memiliki nilai yang relatif tinggi, sedangkan sebaran antar stasiun untuk konsentrasi kekeruhan semakin menjauhi muara memiliki nilai konsentrasi yang menurun. Pola sebaran konsentrasi parameter suhu, salinitas, dan pH pada lokasi stasiun penelitian relatif sama
N=2 supersymmetric AdS_4 solutions of M-theory
We analyse the most general N=2 supersymmetric solutions of D=11 supergravity
consisting of a warped product of four-dimensional anti-de-Sitter space with a
seven-dimensional Riemannian manifold Y_7. We show that the necessary and
sufficient conditions for supersymmetry can be phrased in terms of a local
SU(2)-structure on Y_7. Solutions with non-zero M2-brane charge also admit a
canonical contact structure, in terms of which many physical quantities can be
expressed, including the free energy and the scaling dimensions of operators
dual to supersymmetric wrapped M5-branes. We show that a special class of
solutions is singled out by imposing an additional symmetry, for which the
problem reduces to solving a second order non-linear ODE. As well as recovering
a known class of solutions, that includes the IR fixed point of a mass
deformation of the ABJM theory, we also find new solutions which are dual to
cubic deformations. In particular, we find a new supersymmetric warped AdS_4 x
S^7 solution with non-trivial four-form flux.Comment: 50 pages, 2 figures; v2: typos fixed, some intermediate formulas
added to improve clarity, references adde
Four-Dimensional SCFTs from M5-Branes
We engineer a large new set of four-dimensional N=1 superconformal field
theories by wrapping M5-branes on complex curves. We present new supersymmetric
AdS_5 M-theory backgrounds which describe these fixed points at large N, and
then directly construct the dual four-dimensional CFTs for a certain subset of
these solutions. Additionally, we provide a direct check of the central charges
of these theories by using the M5-brane anomaly polynomial. This is a companion
paper which elaborates upon results reported in arXiv:1112:5487.Comment: 45 pages, 11 figure
Flavor of quiver-like realizations of effective supersymmetry
We present a class of supersymmetric models which address the flavor puzzle
and have an inverted hierarchy of sfermions. Their construction involves
quiver-like models with link fields in generic representations. The magnitude
of Standard-Model parameters is obtained naturally and a relatively heavy Higgs
boson is allowed without fine tuning. Collider signatures of such models are
possibly within the reach of LHC in the near future.Comment: LaTeX, 17 pages, 3 figures. V2: reference adde
Soft branes in supersymmetry-breaking backgrounds
We revisit the analysis of effective field theories resulting from
non-supersymmetric perturbations to supersymmetric flux compactifications of
the type-IIB superstring with an eye towards those resulting from the
backreaction of a small number of anti-D3-branes. Independently of the
background, we show that the low-energy Lagrangian describing the fluctuations
of a stack of probe D3-branes exhibits soft supersymmetry breaking, despite
perturbations to marginal operators that were not fully considered in some
previous treatments. We take this as an indication that the breaking of
supersymmetry by anti-D3-branes or other sources may be spontaneous rather than
explicit. In support of this, we consider the action of an anti-D3-brane
probing an otherwise supersymmetric configuration and identify a candidate for
the corresponding goldstino.Comment: 36+5 pages. References added, minor typos correcte
A Hybrid Higgs
We construct composite Higgs models admitting a weakly coupled Seiberg dual
description. We focus on the possibility that only the up-type Higgs is an
elementary field, while the down-type Higgs arises as a composite hadron. The
model, based on a confining SQCD theory, breaks supersymmetry and electroweak
symmetry dynamically and calculably. This simultaneously solves the \mu/B_\mu
problem and explains the smallness of the bottom and tau masses compared to the
top mass. The proposal is then applied to a class of models where the same
confining dynamics is used to generate the Standard Model flavor hierarchy by
quark and lepton compositeness. This provides a unified framework for flavor,
supersymmetry breaking and electroweak physics. The weakly coupled dual is used
to explicitly compute the MSSM parameters in terms of a few microscopic
couplings, giving interesting relations between the electroweak and soft
parameters. The RG evolution down to the TeV scale is obtained and salient
phenomenological predictions of this class of "single-sector" models are
discussed.Comment: 56 pages, 7 figures, v2: discussion on FCNCs and references added,
v3: JHEP versio
Flavour in supersymmetry: horizontal symmetries or wave function renormalisation
We compare theoretical and experimental predictions of two main classes of
models addressing fermion mass hierarchies and flavour changing neutral
currents (FCNC) effects in supersymmetry: Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) U(1) gauged
flavour models and Nelson-Strassler/extra dimensional models with hierarchical
wave functions for the families. We show that whereas the two lead to identical
predictions in the fermion mass matrices, the second class generates a stronger
suppression of FCNC effects. We prove that, whereas at first sight the FN setup
is more constrained due to anomaly cancelation conditions, imposing unification
of gauge couplings in the second setup generates conditions which precisely
match the mixed anomaly constraints in the FN setup. Finally, we provide an
economical extra dimensional realisation of the hierarchical wave functions
scenario in which the leptonic FCNC can be efficiently suppressed due to the
strong coupling (CFT) origin of the electron mass.Comment: 23 page
Holographic Vitrification
We establish the existence of stable and metastable stationary black hole
bound states at finite temperature and chemical potentials in global and planar
four-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. We determine a number of
features of their holographic duals and argue they represent structural
glasses. We map out their thermodynamic landscape in the probe approximation,
and show their relaxation dynamics exhibits logarithmic aging, with aging rates
determined by the distribution of barriers.Comment: 100 pages, 25 figure
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