15 research outputs found
Pure Samples of Quark and Gluon Jets at the LHC
Having pure samples of quark and gluon jets would greatly facilitate the
study of jet properties and substructure, with many potential standard model
and new physics applications. To this end, we consider multijet and jets+X
samples, to determine the purity that can be achieved by simple kinematic cuts
leaving reasonable production cross sections. We find, for example, that at the
7 TeV LHC, the pp {\to} {\gamma}+2jets sample can provide 98% pure quark jets
with 200 GeV of transverse momentum and a cross section of 5 pb. To get 10 pb
of 200 GeV jets with 90% gluon purity, the pp {\to} 3jets sample can be used.
b+2jets is also useful for gluons, but only if the b-tagging is very efficient.Comment: 19 pages, 16 figures; v2 section on formally defining quark and gluon
jets has been adde
Inflation on the Brane with Vanishing Gravity
Many existing models of brane inflation suffer from a steep irreducible
gravitational potential between the branes that causes inflation to end too
early. Inspired by the fact that point masses in 2+1 D exert no gravitational
force, we propose a novel unwarped and non-supersymmetric setup for inflation,
consisting of 3-branes in two extra dimensions compactified on a sphere. The
size of the sphere is stabilized by a combination of a bulk cosmological
constant and a magnetic flux. Computing the 4D effective potential between
probe branes in this background, we find a non-zero contribution only from
exchange of level-1 KK modes of the graviton and radion. Identifying antipodal
points on the 2-sphere projects out these modes, eliminating entirely the
troublesome gravitational contribution to the inflationary potential.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, JHEP forma
Stop the Top Background of the Stop Search
The main background for the supersymmetric stop direct production search
comes from Standard Model ttbar events. For the single-lepton search channel,
we introduce a few kinematic variables to further suppress this background by
focusing on its dileptonic and semileptonic topologies. All are defined to have
end points in the background, but not signal distributions. They can
substantially improve the stop signal significance and mass reach when combined
with traditional kinematic variables such as the total missing transverse
energy. Among them, our variable M^W_T2 has the best overall performance
because it uses all available kinematic information, including the on-shell
mass of both W's. We see 20%-30% improvement on the discovery significance and
estimate that the 8 TeV LHC run with 20 fb-1 of data would be able to reach an
exclusion limit of 650-700 GeV for direct stop production, as long as the stop
decays dominantly to the top quark and a light stable neutralino. Most of the
mass range required for the supersymmetric solution of the naturalness problem
in the standard scenario can be covered.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
OpenMM 8: Molecular Dynamics Simulation with Machine Learning Potentials
Machine learning plays an important and growing role in molecular simulation.
The newest version of the OpenMM molecular dynamics toolkit introduces new
features to support the use of machine learning potentials. Arbitrary PyTorch
models can be added to a simulation and used to compute forces and energy. A
higher-level interface allows users to easily model their molecules of interest
with general purpose, pretrained potential functions. A collection of optimized
CUDA kernels and custom PyTorch operations greatly improves the speed of
simulations. We demonstrate these features on simulations of cyclin-dependent
kinase 8 (CDK8) and the green fluorescent protein (GFP) chromophore in water.
Taken together, these features make it practical to use machine learning to
improve the accuracy of simulations at only a modest increase in cost.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
Goals and feasibility of the deep space quantum link
In this article, we review the proposed experiments for the Deep Space Quantum Link (DSQL) mission concept aiming to probe gravitational effects on quantum optical systems. Quantum theory and general relativity are the two most successful frameworks we have to describe the universe. These theories have been validated through experimental confirmations in their domains of application -- the macroscopic domain for relativity, and the microscopic domain for quantum theory. To date, laboratory experiments conducted in a regime where both theories manifest measurable effects on photons are limited. Satellite platforms enable the transmission of quantum states of light between different inertial frames and over distances impossible to emulate in the laboratory. The DSQL concept proposes simultaneous tests of quantum mechanics and general relativity enabled by quantum optical links to one or more spacecrafts
Effect of rapid human N-acetyltransferase 2 haplotype on DNA damage and mutagenesis induced by 2-amino-3-methylimidazo-[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo-[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx)
A demonstration of improved constraints on primordial gravitational waves with delensing
We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization B-modes with “delensing,” whereby the uncertainty on r contributed by the sample variance of the gravitational lensing B-modes is reduced by cross-correlating against a lensing B-mode template. This template is constructed by combining an estimate of the polarized CMB with a tracer of the projected large-scale structure. The large-scale-structure tracer used is a map of the cosmic infrared background derived from Planck satellite data, while the polarized CMB map comes from a combination of South Pole Telescope, bicep/Keck, and Planck data. We expand the bicep/Keck likelihood analysis framework to accept a lensing template and apply it to the bicep/Keck dataset collected through 2014 using the same parametric foreground modeling as in the previous analysis. From simulations, we find that the uncertainty on r is reduced by ∼10%, from σ(r)=0.024 to 0.022, which can be compared with a ∼26% reduction obtained when using a perfect lensing template or if there were zero lensing B-modes. Applying the technique to the real data, the constraint on r is improved from r0.05<0.090 to r0.05<0.082 (95% C.L.). This is the first demonstration of improvement in an r constraint through delensing