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The angular power spectrum of radio emission at 2.3 GHz
We have analysed the Rhodes/HartRAO survey at 2326 MHz and derived the global
angular power spectrum of Galactic continuum emission. In order to measure the
angular power spectrum of the diffuse component, point sources were removed
from the map by median filtering. A least-square fit to the angular power
spectrum of the entire survey with a power law spectrum C_l proportional to
l^{-alpha}, gives alpha = 2.43 +/- 0.01 for l = 2-100. The angular power
spectrum of radio emission appears to steepen at high Galactic latitudes and
for observed regions with |b| > 20 deg, the fitted spectral index is alpha =
2.92 +/- 0.07. We have extrapolated this result to 30 GHz (the lowest frequency
channel of Planck) and estimate that no significant contribution to the sky
temperature fluctuation is likely to come from synchrotron at degree-angular
scalesComment: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy &
Astrophysic
SMEFT and the Drell-Yan Process at High Energy
The Drell-Yan process is a copious source of lepton pairs at high energy and
is measured with great precision at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Barring
any new light particles, beyond the Standard Model effects can be studied in
Drell-Yan production using an effective field theory. At tree level, new
4-fermion interactions dominate, while at one loop operators modifying 3-gauge
boson couplings contribute effects that are enhanced at high energy. We study
the sensitivity of the neutral Drell-Yan process to these dimension-6 operators
and compare the sensitivity to that of pair production at the LHC.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures. v2: version accepted for publication in PR
Affect and Cognition in Managerial Decision Making: A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroscience Evidence
How do affect and cognition interact in managerial decision making? Over the last decades, scholars have investigated how managers make decisions. However, what remains largely unknown is the interplay of affective states and cognition during the decision-making process. We offer a systematization of the contributions produced on the role of affect and cognition in managerial decision making by considering the recent cross-fertilization of management studies with the neuroscience domain. We implement a Systematic Literature Review of 23 selected contributions dealing with the role of affect and cognition in managerial decisions that adopted neuroscience techniques/points of view. Collected papers have been analyzed by considering the so-called reflexive (X-) and reflective (C-) systems in social cognitive neuroscience and the type of decisions investigated in the literature. Results obtained help to support an emerging “unified” mind processing theory for which the two systems of our mind are not in conflict and for which affective states have a driving role toward cognition. A research agenda for future studies is provided to scholars who are interested in advancing the investigation of affect and cognition in managerial decision making, also through neuroscience techniques – with the consideration that these works should be at the service of the behavioral strategy field
Constraints on the Universal Varying Yukawa Couplings: from SM-like to Fermiophobic
Varying the Standard Model (SM) fermion Yukawa couplings universally by a
generic positive scale factor (), we study the phenomenological fit to
the current available experimental results for the Higgs boson search at hadron
colliders. We point out that the Higgs production cross section and its decay
branching ratio to can be varied oppositely by to make
their product almost invariant. Thus, our scenario and the SM Higgs are
indistinguishable in the inclusive channel. The current
measurements on direct Yukawa coupling strength in the
channel are not precise enough to fix the scale factor . The most
promising is the vector-boson-fusion channel in which the CMS has already
observed possible suppression effect on the Yukawa couplings. Further more, the
global fit of the experimental data can get the optimal value by
introducing a suppression factor on the SM Yukawa couplings.Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables, update analysis is supplemente
Observations of the bright radio sources in the North Celestial Pole region at the RATAN-600 radio telescope
A survey of the North Celestial Pole region using the RATAN-600 radio
telescope at five frequencies in the range 2.3 to 21.7 GHz is described.
Sources were chosen from the NVSS catalogue. The flux densities of 171 sources
in the Declination range +75 to +88 are presented; typical flux density errors
are 5-10 percent including calibration errors. About 20 percent of the sources
have flat spectra or a flat component.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures; to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
(without last figure with the spectra of the observed sources
Hardware prototyping and validation of a W-ΔDOR digital signal processor
Microwave tracking, usually performed by on ground processing of the signals coming from a spacecraft, represents a crucial aspect in every deep-space mission. Various noise sources, including receiver noise, affect these signals, limiting the accuracy of the radiometric measurements obtained from the radio link. There are several methods used for spacecraft tracking, including the Delta-Differential One-Way Ranging (ΔDOR) technique. In the past years, European Space Agency (ESA) missions relied on a narrowband ΔDOR system for navigation in the cruise phase. To limit the adverse effect of nonlinearities in the receiving chain, an innovative wideband approach to ΔDOR measurements has recently been proposed. This work presents the hardware implementation of a new version of the ESA X/Ka Deep Space Transponder based on the new tracking technique named Wideband ΔDOR (W-ΔDOR). The architecture of the new transponder guarantees backward compatibility with narrowband ΔDOR
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