Consequences of R-Parity violating interactions for anomalies in Bˉ→D(∗)τνˉ\bar B\to D^{(*)} \tau \bar \nu and b→sμ+μ−b\to s \mu^+\mu^-

We investigate the possibility of explaining the enhancement in semileptonic decays of $\bar B \to D^{(*)} \tau \bar \nu$, the anomalies induced by $b\to s\mu^+\mu^-$ in $\bar B\to (K, K^*, \phi)\mu^+\mu^-$ and violation of lepton universality in $R_K = Br(\bar B\to K \mu^+\mu^-)/Br(\bar B\to K e^+e^-)$ within the framework of R-parity violating (RPV) MSSM. Exchange of down type right-handed squark coupled to quarks and leptons yield interactions which are similar to leptoquark induced interactions that have been proposed to explain the $\bar B \to D^{(*)} \tau \bar \nu$ by tree level interactions and $b\to s \mu^+\mu^-$ anomalies by loop induced interactions, simultaneously. However, the Yukawa couplings in such theories have severe constraints from other rare processes in $B$ and $D$ decays. Although this interaction can provide a viable solution to $R(D^{(*)})$ anomaly, we show that with the severe constraint from $\bar B \to K \nu \bar \nu$, it is impossible to solve the anomalies in $b\to s \mu^+\mu^-$ process simultaneously.Comment: RevTex, 13 pages, three figures. In our earlier version, we had neglected a contribution to C^{NP}_9 and obtained erroneous conclusions which we have corrected them in this versio

Triple Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings in Noncommutative Standard Model

It has been shown recently that the triple neutral gauge boson couplings are not uniquely determined in noncommutative extension of the Standard Model (NCSM). Depending on specific schemes used, the couplings are different and may even be zero. To distinguish different realizations of the NCSM, additional information either from theoretical or experimental considerations is needed. In this paper we show that these couplings can be uniquely determined from considerations of unification of electroweak and strong interactions. Using SU(5) as the underlying theory and integrating out the heavy degrees of freedom, we obtain unique non-zero new triple $\gamma\gamma\gamma$, $\gamma \gamma Z$, $\gamma ZZ$, $ZZZ$, $\gamma GG$, $ZGG$ and $GGG$ couplings at the leading order in the NCSM. We also briefly discuss experimental implications.Comment: 8 pages, Latex, no figur

Identification and adaptive control of a high-contrast focal plane wavefront correction system

All coronagraphic instruments for exoplanet high-contrast imaging need wavefront correction systems to reject optical aberrations and create sufficiently dark holes. Since the most efficient wavefront correction algorithms (controllers and estimators) are usually model-based, the modeling accuracy of the system influences the ultimate wavefront correction performance. Currently, wavefront correction systems are typically approximated as linear systems using Fourier optics. However, the Fourier optics model is usually biased due to inaccuracies in the layout measurements, the imperfect diagnoses of inherent optical aberrations, and a lack of knowledge of the deformable mirrors (actuator gains and influence functions). Moreover, the telescope optical system varies over time because of instrument instabilities and environmental effects. In this paper, we present an expectation-maximization (E-M) approach for identifying and real-time adapting the linear telescope model from data. By iterating between the E-step (a Kalman filter and a Rauch smoother) and the M-step (analytical or gradient-based optimization), the algorithm is able to recover the system even if the model depends on the electric fields, which are unmeasurable hidden variables. Simulations and experiments in Princeton's High Contrast Imaging Lab demonstrate that this algorithm improves the model accuracy and increases the efficiency and speed of the wavefront correction

S-OHEM: Stratified Online Hard Example Mining for Object Detection

One of the major challenges in object detection is to propose detectors with highly accurate localization of objects. The online sampling of high-loss region proposals (hard examples) uses the multitask loss with equal weight settings across all loss types (e.g, classification and localization, rigid and non-rigid categories) and ignores the influence of different loss distributions throughout the training process, which we find essential to the training efficacy. In this paper, we present the Stratified Online Hard Example Mining (S-OHEM) algorithm for training higher efficiency and accuracy detectors. S-OHEM exploits OHEM with stratified sampling, a widely-adopted sampling technique, to choose the training examples according to this influence during hard example mining, and thus enhance the performance of object detectors. We show through systematic experiments that S-OHEM yields an average precision (AP) improvement of 0.5% on rigid categories of PASCAL VOC 2007 for both the IoU threshold of 0.6 and 0.7. For KITTI 2012, both results of the same metric are 1.6%. Regarding the mean average precision (mAP), a relative increase of 0.3% and 0.5% (1% and 0.5%) is observed for VOC07 (KITTI12) using the same set of IoU threshold. Also, S-OHEM is easy to integrate with existing region-based detectors and is capable of acting with post-recognition level regressors.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted by CCCV 201

A Study of Some Methods for Measuring CKM CP Violating Phases

We study the influence of penguin (especially, electroweak penguin) effects on some methods of measuring the angles $\alpha$, $\beta$, and $\gamma$ in the CKM unitarity triangle. We use next-to-leading order effective Hamiltonian, and present numerical estimates based on the factorization approximation. We find that some techniques suggested in the literature, especially for $\alpha$ determination, are not workable in light of the electroweak penguin effects. Nevertheless, there are methods that would work for each angle determination. For angle $\beta$ we consider $B \rightarrow D^{+} D^{-}$ mode and estimate the penguin contamination. For angle $\gamma$ we consider a method based on SU(3) symmetry and carefully consider SU(3) breaking effects. We point out regions in the parameter space where this method could be used reliably.Comment: 25 pages (Latex), 5 PS figs (uuencoded, epsf.tex