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B Physics at D0
The Fermilab Tevatron (p pbar), operating at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, is a rich
source of B hadrons. The large acceptance in terms of rapidity and transverse
momentum of the charged particle tracking system and the muon system make the
upgraded Run II D0 detector an excellent tool for B physics. In this article,
we report on selected physics results based on the first 250 pb^-1 of Run II
data. This includes results on the X(3872) state, semileptonic B decays, B
hadron lifetimes, flavour oscillations, and the rare decay B_s -> mu^+ mu^-.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 39th
Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La
Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 21-28 Mar 200
Frequency-Dependent Selection at Rough Expanding Fronts
Microbial colonies are experimental model systems for studying the
colonization of new territory by biological species through range expansion. We
study a generalization of the two-species Eden model, which incorporates local
frequency-dependent selection, in order to analyze how social interactions
between two species influence surface roughness of growing microbial colonies.
The model includes several classical scenarios from game theory. We then
concentrate on an expanding public goods game, where either cooperators or
defectors take over the front depending on the system parameters. We analyze in
detail the critical behavior of the nonequilibrium phase transition between
global cooperation and defection and thereby identify a new universality class
of phase transitions dealing with absorbing states. At the transition, the
number of boundaries separating sectors decays with a novel power law in time
and their superdiffusive motion crosses over from Eden scaling to a nearly
ballistic regime. In parallel, the width of the front initially obeys Eden
roughening and, at later times, passes over to selective roughening.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Decoding of Non-Binary LDPC Codes Using the Information Bottleneck Method
Recently, a novel lookup table based decoding method for binary low-density
parity-check codes has attracted considerable attention. In this approach,
mutual-information maximizing lookup tables replace the conventional operations
of the variable nodes and the check nodes in message passing decoding.
Moreover, the exchanged messages are represented by integers with very small
bit width. A machine learning framework termed the information bottleneck
method is used to design the corresponding lookup tables. In this paper, we
extend this decoding principle from binary to non-binary codes. This is not a
straightforward extension, but requires a more sophisticated lookup table
design to cope with the arithmetic in higher order Galois fields. Provided bit
error rate simulations show that our proposed scheme outperforms the log-max
decoding algorithm and operates close to sum-product decoding.Comment: This paper has been presented at IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC'19) in Shangha
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