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Observations of Large Scale Sidereal Anisotropy in 1 and 11 TeV cosmic rays from the MINOS experiment
The MINOS Near and Far Detectors are two large, functionally-identical,
steel-scintillating sampling calorimeters located at depths of 220 mwe and 2100
mwe respectively. The detectors observe the muon component of hadronic showers
produced from cosmic ray interactions with nuclei in the earth's atmosphere.
From the arrival direction of these muons, the anisotropy in arrival direction
of the cosmic ray primaries can be determined. The MINOS Near and Far Detector
have observed anisotropy on the order of 0.1% at 1 and 11 TeV respectively. The
amplitude and phase of the first harmonic at 1 TeV are
8.21.7(stat.) and (8.912.1(stat.)), and at
11 TeV are 3.80.5(stat.) and
(27.27.2(stat.)).Comment: 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, August 201
The influence of negative-energy states on proton-proton bremsstrahlung
We investigate the effect of negative-energy states on proton-proton
bremsstrahlung using a manifestly covariant amplitude based on a T-matrix
constructed in a spectator model. We show that there is a large cancellation
among the zeroth-order, single- and double-scattering diagrams involving
negative-energy nucleonic currents. We thus conclude that it is essential to
include all these diagrams when studying effects of negative-energy states.Comment: 12 pages revtex and 3 figure
Language-based multimedia information retrieval
This paper describes various methods and approaches for language-based multimedia information retrieval, which have been developed in the projects POP-EYE and OLIVE and which will be developed further in the MUMIS project. All of these project aim at supporting automated indexing of video material by use of human language technologies. Thus, in contrast to image or sound-based retrieval methods, where both the query language and the indexing methods build on non-linguistic data, these methods attempt to exploit advanced text retrieval technologies for the retrieval of non-textual material. While POP-EYE was building on subtitles or captions as the prime language key for disclosing video fragments, OLIVE is making use of speech recognition to automatically derive transcriptions of the sound tracks, generating time-coded linguistic elements which then serve as the basis for text-based retrieval functionality
Rapidity Gap Events for Squark Pair Production at the LHC
The exchange of electroweak gauginos in the or channel allows squark
pair production at hadron colliders without color exchange between the squarks.
This can give rise to events where little or no energy is deposited in the
detector between the squark decay products. We discuss the potential for
detection of such rapidity gap events at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We
present an analysis with full event simulation using PYTHIA as well as
Herwig++, but without detector simulation. We analyze the transverse energy
deposited between the jets from squark decay, as well as the probability of
finding a third jet in between the two hardest jets. For the mSUGRA benchmark
point SPS1a we find statistically significant evidence for a color singlet
exchange contribution.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the proceedings of SUSY09,
Northeastern University, Boston, M
Solving Dynamic Discrete Choice Models Using Smoothing and Sieve Methods
We propose to combine smoothing, simulations and sieve approximations to
solve for either the integrated or expected value function in a general class
of dynamic discrete choice (DDC) models. We use importance sampling to
approximate the Bellman operators defining the two functions. The random
Bellman operators, and therefore also the corresponding solutions, are
generally non-smooth which is undesirable. To circumvent this issue, we
introduce a smoothed version of the random Bellman operator and solve for the
corresponding smoothed value function using sieve methods. We show that one can
avoid using sieves by generalizing and adapting the `self-approximating' method
of Rust (1997) to our setting. We provide an asymptotic theory for the
approximate solutions and show that they converge with root-N-rate, where
is number of Monte Carlo draws, towards Gaussian processes. We examine their
performance in practice through a set of numerical experiments and find that
both methods perform well with the sieve method being particularly attractive
in terms of computational speed and accuracy
Josephson-vortex-flow terahertz emission in layered high- superconducting single crystals
We report on the successful terahertz emission (0.61 THz) that is
continuous and tunable in its frequency and power, by driving Josephson
vortices in resonance with the collective standing Josephson plasma modes
excited in stacked BiSrCaCuO intrinsic Josephson junctions.
Shapiro-step detection was employed to confirm the terahertz-wave emission. Our
results provide a strong feasibility of developing long-sought solid-state
terahertz-wave emission devices
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