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A Comprehensive View of the 2006 December 13 CME: From the Sun to Interplanetary Space
The biggest halo coronal mass ejection (CME) since the Halloween storm in
2003, which occurred on 2006 December 13, is studied in terms of its solar
source and heliospheric consequences. The CME is accompanied by an X3.4 flare,
EUV dimmings and coronal waves. It generated significant space weather effects
such as an interplanetary shock, radio bursts, major solar energetic particle
(SEP) events, and a magnetic cloud (MC) detected by a fleet of spacecraft
including STEREO, ACE, Wind and Ulysses. Reconstruction of the MC with the
Grad-Shafranov (GS) method yields an axis orientation oblique to the flare
ribbons. Observations of the SEP intensities and anisotropies show that the
particles can be trapped, deflected and reaccelerated by the large-scale
transient structures. The CME-driven shock is observed at both the Earth and
Ulysses when they are separated by 74 in latitude and 117
in longitude, the largest shock extent ever detected. The ejecta seems missed
at Ulysses. The shock arrival time at Ulysses is well predicted by an MHD model
which can propagate the 1 AU data outward. The CME/shock is tracked remarkably
well from the Sun all the way to Ulysses by coronagraph images, type II
frequency drift, in situ measurements and the MHD model. These results reveal a
technique which combines MHD propagation of the solar wind and type II
emissions to predict the shock arrival time at the Earth, a significant advance
for space weather forecasting especially when in situ data are available from
the Solar Orbiter and Sentinels.Comment: 26 pages, 10 figures. 2008, ApJ, in pres
Global Cosmological Parameters Determined Using Classical Double Radio Galaxies
A sample of 20 powerful extended radio galaxies with redshifts between zero
and two were used to determine constraints on global cosmological parameters.
Data for six radio sources were obtained from the VLA archive, analyzed, and
combined with the sample of 14 radio galaxies used previously by Guerra & Daly
to determine cosmological parameters. The results are consistent with our
previous results, and indicate that the current value of the mean mass density
of the universe is significantly less than the critical value. A universe with
of unity is ruled out at 99.0% confidence, and the best fitting
values of in matter are and
assuming zero space curvature and zero cosmological
constant, respectively. Note that identical results obtain when the low
redshift bin, which includes Cygnus A, is excluded; these results are
independent of whether the radio source Cygnus A is included. The method does
not rely on a zero-redshift normalization.
The radio properties of each source are also used to determine the density of
the gas in the vicinity of the source, and the beam power of the source. The
six new radio sources have physical characteristics similar to those found for
the original 14 sources. The density of the gas around these radio sources is
typical of gas in present day clusters of galaxies. The beam powers are
typically about .Comment: 39 pages includes 21 figures, accepted to Ap
Threshold Resummation Effects in Direct Top Quark Production at Hadron Colliders
We investigate the threshold-enhanced QCD corrections to the cross sections
for direct top quark productions induced by model-independent flavor changing
neutral current couplings at hadron colliders. We use the soft-collinear
effective theory to describe the incoming massless partons and use the heavy
quark effective theory to treat the top quark. Then we construct the flavor
changing operator based on the above effective theories, and resum the large
logarithms near threshold arising from soft gluon emission. Our results show
that the resummed QCD corrections further enhance the next-to-leading order
cross sections significantly. Moreover, the resummation effects vastly reduce
the dependence of the cross sections on the renormalization and factorization
scales, especially in cases where the next-to-leading order results behave
worse than the leading order results. Our results are more sensitive to the new
physics effects. If signals of direct top quark production are found in future
experiments, it is more appropriate to use our results as the theoretical
inputs for extracting the anomalous couplings.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, use revtex4 and amsmath; version to appear in
Phys. Rev.
Entanglement dynamics of two independent Jaynes-Cummings atoms without rotating-wave approximation
Entanglement evolution of two independent Jaynes-Cummings atoms without
rotating-wave approximation (RWA) is studied by an numerically exact approach.
The previous results in the RWA are essentially modified in the strong coupling
regime (), which has been reached in the recent experiments on the
flux qubit coupled to the LC resonator. For the initial Bell state with
anti-correlated spins, the entanglement sudden death (ESD) is absent in the
RWA, but does appear in the present numerical calculation without RWA.
Aperiodic entanglement evolution in the strong coupling regime is observed. The
strong atom-cavity coupling facilitates the ESD. The sign of detuning play a
essential role in the entanglement evolution for strong coupling, which is
irrelevant in the RWA. An analytical results based on an unitary transformation
are also given, which could not modify the RWA picture essentially. It is
suggested that the activation of the photons may be the origin of the ESD. The
present theoretical results could be applied to artificial atoms realized in
recent experiments.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figure
Knowledge based cloud FE simulation of sheet metal forming processes
The use of Finite Element (FE) simulation software to adequately predict the outcome of sheet metal forming processes is crucial to enhancing the efficiency and lowering the development time of such processes, whilst reducing costs involved in trial-and-error prototyping. Recent focus on the substitution of steel components with aluminum alloy alternatives in the automotive and aerospace sectors has increased the need to simulate the forming behavior of such alloys for ever more complex component geometries. However these alloys, and in particular their high strength variants, exhibit limited formability at room temperature, and high temperature manufacturing technologies have been developed to form them. Consequently, advanced constitutive models are required to reflect the associated temperature and strain rate effects. Simulating such behavior is computationally very expensive using conventional FE simulation techniques. This paper presents a novel Knowledge Based Cloud FE (KBC-FE) simulation technique that combines advanced material and friction models with conventional FE simulations in an efficient manner thus enhancing the capability of commercial simulation software packages. The application of these methods is demonstrated through two example case studies, namely: the prediction of a material's forming limit under hot stamping conditions, and the tool life prediction under multi-cycle loading conditions
Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to the Direct Top Quark Production via Model-independent FCNC Couplings at Hadron Colliders
We calculated the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the cross
sections for direct top quark productions induced by model--independent flavour
changing neutral current couplings at hadron colliders. The NLO results
increase the experimental sensitivity to the anomalous couplings. Our results
show that the NLO QCD corrections enhance the leading order (LO) total cross
sections at the Tevatron Run 2 about 60% for both of and
couplings, and enhance the LO total cross sections at the LHC
about 40% for couplings and 50% for couplings,
respectively. Moreover, the NLO QCD corrections vastly reduce the dependence of
the total cross sections on the renormalization or factorization scale, which
leads to increased confidence in predictions based on these results.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures; published versio
Contextual Motifs: Increasing the Utility of Motifs using Contextual Data
Motifs are a powerful tool for analyzing physiological waveform data.
Standard motif methods, however, ignore important contextual information (e.g.,
what the patient was doing at the time the data were collected). We hypothesize
that these additional contextual data could increase the utility of motifs.
Thus, we propose an extension to motifs, contextual motifs, that incorporates
context. Recognizing that, oftentimes, context may be unobserved or
unavailable, we focus on methods to jointly infer motifs and context. Applied
to both simulated and real physiological data, our proposed approach improves
upon existing motif methods in terms of the discriminative utility of the
discovered motifs. In particular, we discovered contextual motifs in continuous
glucose monitor (CGM) data collected from patients with type 1 diabetes.
Compared to their contextless counterparts, these contextual motifs led to
better predictions of hypo- and hyperglycemic events. Our results suggest that
even when inferred, context is useful in both a long- and short-term prediction
horizon when processing and interpreting physiological waveform data.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for oral presentation at KDD '1
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