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Non-Universal Gaugino Masses, CDMS, and the LHC
We consider the possibility that the recently reported events at the CDMS-II
direct dark matter detection experiment are the result of coherent scattering
of supersymmetric neutralinos. In such a scenario we argue that non-universal
soft supersymmetry breaking gaugino masses are favored with a resulting
lightest neutralino with significant Higgsino and wino components. We discuss
the accompanying signals which must be seen at liquid-xenon direct detection
experiments and indirect detection experiments if such a supersymmetric
interpretation is to be maintained. We illustrate the possible consequences for
early discovery channels at the LHC via a set of benchmark points designed to
give rise to an observed event rate comparable to the reported CDMS-II data.Comment: Typos corrected and references adde
Sensitivity to the pion-nucleon coupling constant in partial-wave analyses of elastic pi-N and NN scattering and pion photoproduction
We summarize results obtained in our studies of the pion-nucleon coupling
constant. Several different techniques have been applied to pi-N and NN elastic
scattering data, and the existing database for single-pion photoproduction. The
most reliable determination comes from pi-N elastic scattering. The sensitivity
in this reaction was found to be greater, by at least a factor of 3, when
compared with analyses of NN elastic scattering or single-pion photoproduction.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at the Uppsala workshop on the
pion-nucleon coupling constan
HESS J1632-478: an energetic relic
HESS J1632-478 is an extended and still unidentified TeV source in the
galactic plane. In order to identify the source of the very high energy
emission and to constrain its spectral energy distribution, we used a deep
observation of the field obtained with XMM-Newton together with data from
Molonglo, Spitzer and Fermi to detect counterparts at other wavelengths. The
flux density emitted by HESS J1632-478 peaks at very high energies and is more
than 20 times weaker at all other wavelengths probed. The source spectrum
features two large prominent bumps with the synchrotron emission peaking in the
ultraviolet and the external inverse Compton emission peaking in the TeV. HESS
J1632-478 is an energetic pulsar wind nebula with an age of the order of 10^4
years. Its bolometric (mostly GeV-TeV) luminosity reaches 10% of the current
pulsar spin down power. The synchrotron nebula has a size of 1 pc and contains
an unresolved point-like X-ray source, probably the pulsar with its wind
termination shock.Comment: A&A accepted, 9 pages, 5 figures, 4 table
Interpreting the recent results on direct search for dark matter particles in terms of relic neutralino
The most recent results from direct searches for dark matter particles in the
galactic halo are examined in terms of an effective Minimal Supersymmetric
extension of the Standard Model at the electroweak scale without gaugino masses
unification. We show that the annual modulation effect at 8.2 C.L.
recently presented by the DAMA Collaboration, as the result of a combined
analysis of the DAMA/NaI and the DAMA/LIBRA experiments for a total exposure of
0.82 ton yr, fits remarkably well with what expected for relic neutralinos for
a wide variety of WIMP distribution functions. Bounds derivable from other
measurements of direct searches for dark matter particles are analyzed. We
stress the role played by the uncertainties affecting the neutralino--quark
couplings arising from the involved hadronic quantities. We also examine how
present data on cosmic antiprotons can help in constraining the neutralino
configurations selected by the DAMA effect, in connection with the values of
the astrophysical parameters.
Perspectives for measurement of antideuterons possibly produced in the
galactic halo by self--annihilation of neutralinos belonging to the DAMA
configurations are examined. Finally, we discuss how findings at LHC would
impact on these issues.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures a few minor comments and two references adde
TinyML for UWB-radar based presence detection
Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) is a novel research area aiming at designing machine and deep learning models and algorithms able to be executed on tiny devices such as Internet-of-Things units, edge devices or embedded systems. In this paper we introduce, for the first time in the literature, a TinyML solution for presence-detection based on UltrawideBand (UWB) radar, which is a particularly promising radar technology for pervasive systems. To achieve this goal we introduce a novel family of tiny convolutional neural networks for the processing of UWB-radar data characterized by a reduced memory footprint and computational demand so as to satisfy the severe technological constraints of tiny devices. From this technological perspective, UWB-radars are particularly relevant in the presence-detection scenario since they do not acquire sensitive information of users (e.g., images, videos or audio), hence preserving their privacy.The proposed solution has been successfully tested on a public-available benchmark for the indoor presence detection and on a real-world application of in-car presence detection
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