822 research outputs found
Signatures of long-lived colored sparticles
In this paper an updated Geant4 simulation toolkit is presented describing
the interactions in matter of heavy hadrons containing long-lived squarks and
gluinos. Generic signatures are derived that are applicable at the Large Hadron
Collider, and the problem of theoretical uncertainties arising from model
dependence is addressed. For a more detailed description of the assumptions and
techniques used, the reader is referred to arXiv:0908.1868.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY09
Interactions of Coloured Heavy Stable Particles in Matter
In this paper we present a physics model for the interactions of stable heavy
hadrons containing a heavy parton with matter. The model presented is a natural
continuation of the work started in hep-ex/0404001. However, changes and
generalisations have been made allowing for the description of a broader scope
of physics scenarios. As a special case the model is tested on the cases of
stable gluino and stop hadrons, thus covering both stable colour triplet and
octet states. Conclusions are drawn regarding the phenomenology of these cases
including how to distinguish between them
The Impact of Concept Representation in Interactive Concept Validation (ICV)
Large scale ideation has developed as a promising new way of obtaining large numbers of highly diverse ideas for a given challenge. However, due to the scale of these challenges, algorithmic support based on a computational understanding of the ideas is a crucial component in these systems. One promising solution is the use of knowledge graphs to provide meaning. A significant obstacle lies in word-sense disambiguation, which cannot be solved by automatic approaches. In previous work, we introduce \textit{Interactive Concept Validation} (ICV) as an approach that enables ideators to disambiguate terms used in their ideas. To test the impact of different ways of representing concepts (should we show images of concepts, or only explanatory texts), we conducted experiments comparing three representations. The results show that while the impact on ideation metrics was marginal, time/click effort was lowest in the images only condition, while data quality was highest in the both condition
Limit on the mass of a long-lived or stable gluino
We reinterpret the generic CDF charged massive particle limit to obtain a
limit on the mass of a stable or long-lived gluino. Various sources of
uncertainty are examined. The -hadron spectrum and scattering cross sections
are modeled based on known low-energy hadron physics and the resultant
uncertainties are quantified and found to be small compared to uncertainties
from the scale dependence of the NLO pQCD production cross sections. The
largest uncertainty in the limit comes from the unknown squark mass: when the
squark -- gluino mass splitting is small, we obtain a gluino mass limit of 407
GeV, while in the limit of heavy squarks the gluino mass limit is 397 GeV. For
arbitrary (degenerate) squark masses, we obtain a lower limit of 322 GeV on the
gluino mass. These limits apply for any gluino lifetime longer than
ns, and are the most stringent limits for such a long-lived or stable gluino.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in JHE
Innovonto: An Enhanced Crowd Ideation Platform with Semantic Annotation (Hallway Test)
Crowd ideation platforms provide a promising approach for supporting the idea
generation process. Research has shown that presenting a set of similar or
diverse ideas to users during ideation leads them to come-up with more
creative ideas. In this paper, we describe Innovonto, a crowd ideation
platform that leverages semantic web technologies and human collaboration to
identify similar and diverse ideas in order to enhance the creativity of
generated ideas. Therefore, the approach implemented captures first the
conceptualization of users' ideas. Then, a matching system is employed to
compute similarities between all ideas in near real time. Furthermore, this
technical report outlines the results obtained from the evaluation of
Innovonto platform. The hallway study, conducted at our research group,
allowed us to test each step of Innovonto platform as well as the proposed
approach in assessing similarities between ideas. As results, we received 20
ideas and 23 feedbacks from 9 users. The analysis of the results shows good
performance of Innovonto steps and confirms the findings of existing research
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