441 research outputs found
Instanton on toric singularities and black hole countings
We compute the instanton partition function for U(N) gauge
theories living on toric varieties, mainly of type
including or O_{\PP_1}(-p) surfaces. The results provide
microscopic formulas for the partition functions of black holes made out of
D4-D2-D0 bound states wrapping four-dimensional toric varieties inside a
Calabi-Yau. The partition function gets contributions from regular and
fractional instantons. Regular instantons are described in terms of symmetric
products of the four-dimensional variety. Fractional instantons are built out
of elementary self-dual connections with no moduli carrying non-trivial fluxes
along the exceptional cycles of the variety. The fractional instanton
contribution agrees with recent results based on 2d SYM analysis. The partition
function, in the large charge limit, reproduces the supergravity macroscopic
formulae for the D4-D2-D0 black hole entropy.Comment: 29 pages, 3 fig Section 5 is improved by the inclusion of a detailed
comparison between the instanton partition function and the D4-D2-D0 black
hole entropy formula coming from supergravit
A multiplexed immunoassay system based upon reciprocating centrifugal microfluidics
A novel, centrifugal disk-based micro-total analysis system (mu TAS) for low cost and high throughput semi-automated immunoassay processing was developed. A key innovation in the disposable immunoassay disk design is in a fluidic structure that enables very efficient micro-mixing based on a reciprocating mechanism in which centrifugal acceleration acting upon a liquid element first generates and stores pneumatic energy that is then released by a reduction of the centrifugal acceleration, resulting in a reversal of direction of flow of the liquid. Through an alternating sequence of high and low centrifugal acceleration, the system reciprocates the flow of liquid within the disk to maximize incubation/hybridization efficiency between antibodies and antigen macromolecules during the incubation/hybridization stage of the assay. The described reciprocating mechanism results in a reduction in processing time and reagent consumption by one order of magnitude.open121
Deformation of Super Yang-Mills Theories in R-R 3-form Background
We study deformation of N=2 and N=4 super Yang-Mills theories, which are
obtained as the low-energy effective theories on the (fractional) D3-branes in
the presence of constant Ramond-Ramond 3-form background. We calculate the
Lagrangian at the second order in the deformation parameter from open string
disk amplitudes. In N=4 case we find that all supersymmetries are broken for
generic deformation parameter but part of supersymmetries are unbroken for
special case. We also find that classical vacua admit fuzzy sphere
configuration. In N=2 case we determine the deformed supersymmetries. We
rewrite the deformed Lagrangians in terms of N=1 superspace, where the
deformation is interpreted as that of coupling constants.Comment: v2: reference added, v3: published version in JHE
Instanton Calculus in Deformed N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theories
We study the instanton effective action of four-dimensional deformed N=4
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the presence of constant, self-dual
Ramond-Ramond (R-R) 3-form background in type IIB superstring theory. We
compare the instanton effective action with the low-energy effective action on
D(-1)-branes in the D3-D(-1) system in the same background. We find that
discrepancy appears at the second order of the R-R background, which was also
observed in deformed N=2 theory. This discrepancy is resolved if the action of
the deformed gauge theory is improved by introducing a term with
coordinate-dependent gauge coupling. We obtain the same deformed instanton
effective action from super Yang-Mills theory in ten-dimensional
Omega-background by dimensional reduction. We also discuss another type of R-R
3-form background which corresponds to massive deformations of the instanton
effective action.Comment: 33 pages, no figures, typos corrected, version to appear in JHE
The Effect of Predictability on Subjective Duration
Events can sometimes appear longer or shorter in duration than other events of equal length. For example, in a repeated presentation of auditory or visual stimuli, an unexpected object of equivalent duration appears to last longer. Illusions of duration distortion beg an important question of time representation: when durations dilate or contract, does time in general slow down or speed up during that moment? In other words, what entailments do duration distortions have with respect to other timing judgments? We here show that when a sound or visual flicker is presented in conjunction with an unexpected visual stimulus, neither the pitch of the sound nor the frequency of the flicker is affected by the apparent duration dilation. This demonstrates that subjective time in general is not slowed; instead, duration judgments can be manipulated with no concurrent impact on other temporal judgments. Like spatial vision, time perception appears to be underpinned by a collaboration of separate neural mechanisms that usually work in concert but are separable. We further show that the duration dilation of an unexpected stimulus is not enhanced by increasing its saliency, suggesting that the effect is more closely related to prediction violation than enhanced attention. Finally, duration distortions induced by violations of progressive number sequences implicate the involvement of high-level predictability, suggesting the involvement of areas higher than primary visual cortex. We suggest that duration distortions can be understood in terms of repetition suppression, in which neural responses to repeated stimuli are diminished
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Large Size Telescope
The two arrays of the Very High Energy gamma-ray observatory Cherenkov
Telescope Array (CTA) will include four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs) each with
a 23 m diameter dish and 28 m focal distance. These telescopes will enable CTA
to achieve a low-energy threshold of 20 GeV, which is critical for important
studies in astrophysics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. This work
presents the key specifications and performance of the current LST design in
the light of the CTA scientific objectives.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic
Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at
arXiv:1307.223
Search for the decay
We performed a search for the decay with the
E391a detector at KEK. In the data accumulated in 2005, no event was observed
in the signal region. Based on the assumption of
proceeding via parity-violation, we obtained the single event sensitivity to be
, and set an upper limit on the branching ratio to
be at the 90% confidence level. This is a factor of 3.2
improvement compared to the previous results. The results of proceeding via parity-conservation were also presented in this paper
Evidence for an oscillatory signature in atmospheric neutrino oscillation
Muon neutrino disappearance probability as a function of neutrino flight
length L over neutrino energy E was studied. A dip in the L/E distribution was
observed in the data, as predicted from the sinusoidal flavor transition
probability of neutrino oscillation. The observed L/E distribution constrained
nu_mu nu_tau neutrino oscillation parameters; 1.9x10^-3 < Delta m^2 <
3.0x10^-3 eV^2 and \sin^2(2theta) > 0.90 at 90% confidence level.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
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