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Monte Carlo study of gg->H+jets contribution to Vector Boson Fusion Higgs production at the LHC
The contribution of gg->H+jets production process to the vector boson fusion
production of the Higgs boson, VV->H, at LHC was evaluated with the ALPGEN
generator and the PYTHIA shower Monte Carlo including a jet-parton matching
procedure. After the experimental like event selections applied at PYTHIA
particle level, the contribution was found to be 4-5 % for a Higgs boson mass
of 120 GeV
Open Source Dataset and Machine Learning Techniques for Automatic Recognition of Historical Graffiti
Machine learning techniques are presented for automatic recognition of the
historical letters (XI-XVIII centuries) carved on the stoned walls of St.Sophia
cathedral in Kyiv (Ukraine). A new image dataset of these carved Glagolitic and
Cyrillic letters (CGCL) was assembled and pre-processed for recognition and
prediction by machine learning methods. The dataset consists of more than 4000
images for 34 types of letters. The explanatory data analysis of CGCL and
notMNIST datasets shown that the carved letters can hardly be differentiated by
dimensionality reduction methods, for example, by t-distributed stochastic
neighbor embedding (tSNE) due to the worse letter representation by stone
carving in comparison to hand writing. The multinomial logistic regression
(MLR) and a 2D convolutional neural network (CNN) models were applied. The MLR
model demonstrated the area under curve (AUC) values for receiver operating
characteristic (ROC) are not lower than 0.92 and 0.60 for notMNIST and CGCL,
respectively. The CNN model gave AUC values close to 0.99 for both notMNIST and
CGCL (despite the much smaller size and quality of CGCL in comparison to
notMNIST) under condition of the high lossy data augmentation. CGCL dataset was
published to be available for the data science community as an open source
resource.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for 25th International Conference on
Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2018), 14-16 December, 2018 (Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Measurement of the H/A -> tau tau cross section and possible constraints on tan beta
The achievable precision of the cross section times branching ratio
measurement from the event rates is estimated for the MSSM H/A -> tau tau decay
in the associated production process gg -> b bbar H/A at large tan beta in CMS.
This work demonstrates that the above production and decay process exhibit a
large sensitivity to tan beta and thus add as a significant observable to a
global fit of the SUSY parameters. To illustrate this potential an example is
given concerning the achievable tan beta determination accuracy that could be
reached from the event rates and for a given set of SUSY parameters and
uncertainties
Heavy MSSM Higgs Bosons at CMS: "LHC wedge" and Higgs-Mass Precision
The search for MSSM Higgs bosons will be an important goal at the LHC. In
order to analyze the search reach of the CMS experiment for the heavy neutral
MSSM Higgs bosons, we combine the latest results for the CMS experimental
sensitivities based on full simulation studies with state-of-the-art
theoretical predictions of MSSM Higgs-boson properties. The experimental
analyses are done assuming an integrated luminosity of 30 or 60 fb^-1. The
results are interpreted as 5 \si discovery contours in MSSM M_A-tan_beta
benchmark scenarios. Special emphasis is put on the variation of the Higgs
mixing parameter mu. While the variation of mu can shift the prospective
discovery reach (and correspondingly the ``LHC wedge'' region) by about Delta
tan_beta= 10, the discovery reach is rather stable with respect to the impact
of other supersymmetric parameters. Within the discovery region we analyze the
accuracy with which the masses of the heavy neutral Higgs bosons can be
determined. An accuracy of 1-4% should be achievable, depending on M_A and
tan_beta.Comment: Talk given by G.W. at EPS07 (Manchester, July 2007) and talk given by
S.H. at SUSY07 (Karlsruhe, July 2007). 4 pages, 2 figure
Evidence for nonmonotonic magnetic field penetration in a type-I superconductor
Polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) provides evidence that nonlocal
electrodynamics governs the magnetic field penetration in an extreme low-k
superconductor. The sample is an indium film with a large elastic mean free
path (11 mkm) deposited on a silicon oxide wafer. It is shown that PNR can
resolve the difference between the reflected neutron spin asymmetries predicted
by the local and nonlocal theories of superconductivity. The experimental data
support the nonlocal theory, which predicts a nonmonotonic decay of the
magnetic field.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, LaTex, corrected typos and figure
Antisymmetric magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy
While magnetoresistance (MR) has generally been found to be symmetric in
applied field in non-magnetic or magnetic metals, we have observed
antisymmetric MR in Co/Pt multilayers. Simultaneous domain imaging and
transport measurements show that the antisymmetric MR is due to the appearance
of domain walls that run perpendicular to both the magnetization and the
current, a geometry existing only in materials with perpendicular magnetic
anisotropy. As a result, the extraordinary Hall effect (EHE) gives rise to
circulating currents in the vicinity of the domain walls that contributes to
the MR. The antisymmetric MR and EHE have been quantitatively accounted for by
a theoretical model.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
Feasibility of study magnetic proximity effects in bilayer "superconductor/ferromagnet" using waveguide-enhanced Polarized Neutron Reflectometry
A resonant enhancement of the neutron standing waves is proposed to use in
order to increase the magnetic neutron scattering from a
"superconductor/ferromagnet"(S/F) bilayer. The model calculations show that
usage of this effect allows to increase the magnetic scattering intensity by
factor of hundreds. Aspects related to the growth procedure (order of
deposition, roughness of the layers etc) as well as experimental conditions
(resolution, polarization of the neutron beam, background etc) are also
discussed.
Collected experimental data for the S/F heterostructure
Cu(32nm)/V(40nm)/Fe(1nm)/MgO confirmed the presence of a resonant 60-fold
amplification of the magnetic scattering.Comment: The manuscript of the article submitted to Crysstalography Reports.
23 pages, 5 figure
Magnetic and Superconducting Phase Diagram of Nb/Gd/Nb trilayers
We report on a study of the structural, magnetic and superconducting
properties of Nb(25nm)/Gd()/Nb(25nm) hybrid structures of a
superconductor/ ferromagnet (S/F) type. The structural characterization of the
samples, including careful determination of the layer thickness, was performed
using neutron and X-ray scattering with the aid of depth sensitive
mass-spectrometry. The magnetization of the samples was determined by SQUID
magnetometry and polarized neutron reflectometry and the presence of magnetic
ordering for all samples down to the thinnest Gd(0.8nm) layer was shown. The
analysis of the neutron spin asymmetry allowed us to prove the absence of
magnetically dead layers in junctions with Gd interlayer thickness larger than
one monolayer. The measured dependence of the superconducting transition
temperature has a damped oscillatory behavior with well defined
positions of the minimum at =3nm and the following maximum at =4nm;
the behavior, which is in qualitative agreement with the prior work (J.S. Jiang
et al, PRB 54, 6119). The analysis of the dependence based on Usadel
equations showed that the observed minimum at =3nm can be described by the
so called "" to "" phase transition of highly transparent S/F
interfaces with the superconducting correlation length nm in
Gd. This penetration length is several times higher than for strong
ferromagnets like Fe, Co or Ni, simplifying thus preparation of S/F structures
with which are of topical interest in superconducting
spintronics
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