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Anatomy of decays and effects of next-to-leading order contributions in the perturbative QCD factorization approach
In this paper, we will make systematic calculations for the branching ratios
and the CP-violating asymmetries of the twenty one decays
by employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach. Besides the
full leading-order (LO) contributions, all currently known next-to-leading
order (NLO) contributions are taken into account. We found numerically that:
(a) the NLO contributions can provide enhancement to the LO PQCD
predictions for and , or a reduction to
\calb(\bar{B}_s^0 \to \pi^{-} K^{*+}), and we confirmed that the inclusion of
the known NLO contributions can improve significantly the agreement between the
theory and those currently available experimental measurements, (b) the total
effects on the PQCD predictions for the relevant transition form
factors after the inclusion of the NLO twist-2 and twist-3 contributions is
generally small in magnitude: less than enhancement respect to the
leading order result, (c) for the "tree" dominated decay and the "color-suppressed-tree" decay ,
the big difference between the PQCD predictions for their branching ratios are
induced by different topological structure and by interference effects among
the decay amplitude and : constructive for the
first decay but destructive for the second one, and (d) for \bar{B}_s^0 \to
V(\eta, \etar) decays, the complex pattern of the PQCD predictions for their
branching ratios can be understood by rather different topological structures
and the interference effects between the decay amplitude \cala(V\eta_q) and
\cala(V\eta_s) due to the \eta-\etar mixing.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Some modifications of the text.
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TAS-Based Incremental Hybrid Decode–Amplify–Forward Relaying for Physical Layer Security Enhancement
In this paper, a transmit antenna selection (TAS)-
based incremental hybrid decode-amplify-forward (IHDAF)
scheme is proposed to enhance physical layer security in cooperative
relay networks. Specifically, TAS is adopted at the
source in order to reduce the feedback overhead. In the proposed
TAS-based IHDAF scheme, the network transmits signals to the
destination adaptive select direction transmission mode, AF mode
or DF mode depending on the capacity of the source-relay link
and source-relay link. In order to fully examine the benefits
of the proposed TAS-based IHDAF scheme, we first derive its
secrecy outage probability (SOP) in a closed-form expression. We
then conduct asymptotic analysis on the SOP, which reveals the
secrecy performance floor of the proposed TAS-based IHDAF
scheme when no channel state information is available at the
source. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate
that the proposed TAS-based IHDAF scheme outperforms the
selective decode-and-forward (SDF), the incremental decodeand-forward
(IDF), and the noncooperative direction transmission
(DT) schemes in terms of the SOP and effective secrecy
throughout, especially when the relay is close to the destination.
Furthermore, the proposed TAS-based IHDAF scheme offer a
good trade-off between complexity and performance compare
with using all antennas at the source.ARC Discovery Projects Grant DP150103905
Topological triply-degenerate point with double Fermi arcs
Unconventional chiral particles have recently been predicted to appear in
certain three dimensional (3D) crystal structures containing three- or
more-fold linear band degeneracy points (BDPs). These BDPs carry topological
charges, but are distinct from the standard twofold Weyl points or fourfold
Dirac points, and cannot be described in terms of an emergent relativistic
field theory. Here, we report on the experimental observation of a topological
threefold BDP in a 3D phononic crystal. Using direct acoustic field mapping, we
demonstrate the existence of the threefold BDP in the bulk bandstructure, as
well as doubled Fermi arcs of surface states consistent with a topological
charge of 2. Another novel BDP, similar to a Dirac point but carrying nonzero
topological charge, is connected to the threefold BDP via the doubled Fermi
arcs. These findings pave the way to using these unconventional particles for
exploring new emergent physical phenomena
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