963 research outputs found
Phase diagram of QCD with two degenerate staggered quarks
We present preliminary results about the critical line of QCD with two
degenerate staggered quarks at nonzero temperature and chemical potential,
obtained by the method of analytic continuation. As in our previous studies
with different numbers of colors and flavors, we find deviations from a simple
quadratic dependence on the chemical potential. We comment on the shape of the
critical line at real chemical potential and give an estimate of the curvature
of the critical line, both for quark chemical potential and isospin chemical
potential.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, talk presented at Lattice 2011, The XXIX
International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe,
California, USA, July 11-16, 201
The critical line of two-flavor QCD at finite isospin or baryon densities from imaginary chemical potentials
We determine the (pseudo)critical lines of QCD with two degenerate staggered
fermions at nonzero temperature and quark or isospin density, in the region of
imaginary chemical potentials; analytic continuation is then used to prolongate
to the region of real chemical potentials. We obtain an accurate determination
of the curvatures at zero chemical potential, quantifying the deviation between
the case of finite quark and of finite isospin chemical potential. Deviations
from a quadratic dependence of the pseudocritical lines on the chemical
potential are clearly seen in both cases: we try different extrapolations and,
for the case of nonzero isospin chemical potential, confront them with the
results of direct Monte Carlo simulations. Finally we find that, as for the
finite quark density case, an imaginary isospin chemical potential can
strengthen the transition till turning it into strong first order.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, 4 table
An exploratory study of heavy domain wall fermions on the lattice
We report on an exploratory study of domain wall fermions (DWF) as a lattice
regularisation for heavy quarks. Within the framework of quenched QCD with the
tree-level improved Symanzik gauge action we identify the DWF parameters which
minimise discretisation effects. We find the corresponding effective 4
overlap operator to be exponentially local, independent of the quark mass. We
determine a maximum bare heavy quark mass of , below which the
approximate chiral symmetry and O(a)-improvement of DWF are sustained. This
threshold appears to be largely independent of the lattice spacing. Based on
these findings, we carried out a detailed scaling study for the heavy-strange
meson dispersion relation and decay constant on four ensembles with lattice
spacings in the range . We observe very mild
scaling towards the continuum limit. Our findings establish a sound basis for
heavy DWF in dynamical simulations of lattice QCD with relevance to Standard
Model phenomenology.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figure
Magnetic properties of the strongly interacting matter
We study the magnetic properties of the strongly interacting matter using Lattice QCD simulations. The QCD medium shows a paramagnetic behavior in the range of temperatures 100–400 MeV, with a sharp increase of the magnetic susceptibility above the deconfinement temperature. We expect a significant magnetic contribution to the pressure of the system in non-central heavy-ion collisions
Left ventricular systolic function evaluated by strain echocardiography and relationship with mortality in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. a systematic review and meta-analysis
Sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction is associated with poor outcomes, but traditional measurements of systolic function such as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) do not directly correlate with prognosis. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) utilizing speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) could be a better marker of intrinsic left ventricular (LV) function, reflecting myocardial deformation rather than displacement and volume changes. We sought to investigate the prognostic value of GLS in patients with sepsis and/or septic shock
Anisotropy of the QQ potential in a magnetic field
We study how the static quark-antiquark potential for Nf = 2+1 QCD at the physical point gets modified by the presence of a constant and uniform magnetic field. We observe an anisotropy to appear in the potential: it gets steeper in the directions transverse to the magnetic field than in the longitudinal one. By comparing to the case with zero magnetic field, we show that the string tension increases
(decreases) in the perpendicular (parallel) direction, while the absolute value of the Coulomb coupling and the Sommer parameter show the opposite behavior
A reinforcement learning-based approach for imputing missing data
Missing data is a major problem in real-world datasets, which hinders the performance of data analytics. Conventional data imputation schemes such as univariate single imputation replace missing values in each column with the same approximated value. These univariate single imputation techniques underestimate the variance of the imputed values. On the other hand, multivariate imputation explores the relationships between different columns of data, to impute the missing values. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a machine learning paradigm where the agent learns by taking actions and receiving rewards in response, to achieve its goal. In this work, we propose an RL-based approach to impute missing data by learning a policy to impute data through an action-reward-based experience. Our approach imputes missing values in a column by working only on the same column (similar to univariate single imputation) but imputes the missing values in the column with different values thus keeping the variance in the imputed values. We report superior performance of our approach, compared with other imputation techniques, on a number of datasets
Rituximab induced pulmonary edema managed with extracorporeal life support
Though rare, rituximab has been reported to induce severe pulmonary edema. We describe the first report of ECLS utilization for this indication. A 31-year-old female with severe thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura developed florid pulmonary edema after rituximab infusion. Despite advanced ventilatory settings, she developed severe respiratory acidosis and remained hypoxemic with a significant vasopressor requirement. Since her pulmonary insult was likely transient, ECLS was considered. Due to combined cardiorespiratory failure, she received support with peripheral venoarterial ECLS. During her ECLS course, she received daily plasmapheresis and high dose steroids. Her pulmonary function recovered and she was decannulated after 8 days. She was discharged after 23 days without residual sequelae
Average up/down, strange and charm quark masses with Nf=2 twisted mass lattice QCD
We present a high precision lattice calculation of the average up/down,
strange and charm quark masses performed with Nf=2 twisted mass Wilson
fermions. The analysis includes data at four values of the lattice spacing and
pion masses as low as ~270 MeV, allowing for accurate continuum limit and
chiral extrapolation. The strange and charm masses are extracted by using
several methods, based on different observables: the kaon and the eta_s meson
for the strange quark and the D, D_s and eta_c mesons for the charm. The quark
mass renormalization is carried out non-perturbatively using the RI-MOM method.
The results for the quark masses in the MSbar scheme read: m_ud(2 GeV)= 3.6(2)
MeV, m_s(2 GeV)=95(6) MeV and m_c(m_c)=1.28(4) GeV. We also obtain the ratios
m_s/m_ud=27.3(9) and m_c/m_s=12.0(3).Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures. Typos corrected in eqs. (15)-(17). Version
published in Phys. Rev.
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