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Swarmodroid 1.0: A Modular Bristle-Bot Platform for Robotic Active Matter Studies
Large swarms of extremely simple robots (i.e., capable just of basic motion
activities, like propelling forward or self-rotating) are widely applied to
study collective task performance based on self-organization or local
algorithms instead of sophisticated programming and global swarm coordination.
Moreover, they represent a versatile yet affordable platform for experimental
studies in physics, particularly in active matter - non-equilibrium assemblies
of particles converting their energy to a directed motion. However, a large set
of robotics platforms is being used in different studies, while the universal
design is still lacking. Despite such platforms possess advantages in certain
application scenarios, their large number sufficiently limits further
development of results in the field, as advancing some study requires to buy or
manually produce the corresponding robots. To address this issue, we develop an
open-source Swarmodroid 1.0 platform based on bristle-bots with reconfigurable
3D-printed bodies, external control of motion velocity, and basic capabilities
of velocity profile programming. In addition, we introduce AMPy software
package in Python featuring OpenCV-based extraction of robotic swarm kinematics
accompanied by the evaluation of key physical quantities describing the
collective dynamics. We perform a detailed analysis of individual Swarmodroids'
motion characteristics and address their use cases with two examples: a cargo
transport performed by self-rotating robots and a velocity-dependent jam
formation in a bottleneck by self-propelling robots. Finally, we provide a
comparison of existing centimeter-scale robotic platforms, a review of key
quantities describing collective dynamics of many-particle systems, and a
comprehensive outlook considering potential applications as well as further
directions for fundamental studies and Swarmodroid 1.0 platform development.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, 1 table + Supplementary Information. Comments
are welcom
Finite top quark mass effects in NNLO Higgs boson production at LHC
We present next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to the inclusive
production of the Higgs bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
including finite top quark mass effects. Expanding our analytic results for the
partonic cross section around the soft limit we find agreement with a very
recent publication by Harlander and Ozeren \cite{Harlander:2009mq}.Comment: 15 page
Production of scalar and pseudo-scalar Higgs bosons to next-to-next-to-leading order at hadron colliders
We consider the production of intermediate-mass CP-even and CP-odd Higgs
bosons in proton-proton and proton-anti-proton collisions. We extend the
recently published results for the complete next-to-next-to-leading order
calculation for a scalar Higgs boson to the pseudo-scalar case and present
details of the calculation that might be useful for similar future
investigations. The result is based on an expansion in the limit of a heavy top
quark mass and a subsequent matching to the expression obtained in the limit of
infinite energy. For a Higgs boson mass of 120 GeV the deviation from the
infinite-top quark mass result is small. For 300 GeV, however, the
next-to-next-to-leading order corrections for a scalar Higgs boson exceed the
effective-theory result by about 9% which increases to 22% in the pseudo-scalar
case. Thus in this mass range the effect on the total cross section amounts to
about 2% and 6%, respectively, which may be relevant in future precision
studies.Comment: 29 page
Dolan-Grady Relations and Noncommutative Quasi-Exactly Solvable Systems
We investigate a U(1) gauge invariant quantum mechanical system on a 2D
noncommutative space with coordinates generating a generalized deformed
oscillator algebra. The Hamiltonian is taken as a quadratic form in gauge
covariant derivatives obeying the nonlinear Dolan-Grady relations. This
restricts the structure function of the deformed oscillator algebra to a
quadratic polynomial. The cases when the coordinates form the su(2) and sl(2,R)
algebras are investigated in detail. Reducing the Hamiltonian to 1D
finite-difference quasi-exactly solvable operators, we demonstrate partial
algebraization of the spectrum of the corresponding systems on the fuzzy sphere
and noncommutative hyperbolic plane. A completely covariant method based on the
notion of intrinsic algebra is proposed to deal with the spectral problem of
such systems.Comment: 25 pages; ref added; to appear in J. Phys.
Quantum theory of light scattering in a one-dimensional channel: Interaction effect on photon statistics and entanglement entropy
Search for composite and exotic fermions at LEP 2
A search for unstable heavy fermions with the DELPHI detector at LEP is
reported. Sequential and non-canonical leptons, as well as excited leptons and
quarks, are considered. The data analysed correspond to an integrated
luminosity of about 48 pb^{-1} at an e^+e^- centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV
and about 20 pb^{-1} equally shared between the centre-of-mass energies of 172
GeV and 161 GeV. The search for pair-produced new leptons establishes 95%
confidence level mass limits in the region between 70 GeV/c^2 and 90 GeV/c^2,
depending on the channel. The search for singly produced excited leptons and
quarks establishes upper limits on the ratio of the coupling of the excited
fermio
Search for lightest neutralino and stau pair production in light gravitino scenarios with stau NLSP
Promptly decaying lightest neutralinos and long-lived staus are searched for
in the context of light gravitino scenarios. It is assumed that the stau is the
next to lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP) and that the lightest
neutralino is the next to NLSP (NNLSP). Data collected with the Delphi detector
at centre-of-mass energies from 161 to 183 \GeV are analysed. No evidence of
the production of these particles is found. Hence, lower mass limits for both
kinds of particles are set at 95% C.L.. The mass of gaugino-like neutralinos is
found to be greater than 71.5 GeV/c^2. In the search for long-lived stau,
masses less than 70.0 to 77.5 \GeVcc are excluded for gravitino masses from 10
to 150 \eVcc . Combining this search with the searches for stable heavy leptons
and Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model staus a lower limit of 68.5 \GeVcc
may be set for the stau mas
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