664 research outputs found
An inexpensive circuit for monitoring photomultiplier anode current
An 8-channel current-to-frequency converter module has been developed for measuring photomultiplier anode currents in the range of 1-100 [mu]A. Although this circuit was designed specifically for monitoring photomultiplier currents in a ground-based very high energy gamma-ray telescope, it would be useful in many other applications where cost is a consideration. An interesting consequence of this technique is that, by measuring the pulse-to-pulse time interval, it is possible to synthesize the kind of measurements usually performed with lock-in amplifiers. Tests show that with a few seconds integration time, a 1 kHz modulated signal can be detected at a level of 10-5 of the ambient current.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30337/1/0000739.pd
Status of the Whipple Observatory Cerenkov air shower imaging telescope array
Recently the power of the Cerenkov imaging technique in Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy was demonstrated by the detection of the Crab nebula at high statistical significance. In order to further develop this technique to allow the detection of weaker or more distant sources a second 10 m class reflector was constructed about 120 m from the original instrument. The addition of the second reflector will allow both a reduction in the energy threshold and an improvement in the rejection of the hadronic background. The design and construction of the second reflector, Gamma Ray Astrophysics New Imaging TElescope (GRANITE) is described
QCD(1+1) with massless quarks and gauge covariant Sugawara construction
We use the Hamiltonian framework to study massless QCD, i.e.\
Yang-Mills gauge theories with massless Dirac fermions on a cylinder (= (1+1)
dimensional spacetime ) and make explicite the full,
non-perturbative structure of these quantum field theory models. We consider
fermion flavors and gauge group either \U(N_C), \SU(N_C) or another
Lie subgroup of \U(N_C). In this approach, anomalies are traced back to
kinematical requirements such as positivity of the Hamiltonian, gauge
invariance, and the condition that all observables are represented by
well-defined operators on a Hilbert space. We also give equal time commutators
of the energy momentum tensor and find a gauge-covariant form of the (affine-)
Sugawara construction. This allows us to represent massless QCD as a
gauge theory of Kac-Moody currents and prove its equivalence to a gauged
Wess-Zumino-Witten model with a dynamical Yang-Mills field.Comment: 11 pages, ESI 110 Minor changes (including title); version to appear
in Phys. Lett.
Dynamic Network Plaid
Network data that changes over time can be very useful for studying a wide range of important phenomena, from how social network connections change to epidemiology. However, it is challenging to analyze, especially if it has many actors, connections or if the covered timespan is large with rapidly changing links (e.g., months of changes with changes at second resolution). In these analyses one would often like to compare many periods of time to others, without having to look at the full timeline. To support this kind of analysis we designed and implemented a technique and system to visualize this dynamic data. The Dynamic Network Plaid (DNP) is designed for large displays and based on user-generated interactive timeslicing on the dynamic graph attributes and on linked provenance-preserving representations. We present the technique, interface and the design/evaluation with a group of public health researchers investigating non-suicidal self-harm picture sharing in Instagram
MIPS: analysis and annotation of genome information in 2007
The Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS-GSF, Neuherberg, Germany) combines automatic processing of large amounts of sequences with manual annotation of selected model genomes. Due to the massive growth of the available data, the depth of annotation varies widely between independent databases. Also, the criteria for the transfer of information from known to orthologous sequences are diverse. To cope with the task of global in-depth genome annotation has become unfeasible. Therefore, our efforts are dedicated to three levels of annotation: (i) the curation of selected genomes, in particular from fungal and plant taxa (e.g. CYGD, MNCDB, MatDB), (ii) the comprehensive, consistent, automatic annotation employing exhaustive methods for the computation of sequence similarities and sequence-related attributes as well as the classification of individual sequences (SIMAP, PEDANT and FunCat) and (iii) the compilation of manually curated databases for protein interactions based on scrutinized information from the literature to serve as an accepted set of reliable annotated interaction data (MPACT, MPPI, CORUM). All databases and tools described as well as the detailed descriptions of our projects can be accessed through the MIPS web server (http://mips.gsf.de)
MIPS: analysis and annotation of proteins from whole genomes in 2005
The Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS at the GSF), Neuherberg, Germany, provides resources related to genome information. Manually curated databases for several reference organisms are maintained. Several of these databases are described elsewhere in this and other recent NAR database issues. In a complementary effort, a comprehensive set of >400 genomes automatically annotated with the PEDANT system are maintained. The main goal of our current work on creating and maintaining genome databases is to extend gene centered information to information on interactions within a generic comprehensive framework. We have concentrated our efforts along three lines (i) the development of suitable comprehensive data structures and database technology, communication and query tools to include a wide range of different types of information enabling the representation of complex information such as functional modules or networks Genome Research Environment System, (ii) the development of databases covering computable information such as the basic evolutionary relations among all genes, namely SIMAP, the sequence similarity matrix and the CABiNet network analysis framework and (iii) the compilation and manual annotation of information related to interactions such as protein–protein interactions or other types of relations (e.g. MPCDB, MPPI, CYGD). All databases described and the detailed descriptions of our projects can be accessed through the MIPS WWW server ()
About the realization of chiral symmetry in QCD2
Two dimensional massless Quantum Chromodynamics presents many features which
resemble those of the true theory. In particular the spectrum consists of
mesons and baryons arranged in flavor multiplets without parity doubling. We
analyze the implications of chiral symmetry, which is not spontaneously broken
in two dimensions, in the spectrum and in the quark condensate. We study how
parity doubling, an awaited consequence of Coleman's theorem, is avoided due to
the dimensionality of space-time and confinement. We prove that a chiral phase
transition is not possible in the theory.Comment: 9 pages, latex, ftuv/92-
Effective Lagrangians in Dimensions
The failure of the the loop expansion and effective lagrangians in two
dimensions, which traditionally hinges on a power counting argument is
considered. We establish that the book keeping device for the loop expansion, a
role played by (the reciprocal of) the pion-decay constant itself vanishes for
, thereby going beyond the power counting argument. We point the
connection of our results to the distinct phases of the candidate for the
effective lagrangians, the non-linear sigma model, in , and
eventually for . In light of our results, we recall some of the relavant
features of the multi-flavor Schwinger and large as candidates
for the underlying theory in .Comment: 13 pages plain LaTeX, to be run twice. Replaced with expanded and
corrected version. One footnote adde
On the origin of the Boson peak in globular proteins
We study the Boson Peak phenomenology experimentally observed in globular
proteins by means of elastic network models. These models are suitable for an
analytic treatment in the framework of Euclidean Random Matrix theory, whose
predictions can be numerically tested on real proteins structures. We find that
the emergence of the Boson Peak is strictly related to an intrinsic mechanical
instability of the protein, in close similarity to what is thought to happen in
glasses. The biological implications of this conclusion are also discussed by
focusing on a representative case study.Comment: Proceedings of the X International Workshop on Disordered Systems,
Molveno (2006
Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QED in a Magnetic Field: Toward Exact Results
We describe a (first, to the best of our knowledge) essentially soluble
example of dynamical symmetry breaking phenomenon in a 3+1 dimensional gauge
theory without fundamental scalar fields: QED in a constant magnetic field.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX. Final version accepted for publication in
Physical Review Letter
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