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Characterizing flows with an instrumented particle measuring Lagrangian accelerations
We present in this article a novel Lagrangian measurement technique: an
instrumented particle which continuously transmits the force/acceleration
acting on it as it is advected in a flow. We develop signal processing methods
to extract information on the flow from the acceleration signal transmitted by
the particle. Notably, we are able to characterize the force acting on the
particle and to identify the presence of a permanent large-scale vortex
structure. Our technique provides a fast, robust and efficient tool to
characterize flows, and it is particularly suited to obtain Lagrangian
statistics along long trajectories or in cases where optical measurement
techniques are not or hardly applicable.Comment: submitted to New Journal of Physic
Weak-strong beam-beam simulations for the Large Hadron Collider
A weak-strong simulation code is used to study the single-particle stability in the presence of triplet field errors, head-on collisions, and long-range beam-beam interactions at the Large Hadron Collider. We present the dependence of the simulated transverse diffusion rate on various parameters, such as starting amplitude, working point in tune diagram, crossing angle, beta function at the interaction points (IPs), beam current, triplet nonlinearities, tune modulation, and a transverse offset at one of two IPs. For several examples, we perform a frequency map analysis a la Laskar, to obtain tune footprints and the tune variation in time. A cursory look at the effect of a Mobius lattice is also reported. (17 refs)
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Diffusive Aperture Due to Long-Range Beam-Beam Interaction
Weak-strong tracking simulations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) show that long-range beam-beam collisions give rise to a well-defined diffusive aperture beyond which particles are lost quickly. We calculate the tune shift with amplitude and single-resonance driving terms for beam-beam collisions with an arbitrary transverse off-set, and then apply Chirikov resonance overlap criterion to construct an analytical estimate of the diffusive aperture induced by long-range collisions. The analytical results are compared with tracking data for the LHC
Publication Bias in Asset Pricing Research
Researchers are more likely to share notable findings. As a result, published
findings tend to overstate the magnitude of real-world phenomena. This bias is
a natural concern for asset pricing research, which has found hundreds of
return predictors and little consensus on their origins.
Empirical evidence on publication bias comes from large scale meta-studies.
Meta-studies of cross-sectional return predictability have settled on four
stylized facts that demonstrate publication bias is not a dominant factor: (1)
almost all findings can be replicated, (2) predictability persists
out-of-sample, (3) empirical -statistics are much larger than 2.0, and (4)
predictors are weakly correlated. Each of these facts has been demonstrated in
at least three meta-studies.
Empirical Bayes statistics turn these facts into publication bias
corrections. Estimates from three meta-studies find that the average correction
(shrinkage) accounts for only 10 to 15 percent of in-sample mean returns and
that the risk of inference going in the wrong direction (the false discovery
rate) is less than 6%.
Meta-studies also find that t-statistic hurdles exceed 3.0 in multiple
testing algorithms and that returns are 30 to 50 percent weaker in alternative
portfolio tests. These facts are easily misinterpreted as evidence of
publication bias effects. We clarify these misinterpretations and others,
including the conflating of ``mostly false findings'' with ``many insignificant
findings.''
Cross-sectional predictability may not be representative of other fields.
Meta-studies of real-time equity premium prediction suggest a much larger
effect of publication bias, though publication bias in this and other areas of
asset pricing is an important area for future research
Tune Shift Due to Crossing Collision and CRAB Collision
The use of crab cavities in the LHC may not only raise the luminosity, but it could also complicate the beam dynamics, e.g. crab cavities might not only cancel synchrobetatron resonances excited by the crossing angle but they could also excite new ones. In this paper, we use weakstrong beam-beam model to study the incoherent linear tune shift of the weak beam, for the crossing collision case and crab collision case with a nite crossing angle. The tune shift is also compared among the head-on collision, crossing collision and crab collision cases, both analytically and numerically
Effects of sextupole time dependence on the LHC dynamic aperture
A primary concern regarding the LHC dynamic aperture is the time dependence of persistent-current sextupole fields in the superconducting magnets. Decaying slowly during injection, these fields are reinduced rapidly at the start of the acceleration ("snap-back"). If uncompensated, this snap-back would cause a chromaticity change by some 130 units. We investigate how this time dependence and the ramp rate affect the stability of particle motion and we evaluate the efficiency of different correction schemes
CRAB-CAVITY BEAM DYNAMICS ISSUES FOR AN LHC UPGRADE
Modern colliders bring into collision a large number of bunches per pulse or per turn to achieve a high luminosity. The long-range beam-beam effects arising from parasitic encounters at such colliders are mitigated by introducing a crossing angle. Under these conditions, crab cavities can be used to restore effective head-on collisions and thereby to increase the geometric luminosity. The crab cavities have been proposed for both linear and circular colliders. The crab cavities are rf cavities operated in a transverse dipole mode, which imparts on the beam particles a transverse kick that varies with the longitudinal position along the bunch. The use of crab cavities in the LHC may not only raise the luminosity, but it could also complicate the beam dynamics, e.g. crab cavities might not only cancel synchro-betatron resonances excited by the crossing angle but they could also excite new ones, they could reduce the dynamic aperture for off-momentum particles, they could degrade the collimation cleaning efficiency, and so on. In this note, we summarize the results of several preliminary studies of beam-dynamics challenges associated with crab cavities in the LHC
Design Considerations for the CLIC pre-damping rings
The CLIC pre-damping rings (PDR) have to accommodate a large emittance beam, coming in particular from the positron target and reduce its size to low enough values for injection into the main damping rings (DR). The lattice design is based on theoretical minimum emittance (TME) arc cells and long straight sections filled with damping wigglers. Lattice design optimisation considerations are presented with emphasis to the linear optics functions, tunability, chromatic properties and acceptance. A complete phase advance scan of the TME cells is undertaken for reducing the non-linear resonance driving terms and amplitude dependent tunespread and maximizing the ring’s dynamic aperture (DA)
Provenance for SPARQL queries
Determining trust of data available in the Semantic Web is fundamental for
applications and users, in particular for linked open data obtained from SPARQL
endpoints. There exist several proposals in the literature to annotate SPARQL
query results with values from abstract models, adapting the seminal works on
provenance for annotated relational databases. We provide an approach capable
of providing provenance information for a large and significant fragment of
SPARQL 1.1, including for the first time the major non-monotonic constructs
under multiset semantics. The approach is based on the translation of SPARQL
into relational queries over annotated relations with values of the most
general m-semiring, and in this way also refuting a claim in the literature
that the OPTIONAL construct of SPARQL cannot be captured appropriately with the
known abstract models.Comment: 22 pages, extended version of the ISWC 2012 paper including proof
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