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Associated production of the charged Higgs boson and single top quark at the LHC
The left-right twin Higgs(LRTH) model predicts the existence of the charged
Higgs . In this paper, we study the production of the charged Higgs
boson with single top quark via the process at the
Large Hadron Collider(LHC). The numerical results show that the
production cross section can reach the level of in the reasonable
parameter space of the LRTH model. We expect that, as long as it is not too
heavy, the possible signatures of the heavy charged Higgs boson
might be detected via the decay mode at the LHC
experiments.Comment: This paper has been withdrawn by the author(s) due to some mistakes
in this pape
Existence problem of proton semi-bubble structure in the state of Si
The fully self-consistent Hartree-Fock (HF) plus random phase approximation
(RPA) based on Skyrme-type interaction is used to study the existence problem
of proton semi-bubble structure in the state of Si. The
experimental excitation energy and the B(E2) strength of the state in
Si can be reproduced quite well. The tensor effect is also studied. It
is shown that the tensor interaction has a notable impact on the excitation
energy of the state and a small effect on the B(E2) value. Besides, its
effect on the density distributions in the ground and state of
Si is negligible. Our present results with T36 and T44 show that the
state of Si is mainly caused by proton transiton from orbit to orbit, and the existence of a proton
semi-bubble structure in this state is very unlikely.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 3 table
Robust Quantum State Transfer in Random Unpolarized Spin Chains
We propose and analyze a new approach for quantum state transfer between
remote spin qubits. Specifically, we demonstrate that coherent quantum coupling
between remote qubits can be achieved via certain classes of random,
unpolarized (infinite temperature) spin chains. Our method is robust to
coupling strength disorder and does not require manipulation or control over
individual spins. In principle, it can be used to attain perfect state transfer
over arbitrarily long range via purely Hamiltonian evolution and may be
particularly applicable in a solid-state quantum information processor. As an
example, we demonstrate that it can be used to attain strong coherent coupling
between Nitrogen-Vacancy centers separated by micrometer distances at room
temperature. Realistic imperfections and decoherence effects are analyzed.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. V2: Modified discussion of disorder, added
references - final version as published in Phys. Rev. Let
Towards a user-centric social approach to web services composition, execution, and monitoring
This paper discusses the intertwine of social networks of users and social networks of Web services to compose, execute, and monitor Web services. Each network provides details that permit achieving this intertwine and thus, completing the three operations. A user social-network is used to advise users on the next Web services to select based on their peers’ experiences, whereas a Web service social network is used to advise users on the substitutes to select in case a Web service fails, for example. To make the intertwine of these social networks happen, three components are developed: composer, executor, and monitor. The social composer develops composite Web services considering relations between users and the ones between Web services. The social executor assesses the impact of these relations on these compositeWeb services execution progress. Finally, the social monitor replaces failing Web services to guarantee the execution continuity of these composite Web services. A running example and a prototype illustrate and demonstrate the intertwine of these social networks, respectively.Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Quan Z. Sheng and Lina Ya
Intrathecal morphine remotely preconditions the heart via a neural pathway
Central opioid receptor activation triggers cardioprotection against ischemia reperfusion injury, independent of peripheral opioid receptor activity. Using a rodent model of myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury with infarct size as the primary outcome, we tested the hypothesis that spinal opioids confer this beneficial effect via a neural pathway. Intrathecal morphine reduced the infarct size compared with control (23% +/- 7% vs. 58% +/- 3%, respectively, P < 0.01). Prior antagonism of the autonomic pathway, and the receptors for bradykinin, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and the KATP channel, respectively, abolished this cardioprotection (54% +/- 13%, 52% +/- 10%, 56% +/- 9%, and 49% +/- 8%, respectively, P < 0.05). In a second set of experiments, we demonstrated that the increased expression of myocardial phosphorylated-Akt and endothelial nitric oxide synthase induced by intrathecal morphine was blocked by prior administration of hexamethonium. These findings support the notion that spinal opioid receptors stimulate a neural pathway that uses nonopioid neurotransmitters to confer cardioprotection from ischemia reperfusion injury. The use of intrathecal morphine for this purpose has potential clinical application, and it is already being used in the perioperative period to provide prolonged analgesia.postprin
ShorelineNet: An Efficient Deep Learning Approach for Shoreline Semantic Segmentation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
This paper introduces a novel deep learning approach to semantic segmentation of the shoreline environments with a high frames-per-second (fps) performance, making the approach readily applicable to autonomous navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV). The proposed ShorelineNet is an efficient deep neural network of high performance relying only on visual input. ShorelineNet uses monocular visual input to produce accurate shoreline separation and obstacle detection compared to the state-of-the-art, and achieves this with realtime performance. Experimental validation on a challenging multi-modal maritime obstacle detection dataset, the MODD2 dataset, achieves a much faster inference (25fps on an NVIDIA Tesla K80 and 6fps on a CPU) with respect to the recent state-of-the-art methods, while keeping the performance equally high (73.1% F-score). This makes ShorelineNet a robust and effective model to be used for reliable USV navigation that require real-time and high-performance semantic segmentation of maritime environments
A privacy preserved and credible network protocol
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this recordThe identities of packet senders and receivers are treated as important privacy information in communication networks. Any packet can be attributed to its sender for evaluating its credibility. Existing studies mainly rely on third-party agents that contain the packet sender's identity to ensure the sender's privacy preservation and credibility. In this case, packet senders run the risk that their privacy might be leaked by the agent. To this end, this paper proposes a Privacy Preserved and Credible Network Protocol (PCNP), which authorizes the agent to hide the identities of senders and receivers, while guaranteeing the credibility of a packet. The feasibility of the PCNP deployment is analyzed, and its performance is evaluated through extensive experiments.Ministry of Science and Technology of ChinaChinese Academy of Scienc
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