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Complete Study of Hadroproduction of a Meson Associated with a Prompt
We present the first complete study of and prompt
production from single-parton scattering, including the complete
color-singlet contribution, the
electroweak contribution, the complete
nonrelativistic S-wave and P-wave color-octet contribution as well as the
feeddown contribution. Our study was motivated by the recent evidence reported
by D0 Collaboration of prompt and simultaneous production
at the Tevatron. With our complete evaluation, we are able to refine the
determination of the double parton scattering contribution made by D0
Collaboration. We find that the effective cross section characterizing the
importance of double-parton scatterings is mb at
confidence level from the D0 measurement.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; v2: journal version, update the
references and fix a few typo
Circular Convolution Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) System with Index Modulation
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with
index modulation (OFDM-IM), which uses the subcarrier indices
as a source of information, has attracted considerable interest
recently. Motivated by the index modulation (IM) concept, we
build a circular convolution filter bank multicarrier with index
modulation (C-FBMC-IM) system in this paper. The advantages
of the C-FBMC-IM system are investigated by comparing the
interference power with the conventional C-FBMC system. As
some subcarriers carry nothing but zeros, the minimum mean
square error (MMSE) equalization bias power will be smaller
comparing to the conventional C-FBMC system. As a result,
our C-FBMC-IM system outperforms the conventional C-FBMC
system. The simulation results demonstrate that both BER and
spectral efficiency improvement can be achieved when we apply
IM into the C-FBMC system
Search for charmonium and XYZ states in at BESIII
Within the framework of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics, we study the
production of charmonium states in at BESIII
with (n=1, 2, 3, and 4), (n=1, 2, and 3), and
(n=1 and 2). The radiative and relativistic corrections are
calculated to next-to-leading order for and wave states. We then argue
that the search for states such as , , ,
and in at BESIII may help clarify the nature
of these states. BESIII can search states through two body process
, where decay to , , or
. This result may be useful in identifying the nature of
states. For completeness, the production of charmonium in at B factories is also discussed.Comment: Comments and suggestions are welcome. References are update
A reversal coarse-grained analysis with application to an altered functional circuit in depression
Introduction:
When studying brain function using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data containing tens of thousands of voxels, a coarse-grained approach – dividing the whole brain into regions of interest – is applied frequently to investigate the organization of the functional network on a relatively coarse scale. However, a coarse-grained scheme may average out the fine details over small spatial scales, thus rendering it difficult to identify the exact locations of functional abnormalities.
Methods:
A novel and general approach to reverse the coarse-grained approach by locating the exact sources of the functional abnormalities is proposed.
Results:
Thirty-nine patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 37 matched healthy controls are studied. A circuit comprising the left superior frontal gyrus (SFGdor), right insula (INS), and right putamen (PUT) exhibit the greatest changes between the patients with MDD and controls. A reversal coarse-grained analysis is applied to this circuit to determine the exact location of functional abnormalities.
Conclusions:
The voxel-wise time series extracted from the reversal coarse-grained analysis (source) had several advantages over the original coarse-grained approach: (1) presence of a larger and detectable amplitude of fluctuations, which indicates that neuronal activities in the source are more synchronized; (2) identification of more significant differences between patients and controls in terms of the functional connectivity associated with the sources; and (3) marked improvement in performing discrimination tasks. A software package for pattern classification between controls and patients is available in Supporting Information
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