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The study of light invisible particles in decays
In this paper, we study the light scalar and pseudoscalar invisible particles
in the flavor changing neutral current processes of the meson. Effective
operators are introduced to describe the couplings between quarks and light
invisible particles. The Wilson coefficients are extracted from the
experimental results of the and mesons, which are used to predict the
upper limits of the branching fractions of the similar decay processes for the
meson. The hadronic transition matrix element is calculated with the
instantaneously approximated Bethe-Salpeter method. The upper limits of the
branching fractions when taking different values are presented. It is
found that at some region of , the channel has the largest upper limit which is of the order of
, and for , the largest value of the
upper limits can achieve the order of . Other decay modes, such as
and ,
are also considered.Comment: 24 pages, 35 figure
Intergreen Time Calculation Method of Signalized Intersections Based on Safety Reliability Theory: A Monte-Carlo Simulation Approach
In China, around ninety percent of the traffic accidents at signalized intersections occur within the signal change intervals, especially during signal change from green to red. Hence, intergreen time (IGT), that is, yellow change interval plus red clearance interval, is of great significance to the safety at signalized intersections. The conventional calculation method of IGT ignores the randomness of driversβ behaviors, which we believe is an important factor in calculation of IGT. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate a new approach to calculate the IGT based on safety reliability theory. Firstly, a comprehensive literature review concerning the conventional calculation methods of IGT is conducted. Secondly, a theoretical calculation method of IGT based on safety reliability theory is put forward; different from the conventional methods, this model accounts for the uncertainty of driving behavior parameters. Thirdly, a Monte-Carlo simulation is employed to simulate the interactive process of perception-reaction time (PRT) and vehicular deceleration and solve the proposed model. Finally, according to the Monte-Carlo simulation results, the curve clusters describing the relationship between IGT, safety reliability (50%-90%), and intersection width (15-35m) are drawn. Results show that the IGT of a signalized intersection, obeying the normal distribution, is influenced by multiple factors and most sensitive to the PRT and vehicular deceleration. Our method thus successfully incorporates the probabilistic nature of driving behavior. Taking the safety reliability into consideration can provide a more reasonable method to calculate the IGT of signalized intersections.
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