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Nonleptonic two-body charmless B decays involving a tensor meson in the Perturbative QCD Approach
Two-body charmless hadronic B decays involving a light tensor meson in the
final states are studied in the perturbative QCD approach based on
factorization. From our calculations, we find that the decay branching ratios
for color allowed tree-dominated decays and modes are of order and , respectively.
While other color suppressed tree-dominated decays have very small branching
ratios. In general, the branching ratios of most decays are in the range of
to , which are bigger by one or two orders of magnitude than
those predictions obtained in Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise II model and in the
covariant light-front approach, but consistent with the recent experimental
measurements and the QCD factorization calculations. Since the decays with a
tensor meson emitted from vacuum are prohibited in naive factorization, the
contributions of nonfactorizable and annihilation diagrams are very important
to these decays, which are calculable in our perturbative QCD approach. We also
give predictions to the direct CP asymmetries, some of which are large enough
for the future experiments to measure. Because we considered the mixing between
and , the decay rates are enhanced significantly for some
decays involving meson, even with a small mixing angle.Comment: 26 pages, 2 figure
Streaming Video over HTTP with Consistent Quality
In conventional HTTP-based adaptive streaming (HAS), a video source is
encoded at multiple levels of constant bitrate representations, and a client
makes its representation selections according to the measured network
bandwidth. While greatly simplifying adaptation to the varying network
conditions, this strategy is not the best for optimizing the video quality
experienced by end users. Quality fluctuation can be reduced if the natural
variability of video content is taken into consideration. In this work, we
study the design of a client rate adaptation algorithm to yield consistent
video quality. We assume that clients have visibility into incoming video
within a finite horizon. We also take advantage of the client-side video
buffer, by using it as a breathing room for not only network bandwidth
variability, but also video bitrate variability. The challenge, however, lies
in how to balance these two variabilities to yield consistent video quality
without risking a buffer underrun. We propose an optimization solution that
uses an online algorithm to adapt the video bitrate step-by-step, while
applying dynamic programming at each step. We incorporate our solution into
PANDA -- a practical rate adaptation algorithm designed for HAS deployment at
scale.Comment: Refined version submitted to ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
(MMSys), 201
Probing Half-odd Topological Number with Cold Atoms in a Non-Abelian Optical Lattice
We propose an experimental scheme to probe the contribution of a single Dirac
cone to the Hall conductivity as half-odd topological number sequence. In our
scheme, the quantum anomalous Hall effect as in graphene is simulated with cold
atoms trapped in an optical lattice and subjected to a laser-induced
non-Abelian gauge field. By tuning the laser intensity to change the gauge
flux, the energies of the four Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone are
shifted with each other and the contribution of the single Dirac cone to the
total atomic Hall conductivity is manifested. We also show such manifestation
can be experimentally probed with atomic density profile measurements.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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