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Spin correlations in polarizations of P-wave charmonia and impact on polarization
Based on a general form of the effective vertex functions for the decays of
P-wave charmonia \chicj, angular distribution formulas for the subsequent
decays \chicj\rightarrow \jpsi \gamma and \jpsi \to \mu^+\mu^- are derived.
The formulas are the same as those obtained in a different approach in the
literature. Our formulas are expressed in a more general form, including parity
violation effects and the full angular dependence of \jpsi and muon in the
cascade decay \chicj\to\jpsi\gamma\to\mu^+\mu^-\gamma. The \chicj
polarization observables are expressed in terms of rational functions of the
spin density matrix elements of \chicj production. Generalized
rotation-invariant relations for arbitrary integer-spin particles are also
derived and their expressions in terms of observable angular distribution
parameters are given in the and . To complement our
previous direct-\jpsi polarization result, we also discuss the impact on the
observable prompt-\jpsi polarization. As an illustrative application of our
angular distribution formulas, we present the angular distributions in terms of
the tree-level spin density matrix elements of and
production in several different frames at the Large Hadron Collider. Moreover,
a reweighting method is also proposed to determine the entire set of the
production spin density matrix elements of the , some of which
disappear or are suppressed for vanishing higher-order multipole effects making
the complete extraction difficult experimentally.Comment: Version published in PRD, 23 pages, 18 figure
K-quantum Nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings Model in Two Trapped Ions
A k-quantum nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings model for two trapped ions interacting
with laser beams resonant to k-th red side-band of center-of-mass mode, far
from Lamb-Dicke regime, has been obtained. The exact analytic solution showed
the existence of quantum collapses and revivals of the occupation of two atoms.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Optical Flow Guided Feature: A Fast and Robust Motion Representation for Video Action Recognition
Motion representation plays a vital role in human action recognition in
videos. In this study, we introduce a novel compact motion representation for
video action recognition, named Optical Flow guided Feature (OFF), which
enables the network to distill temporal information through a fast and robust
approach. The OFF is derived from the definition of optical flow and is
orthogonal to the optical flow. The derivation also provides theoretical
support for using the difference between two frames. By directly calculating
pixel-wise spatiotemporal gradients of the deep feature maps, the OFF could be
embedded in any existing CNN based video action recognition framework with only
a slight additional cost. It enables the CNN to extract spatiotemporal
information, especially the temporal information between frames simultaneously.
This simple but powerful idea is validated by experimental results. The network
with OFF fed only by RGB inputs achieves a competitive accuracy of 93.3% on
UCF-101, which is comparable with the result obtained by two streams (RGB and
optical flow), but is 15 times faster in speed. Experimental results also show
that OFF is complementary to other motion modalities such as optical flow. When
the proposed method is plugged into the state-of-the-art video action
recognition framework, it has 96:0% and 74:2% accuracy on UCF-101 and HMDB-51
respectively. The code for this project is available at
https://github.com/kevin-ssy/Optical-Flow-Guided-Feature.Comment: CVPR 2018. code available at
https://github.com/kevin-ssy/Optical-Flow-Guided-Featur
Development of a classification model in disability sport
The principal aim of this study was to develop a classification model in
disability sports. Using disability swimming as an example, methods of participant
observation, interview, survey and document analysis were undertaken in three
empirical studies to develop and clarify the classification model and three elements in
swimming classification- (a) the classification process, (b) classifiers and (c) the
classification system.
First, the swimming classification process was identified as a social process.
Members in the classification process socially interacted. The detailed classification
process was described, interpreted and discussed. Several features in the classification
process were identified. They included interaction among social actors, routinization,
rules in the process, resources used by classifiers, power relations among social actors,
allocation of rewards and sanctions in the classification process, and conflicts among
social actors.
Second, the role of classifiers as an agent of social control in disability
swimming was examined. Resources used by medical and technical classifiers in the
classification process to maintain their role and social order, and the socialization of
classifiers in swimming were specifically explored. In addition, the important
characteristics of swimming classifiers were identified in the study.
Third, classification outcomes in disability swimming were monitored to
evaluate the effectiveness of the classification system. Performance and impairment
approaches were used in the study. Data of performances and types of impairment of
Paralympic swimmers were analysed. The results revealed that the swimming
classification system was generally fair but some classes needed to be fine-tuned.
In this study elements of the classification model were clarified by integration of
the results of the three empirical studies and the classification literature. It is suggested
that researchers may use the concepts of the classification model for further investigationin disability sportc lassificationa nd disability sport committees may apply the model to systematicallye valuatet heir own classification systems, processes and
classifiers
Development of Computer Vision-Enhanced Smart Golf Ball Retriever
An automatic vehicle system was developed to assist golfers in collecting golf balls from a practice field. Computer vision methodology was utilized to enhance the detection of golf balls in shallow and/or deep grass regions. The free software OpenCV was used in this project because of its powerful features and supported repository. The homemade golf ball picker was built with a smart recognition function for golf balls and can lock onto targets by itself. A set of field tests was completed in which the rate of golf ball recognition was as high as 95%. We report that this homemade smart golf ball picker can reduce the tremendous amount of labor associated with having to gather golf balls scattered throughout a practice field
Quantum-State Engineering of Multiple Trapped Ions for Center-of-Mass Mode
We propose a scheme to generate a superposition with arbitrary coefficients
on a line in phase space for the center-of-mass vibrational mode of N ions by
means of isolating all other spectator vibrational modes from the
center-of-mass mode. It can be viewed as the generation of previous methods for
preparing motional states of one ion. For large number of ions, we need only
one cyclic operatin to generate such a superposition of many coherent states.Comment: 14 pages, revte
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