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    The Role of Tensor Force in Heavy-Ion Fusion Dynamics

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    The tensor force is implemented into the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory so that both exotic and stable collision partners, as well as their dynamics in heavy-ion fusion, can be described microscopically. The role of tensor force on fusion dynamics is systematically investigated for 40Ca+40Ca^{40}\mathrm{Ca}+\mathrm{^{40}Ca}, 40Ca+48Ca^{40}\mathrm{Ca}+\mathrm{^{48}Ca}, 48Ca+48Ca^{48}\mathrm{Ca}+\mathrm{^{48}Ca}, 48Ca+56Ni^{48}\mathrm{Ca}+\mathrm{^{56}Ni}, and 56Ni+56Ni^{56}\mathrm{Ni}+\mathrm{^{56}Ni} reactions which vary by the total number of spin-unsaturated magic numbers in target and projectile. A notable effect on fusion barriers and cross sections is observed by the inclusion of tensor force. The origin of this effect is analyzed. The influence of isoscalar and isovector tensor terms is investigated with the TIJIJ forces. These effects of tensor force in fusion dynamics are essentially attributed to the shift of low-lying vibration states of colliding partners and nucleon transfer in the asymmetric reactions. Our calculations of above-barrier fusion cross sections also show that tensor force does not significantly affect the dynamical dissipation at near-barrier energies

    Resummation prediction on gauge boson pair production with a jet veto

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    We investigate the resummation effects with a jet veto, for WZ and ZZ productions at the LHC in soft-collinear effective theory. We present the invariant mass distributions and the total cross section with different jet veto and jet radius for these process at Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic level. Our results show that the jet-veto resummation can increase the jet-veto cross section and decrease the scale uncertainties, especially in the large center-of-mass energy. We find that for pt_veto>30 GeV and R=0.4, the resummation results can increase POWHEG+PYTHIA predictions by about 19% for WZ production and 18% for ZZ production, respectively. Our results agree with the CMS data for WZ productions within 2σ\sigma C.L. at 8 TeV, which can explain the 2σ\sigma discrepancy between the CMS experimental results and theoretical predictions based on NLO calculation with parton showers.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figure

    Real-time Multiple People Tracking with Deeply Learned Candidate Selection and Person Re-Identification

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    Online multi-object tracking is a fundamental problem in time-critical video analysis applications. A major challenge in the popular tracking-by-detection framework is how to associate unreliable detection results with existing tracks. In this paper, we propose to handle unreliable detection by collecting candidates from outputs of both detection and tracking. The intuition behind generating redundant candidates is that detection and tracks can complement each other in different scenarios. Detection results of high confidence prevent tracking drifts in the long term, and predictions of tracks can handle noisy detection caused by occlusion. In order to apply optimal selection from a considerable amount of candidates in real-time, we present a novel scoring function based on a fully convolutional neural network, that shares most computations on the entire image. Moreover, we adopt a deeply learned appearance representation, which is trained on large-scale person re-identification datasets, to improve the identification ability of our tracker. Extensive experiments show that our tracker achieves real-time and state-of-the-art performance on a widely used people tracking benchmark.Comment: ICME 201

    Integrated movable micromechanical structures for sensors and actuators

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    Movable pin-joints, gears, springs, cranks, and slider structures with dimensions measured in micrometers have been fabricated using silicon microfabrication technology. These micromechanical structures, which have important transducer applications, are batch-fabricated with an IC-compatible process. The movable mechanical elements are built on layers that are later removed so that they are freed for translation and rotation. An undercut-and-refill technique, which makes use of the high surface mobility of silicon atoms undergoing chemical vapor deposition, is used to refill undercut regions in order to form restraining flanges. Typical element sizes and masses are measured in micrometers and nanograms. The process provides the tiny structures in an assembled form avoiding the nearly impossible challenge of handling such small elements individually

    IC-processed micro-motors: design, technology, and testing

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    Micro-motors having rotors with diameters between 60 and 120 μm have been fabricated and driven electrostatically to continuous rotation. These motors were built using processes derived from IC (integrated circuit) microcircuit fabrication techniques. Initial tests on the motors show that friction plays a dominant role in their dynamic behavior. Observed rotational speeds have thus far been limited to several hundred r.p.m., which is a small fraction of what would be achievable if only natural frequency were to limit the response. Experimental starting voltages are at least an order of magnitude larger than had been expected (60 V at minimum and above 100 V for some structures). Observations of asynchronous as well as synchronous rotation between the driving fields and the rotors can be explained in terms of the torque/rotor-angle characteristics for the motors

    Vibrational frequencies and structural properties of transition metals via total-energy calculations

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    We have used a self-consistent pseudopotential method within local-density-functional theory to calculate the equilibrium ground state properties of transition metals Mo, Nb, and Zr. From our calculations, we obtain equilibrium lattice constants, cohesive energies, and bulk moduli which are in excellent agreement with the experiments;First principles frozen phonon calculations are then performed for the longitudinal (2/3,2/3,2/3) phonon in Mo, Nb, and bcc Zr as well as the H-point phonon in Mo and Nb. These calculations involve the precise evaluation of the total crystalline energy as a function of lattice displacement and yield phonon frequencies to within a few percent of the experimental values. Anharmonic terms are obtained with little additional effort and are found to be very important for causing the tendency toward the (omega)-phase instability in bcc Zr. These calculations allow a detailed analysis of the mechanisms causing phonon anomalies. They also provide first principle benchmarks at a few wavevectors where phenomenological models can be tested or their parameters determined;The validity of the adiabatic approximation is investigated for the Mo H-point phonon. Non-adiabatic effects are found to be small, while effects caused by the many-body renormalization of electronic states near the Fermi energy are found to be of the same order of magnitude as the discrepancy between experiment and the frozen phonon results;The microscopic interactions responsible for the vast frequency differences of the longitudinal (2/3,2/3,2/3) phonon in Mo, Nb, and Zr are analyzed by making use of the Hellmann-Feynman theorem. The stiffening of this mode as the electron per atom ratio increases from Nb to Mo is shown to arise from a development of directional bonding. The precipitous dip in this mode for the high temperature bcc phase of Zr is related to the d-electron screening, and the;tendency for this mode to go soft and cause a transformation to the (omega)-phase is also associated with details of the electronic structure; (\u271)DOE Report IS-T-1065. This work was performed under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-82 with the U.S. Department of Energy

    Resummation prediction on the jet mass spectrum in one-jet inclusive production at the LHC

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    We study the factorization and resummation prediction on the jet mass spectrum in one-jet inclusive production at the LHC based on soft-collinear effective theory. The soft function with anti-kTk_T algorithm is calculated at next-to-leading order and its validity is demonstrated by checking the agreement between the expanded leading singular terms with the exact fixed-order result. The large logarithms lnn(mJ2/pT2)\ln^{n} (m_J^2/p_T^2) and the global logarithms lnn(s4/pT2)\ln^{n} (s_4/p_T^2) in the process are resummed to all order at next-to-leading logarithmic and next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic level, respectively. The cross section is enhanced by about 23% from the next-to-leading logarithmic level to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic level. Comparing our resummation predictions with those from Monte Carlo tool PYTHIA and ATLAS data at the 7 TeV LHC, we find that the peak positions of the jet mass spectra agree with those from PYTHIA at parton level, and the predictions of the jet mass spectra with non-perturbative effects are in coincidence with the ATLAS data. We also show the predictions at the future 13 TeV LHC.Comment: 43 pages, 10 figure

    Threshold Resummation for WZ and ZZ Pair Production at the LHC

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    We perform the threshold resummation for WZ and ZZ pair production at the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory at the LHC. Our results show that the resummation effects increase the total cross sections by about 7% for ZZ production and 12% for WZ production with$\sqrt{S}= 7,~8,~13 and 14 TeV, respectively, and the scale uncertainties are significantly reduced. Besides, our numerical results are well consistent with experimental data reported by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, version published in Phys.Rev.

    Signature of the γ\gamma+jet and dijet production mediated by an excited quark with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC

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    We present a detailed study of the production and decay of the excited quark at the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) level at the Large Hadron Collider, using the narrow width approximation and helicity amplitudes method. We find that the QCD NLO corrections can tighten the constraints on the model parameters and reduce the scale dependencies of the total cross sections. We discuss the signals of the excited quark production with decay mode qqγq^{\ast}\rightarrow q\gamma and qqgq^{\ast}\rightarrow qg, and present several important kinematic distributions. Moreover, we give the upper limits of the excited quark excluded mass range and the allowed parameter space for the coupling constants and the excited quark mass.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures; version published in PR
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