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A Development Environment for Visual Physics Analysis
The Visual Physics Analysis (VISPA) project integrates different aspects of
physics analyses into a graphical development environment. It addresses the
typical development cycle of (re-)designing, executing and verifying an
analysis. The project provides an extendable plug-in mechanism and includes
plug-ins for designing the analysis flow, for running the analysis on batch
systems, and for browsing the data content. The corresponding plug-ins are
based on an object-oriented toolkit for modular data analysis. We introduce the
main concepts of the project, describe the technical realization and
demonstrate the functionality in example applications
Classification and Recovery of Radio Signals from Cosmic Ray Induced Air Showers with Deep Learning
Radio emission from air showers enables measurements of cosmic particle
kinematics and identity. The radio signals are detected in broadband Megahertz
antennas among continuous background noise. We present two deep learning
concepts and their performance when applied to simulated data. The first
network classifies time traces as signal or background. We achieve a true
positive rate of about 90% for signal-to-noise ratios larger than three with a
false positive rate below 0.2%. The other network is used to clean the time
trace from background and to recover the radio time trace originating from an
air shower. Here we achieve a resolution in the energy contained in the trace
of about 20% without a bias for of the traces with a signal. The
obtained frequency spectrum is cleaned from signals of radio frequency
interference and shows the expected shape.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures, resubmitted to JINS
Vertices of Lie Modules
Let Lie(n) be the Lie module of the symmetric group S_n over a field F of
characteristic p>0, that is, Lie(n) is the left ideal of FS_n generated by the
Dynkin-Specht-Wever element. We study the problem of parametrizing
non-projective indecomposable summands of Lie(n), via describing their vertices
and sources. Our main result shows that this can be reduced to the case when n
is a power of p. When n=9 and p=3, and when n=8 and p=2, we present a precise
answer. This suggests a possible parametrization for arbitrary prime powers.Comment: 26 page
Automated Reconstruction of Particle Cascades in High Energy Physics Experiments
We present a procedure for reconstructing particle cascades from event data
measured in a high energy physics experiment. For evaluating the hypothesis of
a specific physics process causing the observed data, all possible
reconstruction versions of the scattering process are constructed from the
final state objects. We describe the procedure as well as examples of physics
processes of different complexity studied at hadron-hadron colliders. We
estimate the performance by 20 microseconds per reconstructed decay vertex, and
0.6 kByte per reconstructed particle in the decay trees.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Computational Science & Discover
Methodology for predicting oily mixture properties in the mathematical modeling of molecular distillation
A methodology for predicting the thermodynamic and transport properties of a multi-component oily mixture, in which the different mixture components are grouped into a small number of pseudo components is shown. This prediction of properties is used in the mathematical modeling of molecular distillation, which consists of a system of differential equations in partial derivatives, according to the principles of the Transport Phenomena and is solved by an implicit finite difference method using a computer code. The mathematical model was validated with experimental data, specifically the molecular distillation of a deodorizer distillate (DD) of sunflower oil. The results obtained were satisfactory, with errors less than 10% with respect to the experimental data in a temperature range in which it is possible to apply the proposed method.Fil: Gayol, Maria Fernanda. Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto. Facultad de IngenierĂa. Departamento de TecnologĂa QuĂmica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - CĂłrdoba; ArgentinaFil: Pramparo, Maria del Carmen. Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto. Facultad de IngenierĂa. Departamento de TecnologĂa QuĂmica; ArgentinaFil: Miro Erdmann, Silvia M.. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de IngenierĂa y Ciencias Agropecuarias; Argentin
Universal deformation rings of modules for algebras of dihedral type of polynomial growth
Let k be an algebraically closed field, and let \Lambda\ be an algebra of
dihedral type of polynomial growth as classified by Erdmann and Skowro\'{n}ski.
We describe all finitely generated \Lambda-modules V whose stable endomorphism
rings are isomorphic to k and determine their universal deformation rings
R(\Lambda,V). We prove that only three isomorphism types occur for
R(\Lambda,V): k, k[[t]]/(t^2) and k[[t]].Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure
Fluorescent nanodiamonds for FRET-based monitoring of a single biological nanomotor FoF1-ATP synthase
Color centers in diamond nanocrystals are a new class of fluorescence markers
that attract significant interest due to matchless brightness, photostability
and biochemical inertness. Fluorescing diamond nanocrystals containing defects
can be used as markers replacing conventional organic dye molecules, quantum
dots or autofluorescent proteins. They can be applied for tracking and
ultrahigh-resolution localization of the single markers. In addition the spin
properties of diamond defects can be utilized for novel magneto-optical imaging
(MOI) with nanometer resolution. We develop this technique to unravel the
details of the rotary motions and the elastic energy storage mechanism of a
single biological nanomotor FoF1-ATP synthase. FoF1-ATP synthase is the enzyme
that provides the 'chemical energy currency' adenosine triphosphate, ATP, for
living cells. The formation of ATP is accomplished by a stepwise internal
rotation of subunits within the enzyme. Previously subunit rotation has been
monitored by single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and
was limited by the photostability of the fluorophores. Fluorescent nanodiamonds
advance these FRET measurements to long time scales.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Noise-Induced Transition from Translational to Rotational Motion of Swarms
We consider a model of active Brownian agents interacting via a harmonic
attractive potential in a two-dimensional system in the presence of noise. By
numerical simulations, we show that this model possesses a noise-induced
transition characterized by the breakdown of translational motion and the onset
of swarm rotation as the noise intensity is increased. Statistical properties
of swarm dynamics in the weak noise limit are further analytically
investigated.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Design and Performance of the CMS Pixel Detector Readout Chip
The readout chip for the CMS pixel detector has to deal with an enormous data
rate. On-chip zero suppression is inevitable and hit data must be buffered
locally during the latency of the first level trigger. Dead-time must be kept
at a minimum. It is dominated by contributions coming from the readout. To keep
it low an analog readout scheme has been adopted where pixel addresses are
analog coded. We present the architecture of the final CMS pixel detector
readout chip with special emphasis on the analog readout chain. Measurements of
its performance are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of the Pixel2005
Workshop, Bonn, German
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