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Towards the quantization of the non-relativistic D2-brane in the Pure Spinor Formalism
An attempt is made to apply the pure spinor formalism to the non-relativistic
IIA D2-brane. The fermionic constraints corresponding to the rescaled fermionic
coordinates are given. Two commuting spinor fields are introduced, each one
corresponding to a fermionic constraint. A BRST charge is constructed via the
ansatz proposed by N. Berkovits. The nilpotency of the BRST charge leads to a
set of constraints for the two spinor fields including pure spinor constraints.
A novel non-trivial solution is given for one of the spinor fields which can be
written as a sum of two pure spinors.Comment: 23 pages in latex, no figures; discussion added, some typos
corrected, more references adde
Algorithm for heart rate extraction in a novel wearable acoustic sensor.
Phonocardiography is a widely used method of listening to the heart sounds and indicating the presence of cardiac abnormalities. Each heart cycle consists of two major sounds - S1 and S2 - that can be used to determine the heart rate. The conventional method of acoustic signal acquisition involves placing the sound sensor at the chest where this sound is most audible. Presented is a novel algorithm for the detection of S1 and S2 heart sounds and the use of them to extract the heart rate from signals acquired by a small sensor placed at the neck. This algorithm achieves an accuracy of 90.73 and 90.69%, with respect to heart rate value provided by two commercial devices, evaluated on more than 38 h of data acquired from ten different subjects during sleep in a pilot clinical study. This is the largest dataset for acoustic heart sound classification and heart rate extraction in the literature to date. The algorithm in this study used signals from a sensor designed to monitor breathing. This shows that the same sensor and signal can be used to monitor both breathing and heart rate, making it highly useful for long-term wearable vital signs monitoring
Shedding light on the asymmetry: the photon handle
We investigate a charge asymmetry in production at the LHC
that provides complementary information to the measured asymmetries in production. We estimate the experimental uncertainty in its measurement at
the LHC with 8 and 14 TeV. For new physics models that simultaneously reproduce
the asymmetry excess in at the Tevatron and the SM-like asymmetry at
the LHC, the measurement in at the LHC could exhibit
significant deviations with respect to the SM prediction.Comment: LaTeX 15 page
Inflaton field governed universe from NKK theory of gravity: stochastic approach
We study a nonperturbative single field (inflaton) governed cosmological
model from a 5D Noncompact Kaluza-Klein (NKK) theory of gravity. The inflaton
field fluctuations are estimated for different epochs of the evolution of the
universe. We conclude that the inflaton field has been sliding down its
(quadratic) potential hill along all the evolution of the universe and a mass
of the order of the Hubble parameter. In the model here developed the only free
parameter is the Hubble parameter, which could be reconstructed in future from
Super Nova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) data.Comment: accepted in European Physical Journal
Top effective operators at the ILC
We investigate the effect of top trilinear operators in t tbar production at
the ILC. We find that the sensitivity to these operators largely surpasses the
one achievable by the LHC either in neutral or charged current processes,
allowing to probe new physics scales up to 4.5 TeV for a centre of mass energy
of 500 GeV. We show how the use of beam polarisation and an eventual energy
upgrade to 1 TeV allow to disentangle all effective operator contributions to
the Ztt and gamma tt vertices.Comment: LaTeX 13 pages. Typos corrected. Final version in JHE
Top effective operators at the ILC
We investigate the effect of top trilinear operators in t tbar production at
the ILC. We find that the sensitivity to these operators largely surpasses the
one achievable by the LHC either in neutral or charged current processes,
allowing to probe new physics scales up to 4.5 TeV for a centre of mass energy
of 500 GeV. We show how the use of beam polarisation and an eventual energy
upgrade to 1 TeV allow to disentangle all effective operator contributions to
the Ztt and gamma tt vertices.Comment: LaTeX 13 pages. Typos corrected. Final version in JHE
Extra force and extra mass from noncompact Kaluza-Klein theory in a cosmological model
Using the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we study extra force and extra mass in a
recently introduced noncompact Kaluza-Klein cosmological model. We examine the
inertial 4D mass of the inflaton field on a 4D FRW bulk in two examples.
We find that has a geometrical origin and antigravitational effects on a
non inertial 4D bulk should be a consequence of the motion of the fifth
coordinate with respect to the 4D bulk.Comment: final version to be published in EPJ
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