1,349 research outputs found
The complex relation between production and scattering amplitudes
The unitarity relation, Im(A)=T* A, is derived for a three-body production
amplitude, A, that consists of a complex linear combination of elements of the
two-body scattering amplitude, T. We conclude that the unitarity relation does
not impose a realness condition on the coefficients in the expansion of, A, in
terms of, T.Comment: 4 pages plain LaTe
Advances in All-Neural Speech Recognition
This paper advances the design of CTC-based all-neural (or end-to-end) speech
recognizers. We propose a novel symbol inventory, and a novel iterated-CTC
method in which a second system is used to transform a noisy initial output
into a cleaner version. We present a number of stabilization and initialization
methods we have found useful in training these networks. We evaluate our system
on the commonly used NIST 2000 conversational telephony test set, and
significantly exceed the previously published performance of similar systems,
both with and without the use of an external language model and decoding
technology
Eta-meson production in the resonance energy region
We perform an updated coupled-channel analysis of eta-meson production
including all recent photoproduction data on the proton. The dip observed in
the differential cross sections at c.m. energies W=1.68 GeV is explained by
destructive interference between the and states.
The effect from is found to be small but still important to
reproduce the correct shape of the differential cross section.
For the scattering we suggest a reaction mechanism in
terms of the , , and states. Our
conclusion on the importance of the , , and
resonances in the eta-production reactions is in line with our
previous results. No strong indication for a narrow state with a width of 15
MeV and the mass of 1680 MeV is found in the analysis. scattering
length is extracted and discussed.Comment: replaced with a published version, pole parameters and scattering
lengths are adde
When is a Network a Network? Multi-Order Graphical Model Selection in Pathways and Temporal Networks
We introduce a framework for the modeling of sequential data capturing
pathways of varying lengths observed in a network. Such data are important,
e.g., when studying click streams in information networks, travel patterns in
transportation systems, information cascades in social networks, biological
pathways or time-stamped social interactions. While it is common to apply graph
analytics and network analysis to such data, recent works have shown that
temporal correlations can invalidate the results of such methods. This raises a
fundamental question: when is a network abstraction of sequential data
justified? Addressing this open question, we propose a framework which combines
Markov chains of multiple, higher orders into a multi-layer graphical model
that captures temporal correlations in pathways at multiple length scales
simultaneously. We develop a model selection technique to infer the optimal
number of layers of such a model and show that it outperforms previously used
Markov order detection techniques. An application to eight real-world data sets
on pathways and temporal networks shows that it allows to infer graphical
models which capture both topological and temporal characteristics of such
data. Our work highlights fallacies of network abstractions and provides a
principled answer to the open question when they are justified. Generalizing
network representations to multi-order graphical models, it opens perspectives
for new data mining and knowledge discovery algorithms.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, companion python package pathpy
available on gitHu
A Novel Scheme to Search for Fractional Charge Particles in Low Energy Accelerator Experiments
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the quarks and anti-quarks have
fractional charge equal to or of the electron's charge. There
has been a large number of experiments searching for fractional charge,
isolatable, elementary particles using a variety of methods, including
collisions using dE/dx ionization energy loss measurements, but no evidence has
been found to confirm existence of free fractional charge particles, which
leads to the quark confinement theory. In this paper, a proposal to search for
this kind particles is presented, which is based on the conservation law of
four-momentum. Thanks to the CLEOc and BESIII detectors' large coverage, good
particle identification, precision measurements of tracks' momenta and their
large recorded data samples, these features make the scheme feasible in
practice. The advantage of the scheme is independent of any theoretical models
and sensitive for a small fraction of the quarks transitioning to the
unconfinement phase from the confinement phase.Comment: 9 page
The Active Traveling Wave in the Cochlea
A sound stimulus entering the inner ear excites a deformation of the basilar
membrane which travels along the cochlea towards the apex. It is well
established that this wave-like disturbance is amplified by an active system.
Recently, it has been proposed that the active system consists of a set of
self-tuned critical oscillators which automatically operate at an oscillatory
instability. Here, we show how the concepts of a traveling wave and of
self-tuned critical oscillators can be combined to describe the nonlinear wave
in the cochlea.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Production of , , and in hadronic decays
A coherent study of the production of (, 2, 3 corresponding to
, , and ) in is
reported based on a previously proposed glueball and nonet mixing
scheme, and a factorization for the decay of , where
denotes the isoscalar vector mesons and , and denotes
pseudoscalar mesons. The results show that the decays are very
sensitive to the structure of those scalar mesons, and suggest a glueball in
the GeV region, in line with Lattice QCD. The presence of significant
glueball mixings in the scalar wavefunctions produces peculiar patterns in the
branching ratios for , which are in good agreement
with the recently published experimental data from the BES collaboration.Comment: Version accepted by PRD; Numerical results in Tab IV and VI changed
due to correction of an error in quoting an experimental datum; Conclusion is
not change
The Microsoft 2016 Conversational Speech Recognition System
We describe Microsoft's conversational speech recognition system, in which we
combine recent developments in neural-network-based acoustic and language
modeling to advance the state of the art on the Switchboard recognition task.
Inspired by machine learning ensemble techniques, the system uses a range of
convolutional and recurrent neural networks. I-vector modeling and lattice-free
MMI training provide significant gains for all acoustic model architectures.
Language model rescoring with multiple forward and backward running RNNLMs, and
word posterior-based system combination provide a 20% boost. The best single
system uses a ResNet architecture acoustic model with RNNLM rescoring, and
achieves a word error rate of 6.9% on the NIST 2000 Switchboard task. The
combined system has an error rate of 6.2%, representing an improvement over
previously reported results on this benchmark task
Tetraquark spectroscopy
A complete classification of tetraquark states in terms of the spin-flavor,
color and spatial degrees of freedom was constructed. The permutational
symmetry properties of both the spin-flavor and orbital parts of the
quark-quark and antiquark-antiquark subsystems are discussed. This complete
classification is general and model-independent, and is useful both for
model-builders and experimentalists. The total wave functions are also
explicitly constructed in the hypothesis of ideal mixing; this basis for
tetraquark states will enable the eigenvalue problem to be solved for a
definite dynamical model. This is also valid for diquark-antidiquark models,
for which the basis is a subset of the one we have constructed. An evaluation
of the tetraquark spectrum is obtained from the Iachello mass formula for
normal mesons, here generalized to tetraquark systems. This mass formula is a
generalizazion of the Gell-Mann Okubo mass formula, whose coefficients have
been upgraded by means of the latest PDG data.
The ground state tetraquark nonet was identified with ,
, , . The mass splittings predicted by
this mass formula are compared to the KLOE, Fermilab E791 and BES experimental
data. The diquark-antidiquark limit was also studied.Comment: Invited talk at 11th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon
Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2007), Julich, Germany, 10-14
Sep 2007. In the Proceedings of 11th International Conference on
Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2007), Julich,
Germany, 10-14 Sep 2007, eConf C070910, 163 (2007
On the near-threshold enhancement in with
We investigate the possibility of producing the enhancement observed in
with at BES by intermediate meson
rescatterings through , , and . We find that intermediate
meson rescatterings can produce some enhancement near the
threshold. Implications about the property of this enhancement are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures; Version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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