Physics

Authors and titles for February 2016

[101] arXiv:1602.01392 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle identification in ALICE: a Bayesian approach

ALICE Collaboration

Comments: 32 pages, 15 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 26, published version, figures at this http URL

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. Plus 131 (2016) 168

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[102] arXiv:1602.01393 [pdf, other]

Title: Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2{\deg}C Global Warming is Dangerous

James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Paul Hearty, Reto Ruedy, Maxwell Kelley, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Gary Russell, George Tselioudis, Junji Cao, Eric Rignot, Isabella Velicogna, Blair Tormey, Bailey Donovan, Evgeniya Kandiano, Karina von Schuckmann, Pushker Kharecha, Allegra N. Legrande, Michael Bauer, Kwok-Wai Lo

Comments: 78 pages, 58 figures; submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[103] arXiv:1602.01395 [pdf, other]

Title: Interception efficiency of CVM-based lightning protection systems for buildings and the fractional Poisson model

Harold S. Haller, Wojbor A. Woyczynski

Comments: 22 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[104] arXiv:1602.01405 [pdf, other]

Title: Invited Article: miniTimeCube

V.A. Li, R. Dorrill, M.J. Duvall, J. Koblanski, S. Negrashov, M. Sakai, S.A. Wipperfurth, K. Engel, G.R. Jocher, J.G. Learned, L. Macchiarulo, S. Matsuno, W.F. McDonough, H.P. Mumm, J. Murillo, K. Nishimura, M. Rosen, S.M. Usman, G.S. Varner

Comments: 19 pages, 29 figures, AIP Review of Scientific Instruments (2016)

Journal-ref: Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 021301 (2016)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[105] arXiv:1602.01406 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical conductivity of warm dense matter in wide frequency range within quantum statistical and kinetic approach

M. Veysman, G. Röpke, M. Winkel, H. Reinholz

Comments: 25 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 013203 (2016)

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[106] arXiv:1602.01413 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhancement of radiative processes in nanofibers with embedded plasmonic nanoparticles

Radoslaw Jurga, Fabio Della Sala, Dario Pisignano, Cristian Ciracì

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[107] arXiv:1602.01414 [pdf, other]

Title: Tracking the photodissociation probability of D$_2^+$ induced by linearly chirped laser pulses

András Csehi, Gábor J. Halász, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Ágnes Vibók

Comments: 21 pages, 5 figures, accepted in J. Chem. Phys

Subjects: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)

[108] arXiv:1602.01435 [pdf, other]

Title: The Zero Active Mass Condition in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmologies

Fulvio Melia

Comments: 9 Pages. Accepted for publication in Frontiers of Physics

Journal-ref: Front. Phys. (2017) 12: 129802. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-016-0611-4

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[109] arXiv:1602.01437 [pdf, other]

Title: A Prototype Scalable Readout System for Micro-pattern Gas Detectors

Qi-Bin Zheng, Shu-Bin Liu, Jing Tian, Cheng Li, Chang-Qing Feng, Qi An

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[110] arXiv:1602.01442 [pdf, other]

Title: Gender gap in the ERASMUS mobility program

L. Böttcher, N. A. M. Araújo, J. Nagler, J. F. F. Mendes, D. Helbing, H. J. Herrmann

Journal-ref: PLoS ONE 11(2): e0149514. (2016)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[111] arXiv:1602.01448 [pdf, other]

Title: SHARP: a distributed, GPU-based ptychographic solver

Stefano Marchesini, Hari Krishnan, Benedikt J. Daurer, David A. Shapiro, Talita Perciano, James A. Sethian, Filipe R.N.C. Maia

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: J. Appl. Cryst. (2016). 49

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Optics (physics.optics)

[112] arXiv:1602.01449 [pdf, other]

Title: Development of an Ideal Observer that Incorporates Nuisance Parameters and Processes List-Mode Data

Christopher J. MacGahan, Matthew A. Kupinski, Nathan R. Hilton, Erik M. Brubaker, William C. Johnson

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[113] arXiv:1602.01450 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical Version of Singularity Resolution in the Observable Universe

Daegene Song

Comments: 5 page, 6 figures

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[114] arXiv:1602.01466 [pdf, other]

Title: Graphene-based extremely wide-angle tunable metamaterial absorber

Jacob Linder, Klaus Halterman

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Sci. Rep. 6, 31225 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[115] arXiv:1602.01494 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling and Experiment of the Suspended Seismometer Concept for Attenuating the Contribution of Tilt Motion in Horizontal Measurements

F. Matichard, M. Evans, R. Mittleman, M. McInnis, S. Biscans, K.L. Dooley, H. Sohier, A. Lauriero, H. Paris, J. Koch, P. Knothe, A. Carbajo, C. Dufort

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[116] arXiv:1602.01497 [pdf, other]

Title: Time Really Passes, Science Can't Deny That

Nicolas Gisin

Comments: Talk presented at the Conference "Time in Physics" at the ETH-Zurich, September 2015. 7 pages

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[117] arXiv:1602.01526 [pdf, other]

Title: Attosecond Transient Absorption in Dense Gases: Exploring the Interplay between Resonant Pulse Propagation and Laser-Induced Line Shape Control

Chen-Ting Liao, Seth Camp, Kenneth J. Schafer, Mette B. Gaarde, Arvinder Sandhu

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 033405 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[118] arXiv:1602.01540 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Transport for Seismic Full Waveform Inversion

Bjorn Engquist, Brittany D. Froese, Yunan Yang

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[119] arXiv:1602.01570 [pdf, other]

Title: Transverse writing of three-dimensional tubular optical waveguides in glass with slit-shaped femtosecond laser beams

Yang Liao, Jia Qi, Peng Wang, Wei Chu, Zhaohui Wang, Lingling Qiao, Ya Cheng

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[120] arXiv:1602.01578 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling the relation between income and commuting distance

Giulia Carra, Ismir Mulalic, Mogens Fosgerau, Marc Barthelemy

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: J. R. Soc. Interface 13:20160306 (2016)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); General Finance (q-fin.GN)

[121] arXiv:1602.01583 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of the Efficiency of CdS/CdTe Tandem Multi-Junction Solar Cells

Ashrafalsadat S. Mirkamali, Khikmat Kh. Muminov

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[122] arXiv:1602.01602 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonparaxial abruptly autofocusing beams

Raluca-Sorina Penciu, Konstantinos G. Makris, Nikolaos K. Efremidis

Comments: 5 pages, 8 figures. To be published in Optics Letters

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[123] arXiv:1602.01609 [pdf, other]

Title: Charge Qubit-Atom Hybrid

Deshui Yu, Maria Martinez Valado, Christoph Hufnagel, Leong Chuan Kwek, Luigi Amico, Rainer Dumke

Comments: accepted for publication in Physical Review A

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 042329 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[124] arXiv:1602.01611 [pdf, other]

Title: Solvent fluctuations induce non-Markovian kinetics in hydrophobic pocket-ligand binding

R. Gregor Weiß, Piotr Setny, Joachim Dzubiella

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[125] arXiv:1602.01647 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-uniform force allocation for area preservation in spring network models

Ivan Cimrak, Iveta Jancigova

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[126] arXiv:1602.01666 [pdf, other]

Title: Entrainment dominates the interaction of microalgae with micron-sized objects

Raphaël Jeanneret, Vasily Kantsler, Marco Polin

Comments: 7 pages; 3 figures. Supplementary Informations available upon request

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[127] arXiv:1602.01680 [pdf, other]

Title: Phonon Boltzmann equation-based discrete unified gas kinetic scheme for multiscale heat transfer

Zhaoli Guo, Kun Xu

Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[128] arXiv:1602.01689 [pdf, other]

Title: A quantum protective mechanism in photosynthesis

Adriana Marais, Ilya Sinayskiy, Francesco Petruccione, Rienk van Grondelle

Comments: 25 pages, 6 figure

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 8720 (2015)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[129] arXiv:1602.01702 [pdf, other]

Title: Design and Performance of a Lead Fluoride Detector as a Luminosity Monitor

Roberto Pérez Benito, Dmitry Khaneft, Colton O'Connor, Luigi Capozza, Jürgen Diefenbach, Boris Gläser, Yue Ma, Frank Maas, David Rodríguez Piñeiro

Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (2016), pp. 6-14

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[130] arXiv:1602.01719 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of ambipolar electric fields on the electron heating in capacitive RF plasmas

J. Schulze, Z. Donko, A. Derzsi, I. Korolov, E. Schuengel

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[131] arXiv:1602.01722 [pdf, other]

Title: Breather solitons in highly nonlocal media

Alessandro Alberucci, Chandroth P. Jisha, Gaetano Assanto

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, resubmitted to Physical Review A

Journal-ref: Journal of Optics 18, 125501 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[132] arXiv:1602.01733 [pdf, other]

Title: Letter of Intent: Jinping Neutrino Experiment

John F. Beacom, Shaomin Chen, Jianping Cheng, Sayed N. Doustimotlagh, Yuanning Gao, Shao-Feng Ge, Guanghua Gong, Hui Gong, Lei Guo, Ran Han, Xingtao Huang, Jianmin Li, Jin Li, Mohan Li, Xueqian Li, Guey-Lin Lin, Zuowei Liu, William McDonough, Jian Tang, Linyan Wan, Yuanqing Wang, Zhe Wang, Zongyi Wang, Hanyu Wei, Yufei Xi, Ye Xu, Zhenwei Yang, Chunfa Yao, Minfang Yeh, Qian Yue, Liming Zhang, Yang Zhang, Zhihong Zhao, Yangheng Zheng, Xiang Zhou, Xianglei Zhu, Kai Zuber

Comments: Proposal for the Jinping Neutrino Experiment

Journal-ref: Chinese Physics C Vol. 41, No. 2 (2017) 023002

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[133] arXiv:1602.01752 [pdf, other]

Title: Reforming the international system of units: On our way to redefine the base units solely from fundamental constants and beyond

Christian J. Bordé

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[134] arXiv:1602.01755 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-of-flight Fourier UCN spectrometer

G.V. Kulin, A.I. Frank, S.V. Goryunov, D.V. Kustov, P. Geltenbort, M. Jentschel, B.Lauss, Ph. Schmidt-Wellenburg

Comments: Submitted to NIMA

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[135] arXiv:1602.01766 [pdf, other]

Title: Diverse anisotropy of phonon transport in two-dimensional IV-VI compounds: A comparative study

Guangzhao Qin, Zhenzhen Qin, Wu-Zhang Fang, Li-Chuan Zhang, Sheng-Ying Yue, Qing-Bo Yan, Ming Hu, Gang Su

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 11306-11319

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[136] arXiv:1602.01794 [pdf, other]

Title: Two-vector representation of a nondepolarizing Mueller matrix

José J. Gil, Ignacio San José

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[137] arXiv:1602.01808 [pdf, other]

Title: Conformity-Driven Agents Support Ordered Phases in the Spatial Public Goods Game

Marco Alberto Javarone, Alberto Antonioni, Francesco Caravelli

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: EPL, 114 (2016) 38001

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)

[138] arXiv:1602.01809 [pdf, other]

Title: A Multiscale Diffuse-Interface Model for Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

Mahnaz Shokrpour Roudbari, E. Harald van Brummelen, Clemens V. Verhoosel

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[139] arXiv:1602.01865 [pdf, other]

Title: Assessment of the Effects of Azimuthal Mode Number Perturbations upon the Implosion Processes of Fluids in Cylinders

Michael Lindstrom

Comments: 23 pages, 26 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[140] arXiv:1602.01884 [pdf, other]

Title: A 20-Liter Test Stand with Gas Purification for Liquid Argon Research

Yichen Li, Craig Thorn, Wei Tang, Jyoti Joshi, Xin Qian, Milind Diwan, Steve Kettell, William Morse, Triveni Rao, James Stewart, Thomas Tsang, Lige Zhang

Comments: 18 pages, 11 figures, Accepted by JINST on May 31, 2016

Journal-ref: Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 11, June 2016

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[141] arXiv:1602.01888 [pdf, other]

Title: Construction of Nano-Assembled Microcapsules Embedded with Gold Nanoparticles for use in Novel Drug Delivery Systems

Abraham Samuel Finny

Comments: 62 pages, 20 figures, MSc thesis, University of Strathclyde, December 2014, Submitted, Accepted and Published at this http URL

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)

[142] arXiv:1602.01898 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of the Efficiency of CdS/CIGS Tandem Multi-Junction Solar Cells Using AMPS-1D

Ashrafalsadat S. Mirkamali, Khikmat Kh. Muminov

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[143] arXiv:1602.01926 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized Surface Polaritons and their quantum spin Hall effect

Yadong Xu, Jian-Hua Jiang, Huanyang Chen

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 95, 041409 (2017)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[144] arXiv:1602.01928 [pdf, other]

Title: Completing electron scattering studies with the inert gas column:e - Rn scattering and Ionization

Foram M Joshi, K N Joshipura, Asha S Chaudhari, Hitesh S Modi, Manish J Pindaria

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[145] arXiv:1602.01953 [pdf, other]

Title: Emission redistribution from a quantum dot-bowtie nanoantenna

A. Regler, K. Schraml, A. Lyamkina, M. Spiegl, K. Müller, J. Vuckovic, J. J. Finley, M. Kaniber

Journal-ref: J. Nanophoton. 10, 033509 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[146] arXiv:1602.01974 [pdf, other]

Title: Commissioning of a dual-phase xenon TPC at Nikhef

E. Hogenbirk, J. Aalbers, M. Bader, P.A. Breur, A. Brown, M.P. Decowski, C. Tunnell, R. Walet, A.P. Colijn

Comments: 14 pages, 17 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[147] arXiv:1602.01990 [pdf, other]

Title: Light localization in hollow core fibers with a complicated shape of the core cladding boundary

A. D. Pryamikov, A.S. Biriukov, G.K. Alagashev

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[148] arXiv:1602.02033 [pdf, other]

Title: Developing Mathematical Creativity with Physics Invention Tasks

Suzanne Brahmia (1), Andrew Boudreaux (2), Stephen E. Kanim (3) ((1) University of Washington, (2) Western Washington State University, (3) New Mexico State University)

Comments: This paper is currently under review at the American Journal of Physics

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[149] arXiv:1602.02050 [pdf, other]

Title: Recovery rate affects the effective epidemic threshold with synchronous updating

Panpan Shu, Wei Wang, Ming Tang, Pengcheng Zhao, Yi-Cheng Zhang

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Chaos 26, 063108 (2016)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[150] arXiv:1602.02053 [pdf, other]

Title: Instability in electromagnetically driven flows Part I

Christophe Gissinger, Paola Rodriguez-Imazio, Stephan Fauve

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)