Physics

Authors and titles for December 2016

[601] arXiv:1612.07631 [pdf, other]

Title: Scintillation detectors constructed with an optimized 2x2 silicon photomultiplier array

Felix Liang, Hartmut Brands, Les Hoy, Jeff Preston, Jason Smith

Comments: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (2016)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[602] arXiv:1612.07642 [pdf, other]

Title: Astronomical and Historical Evaluation of Molnar's Solution for the Star of Bethlehem

Bradley E. Schaefer

Comments: Chapter 4 in the book "The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi", 2015, edited by Peter Barthel and George van Kooten (published by Brill in Leiden). This book has contributions from the conference on the 'Star of Bethlehem', held in Groningen in October 2014

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

[603] arXiv:1612.07645 [pdf, other]

Title: First free-flight flow visualisation of a flapping-wing robot

Matěj Karásek, Mustafa Percin, Torbjørn Cunis, Bas W. van Oudheusden, Christophe De Wagter, Bart D.W. Remes, Guido C.H.E. de Croon

Comments: 30 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Robotics (cs.RO)

[604] arXiv:1612.07655 [pdf, other]

Title: Three Branches of Dynamo Action

Emmanuel Dormy, Ludivine Oruba, Ludovic Petitdemange

Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures Accepted Manuscript Fluid Dynamics Research (online 2 June 2017)

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[605] arXiv:1612.07676 [pdf, other]

Title: Minimization of Antenna Quality Factor

Miloslav Capek, Mats Gustafsson, Kurt Schab

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to IEEE-TAP

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[606] arXiv:1612.07684 [pdf, other]

Title: The proton radius puzzle

M. Bonesini

Comments: to appear in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference of New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2016), 6-14 July, 2016, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece

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

[607] arXiv:1612.07699 [pdf, other]

Title: Accomplishments of the Heavy Electron Particle Accelerator Program

D. Neuffer, D. Stratakis (Fermilab)M. Palmer (Brookhaven)J-P Delahaye, (SLAC)D. Summers (Mississippi U.)R. Ryne (LBL, Berkeley)M.A. Cummings (MUONS Inc., Batavia)

Comments: 4 pp

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[608] arXiv:1612.07709 [pdf, other]

Title: Eroding dipoles and vorticity growth for Euler flows in $ \scriptstyle{\mathbb{R}}^3$: The hairpin geometry as a model for finite-time blowup

Stephen Childress, Andrew D. Gilbert

Comments: 43 pages, 11 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[609] arXiv:1612.07715 [pdf, other]

Title: Muon momentum measurement in ICARUS-T600 LAr-TPC via multiple scattering in few-GeV range

Maddalena Antonello, Bagdat Baibussinov, Vincenzo Bellini, Pietro Angelo Benetti, Fabrizio Boffelli, Arkadiusz Bubak, Elio Calligarich, Sandro Centro, Tommaso Cervi, Alessandra Cesana, Krzysztof Cieslik, Alfredo G. Cocco, Anna Dabrowska, Alexander Dermenev, Andrea Falcone, Christian Farnese, Angela Fava, Alfredo Ferrari, Daniele Gibin, Sergei Gninenko, Alberto Guglielmi, Malgorzata Haranczyk, Jacek Holeczek, Michal Janik, Mikhail Kirsanov, Jan Kisiel, Iza Kochanek, Justyna Lagoda, Alessandro Menegolli, Guang Meng, Claudio Montanari, Stanislaw Otwinowski, Pio Picchi, Francesco Pietropaolo, Piotr Plonski, Andrea Rappoldi, Gianluca Raselli, Massimo Rossella, Carlo Rubbia, Paola Sala, Alberto Scaramelli, Franco Sergiampietri, Maura Spanu, Dorota Stefan, Robert Sulej, Monika Szarska, Mario Terrani, Marta Torti, Francesco Tortorici, Filippo Varanini, Sandro Ventura, Chiara Vignoli, Hanguo Wang, Xiaofeng Yang, Agnieszka Zalewskag, Andrea Zani, Krzysztof Zaremba

Comments: 20 pages, 20 figures

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

[610] arXiv:1612.07723 [pdf, other]

Title: Exact coherent states for grooved Couette flows

Sabarish Vadarevu, Ati Sharma, Bharathram Ganapathisubramani

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[611] arXiv:1612.07759 [pdf, other]

Title: Rigorous Diffraction Interface Theory

Christopher M. Roberts, Viktor A Podolskiy

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[612] arXiv:1612.07777 [pdf, other]

Title: Delivery Ring Lattice Modifications For Transitionless Deceleration

J.A. Johnstone (Fermilab)M.J. Syphers (Fermilab and Northern Illinois U.)

Comments: 2 pp

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[613] arXiv:1612.07779 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: The Mamari Tablet Tells (Part 1)

Sergei Rjabchikov

Comments: Archaeoastronomy/History of astronomy; 12 pages, 16 figures; a few misprints have been corrected

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

[614] arXiv:1612.07795 [pdf, other]

Title: Directly stabilized solitons in silicon-nitride microresonators

Chengying Bao, Yi Xuan, Daniel E. Leaird, Minghao Qi, Andrew M. Weiner

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[615] arXiv:1612.07821 [pdf, other]

Title: The Heavy Photon Search beamline and its performance

N. Baltzell, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, C. Field, A. Freyberger, F.-X. Girod, M. Holtrop, J. Jaros, G. Kalicy, T. Maruyama, B. McKinnon, K. Moffeit, T. Nelson, A. Odian, M. Oriunno, R. Paremuzyan, S. Stepanyan, M. Tiefenback, S. Uemura, M. Ungaro, H. Vance

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

[616] arXiv:1612.07827 [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive selection of sampling points for Uncertainty Quantification

Enrico Camporeale, Ashutosh Agnihotri, Casper Rutjes

Comments: 22 pages, 15 figures; to appear in Int. J. Uncertainty Quantification

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[617] arXiv:1612.07840 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting and characterizing high frequency oscillations in epilepsy - A case study of big data analysis

Liang Huang, Xuan Ni, William L. Ditto, Mark Spano, Paul R. Carney, Ying-Cheng Lai

Comments: 22 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[618] arXiv:1612.07849 [pdf, other]

Title: Milne's Equation revisited: Exact Asymptotic Solutions

D. Shu, I. Simbotin, R. Côté

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[619] arXiv:1612.07853 [pdf, other]

Title: Active rotational and translational microrheology beyond the linear spring regime

Lachlan J. Gibson, Shu Zhang, Alexander B. Stilgoe, Timo A. Nieminen, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Physical Review E 95, 042608 (2017)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[620] arXiv:1612.07860 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinetic simulations of X-B and O-X-B mode conversion and its deterioration at high input power

A. V. Arefiev, I. Y. Dodin, A. Köhn, E. J. Du Toit, E. Holzhauer, V. F. Shevchenko, R. G. L. Vann

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[621] arXiv:1612.07880 [pdf, other]

Title: Visualizing dispersive features in 2D image via minimum gradient method

Yu He, Yan Wang, Zhi-Xun Shen

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, 15 references

Journal-ref: Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 073903 (2017)

Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[622] arXiv:1612.07895 [pdf, other]

Title: Presence of Turbulent and Ordered Local Structure within ICME shock-sheath and its Contribution in Forbush decrease

Zubair Shaikh, Anil Raghav, Ankush Bhaskar

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[623] arXiv:1612.07911 [pdf, other]

Title: A Boltzmann scheme with physically relevant discrete velocities for Euler equations

N. Venkata Raghavendra, S. V. Raghurama Rao

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[624] arXiv:1612.07930 [pdf, other]

Title: High-resolution absorption measurements of NH3 at high temperatures: 2100 - 5500

Emma J. Barton, Sergei. N. Yurchenko, Jonathan Tennyson, Sonnik Clausen, Alexander Fateev

Journal-ref: J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiative Transf., 198, 60-65 (2017)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[625] arXiv:1612.07932 [pdf, other]

Title: Solitons in non-paraxial optics

D. Dakova, A. Dakova, V. Slavchev, L. Kovachev

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 18, 5-6, 2016, p. 435-439

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

[626] arXiv:1612.07941 [pdf, other]

Title: Electrostatics of non-neutral biological microdomains

Jerome Cartailler, Zeev Schuss, David Holcman

Comments: submitted in PRL 2016

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

[627] arXiv:1612.07959 [pdf, other]

Title: Inelastic electron injection in a water chain

Valerio Rizzi, Tchavdar N. Todorov, Jorge J. Kohanoff

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 45410 (2017)

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[628] arXiv:1612.07961 [pdf, other]

Title: Power law spectra and intermittent fluctuations due to uncorrelated Lorentzian pulses

O. E. Garcia, A. Theodorsen

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[629] arXiv:1612.07965 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the absolute reflectance of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) immersed in liquid xenon

F. Neves, A. Lindote, A. Morozov, V. Solovov, C. Silva, P. Bras, J. P. Rodrigues, M. I. Lopes

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

[630] arXiv:1612.07992 [pdf, other]

Title: Robustness of synthetic oscillators in growing and dividing cells

Joris Paijmans, David K Lubensky, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Comments: 26 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Physical Review E

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 95, 052403 (2017)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)

[631] arXiv:1612.07996 [pdf, other]

Title: Continuum dynamics and the electromagnetic field in the scalar ether theory of gravitation

Mayeul Arminjon

Comments: 33 pages. Published version is Open Access, see DOI

Journal-ref: Open Physics Vol. 14, pp. 395-409 (2016)

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[632] arXiv:1612.08042 [pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear size corrections to the energy levels of single-electron atoms

Babak Nadiri Niri

Comments: This manuscript includes 12 pages, 2 figures and 2 tables

Journal-ref: NPB-D-2016-00707

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[633] arXiv:1612.08046 [pdf, other]

Title: Grazing incidence interferometry for rough convex aspherics

Johannes Schwider, Christine Kellermann, Norbert Lindlein, Sergej Rothau, Klaus Mantel

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[634] arXiv:1612.08068 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of Graphene on the Absorption and Extraordinary Transmission of Light in One Dimensional Metallic Gratings

Amirmasood Bagheri, Babak Rahmani, Amin Khavasi

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[635] arXiv:1612.08096 [pdf, other]

Title: High flux lithium antineutrino source with variable hard spectrum. How to decrease the errors of the total spectrum ?

V.I. Lyashuk

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures

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

[636] arXiv:1612.08119 [pdf, other]

Title: Generation, interaction and reduction of filaments as a nonlinear process

L. M. Kovachev, D.A. Georgieva, N. Nedyalkov

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures

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

[637] arXiv:1612.08121 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of pitched tips of novel kneading disks on melt mixing in twin-screw extrusion

Yasuya Nakayama, Nariyoshi Nishihira, Toshihisa Kajiwara, Hideki Tomiyama, Takahide Takeuchi, Koichi Kimura

Journal-ref: Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi (Journal of the Society of Rheology, Japan), Vol.44, No.5, pp.281-288, (2016)

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

[638] arXiv:1612.08143 [pdf, other]

Title: High Sensitivity Terahertz Detection through Large-Area Plasmonic Nano-Antenna Arrays

Nezih Tolga Yardimci, Mona Jarrahi

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[639] arXiv:1612.08175 [pdf, other]

Title: Deterministic implementation of a bright, on-demand single photon source with near-unity indistinguishability via quantum dot imaging

Yu-Ming He, Jin Liu, Sebastian Maier, Monika Emmerling, Stefan Gerhardt, Marcelo Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan, Christian Schneider, Sven Höfling

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.07453

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

[640] arXiv:1612.08214 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlling Light Transmission Through Highly Scattering Media Using Semi-Definite Programming as a Phase Retrieval Computation Method

Moussa N'Gom, Miao-Bin Lien, Nooshin M. Estakhri, Theodore B. Norris, Eric Michielssen, Raj Rao Nadakuditi

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, this article is accepted for publication in Nature Scientific Report

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[641] arXiv:1612.08238 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization dependence of transverse photo-induced voltage in gold thin film with random nanoholes

Marjan Akbari, Teruya Ishihara

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[642] arXiv:1612.08240 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring High Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes: Temperature Accelerated Sliced Sampling

Shalini Awasthi, Nisanth N. Nair

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[643] arXiv:1612.08272 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical evaluation of electrochemical cell architectures using cation intercalation electrodes for desalination

Kyle C. Smith

Comments: 26 pages, 6 figures

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

[644] arXiv:1612.08276 [pdf, other]

Title: High repetition rate ultrashort laser cuts a path through fog

Lorena de la Cruz, Elise Schubert, Denis Mongin, Sandro Klingebiel, Marcel Schultze, Thomas Metzger, Knut Michel, Jérôme Kasparian, Jean-Pierre Wolf

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Applied Physics Letters 109, 251105 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[645] arXiv:1612.08278 [pdf, other]

Title: Photoacoustic imaging beyond the acoustic diffraction-limit with dynamic speckle illumination and sparse joint support recovery

Eliel Hojman, Thomas Chaigne, Oren Solomon, Sylvain Gigan, Emmanuel Bossy, Yonina C. Eldar, Ori Katz

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[646] arXiv:1612.08289 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiple scale kinetic simulations with the energy conserving semi implicit particle in cell (PIC) method

Giovanni Lapenta, Diego Gonzalez-Herrero, Elisabetta Boella

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[647] arXiv:1612.08291 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Interstitial Oxygen and Carbon on Niobium Superconducting Cavities

P. N. Koufalis, D. L. Hall, M. Liepe, J. T. Maniscalco

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. minor revisions and updates

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[648] arXiv:1612.08293 [pdf, other]

Title: Nickel Hexacyanoferrate Electrodes for Continuous Cation Intercalation Desalination of Brackish Water

S. Porada, A. Shrivastava, P. Bukowska, P.M. Biesheuvel, K.C. Smith

Journal-ref: Electrochimica Acta 255 (2017) 369-378

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[649] arXiv:1612.08296 [pdf, other]

Title: ADMX Status

I. Stern

Comments: 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics

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

[650] arXiv:1612.08305 [pdf, other]

Title: Period Robustness and Entrainability of the Kai System to Changing Nucleotide Concentrations

Joris Paijmans, David K Lubensky, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Comments: 50 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Biophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Biophysical Journal , Volume 113, Issue 1, 11 July 2017, Pages 157 to 173

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)