Background Measurements and Simulations of the ComPair Balloon Flight

Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | Summary:ComPair, a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO), completed a short-duration high-altitude balloon campaign on August 27, 2023 from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, USA. The goal of the balloon flight was the demonstration of ComPair as both a Compton and Pair telescope in flight, rejection of the […]


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Optimized cerebral blood flow measurement in speckle contrast optical spectroscopy via refinement of noise calibration

Kavli Affiliate: Changhuei Yang | Summary:Speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (SCOS) offers a non-invasive and cost-effective method for monitoring cerebral blood flow (CBF). However, extracting accurate CBF from SCOS necessitates precise noise pre-calibration. Errors from this can degrade CBF measurement fidelity, particularly when the overall signal level is low. Such errors primarily stem from residual speckle […]


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Observing Leptogenesis in Action with Gravitational Waves

Kavli Affiliate: Hitoshi Murayama | Summary:Leptogenesis is arguably the best motivated theory of baryogenesis given the discovery of finite neutrino masses, yet its experimental test is elusive given its high energy scale. We discuss gravitational waves (GWs) produced via graviton bremsstrahlung in right-handed neutrino decays during leptogenesis. The presence of right-handed neutrinos in the early […]


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Dense SAE Latents Are Features, Not Bugs

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | Summary:Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are designed to extract interpretable features from language models by enforcing a sparsity constraint. Ideally, training an SAE would yield latents that are both sparse and semantically meaningful. However, many SAE latents activate frequently (i.e., are emphdense), raising concerns that they may be undesirable artifacts of the […]


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Chemical Abundances in the Metal-Poor Globular Cluster ESO 280-SC06: A Formerly Massive, Tidally Disrupted Globular Cluster

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander Ji | Summary:We present the first high-resolution abundance study of ESO 280-SC06, one of the least luminous and most metal-poor gravitationally bound Milky Way globular clusters. Using Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy for ten stars, we confirm the cluster’s low metallicity as [Fe/H] = $-2.54 pm 0.06$ and the presence of a nitrogen-enhanced star enriched […]


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Chemical Abundances in the Metal-Poor Globular Cluster ESO 280-SC06: A Formerly Massive, Tidally Disrupted Globular Cluster

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Sam A. Usman, Sam A. Usman, , , | Summary: We present the first high-resolution abundance study of ESO 280-SC06, one of the least luminous and most metal-poor gravitationally bound Milky Way globular clusters. Using Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy for ten stars, we confirm the cluster’s low metallicity […]


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Chemical Abundances in the Metal-Poor Globular Cluster ESO 280-SC06: A Formerly Massive, Tidally Disrupted Globular Cluster

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Sam A. Usman, Alexander P. Ji, Jandrie Rodriguez, Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell | Summary: We present the first high-resolution abundance study of ESO 280-SC06, one of the least luminous and most metal-poor gravitationally bound Milky Way globular clusters. Using Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy for ten stars, […]


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Proper Actions and Representation Theory

Kavli Affiliate: Toshiyuki Kobayashi | Summary:This exposition presents recent developments on proper actions, highlighting their connections to representation theory. It begins with geometric aspects, including criteria for the properness of homogeneous spaces in the setting of reductive groups. We then explore the interplay between the properness of group actions and the discrete decomposability of unitary […]


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Temporal Entanglement and Witnesses of Non-Classicality

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Baldwin | Summary:The universality of quantum theory has been questioned ever since it was proposed. Key to this long-unsolved question is to test whether a given physical system has non-classical features. Here we connect recently proposed witnesses of non-classicality, based on information-theoretic ideas, with the theory of temporal entanglement. We provide a […]


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Determination of $|V_cb|$ using $Bto Dellν_ell$ Decays at Belle II

Kavli Affiliate: Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho| First 5 Authors: [#item_custom_name[1, [#item_custom_name[2, [#item_custom_name[3, [#item_custom_name[4, [#item_custom_name[5| Summary:We present a determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_cb|$ from the decay $Bto Dellν_ell$ using a $365~mathrmfb^-1$ $e^+e^-toΥ(4S)to Bbar B$ data sample recorded by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider. The semileptonic decay of one $B$ meson is reconstructed […]


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