Kavli Affiliate: Peter G. Ford | First 5 Authors: Catherine E. Grant, Mark W. Bautz, Peter G. Ford, Paul P. Plucinsky, | Summary: As the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory enters its fifteenth year of operation on orbit, it continues to perform well and produce spectacular scientific results. The response […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steven Kahn | First 5 Authors: Andrew Rasmussen, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier, Chuck Claver, Peter Doherty | Summary: Near-future astronomical survey experiments, such as LSST, possess system requirements of unprecedented fidelity that span photometry, astrometry and shape transfer. Some of these requirements flow directly to the array of science imaging sensors at the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kentaro Hori | First 5 Authors: Kentaro Hori, Heeyeon Kim, Piljin Yi, , | Summary: We compute the Witten index of one-dimensional gauged linear sigma models with at least ${mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetry. In the phase where the gauge group is broken to a finite group, the index is expressed as a certain residue […]
Kavli Affiliate: Homer Neal | First 5 Authors: Marco Battaglieri, Sergey Boyarinov, Stephen Bueltmann, Volker Burkert, Andrea Celentano | Summary: The Heavy Photon Search (HPS), an experiment to search for a hidden sector photon in fixed target electroproduction, is preparing for installation at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in the Fall of 2014. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. Sternberg | First 5 Authors: Franciszek Rakowski, Jagan Srinivasan, Paul W. Sternberg, Jan Karbowski, | Summary: C. elegans is the only animal for which a detailed neural connectivity diagram has been constructed. However, synaptic polarities in this diagram, and thus, circuit functions are largely unknown. Here, we deciphered the likely polarities […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tom Chang | First 5 Authors: Tom Chang, Cheng-chin Wu, Marius Echim, Herve Lamy, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Dynamic Complexity is a phenomenon exhibited by a nonlinearly interacting system within which multitudes of different sizes of large scale coherent structures emerge, resulting in a globally nonlinear stochastic behavior vastly different from that could […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jeevak Parpia | First 5 Authors: Lev Levitin, Robert Bennett, Andrew Casey, Brian Cowan, John Saunders | Summary: We review recent experiments in which superfluid $^3$He has been studied under highly controlled confinement in nanofluidic sample chambers. We discuss the experimental challenges and their resolution. These methods open the way to a systematic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Radhika Nagpal | First 5 Authors: Alejandro Cornejo, Radhika Nagpal, , , | Summary: This paper studies the problem of having mobile robots in a multi-robot system maintain an estimate of the relative position and relative orientation of near-by robots in the environment. This problem is studied in the context of large swarms […]
Kavli Affiliate: Graham Fleming | First 5 Authors: Seogjoo Jang, Stephan Hoyer, Graham Fleming, K. Birgitta Whaley, | Summary: A generalized master equation (GME) governing quantum evolution of modular exciton density (MED) is derived for large scale light harvesting systems composed of weakly interacting modules of multiple chromophores. The GME-MED offers a practical framework to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Sven C. Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Andreas Koch, Matthew Hart, Tim Nicholls, Christian Angelsen, John Coughlan | Summary: A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD – Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue […]