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Genetic investigations often involve the testing of vast numbers of related hypotheses simultaneously. To control the overall error rate, a substantial penalty is required, making it difficult to detect signals of moderate strength. To…

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We consider the detection and localization of change points in the distribution of an offline sequence of observations. Based on a nonparametric framework that uses a similarity graph among observations, we propose new test statistics when…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-05 Lizhen Nie , Dan L. Nicolae

We examine a method to detect the light speed variation from gamma ray burst data observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST). We suggest new criteria to determine the characteristic time for low energy photons by the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 Yue Liu , Bo-Qiang Ma

A method is presented for the identification of high-energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts by means of a large-scale neutrino telescope. The procedure makes use of a time profile stacking technique of observed neutrino induced signals in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-07 Nick van Eijndhoven

Wave effects in lensing form a rich phenomenon at the intersection of classical caustic singularities and quantum interference, yet are notoriously difficult to model. A large number of recently observed pulsars and fast radio bursts in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Job Feldbrugge

We prove an uncertainty relation for energy and arrival time, where the arrival of a particle at a detector is modeled by an absorbing term added to the Hamiltonian. In this well-known scheme the probability for the particle's arrival at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jukka Kiukas , Andreas Ruschhaupt , Piet O. Schmidt , Reinhard F. Werner

Gravitational waves perturb the paths of photons, impacting both the time-of-flight and the arrival direction of light from stars. Pulsar timing arrays can detect gravitational waves by measuring the variations in the time of flight of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Logan O'Beirne , Neil J. Cornish

Since the recent announcements of evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background from several pulsar timing array collaborations, much effort has been devoted to explore features beyond the fiducial Hellings-Downs background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Heling Deng , Xavier Siemens , Rand Burnette

We present a thorough analysis of the electronic detection of charged particles, confined in a Penning trap, via image charges induced in the trap electrodes. Trapping of charged particles in an electrode structure leads to frequency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. F. A. Winters , M. Vogel , D. M. Segal , R. C. Thompson

Pulsar timing array experiments search for phenomena that produce angular correlations in the arrival times of signals from millisecond pulsars. The primary goal is to detect an isotropic and stochastic gravitational wave background. We use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Caterina Tiburzi , George Hobbs , Matthew Kerr , William Coles , Shi Dai , Richard Manchester , Andrea Possenti , Ryan Shannon , Xiaopeng You

Pulse shape discriminating scintillator materials in many cases allow the user to identify two basic kinds of pulses arising from two kinds of particles: neutrons and gammas. An uncomplicated solution for building a classifier consists of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrew Glenn , Qi Cheng , Alan D. Kaplan , Ron Wurtz

Centrality, as a geometrical property of the collision, is crucial for the physical interpretation of nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus experimental data. However, it cannot be directly accessed in event-by-event data analysis. Common…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-03-24 Igor Altsybeev , Vladimir Kovalenko

Neutron star glitches are observed via artificially scheduled pulsar pulse arrival-time observations. Detection probability density of glitch events for a given data set is essentially required knowledge for realizing glitch detectability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Meng Yu

The main technique that has been used to estimate the rate of gravitational wave (gw) bursts is to search for coincidence among times of arrival of candidate events in different detectors. Coincidences are modeled as a (possibly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Lucio Baggio , Giovanni A. Prodi

In the domain of time series analysis, particularly in event detection tasks, current methodologies predominantly rely on segmentation-based approaches, which predict the class label for each individual timesteps and use the changepoints of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Clark Peng , Tolga Dinçer

The usual procedure for estimating the significance of a peak in a power spectrum is to calculate the probability of obtaining that value or a larger value by chance (known as the "p-value"), on the assumption that the time series contains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 P. A. Sturrock , J. D. Scargle

High-dimensional wireless power transfer (WPT) systems have received increasing attention for charging mobile devices. With the receivers have higher spatial freedom, the systems are more susceptible to the metal objects in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Zixi Liu , Qi Zhu , Mei Su

We present a method to measure the kinetic energy of electrons emitted upon ion impact via their time-of-flight. Pulsed beams of H$^{+}$, D$_2^{+}$, He$^{+}$ and Ne$^{+}$ ions with velocities between 0.4 and 3.5 a.u. are transmitted through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Svenja Lohmann , Anna Niggas , Vincent Charnay , Radek Holeňák , Daniel Primetzhofer

Observations of gamma-ray bursts are being used to test for a momentum dependence of the speed of photons, partly motivated by preliminary results reported in analyses of some quantum-spacetime scenarios. The relationship between time of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-06 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Antonino Marciano , Marco Matassa , Giacomo Rosati

It is often asserted that quantum effects can be observed in coincidence detection rates or other correlations, but never in the rate of single-photon detection. We observe nonclassical interference in a singles rate, thanks to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. J. Resch , J. S. Lundeen , A. M. Steinberg