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Broadening is a classic jet observable that probes the transverse momentum structure of jets. Traditionally, broadening has been measured with respect to the thrust axis, which is aligned along the (hemisphere) jet momentum to minimize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrew J. Larkoski , Duff Neill , Jesse Thaler

Statistical physics courses typically employ abstract language that describes objects too small to be seen, making the topic challenging for students to understand. In this work, we introduce a simple experiment that allows conceptualizing…

In this article we provide various analytical and numerical methods for calculating the average drift of magnetically trapped particles across field lines in complex geometries, and we compare these methods against each other. To evaluate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 R. J. J. Mackenbach , J. M. Duff , M. J. Gerard , J. H. E. Proll , P. Helander , C. C. Hegna

Convolutional neural networks are prevailing in deep learning tasks. However, they suffer from massive cost issues when working on mobile devices. Network pruning is an effective method of model compression to handle such problems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhaofeng Si , Honggang Qi , Xiaoyu Song

A pruning-aware adaptive gradient method is proposed which classifies the variables in two sets before updating them using different strategies. This technique extends the ``relevant/irrelevant" approach of Ding (2019) and Zimmer et al.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Margherita Porcelli , Giovanni Seraghiti , Philippe L. Toint

Many applications, especially in physics and other sciences, call for easily interpretable and robust machine learning techniques. We propose a fully gradient-based technique for training radial basis function networks with an efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jussi Määttä , Viacheslav Bazaliy , Jyri Kimari , Flyura Djurabekova , Kai Nordlund , Teemu Roos

In response to a published assertion to the contrary, this paper briefly reviews many studies that document remote wounding effects of ballistic pressure waves including experiments in pigs and dogs that find brain injury resulting from…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 Michael Courtney , Amy Courtney

The Kontsevich integral $Z$ associates to each braid $b$ (or more generally knot $k$) invariants $Z_i(b)$ lying in finite dimensional vector spaces, for $i = 0, 1, 2, ...$. These values are not yet known, except in special cases. The…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Fine

The paper encloses computation of simple centralizer of simple braids and their connection with Fibonacci numbers. Planarity of some commuting graphs is also discussed in the last section.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-01 Usman Ali , Azeem Haider

Consider a finite system of Brownian particles on the real line. Each particle has drift and diffusion coefficients depending on its current rank relative to other particles, as in Karatzas, Pal and Shkolnikov (2012). We prove some…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Andrey Sarantsev

The acceleration of a light buoyant object in a fluid is analyzed. Misconceptions about the magnitude of that acceleration are briefly described and refuted. The notion of the added mass is explained and the added mass is computed for an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-26 Kyle McKee , Andrzej Czarnecki

The actual progression of pitting on ball screw drive spindles is not well known since previous studies have only relied on the investigation of indirect wear effects (e. g. temperature, motor current, structure-borne noise). Using images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Tobias Schlagenhauf , Tim Scheurenbrand , Dennis Hofmann , Oleg Krasnikow

We give a 3-page description of the Gassner invariant / representation of braids / pure braids, along with a description and a proof of its unitarity property.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-01 Dror Bar-Natan

The selfconsistent cranking approach is extended to the case of rotation about an axis which is tilted with respect to the principal axes of the deformed potential (Tilted Axis Cranking). Expressions for the energies and the intra bands…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Frauendorf

This paper considers the flight dynamics of the ball in the sport of pickleball. Various simplifications are introduced according to the features of the game. These simplifications and some approximations enable straightforward coding to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-01 Kye Emond , Weiran Sun , Tim B Swartz

Motion blur reduces the clarity of fast-moving objects, posing challenges for detection systems, especially in racket sports, where balls often appear as streaks rather than distinct points. Existing labeling conventions mark the ball at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Thomas Gossard , Filip Radovic , Andreas Ziegler , Andreas Zell

This paper shows the complementary roles of mathematical and engineering points of view when dealing with truss analysis problems involving systems of linear equations and inequalities. After the compatibility condition and the mathematical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-28 R. Mínguez , E. Castillo , R. Pruneda , C. Solares

A truncated partial-wave analysis is performed for $\eta$-photoproduction using the polarization observables $\sigma_0, \Sigma, T, E, F$ and $G$. Different truncation orders are analyzed for six energy bins within the range of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-12 Philipp Kroenert , Yannick Wunderlich , Farah Afzal , Annika Thiel

This article is a survey of the exponential polynomials (also called single-variable Bell polynomials) from the point of view of Analysis. Some new properties are included and several Analysis-related applications are mentioned.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Khristo N. Boyadzhiev

A classic problem of the motion of a projectile thrown at an angle to the horizon is studied. Air resistance force is taken into account with the use of the quadratic resistance law. The projectile motion is described analytically with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Peter Chudinov