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A study is made of the feasibility of maximum likelihood fits to determine M_W and triple gauge boson couplings using only those experimental kinematical variables that are well measured. A computational tool to calculate theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 F. A. Berends , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

In this work we develop and analyze an adaptive finite element method for efficiently solving electrical impedance tomography -- a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem for recovering the conductivity from boundary voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Bangti Jin , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

A new mesoscale mechanical model, describing elastic interactions in carbon nanotubes (CNT) and other nanofilaments, is proposed. Functional form of the developed model is based on enhanced vector model (EVM) that describes basic types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Vitaliy Petrov , Igor Ostanin , Petr Zhilyaev

Over the past decades, there has been a surge of interest in studying low-dimensional structures within high-dimensional data. Statistical factor models $-$ i.e., low-rank plus diagonal covariance structures $-$ offer a powerful framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Daniel Cederberg

This paper deals with some nonlinear problems which exponential and biexponential decays are involved in. A proof of the quasiconvexity of the error function in some of these problems of optimization is presented. This proof is restricted…

We present a new fitting technique based on the parametric bootstrap method, which relies on the idea to produce artificial measurements using the estimated probability distribution of the experimental data. In order to investigate the main…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-03-18 Paolo Pedroni , Stefano Sconfietti

We propose a new method, called MonteCarlo Posterior Fit, to boost the MonteCarlo sampling of likelihood (posterior) functions. The idea is to approximate the posterior function by an analytical multidimensional non-Gaussian fit. The many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Luca Amendola , Adrià Gómez-Valent

In this paper, we present two programs to fit M_W at LEP2 using the best measurable kinematical variables. The theoretical probabilities of observing the final-state kinematical configurations are computed by integrating over the quantities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. A. Berends , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

This short note modifies a reconstruction method by the author (Comm. PDE, 45(9):1118-1133, 2020), for reconstructing piecewise constant conductivities in the Calder\'on problem (electrical impedance tomography). In the former paper, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Henrik Garde

A theoretical foundation is developed for active seismic reconstruction of fractures endowed with spatially-varying interfacial condition (e.g.~partially-closed fractures, hydraulic fractures). The proposed indicator functional carries a…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Fatemeh Pourahmadian , Bojan B. Guzina , Houssem Haddar

Cross-correlation techniques provide a promising avenue for calibrating photometric redshifts and determining redshift distributions using spectroscopy which is systematically incomplete (e.g., current deep spectroscopic surveys fail to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-20 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman

Pixel-space full spectrum fitting exploiting non-linear $\chi^2$ minimization became a \emph{de facto} standard way of deriving internal kinematics from absorption line spectra of galaxies and star clusters. However, reliable estimation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Igor V. Chilingarian , Kirill A. Grishin

This paper describes the use of weighted Monte Carlo events to accurately approximate integrals of functions of the experimentally measured kinematical vectors and their dependence on physical parameters. This technique is demonstrated in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 G. K. Fanourakis , D. Fassouliotis , S. E. Tzamarias

This paper presents an in-depth mathematical analysis of the Monte Carlo replica method, commonly used in global fitting studies within the high-energy physics theory field. For the first time, we offer a rigorous derivation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Mark N. Costantini

Changepoint detection is commonly formulated by minimizing the sum of in-sample losses to quantify the model's overall fit. However, for flexible modeling procedures -- especially those involving high-dimensional parameter spaces or…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-05 Chengde Qian , Guanghui Wang , Zhaojun Wang , Changliang Zou

In computed tomography (CT), the forward model consists of a linear Radon transform followed by an exponential nonlinearity based on the attenuation of light according to the Beer-Lambert Law. Conventional reconstruction often involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sara Fridovich-Keil , Fabrizio Valdivia , Gordon Wetzstein , Benjamin Recht , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

This article describes a multivariate polynomial regression method where the uncertainty of the input parameters are approximated with Gaussian distributions, derived from the central limit theorem for large weighted sums, directly from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-04 Peter Kovesarki , Ian C. Brock

A novel approach of accurately reconstructing storage ring's linear optics from turn-by-turn (TbT) data containing measurement error is introduced. This approach adopts a Bayesian inference based on the Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC)…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Yue Hao , Yongjun Li , Michael Balcewicz , Leo Neufcourt , Weixing Cheng

With the availability of thousands of type Ia supernovae in the near future the magnitude scatter induced by lensing will become a major issue as it affects parameter estimation. Current N-body simulations are too time consuming to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-10 Valerio Marra , Miguel Quartin , Luca Amendola

The realistic probability distributions of a previous article are applied to the reconstruction of tracks in constant magnetic field. The complete forms and their schematic approximations produce excellent momentum estimations, drastically…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-10 Gregorio Landi , Giovanni E. Landi