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The notion of ``fundamental constant'' is heavily theory-laden. A natural, fairly precise formulation is possible in the context of the standard model (here defined to include gravity). Some fundamental constants have profound geometric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-03 Frank Wilczek

Many modern theories predict that the fundamental constants depend on time, position, or the local density of matter. We develop a spectroscopic method for pulsed beams of cold molecules, and use it to measure the frequencies of microwave…

Many physical theories beyond the Standard Model predict time variations of basic physics parameters. Direct measurement of the time variations of these parameters is very difficult or impossible to achieve. By contrast, measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Rodger I. Thompson

It is argued that the CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants could not be used as the reference data in searching the hypothetical space-time variations of the fundamental physical constants. It is shown that the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Ezhela , Yu. V. Kuyanov , V. N. Larin , A. S. Siver

I present a variant of the Buffon Needle method for determination of the value of the mathematical constant, pi. The original method is based on the random casting of a needle of length l onto a planked floor of plank width L. The described…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Devlin Gualtieri

As the main contribution, this document provides a consistent discretization of a class of fixed-time stable systems, namely predefined-time stable systems. In the unperturbed case, the proposed approach allows obtaining not only a…

This note aims at obtaining a variational characterization of complex structures by means of a calculus of variations for real vector bundle valued differential forms, and outlines a perspective to study existence questions via functionals…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Gabriella Clemente

The problem of understanding fundamental physical constants was discussed in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology. Here, I show that a new insight comes from condensed matter physics and liquid physics in particular: fundamental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-25 K. Trachenko

The energy distance and energy scores became important tools in multivariate statistics and multivariate probabilistic forecasting in recent years. They are both based on the expected distance of two independent samples. In this paper we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Carole Bernard , Alfred Müller

Structures in invariant mass distributions from (mu,pi) combinations in the range 0.380<mupi<0.470 GeV from neutrino and kaon experiments are presented in comparable formats. No artifacts have been found to account for any part of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Ramm

The CODATA recommended values of the fundamental constants are widely applied in particle, nuclear and atomic physics. They are a result of a complicated evaluation (adjustment) of numerous correlated data of different nature. Their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-01-09 Savely G. Karshenboim

We report on our determination of the values of the one and two loop low energy constants appearing in the Chiral Perturbation Theory calculation of the pi-pi scattering amplitude. For this we use a precise sum rule determination of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-22 Guillermo Rios , Jenifer Nebreda , Jose R. Pelaez

In the conventional QCD sum rule calculation for the $\pi NN$ coupling beyond the soft-pion limit, there are three distinct Dirac structures, each of which can be used to construct separate sum rule. We point out subtleties in the previous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hungchong Kim , Su Houng Lee , Makoto Oka

Estimation of the $\phi$-divergence between two unknown probability distributions using empirical data is a fundamental problem in information theory and statistical learning. We consider a multi-variate generalization of the data dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Fengqiao Luo , Sanjay Mehrotra

In this PhD thesis, a novel method to determine protein structures using chemical shifts is presented.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Anders S. Christensen

Searches for variations of fundamental constants require a comprehensive understanding of measurement errors. This paper examines a source of error that is usually overlooked: the impact of continuum placement error. We investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Chung-Chi Lee , John K. Webb , Darren Dougan , Vladimir A. Dzuba , Victor V. Flambaum , Dinko Milaković

The optical spectra of objects classified as QSOs in the SDSS DR6 are analyzed with the aim of determining the value of the fine structure constant in the past and then check for possible changes in the constant over cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. M. Gutierrez , M. Lopez-Corredoira

The structure of proteins is essential for its function. The determination of protein structures is possible by experimental or predicted by computational methods, but also a combination of both approaches is possible. Here, first an…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-03 Gerhard Mayer

In order to explain discrepancies between theoretical predictions and experimental data for the helium fine structure, we check and recalculate all theoretical contributions up to orders m\alpha^7 and m^2/M\alpha^6. The previous result for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Pachucki , V. A. Yerokhin

On the basis of an analysis of previous research, we present a generalized approach for measuring the difference of plans with an exemplary application to machine scheduling. Our work is motivated by the need for such measures, which are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Martin Josef Geiger