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cs.ET2015

A Fair Admission Control Mechanism for Efficient Utilization of Resources in On-chip Nanophotonic Crossbars

Seyed Hessam Mirsadeghi, Ahmad Khonsari, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi +1

Advances in CMOS-compatible photonic elements have made it plausible to exploit nanophotonic communications to overcome the limitations of traditional NoCs. Amongst various propose…

math.NT2015★ 2 cited

Zeroes of polynomials with prime inputs and Schmidt's -invariant

Stanley Yao Xiao, Shuntaro Yamagishi

In this paper we show that a polynomial equation admits infinitely many prime-tuple solutions assuming only that the equation satisfies suitable local conditions and the polynomial…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 232 cited

The MiMeS Survey of Magnetism in Massive Stars: Introduction and overview

G. A. Wade, C. Neiner, E. Alecian +47

The MiMeS project is a large-scale, high resolution, sensitive spectropolarimetric investigation of the magnetic properties of O and early B type stars. Initiated in 2008 and compl…

cs.IT2015★ 5 cited

QoE Optimization of Video Multicast with Heterogeneous Channels and Playback Requirements

Ali Bakhshali, Wai-Yip Chan, Steven D. Blosten +1

We propose an application-layer forward error correction (AL-FEC) code rate allocation scheme to maximize the quality of experience (QoE) of a video multicast. The allocation dynam…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 52 cited

CHANG-ES VI: Probing Supernova Energy Deposition in Spiral Galaxies Through Multi-Wavelength Relationships

Jiang-Tao Li, Rainer Beck, Ralf-Jurgen Dettmar +13

How a galaxy regulates its SNe energy into different interstellar/circumgalactic medium components strongly affects galaxy evolution. Based on the JVLA D-configuration C- (6 GHz) a…

physics.ins-det2015

Status Update of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment

Julieta Gruszko, Nicolas Abgrall, Isaac Arnquist +67

Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties, in particular the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino and the absolute scale of t…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 13 cited

Temperature dependence of alpha-induced scintillation in the 1,1,4,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene wavelength shifter

L. M. Veloce, M. Kuźniak, P. C. F. Di Stefano +7

Liquid noble based particle detectors often use the organic wavelength shifter 1,1,4,4- tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene (TPB) which shifts UV scintillation light to the visible regime, f…

math.AG2015★ 9 cited

Waring-like decompositions of polynomials - 1

Maria Virginia Catalisano, Luca Chiantini, Anthony V. Geramita +1

Let be a homogeneous form of degree in variables. A Waring decomposition of is a way to express as a sum of powers of linear forms. In this paper we co…

physics.ins-det2015★ 1 cited

Low-Temperature Scintillation Properties of CaWO4 Crystals for Rare-Event Searches

M. v. Sivers, M. Clark, P. C. F. Di Stefano +13

In prospect of its application in cryogenic rare-event searches, we have investigated the low-temperature scintillation properties of CaWO4 crystals down to 3.4 K under α and γ exc…

cs.IT2015★ 6 cited

On Maximal Correlation, Mutual Information and Data Privacy

Shahab Asoodeh, Fady Alajaji, Tamás Linder

The rate-privacy function is defined in \cite{Asoodeh} as a tradeoff between privacy and utility in a distributed private data system in which both privacy and utility are measured…

cs.IT2015

Notes on Information-Theoretic Privacy

Shahab Asoodeh, Fady Alajaji, Tamás Linder

We investigate the tradeoff between privacy and utility in a situation where both privacy and utility are measured in terms of mutual information. For the binary case, we fully cha…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 257 cited

Growing the gas-giant planets by the gradual accumulation of pebbles

Harold F. Levison, Katherine A. Kretke, Martin J. Duncan

It is widely held that the first step in forming the gas giant planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn, is to form solid `cores' of roughly 10 M. Getting the cores to form bef…

hep-ex2015★ 138 cited

Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CFI Bubble Chamber

C. Amole, M. Ardid, D. M. Asner +56

New data are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 36.8 kg of CFI and located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. PICO…

quant-ph2015★ 12 cited

Divisible quantum dynamics satisfies temporal Tsirelson's bound

Thao Le, Felix A. Pollock, Tomasz Paterek +2

We give strong evidence that divisibility of qubit quantum processes implies temporal Tsirelson's bound. We also give strong evidence that the classical bound of the temporal Bell'…

math.CO2015★ 3 cited

Asymptotic Density of Zimin Words

Joshua Cooper, Danny Rorabaugh

Word is an instance of word provided there is a homomorphism mapping letters to nonempty words so that . For example, taking such that , …

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 16 cited

Quasinormal mode theory and modelling of electron energy loss spectroscopy for plasmonic nanostructures

Rong-Chun Ge, Stephen Hughes

Understanding light-matter interactions using localized surface plasmons (LSPs) is of fundamental interest in classical and quantum plasmonics and has a wide range of applications.…

physics.ins-det2015★ 14 cited

Measurement of -particle quenching in LAB based scintillator in independent small-scale experiments

B. von Krosigk, M. Chen, S. Hans +12

The -particle light response of liquid scintillators based on linear alkylbenzene (LAB) has been measured with three different experimental approaches. In the first approach, $α…

quant-ph2015★ 70 cited

Cavity-enhanced simultaneous dressing of quantum dot exciton and biexciton states

Fabian Hargart, Markus Müller, Kaushik Roy-Choudhury +6

We demonstrate the simultaneous dressing of both vacuum-to-exciton and exciton-to-biexciton transitions of a single semiconductor quantum dot in a high-Q micropillar cavity, using…

cs.IT2015★ 57 cited

Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks: Delay Analysis Considering Energy Costs of Sensing and Transmission

Wanchun Liu, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani +2

Energy harvesting (EH) provides a means of greatly enhancing the lifetime of wireless sensor nodes. However, the randomness inherent in the EH process may cause significant delay f…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 371 cited

WIMP-Search Results from the Second CDMSlite Run

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +87

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 128 cited

CHANG-ES IV: Radio continuum emission of 35 edge-on galaxies observed with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in D-configuration, Data Release 1

Theresa Wiegert, Judith Irwin, Arpad Miskolczi +21

We present the first part of the observations made for the Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies, an EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES) project. The aim of the CHANG-ES project is to study and ch…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Independence of Optical Absorption on Auger Ionization in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Revealed by Ultrafast e-h Photodoping

Mitchell D. Anderson, Meghan N. Beattie, Jack A. Alexander-Webber +2

Auger-ionized carriers in a one-dimensional semiconductor are predicted to result in a strong band-gap renormalization. Isolated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) under high-i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 25 cited

High field response of gated graphene at THz frequencies

Hadi Razavipour, Hassan A. Hafez, Ibraheem Al-Naib +11

We study the Fermi energy level dependence of nonlinear terahertz (THz) transmission of gated multi-layer and single-layer graphene transferred onto sapphire and quartz substrates.…

physics.ins-det2015★ 277 cited

Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ Collaboration, :, S. Andringa +155

SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m di…