Yian Ma

activity

20102026

most citedA Complete Recipe for Stochastic Gradient MCMC

183 citations · 865 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

39 papers

hep-ex2026

Search for $Ξ^{0} p$ , $Ω^{-} p$ , and $Ω^{-} n$ dibaryons in $Υ (1 S)$ and $Υ (2 S)$ decays at Belle

Belle, Belle II Collaborations, : +367

We search for $Ξ^{0} p$ , $Ω^{-} p$ , and $Ω^{-} n$ dibaryon states in $Υ (1 S)$ and $Υ (2 S)$ decays, probing mass regions near the corresponding baryon-pair thresholds. Multistrange baryon-bary…

hep-ex2025

First search for $B \to X_{s} ν ν ˉ$ decays

Belle II Collaboration, M. Abumusabh, I. Adachi +440

We report the first search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decays $B \to X_{s} ν ν ˉ$ , where $X_{s}$ is a hadronic system with strangeness equal to 1, in data coll…

nucl-ex2025★ 3 cited

Measurement of $^{3, 4}$ He( $K^{-}, π^{0}$ ) $_{Λ}^{3, 4}$ H reaction cross section and evaluation of hypertriton $Λ$ binding energy

T. Akaishi, H. Asano, X. Chen +32

Light $s$ -shell hypernuclei ( $_{Λ}^{3, 4} H$ ) and their ground-state properties are crucial benchmarks in hypernuclear physics. In particular, comparing the production cross sec…

hep-ex2025★ 20 cited

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study

H. Abidi, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. Airen +373

The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing togeth…

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Search for a Dark Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Inelastic Dark Matter at the Belle II Experiment

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal +437

Inelastic dark matter models that have two dark matter particles and a massive dark photon can reproduce the observed relic dark matter density without violating cosmological limit…

hep-ex2024

Measurement of the branching fraction and $CP$ -violating asymmetry of the decay $B^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0}$ using $387$ million bottom-antibottom meson pairs in Belle II data

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal +437

We measure the branching fraction and $CP$ -violating flavor-dependent rate asymmetry of $B^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0}$ decays reconstructed using the Belle II detector in an electron-…

physics.acc-ph2024

Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)

C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…

hep-ex2024★ 1 cited

Search for the leptonic decays $D^{+} \to e^{+} ν_{e}$ and $D^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{μ}$

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +572

We present the first search for the leptonic decays $D^{*+} \to e^{+} ν_{e}$ and $D^{*+} \to μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ by analyzing a data sample of electron-positron collisions recorded with the BESIII de…

hep-ex2023★ 90 cited

Evidence for $B^{+} \to K^{+} ν ν ˉ$ decays

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +452

We search for the rare decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} ν ν ˉ$ in a $362 fb^{- 1}$ sample of electron-positron collisions at the $Υ (4 S)$ resonance collected with the Belle II det…

hep-ex2023★ 7 cited

Updated measurements of the M1 transition $ψ (3686) \to γ η_{c} (2 S)$ with $η_{c} (2 S) \to K K ˉ π$

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +620

Based on a data sample of $(27.08 \pm 0.14) \times 1 0^{8} ψ (3686)$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, the M1 transition $ψ (3686) \to γ η_{c} (2 S)$ with…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Solar gamma ray probe of local cosmic ray electrons

Hong-Gang Yang, Yu Gao, Yin-Zhe Ma +1

TeV-range cosmic ray electrons and positrons (CREs) have been directly measured in the search for new physics or unknown astrophysical sources. CREs can inverse-Compton scatter sol…

stat.ML2023

Linear Convergence of Black-Box Variational Inference: Should We Stick the Landing?

Kyurae Kim, Yian Ma, Jacob R. Gardner

We prove that black-box variational inference (BBVI) with control variates, particularly the sticking-the-landing (STL) estimator, converges at a geometric (traditionally called "l…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL)

Robert Adam, Claire Antel, Munirat Bashir +43

Establishing a deep underground physics laboratory to study, amongst others, double beta decay, geoneutrinos, reactor neutrinos and dark matter has been discussed for more than a d…

math.OC2023

A Central Limit Theorem for Algorithmic Estimator of Saddle Point

Abhishek Roy, Yi-An Ma

In this work, we study the asymptotic randomness of an algorithmic estimator of the saddle point of a globally convex-concave and locally strongly-convex strongly-concave objective…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

GMRT H I mapping of mid-infrared bright Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies W1016+3754 & W2326+0608

Yogesh Chandola, Chao-Wei Tsai, Di Li +3

We present the results from deep 21 cm H I mapping of two nearby blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDGs), W1016+3754 and W2326+0608, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). T…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

Cosmic Radio Background from Primordial Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn

Zhihe Zhang, Bin Yue, Yidong Xu +3

The presence of an extra radio background besides the cosmic microwave background has important implications for the observation of the 21-cm signal during the cosmic Dark Ages, Co…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

Cross-Correlation Forecast of CSST Spectroscopic Galaxy and MeerKAT Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Surveys

Yuer Jiang, Yan Gong, Meng Zhang +6

Cross-correlating the data of neutral hydrogen (HI) 21cm intensity mapping with galaxy surveys is an effective method to extract astrophysical and cosmological information. In this…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 28 cited

Implications for primordial black holes from cosmological constraints on scalar-induced gravitational wave

Junsong Cang, Yin-Zhe Ma, Yu Gao

Sufficiently large scalar perturbations in the early Universe can create over-dense regions that collapse into primordial black holes (PBH). This process is accompanied by the emis…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Measurement of $e^{+} e^{-} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{0}$ cross section and observation of a resonant structure

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +556

Based on $e^{+} e^{-}$ collision data collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider at center-of-mass energies from 2.000 to 3.080 GeV, a partial-wave analysis is performe…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 96 cited

Competition between charge-density-wave and superconductivity in the kagome metal RbV3Sb5

N. N. Wang, K. Y. Chen, Q. W. Yin +16

The interplay between charge-density-wave (CDW) order and superconductivity (SC) in the Kagome metal RbV3Sb5 is studied by tracking the evolutions of their transition temperatures,…

stat.ML2019★ 42 cited

High-Order Langevin Diffusion Yields an Accelerated MCMC Algorithm

Wenlong Mou, Yi-An Ma, Martin J. Wainwright +2

We propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm based on third-order Langevin dynamics for sampling from distributions with log-concave and smooth densities. The higher-orde…

astro-ph.IM2019

Packed Ultra-wideband Mapping Array (PUMA): A Radio Telescope for Cosmology and Transients

Kevin Bandura, Emanuele Castorina, Liam Connor +23

PUMA is a proposal for an ultra-wideband, low-resolution and transit interferometric radio telescope operating at $200 - 1100 MHz$ . Its design is driven by six science goal…

stat.ML2019

Bayesian Robustness: A Nonasymptotic Viewpoint

Kush Bhatia, Yi-An Ma, Anca D. Dragan +2

We study the problem of robustly estimating the posterior distribution for the setting where observed data can be contaminated with potentially adversarial outliers. We propose Rob…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 4 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: First Stars and Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn with Redshifted 21-cm Observations

Jordan Mirocha, Daniel Jacobs, Josh Dillon +39

The "cosmic dawn" refers to the period of the Universe's history when stars and black holes first formed and began heating and ionizing hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM).…

Search for Ξ0p, Ω−p, and Ω−n dibaryons in Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) decays at Belle

First search for B→Xs​ννˉ decays

Measurement of 3,4He(K−,π0)Λ3,4​H reaction cross section and evaluation of hypertriton Λ binding energy