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    Modeling Cosmological Perturbations of Thermal Inflation
    (IOP Publishing, 2024) Bae, Jeong-Myeong; Hong, Sungwook E.; Zoe, Heeseung
    We consider a simple system consisting of matter, radiation and vacuum components to model the impact of thermal inflation on the evolution of primordial perturbations. The vacuum energy magnifies the primordial modes entering the horizon before its domination, making them potentially observable, and the resulting transfer function reflects the phase changes and energy contents. To determine the transfer function, we follow the curvature perturbation from well outside the horizon during radiation domination to well outside the horizon during vacuum domination and evaluate it on a constant radiation density hypersurface, as is appropriate for the case of thermal inflation. The shape of the transfer function is determined by the ratio of vacuum energy to radiation at matter-radiation equality, which we denote by upsilon , and has two characteristic scales, ka and kb , corresponding to the horizon sizes at matter radiation equality and the beginning of the inflation, respectively. If upsilon MUCH LESS-THAN1 , the Universe experiences radiation, matter and vacuum domination eras and the transfer function is flat for kMUCH LESS-THANkb , oscillates with amplitude 1/5 for kbMUCH LESS-THANkMUCH LESS-THANka and oscillates with amplitude 1 for k >> ka . For upsilon >> 1 , the matter domination era disappears, and the transfer function reduces to being flat for kMUCH LESS-THANkb and oscillating with amplitude 1 for k >> kb .
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    Cosmological States in Loop Quantum Gravity on Homogeneous Graphs
    (American Physical Society, 2023) Baytaş, Bekir; Yokomizo, N.
    We introduce a class of states characterized by proposed conditions of homogeneity and isotropy in loop quantum gravity and construct concrete examples given by Bell-network states on a special class of homogeneous graphs. Such states provide new representations of cosmological spaces that can be explored for the formulation of cosmological models in the context of loop quantum gravity. We show that their local geometry is described in an automorphism-invariant manner by one-node observables analogous to the one-body observables used in many-body quantum mechanics, and compute the density matrix representing the restriction of global states to the algebra of one-node observables. The von Neumann entropy of this density matrix provides a notion of entanglement entropy of a local region that is invariant under automorphisms and can be applied to states involving superpositions of distinct graphs. © 2023 American Physical Society.
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    Proteolysis of Micellar Β-Casein by Trypsin: Secondary Structure Characterization and Kinetic Modeling at Different Enzyme Concentrations
    (MDPI, 2023) Vorob’ev, Mikhail M.; Açıkgöz, Burçin Dersu; Güler, Günnur; Golovanov, Andrey V.; Sinitsyna, Olga V.
    Tryptic proteolysis of protein micelles was studied using β-casein (β-CN) as an example. Hydrolysis of specific peptide bonds in β-CN leads to the degradation and rearrangement of the original micelles and the formation of new nanoparticles from their fragments. Samples of these nanoparticles dried on a mica surface were characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM) when the proteolytic reaction had been stopped by tryptic inhibitor or by heating. The changes in the content of β-sheets, α-helices, and hydrolysis products during proteolysis were estimated by using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. In the current study, a simple kinetic model with three successive stages is proposed to predict the rearrangement of nanoparticles and the formation of proteolysis products, as well as changes in the secondary structure during proteolysis at various enzyme concentrations. The model determines for which steps the rate constants are proportional to the enzyme concentration, and in which intermediate nano-components the protein secondary structure is retained and in which it is reduced. The model predictions were in agreement with the FTIR results for tryptic hydrolysis of β-CN at different concentrations of the enzyme.
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    Analysis of the Cp Structure of the Yukawa Coupling Between the Higgs Boson and Tau Leptons in Proton-Proton Collisions at Root S=13 Tev
    (Springer, 2022) Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J. W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Dragicevic, M.; Del Valle, A. Escalante
    The first measurement of the CP structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and tau leptons is presented. The measurement is based on data collected in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1). The analysis uses the angular correlation between the decay planes of tau leptons produced in Higgs boson decays. The effective mixing angle between CP-even and CP-odd tau Yukawa couplings is found to be -1 +/- 19 degrees, compared to an expected value of 0 +/- 21 degrees at the 68.3% confidence level. The data disfavour the pure CP-odd scenario at 3.0 standard deviations. The results are compatible with predictions for the standard model Higgs boson.
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    Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution With Single Photons From Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
    (Wiley, 2022) Samaner, Çağlar; Paçal, Serkan; Mutlu, Görkem; Uyanık, Kıvanç; Ateş, Serkan
    Efficient single photon generation is an important requirement for several practical applications in quantum technologies, including quantum cryptography. A proof-of-concept demonstration of free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) is presented with single photons generated from an isolated defect in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). The bright source operating at room temperature is integrated into a QKD system based on B92 protocol and a sifted key rate of 238 bps with a quantum bit error rate of 8.95% are achieved at 1 MHz clock rate. The effect of temporal filtering of detected photons on the performance of QKD parameters is also studied. It is believed that these results will stimulate the research on optically active defects in hBN as well as other 2D-based quantum emitters and their applications within quantum information technologies including practical QKD systems.
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    Type-3/2 Seesaw Mechanism
    (American Physical Society, 2021) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karahan, Canan; Sargın, Ozan
    The type-I seesaw mechanism provides a natural explanation for tiny neutrino masses. The right-handed neutrino masses it requires are, however, too large to keep the Higgs boson mass at its measured value. We show that vector spinors, singlet leptons that are like right-handed neutrinos, generate tiny neutrino masses naturally through the exchange of spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 components. This one-step seesaw mechanism, which we call the type-3/2 seesaw, keeps the Higgs boson mass unchanged at one loop and gives cause therefore to no fine-tuning problem. If the on-shell vector spinor is a pure spin-3/2 particle, then it becomes a potential candidate for hidden dark matter which gets diluted due only to the expansion of the Universe. The type-3/2 seesaw provides a natural framework for the neutrino, Higgs boson, and dark matter sectors, with overall agreement with current experiments and observations.
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    Analytical Improvement on the Electromagnetic Scattering From Deformed Spherical Conducting Objects
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021) Ateş, Barış; Kuştepeli, Alp; Çetin, Zebih
    In this paper, electromagnetic scattering from con-ducting deformed spheres is considered analytically by employing the perturbation method and utilizing Debye potentials. To be able to analyze a wide variety of scattering problems, azimuthal variation is indispensable and therefore the geometries of the scatterers considered in this study do not have rotational symmetry, hence they are dependent on the θ and φ angles in spherical coordinates. Analyses are carried up to the second order explicitly to obtain more accurate results and thus scattered fields are obtained with second order corrections. The coefficients used to determine the scattered field are expressed in terms of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, which enables one to obtain the results for new geometries only by simple algebraic manipulations. Numerical results and their comparisons are also presented for various deformation functions and parameters. IEEE
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    Search for a Heavy Bottom-Like Quark in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karapınar, Güler
    A search for pair-produced bottom-like quarks in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV is conducted with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The decay b' -> tW is considered in this search. The b'(b) over bar' tW-(t) over barW(+) process can be identified by the distinctive signature of trileptons and same-sign dileptons. With a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb(-1), no excess above the standard model background predictions is observed and a b' quark with a mass between 255 and 361 GeV/c(2) is excluded at the 95% confidence level. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Measurement of the Ratio of the 3-Jet To 2-Jet Cross Sections in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karapınar, Güler
    A measurement of the ratio of the inclusive 3-jet to 2-jet cross sections as a function of the total jet transverse momentum. HT, in the range 0.2 < H-T < 2.5 TeV is presented. The data have been collected at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1). Comparisons are made between the data and the predictions of different QCD-based Monte Carlo models for multijet production. All models considered in this study are consistent with the data for H-T > 0.5 TeV. This measurement extends to an H-T range that has not been explored before. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Using Multilepton Signatures in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karapınar, Güler
    A search for physics beyond the standard model in events with at least three leptons and any number of jets is presented. The data sample corresponds to 35 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. A number of exclusive multileptonic channels are investigated and standard model backgrounds are suppressed by requiring sufficient missing transverse energy, invariant mass inconsistent with that of the Z boson, or high jet activity. Control samples in data are used to ascertain the robustness of background evaluation techniques and to minimise the reliance on simulation. The observations are consistent with background expectations. These results constrain previously unexplored regions of supersymmetric parameter space. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.