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Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Light Scalar Dark MatterAug 03 2016We consider a class of models involving interactions between ultra-light scalar dark matter and Standard Model neutrinos. Such couplings modify the neutrino mass splittings and mixing angles to include additional components that vary in time periodically ... More Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Light Scalar Dark MatterAug 03 2016Dec 01 2016We consider a class of models involving interactions between ultra-light scalar dark matter and Standard Model neutrinos. Such couplings modify the neutrino mass splittings and mixing angles to include additional components that vary in time periodically ... More Flipping quantum coinsApr 27 2009May 01 2009Coin flipping is a cryptographic primitive in which two distrustful parties wish to generate a random bit in order to choose between two alternatives. This task is impossible to realize when it relies solely on the asynchronous exchange of classical bits: ... More Physics of Proteins at Low TemperatureJul 15 2004We present results of a hole burning study with thermal cycling and waiting time spectral diffusion experiments on a modified cytochrome - c protein in its native as well as in its denatured state. The experiments show features which seem to be characteristic ... More Direct Deflection of Particle Dark MatterAug 19 2019We propose a new strategy to directly detect light particle dark matter that has long-ranged interactions with ordinary matter. The approach involves distorting the local flow of dark matter with time-varying fields and measuring these distortions with ... More A Thermal Neutrino Portal to Sub-MeV Dark MatterJul 11 2018Thermal relics lighter than an MeV contribute to the energy density of the universe at the time of nucleosynthesis and recombination. Constraints on extra radiation degrees of freedom typically exclude even the simplest of such dark sectors. We explore ... More Axion-Assisted Production of Sterile Neutrino Dark MatterOct 12 2016Sterile neutrinos can be generated in the early universe through oscillations with active neutrinos and represent a popular and well-studied candidate for our universe's dark matter. Stringent constraints from X-ray and gamma-ray line searches, however, ... More Thermal Dark Matter Below an MeVJun 21 2017Mar 02 2018We consider a class of models in which thermal dark matter is lighter than an MeV. If dark matter thermalizes with the Standard Model below the temperature of neutrino-photon decoupling, equilibration and freeze-out cools and heats the Standard Model ... More Dark Sector Equilibration During NucleosynthesisApr 08 2019Light, weakly-coupled dark sectors may be naturally decoupled in the early universe and enter equilibrium with the Standard Model bath during the epoch of primordial nucleosynthesis. The equilibration and eventual decoupling of dark sector states modifies ... More PeV-Scale Dark Matter as a Thermal Relic of a Decoupled SectorFeb 26 2016In this letter, we consider a class of scenarios in which the dark matter is part of a heavy hidden sector that is thermally decoupled from the Standard Model in the early universe. The dark matter freezes-out by annihilating to a lighter, metastable ... More Thermal Dark Matter From A Highly Decoupled SectorSep 08 2016It has recently been shown that if the dark matter is in thermal equilibrium with a sector that is highly decoupled from the Standard Model, it can freeze-out with an acceptable relic abundance, even if the dark matter is as heavy as ~1-100 PeV. In such ... More Malicious Behavior Detection using Windows Audit LogsJun 13 2015Aug 25 2015As antivirus and network intrusion detection systems have increasingly proven insufficient to detect advanced threats, large security operations centers have moved to deploy endpoint-based sensors that provide deeper visibility into low-level events across ... More Mono-Higgs Detection of Dark Matter at the LHCFeb 27 2014Motivated by the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, we investigate the possibility that a missing energy plus Higgs final state is the dominant signal channel for dark matter at the LHC. We consider examples of higher-dimension operators where a Higgs ... More Epidemiology of Latency and Relapse in Plasmodium vivax MalariaMay 08 2015Malaria is a major contributor to health burdens throughout the regions where it is endemic. Historically, it was believed that there was limited morbidity and essentially no mortality associated with Plasmodium vivax; however, evidence from diverse settings ... More Observing Long Cosmic Strings Through Gravitational LensingMay 28 1997We consider the gravitational lensing produced by long cosmic strings formed in a GUT scale phase transition. We derive a formula for the deflection of photons which pass near the strings that reduces to an integral over the light cone projection of the ... More Mean curvature blow up in mean curvature flowFeb 25 2009May 24 2010In this note we establish that finite-time singularities of the mean curvature flow of compact Riemannian submanifolds are characterised by the blow up of the mean curvature. Singularities of the Lagrangian Mean Curvature FlowMay 07 2015In this paper we investigate the singularities of Lagrangian mean curvature flows in $\mathbf{C}^m$ by means of smooth singularity models. Type I singularities can only occur at certain times determined by invariants in the cohomology of the initial data. ... More Thermal Dark Matter From A Highly Decoupled SectorSep 08 2016Dec 01 2016It has recently been shown that if the dark matter is in thermal equilibrium with a sector that is highly decoupled from the Standard Model, it can freeze-out with an acceptable relic abundance, even if the dark matter is as heavy as ~1-100 PeV. In such ... More Physiology-Aware Rural Ambulance RoutingJun 30 2017In emergency patient transport from rural medical facility to center tertiary hospital, real-time monitoring of the patient in the ambulance by a physician expert at the tertiary center is crucial. While telemetry healthcare services using mobile networks ... More Dirac-Fermionic Dark Matter in $U(1)_X$ ModelsJun 22 2015Sep 28 2015We study a number of $U(1)_X$ models featuring a Dirac fermion dark matter particle. We perform a comprehensive analysis which includes the study of corrections to the muon magnetic moment, dilepton searches with LHC data, as well as direct and indirect ... More Where are the Old-Population High Velocity Stars?Jan 11 2007To date, all of the reported high velocity stars (HVSs), which are believed to be ejected from the Galactic center, are blue and therefore almost certainly young. Old-population HVSs could be much more numerous than the young ones that have been discovered, ... More No Death Star -- For NowJan 07 1998Mar 30 1998A star passing within $\sim 10^4 \au$ of the Sun would trigger a comet shower that would reach the inner solar system about 0.18 Myr later. We calculate a prior probability of ~0.4% that a star has passed this close to the Sun but that the comet shower ... More Predicted Information Content of Gaia-HipparcosSep 09 2016Sep 13 2016The Gaia-Tycho release, scheduled for 14 September, is forecast to yield parallax errors of $\sigma(\pi)\sim 300\,\mu$as for about 2 million Tycho stars. We show analytically that the actual performance should be $$ \sigma(\pi) = {\rm max}(\sigma_{1991}/96,20\,\mu{\rm ... More Active Semi-Supervised Learning using Submodular FunctionsFeb 14 2012We consider active, semi-supervised learning in an offline transductive setting. We show that a previously proposed error bound for active learning on undirected weighted graphs can be generalized by replacing graph cut with an arbitrary symmetric submodular ... More Rotation and Activity in Late-type M DwarfsOct 01 2008We have examined the relationship between rotation and activity in 14 late-type (M6-M7) M dwarfs, using high resolution spectra taken at the Keck Observatory and flux-calibrated spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most are inactive at a spectral ... More Transiting Disintegrating Planetary Debris around WD 1145+017Apr 05 2018More than a decade after astronomers realized that disrupted planetary material likely pollutes the surfaces of many white dwarf stars, the discovery of transiting debris orbiting the white dwarf WD 1145+017 has opened the door to new explorations of ... More Maps admitting trialities but not dualitiesNov 13 2009We use group theory to construct infinite families of maps on surfaces which are invariant under Wilson's map operations of order 3 but not under the operations of order 2, such as duality and Petrie duality. Boundary calculus for conformally compact manifoldsApr 15 2011May 17 2012On conformally compact manifolds of arbitrary signature, we use conformal geometry to identify a natural (and very general) class of canonical boundary problems. It turns out that these encompass and extend aspects of already known holographic bulk-boundary ... More On Closed Graphs IJun 21 2013Dec 31 2014A graph is closed when its vertices have a labeling by [n] with a certain property first discovered in the study of binomial edge ideals. In this article, we prove that a connected graph has a closed labeling if and only if it is chordal, claw-free, and ... More A Quadruple or Triple Origin For Tycho B and SN 1572Oct 22 2012Kerzendorf et al. (2012) recently reported the startling discovery of a metal-poor ([Fe/H]=-1 +/- 0.4) A-type star near the center of the Tycho supernova remnant. We propose two possible explanations. In the first, Tycho B is a blue straggler, formed ... More Gaia Parallax Zero Point From RR Lyrae StarsSep 02 2016Like Hipparcos, Gaia is designed to give absolute parallaxes, independent of any astrophysical reference system. And indeed, Gaia's internal zero-point error for parallaxes is likely to be smaller than any individual parallax error. Nevertheless, due ... More Lagrangian Flows, Maslov Index Zero and Special LagrangiansJun 08 2016Sep 15 2016We introduce a notion of vanishing Maslov index for lagrangian varifolds and lagrangian integral cycles in a Calabi-Yau manifold. We construct mass-decreasing flows of lagrangian varifolds and lagrangian cycles which satisfy this condition. The flow of ... More Investigations of Higher Order LinksFeb 20 2016The following is an amalgamation of four preprints and some computer programs which together represent the current state of our investigations of higher order links. This investigation was motivated by questions discussed and raised in the first author's ... More Renormalized Volumes with BoundaryNov 25 2016We develop a general regulated volume expansion for the volume of a manifold with boundary whose measure is suitably singular along a separating hypersurface. The expansion is shown to have a regulator independent anomaly term and a renormalized volume ... More Fair Loss-Tolerant Quantum Coin FlippingApr 27 2009May 04 2009Coin flipping is a cryptographic primitive in which two spatially separated players, who in principle do not trust each other, wish to establish a common random bit. If we limit ourselves to classical communication, this task requires either assumptions ... More Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX)Aug 15 2018We present an initial design study for LDMX, the Light Dark Matter Experiment, a small-scale accelerator experiment having broad sensitivity to both direct dark matter and mediator particle production in the sub-GeV mass region. LDMX employs missing momentum ... More Quantum electrodynamics near a photonic band-gapMar 09 2016Apr 06 2016Photonic crystals provide an extremely powerful toolset for manipulation of optical dispersion and density of states, and have thus been employed for applications from photon generation to quantum sensing with NVs and atoms. The unique control afforded ... More General triple charged black ring solution in supergravityJun 18 2014We present the general black ring solution in $U(1)^{3}$ supergravity in 5 dimensions with three independent dipole and electric charges. This immediately gives the general black ring solution in the minimal 5D supergravity as well. A First Look at Rotation in Inactive Late-Type M DwarfsDec 05 2008We have examined the relationship between rotation and activity in 14 late-type (M6-M7) M dwarfs, using high resolution spectra taken at the W.M. Keck Observatory and flux-calibrated spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most were selected to be ... More A note on conformal symmetry in projective superspaceNov 13 2008Dec 29 2008We describe a sufficient condition for actions constructed in projective superspace to possess an SU(2) R-symmetry. We check directly that this condition implies that the corresponding hyperkahler varieties, constructed by means of the generalized Legendre ... More Identity, Haecceity, and the Godzilla ProblemSep 14 2017In standard first order predicate logic with identity it is usually taken that $a=a$ is a theorem for any term $a$. It is easily shown that this enables the apparent proof of a theorem stating the existence of any entity whatsoever. This embarrassing ... More On closed graphs IIDec 31 2014Apr 22 2015A graph is closed when its vertices have a labeling by [n] with a certain property first discovered in the study of binomial edge ideals. In this article, we explore various aspects of closed graphs, including the number of closed labelings and clustering ... More Renormalized VolumeMar 23 2016For any conformally compact manifold with hypersurface boundary we define a canonical renormalized volume functional and compute an explicit, holographic formula for the corresponding anomaly. For the special case of asymptotically Einstein manifolds, ... More Proper Motion Catalog From SDSS \intersect USNO-BOct 29 2003We present a catalog of 345,000 stars with proper motions \mu > 20 mas/yr and magnitudes r' <20, drawn from the intersection of the SDSS Data Release One and USNO-B. We first use SDSS quasars to correct the proper motions in each of the two source catalogs, ... More Renormalized VolumeMar 23 2016Oct 19 2016We develop a universal distributional calculus for regulated volumes of metrics that are singular along hypersurfaces. When the hypersurface is a conformal infinity we give simple integrated distribution expressions for the divergences and anomaly of ... More Manipulating time-bin qubits with fiber optics componentsMay 06 2006We propose two experimental schemes to implement arbitrary unitary single qubit operations on single photons encoded in time-bin qubits. Both schemes require fiber optics components that are available with current technology.