University of Tsukuba

About: University of Tsukuba is a education organization based out in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 36352 authors who have published 79483 publications receiving 1934752 citations. The organization is also known as: Tsukuba daigaku & Tsukuba University.

Global Radiation-Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black-Hole Accretion Flow and Outflow: Unified Model of Three States

Abstract: Black-hole accretion systems are known to possess several distinct modes (or spectral states), such as low/hard state and high/soft state. Since the dynamics of the corresponding flows is distinct, theoretical models were separately considered for each state. We here propose a unified model based on our new, global, two-dimensional radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations. By controlling a density normalization we could for the first time reproduce three distinct modes of accretion flow and outflow with one numerical code. When the density is large (model A), a geometrically thick, very luminous disk forms, in which photon trapping takes place. When the density is moderate (model B), the accreting gas can effectively be cooled by emitting radiation, thus generating a thin disk, i.e., a soft-state disk. When the density is too low for radiative cooling to be important (model C), a disk becomes hot, thick, and faint; i.e., a hard-state disk. The magnetic energy is amplified within the disk up to about twice, 30%, and 20% of the gas energy in models A, B, and C, respectively. Notably, the disk outflows with helical magnetic fields, which are driven either by radiation-pressure force or magnetic-pressure force, are ubiquitous in any accretion modes. Finally, our simulations are consistent with the phenomenological ˛-viscosity prescription; that is, the disk viscosity is proportional to the pressure.

Measurement of neutral mesons in p+p collisions at √s=200GeV and scaling properties of hadron production

Abstract: The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the invariant differential cross section for production of K-S(0), omega, eta', and phi mesons in p + p collisions at root s 200 GeV. Measurements of omega and phi production in different decay channels give consistent results. New results for the omega are in agreement with previously published data and extend the measured p(T) coverage. The spectral shapes of all hadron transverse momentum distributions measured by PHENIX are well described by a Tsallis distribution functional form with only two parameters, n and T, determining the high-p(T) and characterizing the low-p(T) regions of the spectra, respectively. The values of these parameters are very similar for all analyzed meson spectra, but with a lower parameter T extracted for protons. The integrated invariant cross sections calculated from the fitted distributions are found to be consistent with existing measurements and with statistical model predictions.

Real-time 3D walking pattern generation for a biped robot with telescopic legs

Abstract: Meltran V, a new biped robot with telescopic legs, is introduced. For 3D walking control of the robot we analyze the dynamics of a three-dimensional inverted pendulum in which motion is constrained to move along an arbitrarily defined plane. From this analysis we obtain simple linear dynamics, the three-dimensional linear inverted pendulum mode (3D-LIPM). Using a real-time control method based on 3D-LIPM, the Meltran V robot successfully demonstrated 3D dynamic walking without the use of any prepared trajectories.