The “universal property” of horizon entropy sum of black holes in four dimensional asymptotical (anti-)de-Sitter spacetime background
A bstractWe present a new “universal property” of entropy, that is the “entropy sum” relation of black holes in four dimensional (anti-)de-Sitter asymptotical background. They depend only on the cosmological constant with the necessary effect of the un-physical “virtual” horizon included in the spacetime where only the cosmological constant, mass of black hole, rotation parameter and Maxwell field exist. When there is more extra matter field in the spacetime, one will find the “entropy sum” is also dependent of the strength of these extra matter field. For both cases, we conclude that the “entropy sum” does not depend on the conserved charges M , Q and J , while it does depend on the property of background spacetime. We will mainly test the “entropy sum” relation in static, stationary black hole and some black hole with extra matter source (scalar hair and higher curvature) in the asymptotical (anti-)de-sitter spacetime background. Besides, we point out a newly found counter example of the mass independence of the ”entropy product” relation in the spacetime with extra scalar hair case, while the “entropy sum” relation still holds. These result are indeed suggestive to some underlying microscopic mechanism. Moreover, the cosmological constant and extra matter field dependence of the “entropy sum” of all horizon seems to reveal that “entropy sum” is more general as it is only related to the background field. For the case of asymptotical flat spacetime without any matter source, we give a note for the Kerr black hole case in appendix. One will find only mass dependence of “entropy sum” appears. It makes us believe that, considering the dependence of “entropy sum”, the mass background field may be regarded as the next order of cosmological constant background field and extra matter field. However, fully explaining the relationship between the “entropy sum” relation and background properties still requires further exploration.

title: A note on entropy relations of black hole horizons
abstract: Black holes with multi-horizons may provide new ways to understand the intrinsic thermodynamics. In this work, we focus on the entropy relations of black holes in three, four and higher dimensions. These entropy relations include entropy product, "part" entropy product and entropy sum. We also discuss their differences and similarities, in order to make a further study on understanding the origin of black hole entropy at the microscopic level.

title: Accelerating BTZ spacetime
abstract: An exact solution of (2 + 1)-dimensional Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant is studied. The corresponding spacetime is interpreted as an accelerating BTZ spacetime. The proper acceleration, horizon structure, temperature and entropy are presented in detail. The metric being studied is very similar to the one studied by Astorino (2011 ) but the range of parameters is different which results in significant changes in the causal structures.

title: Exact black hole formation in three dimensions
abstract: We consider three dimensional Einstein gravity non-minimally coupled to a real scalar field with a self-interacting scalar potential and present the exact black hole formation in three dimensions. Firstly we obtain an exact time-dependent spherically symmetric solution describing the gravitational collapse to a scalar black hole at the infinite time, i.e. in the static limit. The solution can only be asymptotically AdS because of the No–Go theorem in three dimensions which is resulting from the existence of a smooth black hole horizon. Then we analyze their geometric properties and properties of the time evolution. We also get the exact time-dependent solution in the minimal coupling model after taking a conformal transformation.

title: NOVEL ACCELERATING EINSTEIN VACUA AND SMOOTH INHOMOGENEOUS RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS
abstract: A novel class of Einstein vacua is presented, which possess nonvanishing cosmological constant and accelerating horizon with the topology of SD-3 fibration over S-1. After Euclideanization, the solution describes a conformally distorted SD-1 fibration over S-1, which is smooth, compact and inhomogeneous and can be regarded as analog of Don Page's gravitational instanton.

title: Properties of an Accelerating Gauss-Bonnet Vacuum in Five Dimensions
abstract: The causal structure of a five-dimensional C-metric like vacuum solution of Gauss-Bonnet gravity is analyzed in detail, the Gauss-Bonnet parameter make it more complex than that of a C-metric like solution of Einstein gravity. The acceleration of the observer fixed at a spatial position is calculated, the effect of the Gauss-Bonnet parameter comes in, but the acceleration of the origin is not affected by the parameter. The geodesics of the test particles in the spacetime are investigated, it is found that objects accelerate to go to the horizon in the accelerating spacetime.

title: Note on a noncritical holographic model with a magnetic field
abstract: We consider a noncritical holographic model constructed from an intersecting brane configuration D4 root D4-D4 with an external magnetic field. We investigate the influences of this magnetic field on strongly coupled dynamics by the gauge/gravity correspondence.

title: Higher moments of net proton multiplicity distributions at RHIC.
abstract: We report the first measurements of the kurtosis (κ), skewness (S), and variance (σ2) of net-proton multiplicity (Np-Np) distributions at midrapidity for Au+Au collisions at square root of s(NN)=19.6, 62.4, and 200 GeV corresponding to baryon chemical potentials (μB) between 200 and 20 MeV. Our measurements of the products κσ2 and Sσ, which can be related to theoretical calculations sensitive to baryon number susceptibilities and long-range correlations, are constant as functions of collision centrality. We compare these products with results from lattice QCD and various models without a critical point and study the square root of s(NN) dependence of κσ2. From the measurements at the three beam energies, we find no evidence for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram for μB below 200 MeV.

title: Progress on the high-current 704 MHz superconducting RF cavity at BNL
abstract: The 704 MHz high current superconducting cavity has been designed with consideration of both performance of fundamental mode and damping of higher order modes. A copper prototype cavity was fabricated by AES and delivered to BNL. RF measurements were carried out on this prototype cavity, including fundamental pass-band and HOM spectrum measurements, HOM studies using bead-pull setup, prototyping of antenna-type HOM couplers. The measurements show that the cavity has very good damping for the higher-order modes, which was one of the main goals for the high current cavity design. 3D cavity models were simulated with Omega3P code developed by SLAC to compare with the measurements. The paper describes the cavity design, RF measurement setups and results for the copper prototype. The progress with the niobium cavity fabrication will also be described.

title: Angular Reconstruction of a Lead Scintillating-Fiber Sandwiched Electromagnetic Calorimeter
abstract: The Neighbor Cell Deposited Energy Ratio (NCDER) is a new method that is proposed to reconstruct incidence position in a single layer for a 3-dimensional imaging electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL). This method was applied to reconstruct the ECAL test beam data for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02). The results show that this method can achieve an angular resolution of 7.36 +/- 0.08 degrees/root E circle plus 0.28 +/- 0.02 degrees in the determination of the photon's direction, which is much more precise than that obtained with the commonly-adopted Center of Gravity (COG) method (8.4 +/- 0.1 degrees/root E circle plus 0.8 +/- 0.3 degrees). Furthermore, since it uses only the properties of electromagnetic showers, this new method could also be used for other type of fine grain sampling calorimeters.

title: Improving application of Bayesian Neural Networks to discriminate neutrino events from backgrounds in reactor neutrino experiments
abstract: The application of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN) to discriminate neutrino events from backgrounds in reactor neutrino experiments has been described in ref. . In the paper, BNN are also used to identify neutrino events in reactor neutrino experiments, but the numbers of photoelectrons received by PMTs are used as inputs to BNN in the paper, not the reconstructed energy and position of events. The samples of neutrino events and three major backgrounds from the Monte-Carlo simulation of a toy detector are generated in the signal region. Compared to the BNN method in , more 8He/9Li background and uncorrelated background in the signal region can be rejected by the BNN method in the paper, but more fast neutron background events in the signal region are unidentified using the BNN method in the paper. The uncorrelated background to signal ratio and the 8He/9Li background to signal ratio are significantly improved using the BNN method in the paper in comparison with the BNN method in ref. . But the fast neutron background to signal ratio in the signal region is a bit larger than the one in ref. .