The radiation pattern of relatively soft gluons in hard scattering events is sensitive to the underlying color structure. As an example I consider heavy Higgs production via weak boson fusion at the LHC. A minijet veto, which makes use of the different patterns for signal and backgrounds, provides an effective Higgs

This paper presents a novel method to determine the complete velocity vector of a moving target using a single Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor. The method exploits the structure of the returned echo from a moving target: in the slow-time frequency domain, it is a scaled and shifted replica of the antenna radiation pattern immersed in Gaussian noise; the scale and the shift are related wit...

We investigate uniformly-wound helical antennas above ground conductors of various shapes, with aim to determine factors that improve the antenna radiation pattern and gain. We show that the characteristics of helical antennas with large spillover fields can be improved using ground conductors (reflectors). This is achieved by intercepting unwanted radiation and redirecting it favorably.

The visibility level (VL) approach is often applied to assess the performance of vehicle lighting systems. After describing the details of the VL computational model, we review how it is ordinarily implemented for assessing night-time visibility in driving conditions. Then we present an evolution of the VL approach which consists in evaluating visible edges instead of visible objects, thereby s...

This paper presents a novel way for achieving endfire radiation pattern using microstrip patch antenna array. The extensively used microstrip patch antennas i.e. rectangular and circular microstrip patch antennas, either single patch or in an array configuration do not have an endfire radiation pattern. The antenna array presented in this paper is designed by changing the geometry of the antenn...

A method is given for calculation of a distribution of small particles, embedded in a medium, so that the resulting medium would have a desired radiation pattern for the plane wave scattering by this medium.

We have observed that the size and shape of the conducting reflector of CPW-fed slot antennas using loading metallic strips and a widened tuning stub have significant impact on the antenna impedance matching and radiation pattern. By shaping the reflecting conductor, noticeable enhancements in both radiation pattern which provides uni-directional all frequency operating band and characteristic ...

In this paper, we investigate the existence and characterizations of the Fréchet derivatives of the solution to time-harmonic elastic scattering problems with respect to the boundary of the obstacle. Our analysis is based on a technique the factorization of the difference of the far-field pattern for two different scatterers introduced by Kress and Païvarinta to establish Fréchet differentiabil...

In this paper we report some results on the estimation of the far-field of an antenna by using a low-cost amplitude-only near-field measurement setup. A simple experimental setup is used to measure the intensity of the near-field of the antenna under test (AUT) on two planes. The measured intensity of the near field is then numerically processed to determine the far-field pattern. The results c...

Two design procedures for Radial Line Slot Antennas (RLSAs) with circular polarization and either maximum gain or an arbitrary shaped pattern are proposed. Firstly, a method to design a RLSA with any desired pattern is presented. It is based on an optimization algorithm and some measures to ensure its fast convergence and stability need to be taken. Secondly, a fast technique to calculate the l...