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Publications (139)

nucl-ex2020

Precision Measurement of the Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Forward-Angle Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

QWeak collaboration, D. Androic, D. S. Armstrong +92

A beam-normal single-spin asymmetry generated in the scattering of transversely polarized electrons from unpolarized nucleons is an observable related to the imaginary part of the…

nucl-ex2020

Parity-Violating Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering at Low Above the Resonance Region

QWeak Collaboration, D. Androic, D. S. Armstrong +74

We report the measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry for the inelastic scattering of electrons from the proton, at GeV and GeV, above the reson…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Superconductivity at 2.5 K in new transition-metal chalcogenide Ta2PdSe5

J. Zhang, J. K. Dong, Y. Xu +4

We report the synthesis and superconducting properties of a new transition-metal chalcogenide TaPdSe. The measurements of resistivity, magnetization, and specific heat reve…

gr-qc2026

All-sky Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars in the Data from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1826

We present results from an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves, using three different methods applied to the first eight months of LIGO data from the fourth LIGO-Virg…

gr-qc2025

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1768

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Op…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +164

The DESI DR2 analysis measures the Alcock‑Paczynski effect using the full shape of Lyman‑α forest auto‑ and cross‑correlations, achieving 1% precision at redshift 2.33 and providin…

#lyman-alpha forest#alcock-paczynski test#baryon acoustic oscillations#dark energy
astro-ph.HE2025

A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1780

The magnetar SGR 1935+2154 is the only known Galactic source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). FRBs from SGR 1935+2154 were first detected by CHIME/FRB and STARE2 in 2020 April, after t…

nucl-ex2022

Measurement of cold nuclear matter effects for inclusive in +Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

Measurement by the STAR experiment at RHIC of the cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects experienced by inclusive at mid-rapidity in 0-100\% +Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mat…

physics.ins-det2015

The Q_weak Experimental Apparatus

Qweak Collaboration, T. Allison, M. Anderson +126

The Jefferson Lab Q_weak experiment determined the weak charge of the proton by measuring the parity-violating elastic scattering asymmetry of longitudinally polarized electrons fr…

nucl-ex2023

Evidence of Mass Ordering of Charm and Bottom Quark Energy Loss in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +359

Partons traversing the strongly interacting medium produced in heavy-ion collisions are expected to lose energy depending on their color charge and mass. We measure the nuclear mod…

physics.ins-det2012

The Qweak Experiment: A Search for New Physics at the TeV Scale via a Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge

R. D. Carlini, J. M. Finn, S. Kowalski +83

We propose a new precision measurement of parity-violating electron scattering on the proton at very low Q^2 and forward angles to challenge predictions of the Standard Model and s…

nucl-th1996

Links Between Different Models for Multifragmentation

S. Das Gupta, J. Pan, I. Kvasnikova +1

We establish links between three different models for multifragmentation: the percolation model, the lattice gas model and the statistical multifragmentation model. There are remar…

nucl-ex2022

Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of higher-order flow harmonics of identified hadrons in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

We present high-precision measurements of elliptic, triangular, and quadrangular flow , , and , respectively, at midrapidity () for identified hadron…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1827

Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA network of observatories through the second part of the four…

astro-ph.CO2024

DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations from…

astro-ph.CO2025

Extended Dark Energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements

K. Lodha, R. Calderon, W. L. Matthewson +122

We conduct an extended analysis of dark energy constraints, in support of the findings of the DESI DR2 cosmology key paper, including DESI data, Planck CMB observations, and three…

nucl-ex2023

Measurement of sequential suppression in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +357

We report on measurements of sequential suppression in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (R…

hep-ph2020

Quantum Entanglement and Thermal Behavior in Charged-Current Weak Interactions

G. Iskander, J. Pan, M. Tyler +2

We show that quantum entanglement between causally separated regions of a nucleon in antineutrino-nucleon scattering manifests itself as a thermal component in the resulting pion m…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

Multi-gap nodeless superconductivity in nickel chalcogenide TlNi2Se2

X. C. Hong, Z. Zhang, S. Y. Zhou +7

Low-temperature thermal conductivity measurements were performed on single crystals of TlNiSe, a nickel-chalcogenide heavy-electron superconductor with 3.7 K…

gr-qc2026

Constraints on gravitational waves from the 2024 Vela pulsar glitch

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1774

Among known neutron stars, the Vela pulsar is one of the best targets for gravitational-wave searches. It is also one of the most prolific in terms of glitches, sudden frequency ch…

physics.ins-det2025

The SHMS 11 GeV/c Spectrometer in Hall C at Jefferson Lab

S. Ali, A. Ahmidouch, G. R. Ambrose +72

The Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) has been built for Hall C at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). With a momentum capability reaching 11…

astro-ph.CO2025

Modified Gravity Constraints from the Full Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements from DESI 2024

M. Ishak, J. Pan, R. Calderon +68

We present cosmological constraints on deviations from general relativity (GR) from the first-year of clustering observations from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in co…

nucl-ex2013

Early Results from the Qweak Experiment

D. Androic, D. S. Armstrong, A. Asaturyan +94

A subset of results from the recently completed Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment are reported. This experiment, sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model, exploits the small par…

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly forest full-shape analysis

M. Herbold, A. Cuceu, P. Martini +107

The paper validates the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 analysis of the Lyman‑α forest, focusing on extracting the Alcock‑Paczynski (AP) measurement from…

#lyman-alpha forest#baryon acoustic oscillations#alcock-paczynski test#mock simulations
astro-ph.HE2025

GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1805

We detail the population properties of merging compact objects using 158 mergers from the cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 4.0, which includes three types of binary…

astro-ph.HE2026

Deep Search for Joint Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube During the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +2209

The discovery of joint sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves has been a primary target for the LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and IceCube observatories. The joint detection…

astro-ph.GA2023

A Diverse Population of z ~ 2 ULIRGs Revealed by JWST Imaging

J. -S. Huang, Zi-Jian Li, Cheng Cheng +12

Four ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) observed with JWST/NIRcam in the Cosmos Evolution Early Release Science program offer an unbiased preview of the ULIRG po…

nucl-ex2023

Azimuthal anisotropy measurement of (multi-)strange hadrons in Au+Au collisions at = 54.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +356

Azimuthal anisotropy of produced particles is one of the most important observables used to access the collective properties of the expanding medium created in relativistic heavy-i…

nucl-ex2013

First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton

Qweak Collaboration, D. Androic, D. S. Armstrong +95

The Qweak experiment has measured the parity-violating asymmetry in polarized e-p elastic scattering at Q^2 = 0.025(GeV/c)^2, employing 145 microamps of 89% longitudinally polarize…

astro-ph.CO2026

CoLoRe-2LPT: Lyman- mock catalogues for the validation of DESI cosmological analyses

M. F. Ruiz-Herrera Bernal, S. Avila, A. Font-Ribera +90

The paper presents fast Lyman‑α forest mock catalogues generated with second‑order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2LPT) that accurately reproduce small‑scale clustering, BAO broad…

#lyman-alpha forest#mock catalogues#second-order lagrangian perturbation theory#baryon acoustic oscillations
nucl-ex2023

Pion, kaon, and (anti-)proton production in U+U Collisions at = 193 GeV measured with the STAR detector

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +339

We present the first measurements of transverse momentum spectra of , , at midrapidity () in U+U collisions at = 193 GeV…

gr-qc2026

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the Second Part of the Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1809

LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600 form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitationa…

nucl-ex2023

Measurements of the elliptic and triangular azimuthal anisotropies in central He+Au, +Au and +Au collisions at $\mbox{$\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$}$ = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +343

The elliptic () and triangular () azimuthal anisotropy coefficients in central He+Au, +Au, and +Au collisions at $\mbox{$\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$}$ = 200 GeV a…

astro-ph.CO2024

DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectros…

hep-ex2023

Longitudinal and transverse spin transfer to and hyperons in polarized + collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +364

The longitudinal and transverse spin transfers to () hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions are expected to be sensitive to the helicity and transversity…

gr-qc2026

GW240925 and GW250207: Astrophysical Calibration of Gravitational-wave Detectors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1839

GW240925 and GW250207 are two loud gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences observed with network signal-to-noise ratios and , respectively…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Drastic pressure effect on the extremely large magnetoresistance in WTe2: quantum oscillation study

P. L. Cai, J. Hu, L. P. He +7

The quantum oscillations of the magnetoresistance under ambient and high pressure have been studied for WTe single crystals, in which extremely large magnetoresistance was disc…

hep-ph2023

Pattern of Global Spin Alignment of and mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +379

Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interact…

nucl-ex2019

Precision Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton

D. Androic, D. S. Armstrong, A. Asaturyan +96

The fields of particle and nuclear physics have undertaken extensive programs to search for evidence of physics beyond that explained by current theories. The observation of the Hi…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. II. Parameterized Tests

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785

In this second of three papers on tests of general relativity (GR) applied to the compact binary coalescence signals in the 4th Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0), we…

nucl-ex2022

Measurement of inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays in + collisions at GeV with the STAR detector

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

We report a new measurement of the production cross section for inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays as a function of transverse momentum () at mid-r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Observation of Topological Superconductivity in a Stoichiometric Transition Metal Dichalcogenide 2M-WS2

Y. W. Li, H. J. Zheng, Y. Q. Fang +22

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are unconventional superconductors with bulk superconducting gap and in-gap Majorana states on the boundary that may be used as topological qubit…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1808

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravita…

astro-ph.HE2025

GW231123: a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1771

On 2023 November 23 the two LIGO observatories both detected GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal consistent with the merger of two black holes with masses $137^{+23}_{-18}\, M_\o…

nucl-ex2023

Event-by-event correlations between () hyperon global polarization and handedness with charged hadron azimuthal separation in Au+Au collisions at from STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +342

Global polarizations () of () hyperons have been observed in non-central heavy-ion collisions. The strong magnetic field primarily created by the spectator protons…

astro-ph.CO2025

Validating the Galaxy and Quasar Catalog-Level Blinding Scheme for the DESI 2024 analysis

U. Andrade, J. Mena-Fernández, H. Awan +60

In the era of precision cosmology, ensuring the integrity of data analysis through blinding techniques is paramount -- a challenge particularly relevant for the Dark Energy Spectro…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +184

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1786

Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth obs…

nucl-ex2023

Beam energy dependence of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +341

The linear and mode-coupled contributions to higher-order anisotropic flow are presented for Au+Au collisions at = 27, 39, 54.4, and 200 GeV and compared t…

nucl-ex2022

New Measurements of the Beam-Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering Over a Range of Spin-0 Nuclei

PREX, CREX Collaborations, : +104

We report precision determinations of the beam normal single spin asymmetries () in the elastic scattering of 0.95 and 2.18~GeV electrons off C, Ca, Ca, a…

nucl-ex2022

Two-particle correlations on transverse rapidity in Au+Au collisions at GeV at STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +381

Two-particle correlation measurements projected onto two-dimensional, transverse rapidity coordinates (), allow access to dynamical properties of the QCD medium prod…

astro-ph.CO2026

GWTC-5.0: Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate and Modified Gravitational-wave Propagation

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1810

We employ 236 gravitational-wave (GW) sources in the fifth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration (LVK) Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0) to estimate the Hubble constant $H…

nucl-ex2023

Elliptic Flow of Heavy-Flavor Decay Electrons in Au+Au Collisions at = 27 and 54.4 GeV at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +359

We report on new measurements of elliptic flow () of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays at mid-rapidity () in Au+Au collisions at = 27 a…

astro-ph.CO2024

DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +193

We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided…

cond-mat.str-el2014

Quantum transport evidence for a three-dimensional Dirac semimetal phase in Cd3As2

L. P. He, X. C. Hong, J. K. Dong +4

The material termed three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal has attracted great interests recently, since it is an electronic analogue to two-dimensional graphene. Starting from thi…

nucl-ex2022

Disappearance of partonic collectivity in = 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +384

We report on the measurements of directed flow and elliptic flow for hadrons (, , , , , and ) from Au+Au collisions at $…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. I. Overview and General Tests

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1781

The worldwide LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors continues to increase in sensitivity, thus increasing the quantity and quality of the detected GW signal…

astro-ph.HE2026

Searches for Binary Mergers with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the First Part of LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1834

We report on a gravitational wave search for compact binary coalescences involving at least one component with mass between to , and ratio of component m…

astro-ph.CO2026

Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul Karim, A. G. Adame +306

In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional s…

physics.ins-det2024

Ultra-High precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV

A. Zec, S. Premathilake, J. C. Cornejo +13

We report a high precision measurement of electron beam polarization using Compton polarimetry. The measurement was made in experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab during the CREX exp…

cond-mat.supr-con2013

Nodeless superconductivity in IrPtTe with strong spin-orbital coupling

S. Y. Zhou, X. L. Li, B. Y. Pan +7

The thermal conductivity of superconductor IrPtTe ( = 0.05) single crystal with strong spin-orbital coupling was measured down to 50 mK. The residual line…

nucl-ex2023

Energy Dependence of Intermittency for Charged Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +364

Density fluctuations near the QCD critical point can be probed via an intermittency analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report the first measurement of intermittency…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

Nodeless superconducting gaps in Ca(PtAs)((FePt)As) probed by quasiparticle heat transport

X. Qiu, L. P. He, X. C. Hong +5

The in-plane thermal conductivity of iron-based superconductor Ca(PtAs)((FePt)As) single crystal (``10-4-8", = 22 K) was measure…

nucl-ex2022

Measurement of and binding energy in Au+Au collisions at = 3 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +357

Measurements of mass and binding energy of and in Au+Au collisions at GeV are presented, with an aim to address the charge…

physics.optics2021

Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

J. -W. Henke, A. S. Raja, A. Feist +11

The ability to tailor laser light on a chip using integrated photonics has allowed for extensive control over fundamental light-matter interactions in manifold quantum systems incl…

nucl-ex2021

Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect with Isobar Collisions at = 200 GeV by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is predicted to occur as a consequence of a local violation of and symmetries of the strong interaction amidst a strong electro-…

astro-ph.HE2020

Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network

K. Ackley, V. B. Adya, P. Agrawal +160

Gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars encode information about nuclear matter at extreme densities, inaccessible by laboratory experiments. The late inspiral is influen…

quant-ph2019

Observation of Multiphoton Frequency Conversion in Superconducting Circuits

H. Z. Jooya, G. Sun, J. Pan +3

Multiphoton up/down conversion in a transmon circuit, driven by a pair of microwaves tuned near and far off the qubit resonance, has been observed. The experimental realization of…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Signatures of a high-temperature collective electronic phase with superconductivity-like characteristics and a giant pressure effect in networks of boron-doped ultrathin carbon nanotubes

Y. Wang, T. H. Koo, R. Huang +11

We present data consistent with a high-temperature collective electronic phase with superconductivity-like characteristics in three dimensional networks of boron doped, ultrathin c…

gr-qc2026

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1764

We present results from directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from a sample of 15 nearby supernova remnants, likely hosting young neutron star candidates, using data…

gr-qc2025

All-sky search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1765

We present the results of a blind all-sky search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from neutron stars in binary systems using data from the first part of the fourth observi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1780

We present the results of a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernova SN 2023ixf, which was observed in the galaxy Messier 101 via optical em…

nucl-ex1996

Source size scaling of fragment production in projectile breakup

L. Beaulieu, D. R. Bowman, D. Fox +15

Fragment production has been studied as a function of the source mass and excitation energy in peripheral collisions of Cl+Au at 43 MeV/nucleon and Ge+$^{nat}…

nucl-ex2023

Hyperon polarization along the beam direction relative to the second and third harmonic event planes in isobar collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +345

The polarization of and hyperons along the beam direction has been measured relative to the second and third harmonic event planes in isobar Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collision…

nucl-th1996

Temperature determination from the lattice gas model

S. Das Gupta, J. Pan, M. B. Tsang

Determination of temperature from experimental data has become important in searches for critical phenomena in heavy ion collisions. Widely used methods are ratios of isotopes (whi…

astro-ph2006

GalICS V : Low and high order clustering in mock SDSS's

J. Blaizot, I. Szapudi, S. Colombi +6

[Abridged] We use mock catalogues based on the GALICS model (Hatton et al. 03) to explore the nature of galaxy clustering observed in the SDSS. We measure low and high order angula…

nucl-ex2022

Global -hyperon polarization in Au+Au collisions at GeV

M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +383

Global hyperon polarization, , in Au+Au collisions over a large range of collision energy, , was recently measured and successfully r…

nucl-ex2021

Measurement of the Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry for Elastic Electron Scattering from C and Al

QWeak Collaboration, D. Androic, D. S. Armstrong +82

We report measurements of the parity-conserving beam-normal single-spin elastic scattering asymmetries on C and Al, obtained with an electron beam polarized tra…

nucl-th1997

First Order Phase Transition in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

J. Pan, S. Das Gupta, M. Grant

We model the disassembly of an excited nuclear system formed as a result of a heavy ion collision. We find that, as the beam energy in central collisions in varied, the dissociatin…

astro-ph.CO2025

Direct multi-model dark-matter search with gravitational-wave interferometers using data from the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1767

Gravitational-wave detectors can probe the existence of dark matter with exquisite sensitivity. Here, we perform a search for three kinds of dark matter -- dilatons (spin-0), dark…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1809

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of candidate gravitational-wave transient signals identified and characterized by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological implications of DESI DR2 BAO measurements in light of the latest ACT DR6 CMB data

C. Garcia-Quintero, H. E. Noriega, A. de Mattia +92

We report cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) when combined with recent data from the Ataca…

gr-qc2025

Cosmological and High Energy Physics implications from gravitational-wave background searches in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's O1-O4a runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1769

We search for gravitational-wave background signals produced by various early Universe processes in the Advanced LIGO O4a dataset, combined with the data from the earlier O1, O2, a…

astro-ph.CO2024

DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +196

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman- (Ly) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectro…

nucl-ex2025

Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in the N to Transition at Low

D. Adhikari, T. Alshayeb, D. Androic +70

We report the measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the N to transition via the reaction at two different kinematic points with low…

nucl-ex2023

production in Au+Au collisions at = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV from RHIC beam energy scan

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +359

We report the measurement of meson at midrapidity ( 1.0) in Au+Au collisions at ~=~7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV collected by the STAR expe…

nucl-ex2022

Evidence for Nonlinear Gluon Effects in QCD and their Dependence at STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +382

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of back-to-back azimuthal correlations of di-s produced at forward pseudorapidities () in +, Al, and Au…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI DR2 Results I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +147

We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…

nucl-ex2023

Higher-Order Cumulants and Correlation Functions of Proton Multiplicity Distributions in = 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at the RHIC STAR Experiment

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +358

We report a measurement of cumulants and correlation functions of event-by-event proton multiplicity distributions from fixed-target Au+Au collisions at = 3 GeV…

nucl-ex2022

Light Nuclei Collectivity from = 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, partonic collectivity is evidenced by the constituent quark number scaling of elliptic flow anisotropy for identified hadrons. A breaking of th…

astro-ph.HE2024

Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a Compact Object and a Neutron Star

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1793

We report the observation of a coalescing compact binary with component masses and (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible le…

cond-mat.soft2015

Microphase transitions of block copolymer/homopolymer under shear flow

Y. Guo, J. Zhang, B. Wang +3

Cell dynamics simulation is used to investigate the phase behavior of block copolymer/homopolymer mixture subjected to a steady shear flow. Phase transitions occur from transverse…

gr-qc2025

Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from the first part of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1773

We present results from the search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from O1 through O4a, the first part of the fourth obse…

nucl-ex2022

Probing the gluonic structure of the deuteron with photoproduction in d+Au ultra-peripheral collisions

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +388

Understanding gluon density distributions and how they are modified in nuclei are among the most important goals in nuclear physics. In recent years, diffractive vector meson produ…

gr-qc2025

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1772

We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken…

gr-qc2026

GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The Kagra Collaboration +1783

GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. Its source is…

nucl-ex2021

Measurement of Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

The Breit-Wheeler process which produces matter and anti-matter from photon collisions is investigated experimentally through the observation of 6085 exclusive electron-positron pa…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Doping evolution of the superconducting gap structure in heavily hole-doped BaKFeAs: heat transport study

X. C. Hong, A. F. Wang, Z. Zhang +5

We performed systematic thermal conductivity measurements on heavily hole-doped BaKFeAs single crystals with 0.747 0.974. At = 0.747, the $κ_…

physics.ins-det2018

Study of Light Backgrounds from Relativistic Electrons in Air Light-Guides

S. Riordan, Y. X. Zhao, S. Baunack +17

The MOLLER experiment proposed at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility plans a precision low energy determination of the weak mixing angle via the measurement of the…

nucl-ex2023

Beam Energy Dependence of Fifth and Sixth-Order Net-proton Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +357

We report the beam energy and collision centrality dependence of fifth and sixth order cumulants (, ) and factorial cumulants (, ) of net-proton and p…