Publications (34)
Liquid scintillator production for the NOvA experiment
S. Mufson, B. Baugh, C. Bower +8
The NOvA collaboration blended and delivered 8.8 kt (2.72M gal) of liquid scintillator as the active detector medium to its near and far detectors. The composition of this scintill…
First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA
P. Adamson, C. Ader, M. Andrews +257
This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of disappearance in a beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of $2.74 \times 10^{20…
Beyond Thomas--Fermi analysis of the density profiles of a miscible two-component Bose--Einstein condensate
J. Polo, P. Mason, S. Sridhar +3
We investigate a harmonically trapped two-component Bose--Einstein condensate within the miscible regime, close to its boundaries, for different ratios of effective intra- and inte…
The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the Universe
S. Masi, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
We describe the BOOMERanG experiment and its main result, i.e. the measurement of the large scale curvature of the Universe. BOOMERanG is a balloon-borne microwave telescope with s…
Improved Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of Temperature Anisotropy in the CMB from Two New Analyses of BOOMERANG Observations
J. E. Ruhl, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +27
We report the most complete analysis to date of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the 1998 flight of BOOMERANG. We use two quite different metho…
A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data
BICEP2/Keck, Planck Collaborations, : +276
We report the results of a joint analysis of data from BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck. BICEP2 and Keck Array have observed the same approximately 400 deg patch of sky centered on…
Second-order, number-conserving description of non-equilibrium dynamics in finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates
T. P. Billam, P. Mason, S. A. Gardiner
While the Gross--Pitaevskii equation is well-established as the canonical dynamical description of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) at zero-temperature, describing the dynam…
Spider Optimization: Probing the Systematics of a Large Scale B-Mode Experiment
C. J. MacTavish, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +31
Spider is a long-duration, balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure large scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization with very high sensitivity and control of system…
X-ray thermal diffuse scattering as a texture-robust temperature diagnostic for dynamically compressed solids
P. G. Heighway, D. J. Peake, T. Stevens +119
We present a model of x-ray thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) from a cubic polycrystal with an arbitrary crystallographic texture, based on the classic approach of Warren. We compar…
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): The Wide-Field Imagers
J. Bock, I. Sullivan, T. Arai +19
We have developed and characterized an imaging instrument to measure the spatial properties of the diffuse near-infrared extragalactic background light in a search for fluctuations…
First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA
P. Adamson, C. Ader, M. Andrews +257
We report results from the first search for transitions by the NOvA experiment. In an exposure equivalent to protons-on-target in the upgraded Nu…
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): A Sounding Rocket Payload to Study the Near Infrared Extragalactic Background Light
M. Zemcov, T. Arai, J. Battle +16
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) is a suite of four instruments designed to study the near infrared (IR) background light from above the Earth's atmosphere. The in…
SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter
B. P. Crill, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +34
Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic…
Lower bounds and dense discontinuity phenomena for the stabilizability radius of linear switched systems
Carl P. Dettmann, R. M. Jungers, P. Mason
We investigate the stabilizability of discrete-time linear switched systems, when the sole control action of the controller is the switching signal, and when the controller has acc…
Observations of Galactic and Extra-galactic Sources From the BOOMERANG and SEST Telescopes
K. Coble, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +32
We present millimeter-wave observations of three extra-galactic and six Galactic sources in the Southern sky. Observations were made at 90, 150, 240 and 400 GHz with resolutions of…
Multiple Peaks in the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Significance and Consequences for Cosmology
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +32
Three peaks and two dips have been detected in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from the BOOMERANG experiment, at and $\ell \sim 420,…
Femtosecond temperature measurements of laser-shocked copper deduced from the intensity of the x-ray thermal diffuse scattering
J. S. Wark, D. J. Peake, T. Stevens +122
We present 50-fs, single-shot measurements of the x-ray thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) from copper foils that have been shocked via nanosecond laser-ablation up to pressures abov…
ASASSN-18fk: A new WZ Sge-type dwarf nova with multiple rebrightenings and a new candidate for a superhumping intermediate polar
E. Pavlenko, K. Niijima, P. Mason +23
We present the result of a multi-longitude campaign on the photometric study of the dwarf nova ASASSN-18fk during its superoutburst in 2018. It was observed with 18 telescopes at 1…
A Flat Universe from High-Resolution Maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +33
The blackbody radiation left over from the Big Bang has been transformed by the expansion of the Universe into the nearly isotropic 2.73K Cosmic Microwave Background. Tiny inhomoge…
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): The Low Resolution Spectrometer
K. Tsumura, T. Arai, J. Battle +20
Absolute spectrophotometric measurements of diffuse radiation at 1 μm to 2 μm are crucial to our understanding of the radiative content of the Universe from nucleosynthesis since…
Multinucleon transfer reactions in closed-shell nuclei
S. Szilner, C. A. Ur, L. Corradi +29
Multinucleon transfer reactions in 40Ca+96Zr and 90Zr+208Pb have been measured at energies close to the Coulomb barrier in a high resolution gamma-particle coincidence experiment.…
Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER
P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri +64
We have developed antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers for a wide range of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments, including BICEP2, Keck Arra…
Detection of anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background at horizon and sub-horizon scales with the BOOMERanG experiment
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
BOOMERanG has recently resolved structures on the last scattering surface at redshift 1100 with high signal to noise ratio. We review the technical advances which made this…
First results from the BOOMERanG experiment
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
We report the first results from the BOOMERanG experiment, which mapped at 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz a wide (3%) region of the microwave sky with minimal local contamination. From t…
Total Absorption Spectroscopy Study of the Beta Decay of Br and Rb
S. Rice, A. Algora, J. L. Tain +36
The beta decays of Br and Rb have been studied using the total absorption spectroscopy technique. The radioactive nuclei were produced at the IGISOL facility in Jyvä…
Maps of the millimetre sky from the BOOMERanG experiment
P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, A. Balbi +38
In the 1998-99 flight, BOOMERanG has produced maps of of the sky at high Galactic latitudes, at frequencies of 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz, with resolution $\simgt 10'$. Th…
A measurement by BOOMERANG of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background
C. B. Netterfield, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +30
This paper presents a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from l=75 to l=1025 (~10' to 5 degrees) from a combined analysis of four 150 GHz…
Noise estimation in CMB time-streams and fast map-making. Application to the BOOMERanG98 data
S. Prunet, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +35
We describe here an iterative method for jointly estimating the noise power spectrum from a CMB experiment's time-ordered data, together with the maximum-likelihood map. We test th…
BICEP2 / Keck Array V: Measurements of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales and 150 GHz by the Keck Array
The BICEP2, Keck Array Collaborations, : +59
The Keck Array is a system of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters, each similar to the BICEP2 experiment. In this paper we report results from the 2012 and 2013 observin…
Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich 168,170Dy: Yrast Band Evolution Close to the NpNn Valence Maximum
P. -A. Söderström, J. Nyberg, P. H. Regan +52
The yrast sequence of the neutron-rich dysprosium isotope 168Dy has been studied using multi-nucleon transfer reactions following collisions between a 460-MeV 82Se beam and a 170Er…
BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales
P. A. R Ade, R. W. Aikin, D. Barkats +44
(abridged for arXiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gr…
Probing the order-to-chaos region in superdeformed 151Tb and 196Pb nuclei with continuum gamma-transitions
S. Leoni, G. Benzoni, N. Blasi +26
The gamma-decay associated with the warm rotation of the superdeformed (SD) nuclei 151Tb and 196Pb has been measured with the EUROBALL IV array. Several independent quantities prov…
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): the Narrow Band Spectrometer
P. M. Korngut, T. Renbarger, T. Arai +21
We have developed a near-infrared spectrometer designed to measure the absolute intensity of the Solar 854.2 nm CaII Fraunhofer line, scattered by interplanetary dust, in the Zodia…
Observations of the Near-Infrared Spectrum of the Zodiacal Light with CIBER
K. Tsumura, J. Battle, J. Bock +14
Interplanetary dust (IPD) scatters solar radiation which results in the zodiacal light that dominates the celestial diffuse brightness at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Bot…