Publications (49)
Turbulent buoyant confined jet with variable source temperature
M. F. El-Amin, A. Salama, S. Sun
In this work, experimental and numerical investigations are considered for confined buoyant turbulent jet with varying inlet temperatures. Results of the experimental work and nume…
Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the blazar 1ES 1215+303 with the MAGIC Telescopes and simultaneous multi-wavelength observations
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, E. A. Alvarez +164
Context. We present the discovery of very high energy (VHE, E > 100GeV) gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac object 1ES 1215+303 by the MAGIC telescopes and simultaneous multi-wavele…
Morphological and spectral properties of the W51 region measured with the MAGIC telescopes
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, E. A. Alvarez +157
The W51 complex hosts the supernova remnant W51C which is known to interact with the molecular clouds in the star forming region W51B. In addition, a possible pulsar wind nebula CX…
Detection of bridge emission above 50 GeV from the Crab pulsar with the MAGIC telescopes
J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +153
The Crab pulsar is the only astronomical pulsed source detected at very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) gamma-rays. The emission mechanism of VHE pulsation is not yet fully understood,…
A precise measurement of the -boson mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio, D. Amidei +412
We present a measurement of the -boson mass, , using data corresponding to 2.2/fb of integrated luminosity collected in ppbar collisions at = 1.96 TeV with the C…
Contemporaneous observations of the radio galaxy NGC 1275 from radio to very high energy gamma-rays
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +157
The radio galaxy NGC 1275, recently identified as a very high energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter by MAGIC, is one of the few non-blazar AGN detected in the VHE regime. In ord…
Network Coded Transmission of Fountain Codes over Cooperative Relay Networks
E. Kurniawan, S. Sun, K. Yen +1
In this paper, a transmission strategy of fountain codes over cooperative relay networks is proposed. When more than one relay nodes are available, we apply network coding to fount…
A Berry--Esseen theorem for sample quantiles under weak dependence
S. N. Lahiri, S. Sun
This paper proves a Berry--Esseen theorem for sample quantiles of strongly-mixing random variables under a polynomial mixing rate. The rate of normal approximation is shown to be $…
First observation of multi-phonon -vibrations in an odd-odd nuclear system
E. H. Wang, M. Abushawish, J. H. Hamilton +27
The identification of the first multi-phonon -vibrational bands in an odd-odd neutron-rich nucleus of the nuclear chart is presented. These high spin structures of hard to acce…
Rapid and multi-band variability of the TeV-bright active nucleus of the galaxy IC 310
The MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, L. A. Antonelli +161
Context. The radio galaxy IC 310 has recently been identified as a gamma-ray emitter based on observations at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT and at very high energies (VHE, E>100GeV)…
Dark Matter, Dark Photon and Superfluid He-4 from Effective Field Theory
A. Caputo, A. Esposito, E. Geoffray +2
We consider a model of sub-GeV dark matter whose interaction with the Standard Model is mediated by a new vector boson (the dark photon) which couples kinetically to the photon. We…
Observations of the magnetars 4U 0142+61 and 1E 2259+586 with the MAGIC telescopes
The MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, L. A. Antonelli +153
Magnetars are an extreme, highly magnetized class of isolated neutron stars whose large X-ray luminosity is believed to be driven by their high magnetic field. In this work we stud…
High zenith angle observations of PKS 2155-304 with the MAGIC-I telescope
The MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, L. A. Antonelli +153
The high frequency peaked BL Lac PKS 2155-304 with a redshift of z=0.116 was discovered in 1997 in the very high energy (VHE, E >100GeV) gamma-ray range by the University of Durham…
On Stochastic Error and Computational Efficiency of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method
J. Li, P. Vignal, S. Sun +1
In Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations, the thermal equilibria quantities are estimated by ensemble average over a sample set containing a large number of correlated sample…
Climate simulations for 1880-2003 with GISS modelE
J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Ruedy +44
We carry out climate simulations for 1880-2003 with GISS modelE driven by ten measured or estimated climate forcings. An ensemble of climate model runs is carried out for each forc…
Optimized dark matter searches in deep observations of Segue 1 with MAGIC
J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +156
We present the results of stereoscopic observations of the satellite galaxy Segue 1 with the MAGIC Telescopes, carried out between 2011 and 2013. With almost 160 hours of good-qual…
The Physics of the B Factories
A. J. Bevan, B. Golob, Th. Mannel +2003
This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and da…
Static Magnetization Properties Of AL800 Garnet Material
J. Kuharik, R. Madrak, A. Makarov +4
A second harmonic tunable RF cavity is being developed for the Fermilab Booster. This device, which promises reduction of the particle beam loss at the injection, transition, and e…
Multiwavelength observations of Mrk 501 in 2008
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +256
Mrk 501 is one of the brightest blazars at TeV energies and has been extensively studied since its first VHE detection in 1996. Our goal is to characterize in detail the source gam…
Evidence for the h_b(1P) meson in the decay Upsilon(3S) --> pi0 h_b(1P)
The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau +406
Using a sample of 122 million Upsilon(3S) events recorded with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC, we search for the spin-singlet pa…
Characterization and performance of the Apollon Short-Focal-Area facility following its commissioning at 1 PW level
K. Burdonov, A. Fazzini, V. Lelasseux +45
We present the results of the first commissioning phase of the ``short focal length'' area (SFA) of the Apollon laser facility (located in Saclay, France), which was performed with…
Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches at MHz to GHz Frequencies
N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, A. Bauswein +22
The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges…
The 2009 multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 421: Variability and correlation studies
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +270
We performed a 4.5-month multi-instrument campaign (from radio to VHE gamma rays) on Mrk421 between January 2009 and June 2009, which included VLBA, F-GAMMA, GASP-WEBT, Swift, RXTE…
Detection of very-high energy γ-ray emission from NGC 1275 by the MAGIC telescopes
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, E. A. Alvarez +161
We report on the detection of very-high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from NGC 1275, the central radio galaxy of the Perseus cluster of galaxies. The source has been d…
Dangerous human-made interference with climate: A GISS modelE study
J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Ruedy +44
We investigate the issue of "dangerous human-made interference with climate" using simulations with GISS modelE driven by measured or estimated forcings for 1880-2003 and extended…
MAGIC upper limits on the GRB 090102 afterglow
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +160
Indications of a GeV component in the emission from GRBs are known since the EGRET observations during the 1990's and they have been confirmed by the data of the Fermi satellite. T…
MAGIC long-term study of the distant TeV blazar PKS 1424+240 in a multiwavelength context
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +168
We present a study of the very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission of the blazar PKS 1424+240 observed with the MAGIC telescopes. The primary aim of this paper is the…
Field test of the hybrid photodetector R9792U-40 on the MAGIC camera
T. Y. Saito, S. Sun, R. Orito +4
The hybrid photodetector (HPD) R9792U-40 has very high peak quantum efficiency (% at 500 nm), excellent charge resolution and very low after-pulsing probability (500 times les…
CTA contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013)
The CTA Consortium, :, O. Abril +1102
Compilation of CTA contributions to the proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), which took place in 2-9 July, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010
The MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +251
A flare from the TeV blazar Mrk 421, occurring in March 2010, was observed for 13 consecutive days from radio to very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays with MAGIC, VERITAS,…
Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar 1ES 0033+595 by the MAGIC telescopes
J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +157
The number of known very high energy (VHE) blazars is , which is very small in comparison to the number of blazars detected in other frequencies. This situation is a hand…
The Simultaneous Low State Spectral Energy Distribution of 1ES 2344+514 from Radio to Very High Energies
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, L. A. Antonelli +191
[Abridged] Context. To construct and interpret the spectral energy distribution (SED) of BL Lacertae objects, simultaneous broad-band observations are mandatory. Aims. We present t…
Niobium telluride absorber for a mode-locked vector soliton fiber laser
X. X. Shang, N. N. Xu, J. Guo +6
Niobium telluride (NbTe), an emerging transition metal dichalcogenide material, has been theoretically predicted to have nonlinear absorption properties and excellent optical r…
Constraining Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with TeV observations by the MAGIC telescopes
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, E. A. Alvarez +161
Galaxy clusters are being assembled today in the most energetic phase of hierarchical structure formation which manifests itself in powerful shocks that contribute to a substantial…
The Great Markarian 421 Flare of February 2010: Multiwavelength variability and correlation studies
A. U. Abeysekara, W. Benbow, R. Bird +256
We report on variability and correlation studies using multiwavelength observations of the blazar Mrk 421 during the month of February, 2010 when an extraordinary flare reaching a…
Multifrequency Studies of the Peculiar Quasar 4C +21.35 During the 2010 Flaring Activity
M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort +288
The discovery of rapidly variable Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from 4C +21.35 (PKS 1222+216) by MAGIC on 2010 June 17, triggered by the high activity dete…
Aligned copper nanorod arrays for highly efficient generation of intense ultra-broadband THz pulses
S. Mondal, Q. Wei, W. J. Ding +9
We demonstrate an intense broadband terahertz (THz) source based on the interaction of relativistic-intensity femtosecond lasers with aligned copper nanorod array targets. For copp…
The New Small Wheel electronics
G. Iakovidis, L. Levinson, Y. Afik +99
The increase in luminosity, and consequent higher backgrounds, of the LHC upgrades require improved rejection of fake tracks in the forward region of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer. T…
Search for Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from the z = 0.896 Quasar 4C +55.17 with the MAGIC telescopes
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +157
The bright gamma-ray quasar 4C +55.17 is a distant source () with a hard spectrum at GeV energies as observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the {\it Fermi}…
Detection of VHE γ-rays from HESS J0632+057 during the 2011 February X-ray outburst with the MAGIC Telescopes
The MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, E. A. Alvarez +158
The very high energy (VHE) γ-ray source HESS J0632+057 has recently been confirmed to be a γ-ray binary. The optical counterpart is the Be star MWC 148, and a compact object of u…
Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013
M. BalokoviÄ, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305
We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…
Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar 1ES 1727+502 with the MAGIC Telescopes
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, L. A. Antonelli +155
Motivated by the Costamante & Ghisellini (2002) predictions we investigated if the blazar 1ES 1727+502 (z=0.055) is emitting very high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma rays. We observ…
MAGIC reveals a complex morphology within the unidentified gamma-ray source HESS J1857+026
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +158
HESS J1857+026 is an extended TeV gamma-ray source that was discovered by H.E.S.S. as part of its Galactic plane survey. Given its broadband spectral energy distribution and its sp…
MAGIC observations and multifrequency properties of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 279 in 2011
J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +168
We study the multifrequency emission and spectral properties of the quasar 3C 279. We observed 3C 279 in very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) gamma rays, with the MAGIC telescopes duri…
First broadband characterization and redshift determination of the VHE blazar MAGIC J2001+439
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +167
We aim to characterize the broadband emission from 2FGL J2001.1+4352, which has been associated with the unknown-redshift blazar MG4 J200112+4352. Based on its gamma-ray spectral p…
Enhanced electron-phonon coupling for charge-density-wave formation in LaEuSrCuO
Y. Y. Peng, A. A. Husain, M. Mitrano +8
Charge density wave (CDW) correlations are prevalent in all copper-oxide superconductors. While CDWs in conventional metals are driven by coupling between lattice vibrations and el…
PANDA Phase One
G. Barucca, F. Davì, G. Lancioni +421
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany, provides unique possibilities for a new generation of hadron-, nuclear- and atomic physics experiments. T…
MAGIC gamma-ray and multifrequency observations of flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1510-089 in early 2012
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, S. Ansoldi +218
Among more than fifty blazars detected in very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) gamma-rays, only three belong to the subclass of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs). MAGIC observed FSRQ…
MAGIC contributions to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference
MAGIC Collaboration, J. AleksiÄ, E. A. Alvarez +160
Compilation of the papers contributed by the MAGIC collaboration to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2011), which took place between August 11 and 18, 2011 in Bei…