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hep-ph2018★ 21 cited

Six Top Messages of New Physics at the LHC

Huayong Han, Li Huang, Teng Ma +3

Six top signatures provide a novel probe of new physics. We discuss production of six top quarks as the decay products of a pair of top partners in the setting of a composite Higgs…

physics.app-ph2018★ 22 cited

Strong Confinment of optical fields using localised surface phonon polaritons in cubic Boron Nitride

Ioannis Chatzakis, Athith Krishna, James Culbertson +4

Phonon polaritons (PhPs) are long-lived electromagnetic modes that originate from the coupling of infrared photons with the bound ionic lattice of a polar crystal. Cubic-Boron nitr…

hep-th2018★ 51 cited

A Bound on Massive Higher Spin Particles

Nima Afkhami-Jeddi, Sandipan Kundu, Amirhossein Tajdini

According to common lore, massive elementary higher spin particles lead to inconsistencies when coupled to gravity. However, this scenario was not completely ruled out by previous…

cs.NI2018

On-Demand Video Dispatch Networks: A Scalable End-to-End Learning Approach

Damao Yang, Sihan Peng, He Huang +1

We design a dispatch system to improve the peak service quality of video on demand (VOD). Our system predicts the hot videos during the peak hours of the next day based on the hist…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 60 cited

A high-energy density antiferroelectric made by interfacial electrostatic engineering

Julia A. Mundy, Colin A. Heikes, Bastien F. Grosso +11

Dielectric capacitors hold a tremendous advantage for energy storage due to their fast charge/discharge times and stability in comparison to batteries and supercapacitors. A key li…

cs.CV2018★ 6 cited

Residual Attention based Network for Hand Bone Age Assessment

Eric Wu, Bin Kong, Xin Wang +8

Computerized automatic methods have been employed to boost the productivity as well as objectiveness of hand bone age assessment. These approaches make predictions according to the…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 25 cited

Kronoseismology IV. Six previously unidentified waves in Saturn's middle C ring

M. M. Hedman, P. D. Nicholson, R. G. French

Recent studies of stellar occultations observed by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) onboard the Cassini spacecraft have demonstrated that multiple spiral wave st…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 32 cited

Experimental Study of the Bottleneck in Fully Developed Turbulence

Christian Küchler, Gregory P. Bewley, Eberhard Bodenschatz

The energy spectrum of incompressible turbulence is known to reveal a pileup of energy at those high wavenumbers where viscous dissipation begins to act. It is called the bottlenec…

hep-ph2018★ 22 cited

Natural Seesaw and Leptogenesis from Hybrid of High-Scale Type I and TeV-Scale Inverse

Kaustubh Agashe, Peizhi Du, Majid Ekhterachian +3

We develop an extension of the basic inverse seesaw model which addresses simultaneously two of its drawbacks, namely, the lack of explanation of the tiny Majorana mass term fo…

physics.app-ph2018★ 9 cited

Blue (In,Ga)N Light-Emitting Diodes with Buried n+-p+ Tunnel Junctions by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy

YongJin Cho, Shyam Bharadwaj, Zongyang Hu +4

Blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) consisting of a buried n+-p+ GaN tunnel junction, (In,Ga)N multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and a n+-GaN top layer are grown on single-crystal Ga-pol…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 41 cited

Anticipating acene-based chromophore spectra with molecular orbital arguments

Timothy J. H. Hele, Eric G. Fuemmeler, Samuel N. Sanders +4

Recent synthetic studies on the organic molecules tetracene and pentacene have found certain dimers and oligomers to exhibit an intense absorption in the visible region of the spec…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 10 cited

Polygram Stars: Resonant Tidal Excitation of Fundamental Oscillation Modes in Asynchronous Stellar Coalescence

Morgan MacLeod, Michelle Vick, Dong Lai +1

The prevalence of binary stars at close separations implies that many of these systems will interact or merge during the binary's lifetime. This paper presents hydrodynamic simulat…

gr-qc2018★ 61 cited

Gravitational waveforms from SpEC simulations : neutron star-neutron star and low-mass black hole-neutron star binaries

Francois Foucart, Matthew D. Duez, Tanja Hinderer +9

Gravitational waveforms from numerical simulations are a critical tool to test and analytically calibrate the waveform models used to study the properties of merging compact object…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

SOFIA Far Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of M82 and NGC 253: Exploring the Super-Galactic Wind

Terry Jay Jones, C. Darren Dowell, Enrique Lopez Rodriguez +22

We present Far-Infrared polarimetry observations of M82 at 53 and and NGC 253 at , which were taken with HAWC+ in polarimetry mode on the Stratospheric Ob…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 28 cited

Measurement of Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoexcited Carriers in -GaO by Two-Color Optical Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Okan Koksal, Nicholas Tanen, Debdeep Jena +2

We report results from ultrafast two-color optical pump-probe spectroscopy on bulk -GaO. A two-photon absorption scheme is used to photoexcite carriers with the pump pul…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 24 cited

The ISM Properties and Gas Kinematics of a Redshift 3 Massive Dusty Star-forming Galaxy

T. K. Daisy Leung, Dominik A. Riechers, Andrew J. Baker +9

We present CO(J= 1-0; 3-2; 5-4; 10-9) and 1.2-kpc resolution [CII] line observations of the dusty star-forming galaxy (SFG) HXMM05 -- carried out with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large…

cs.CL2018★ 14 cited

A Neural Multi-Task Learning Framework to Jointly Model Medical Named Entity Recognition and Normalization

Sendong Zhao, Ting Liu, Sicheng Zhao +1

State-of-the-art studies have demonstrated the superiority of joint modelling over pipeline implementation for medical named entity recognition and normalization due to the mutual…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 4 cited

Probing transport in quantum many-fermion simulations via quantum loop topography

Yi Zhang, Carsten Bauer, Peter Broecker +2

Quantum many-fermion systems give rise to diverse states of matter that often reveal themselves in distinctive transport properties. While some of these states can be captured by m…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 84 cited

Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration

Michelle Vick, Dong Lai, Kassandra R. Anderson

High-eccentricity migration is an important channel for the formation of hot Jupiters (HJs). In particular, Lidov-Kozai (LK) oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induce…

physics.plasm-ph2018★ 25 cited

Direct laser acceleration of electrons by tightly focused laser pulses

Tianhong Wang, Vladimir Khudik, Alexey Arefiev +1

We present an analytical theory that reveals the importance of the longitudinal laser electric field in the resonant acceleration of relativistic electrons by the tightly confined…

cs.IR2018★ 103 cited

Estimating Position Bias without Intrusive Interventions

Aman Agarwal, Ivan Zaitsev, Xuanhui Wang +3

Presentation bias is one of the key challenges when learning from implicit feedback in search engines, as it confounds the relevance signal. While it was recently shown how counter…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 206 cited

Hubble PanCET: An extended upper atmosphere of neutral hydrogen around the warm Neptune GJ 3470 b

V. Bourrier, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, D. Ehrenreich +16

GJ 3470b is a warm Neptune transiting an M-dwarf star at the edge of the evaporation desert. It offers the possibility of investigating how low-mass, close-in exoplanets evolve und…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 12 cited

New Phases of Superfluid He Confined in Aerogels

W. P. Halperin, J. M. Parpia, J. A. Sauls

Liquid He confined in low-density, highly porous random solids such as silica aerogel provides tuneable systems to study the effects of disorder and confinement on the properti…

astro-ph.GA2018

The Arecibo Pisces-Perseus Supercluster Survey I: Harvesting ALFALFA

Aileen A. O'Donoghue, Martha P. Haynes, Rebecca A. Koopmann +9

We report a multi-objective campaign of targeted 21 cm HI line observations of sources selected from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (Arecibo L-band Feed Array) survey (ALFALFA) and g…