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astro-ph.HE2012★ 46 cited

PSR J0357+3205: the tail of the turtle

Martino Marelli, Andrea De Luca, David Salvetti +6

Using a new XMM-Newton observation, we have characterized the X-ray properties of the middle-aged radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar J0357+3205 (named Morla) and its tail. The X-ray emis…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 28 cited

PSR J0357+3205: a fast moving pulsar with a very unusual X-ray trail

A. De Luca, R. P. Mignani, M. Marelli +6

The middle-aged PSR J0357+3205 is a nearby, radio-quiet, bright gamma-ray pulsar discovered by the Fermi mission. Our previous Chandra observation revealed a huge, very peculiar st…

hep-ex2012★ 36 cited

Multi-channel search for squarks and gluinos in sqrt(s)=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for supersymmetric particles in final states with zero, one, and two leptons, with and without jets identified as originating from b-quarks, in 4.7 fb-1 of sqrt(s)=7 TeV p…

hep-ph2012★ 128 cited

First extraction of valence transversities in a collinear framework

Alessandro Bacchetta, A. Courtoy, Marco Radici

We present an extraction of the valence transversity parton distributions based on an analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targe…

nucl-th2012★ 3 cited

Relativistic models for quasielastic electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering

Carlotta Giusti, Andrea Meucci

Relativistic models developed within the framework of the impulse approximation for quasielastic (QE) electron scattering and successfully tested in comparison with electron-scatte…

quant-ph2012★ 2 cited

Universality of Computation in Real Quantum Theory

Alessio Belenchia, Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Paolo Perinotti

Recently de La Torre et al. [1] reconstructed Quantum Theory from its local structure on the basis of local discriminability and the existence of a one-parameter group of bipartite…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 31 cited

X-ray and radio observations of the magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 and its dust-scattering halo

P. Esposito, A. Tiengo, N. Rea +13

We present a long-term study of the 2011 outburst of the magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 carried out using new Chandra observations, as well as all the available Swift, RXTE, and XMM-N…

hep-ex2012★ 367 cited

Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs

CMS Collaboration

A study is presented of the mass and spin-parity of the new boson recently observed at the LHC at a mass near 125 GeV. An integrated luminosity of 17.3 inverse femtobarns, collecte…

hep-ex2012★ 38 cited

Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for new physics is performed using events with isolated same-sign leptons and at least two bottom-quark jets in the final state. Results are based on a sample of proton-pr…

quant-ph2012★ 29 cited

A simple proof of Bell's inequality

Lorenzo Maccone

Bell's theorem is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics: it discriminates between quantum mechanics and all theories where probabilities in measurement results arise from the i…

hep-ex2012★ 557 cited

Observation of Associated Near-side and Away-side Long-range Correlations in sqrt(s_NN)=5.02 TeV Proton-lead Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Two-particle correlations in relative azimuthal angle (Delta-phi) and pseudorapidity (Delta-eta) are measured in sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV p+Pb collisions using the ATLAS detector at t…

quant-ph2012★ 14 cited

Quantum Cloning by Cellular Automata

G. M. D'Ariano, C. Macchiavello, M. Rossi

We introduce a quantum cellular automaton that achieves approximate phase-covariant cloning of qubits. The automaton is optimized for 1-to-2N economical cloning. The use of the aut…

hep-ex2012★ 11 cited

Search for contact interactions in opposite-sign dimuon events in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Results are reported from a search for the effects of contact interactions using events with a high-mass, oppositely charged muon pair. The events are collected in proton-proton co…

hep-ex2012★ 41 cited

Measurement of the cross section for prompt isolated diphoton production using the full CDF Run II data sample

CDF Collaboration

This Letter reports a measurement of the cross section for producing pairs of central prompt isolated photons in proton-antiproton collisions at a total energy of 1.96 TeV using da…

hep-ex2012★ 45 cited

Search for charged Higgs bosons through the violation of lepton universality in ttbar events using pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

ATLAS Collaboration

In several extensions of the Standard Model, the top quark can decay into a bottom quark and a light charged Higgs boson H+, t to bH+, in addition to the Standard Model decay t to…

quant-ph2012★ 80 cited

Quantum Field as a quantum cellular automaton: the Dirac free evolution in one dimension

Alessandro Bisio, Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Alessandro Tosini

We present a quantum cellular automaton model in one space-dimension which has the Dirac equation as emergent. This model, a discrete-time and causal unitary evolution of a lattice…

hep-ph2012

Accessing the quark orbital angular momentum with Wigner distributions

Cedric Lorce, Barbara Pasquini

The quark orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been recognized as an important piece of the proton spin puzzle. A lot of effort has been invested in trying to extract it quantitative…

hep-ex2012★ 36 cited

Search for Resonant Top-antitop Production in the Semi-leptonic Decay Mode Using the Full CDF Data Set

CDF Collaboration

This Letter reports a search for a narrow resonant state decaying into two bosons and a bottom-antibottom quark pair where one boson decays leptonically and the other decay…

hep-ex2012★ 125 cited

ATLAS search for new phenomena in dijet mass and angular distributions using pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

Mass and angular distributions of dijets produced in LHC proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s)=7 TeV have been studied with the ATLAS detector using the full…

hep-ex2012★ 79 cited

Search for pair production of massive particles decaying into three quarks with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is conducted for hadronic three-body decays of a new massive coloured particle in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 4.6/fb collect…

hep-ex2012★ 103 cited

Measurement of Upsilon production in 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

Using 1.8 fb-1 of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, we present measurements of the production cross sec…

hep-ex2012★ 51 cited

Measurement of the ttbar production cross section in the tau+jets channel using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the final state with a hadronically decaying tau lepton and jets is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proto…

hep-ex2012★ 125 cited

Search for the neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is reported. The analysis is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass…

math-ph2012★ 64 cited

Electromagnetism, local covariance, the Aharonov-Bohm effect and Gauss' law

Ko Sanders, Claudio Dappiaggi, Thomas-Paul Hack

We quantise the massless vector potential A of electromagnetism in the presence of a classical electromagnetic (background) current, j, in a generally covariant way on arbitrary gl…