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hep-ex2009★ 84 cited

Determination of the strong coupling constant from the inclusive jet cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We determine the strong coupling constant alphas and its energy dependence from the pT dependence of the inclusive jet cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV. The st…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 75 cited

Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from multiple coalescing binaries

Ilya Mandel

Future ground-based and space-borne interferometric gravitational-wave detectors may capture between tens and thousands of binary coalescence events per year. There is a significan…

q-bio.NC2009★ 19 cited

Scaling properties of neuronal avalanches are consistent with critical dynamics

Dietmar Plenz, Dante R. Chialvo

Complex systems, when poised near a critical point of a phase transition between order and disorder, exhibit a dynamics comprising a scale-free mixture of order and disorder which…

hep-ex2009★ 12 cited

Search for New Physics with a Dijet plus Missing Transverse Energy Signature in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

T. Aaltonen

We present results of a signature-based search for new physics using a dijet plus missing transverse energy data sample collected in 2 fb-1 of p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 T…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 105 cited

Monte Carlo Simulations of Globular Cluster Evolution. V. Binary Stellar Evolution

Sourav Chatterjee, John M. Fregeau, Stefan Umbreit +1

We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters containing primordial binaries, including full single and binary stellar evolution using our Monte Carlo cluster evolution cod…

hep-ex2009★ 75 cited

Measurement of the Production Cross Section and Search for Anomalous and Couplings in Collisions at TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the boson pair production cross section and most sensitive test of anomalous and couplings in $p \bar…

hep-lat2009★ 545 cited

Solving Lattice QCD systems of equations using mixed precision solvers on GPUs

M. A. Clark, R. Babich, K. Barros +2

Modern graphics hardware is designed for highly parallel numerical tasks and promises significant cost and performance benefits for many scientific applications. One such applicati…

hep-ex2009★ 29 cited

Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime in Lambda_b -> Lambda_c+ pi- Decays in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We report a measurement of the lifetime of the Lambda_b baryon in decays to the Lambda_C+ pi- final state in a sample corresponding to 1.1 fb^-1 collected in p-pbar collisions at s…

physics.optics2009★ 148 cited

Construction of Chiral Metamaterial with U-Shaped Resonator Assembly

Xiang Xiong, Wei-Hua Sun, Yong-Jun Bao +7

Chiral structure can be applied to construct metamaterial with negative refractive index (NRI). In an assembly of double-layered metallic U-shaped resonators with two resonant freq…

hep-ex2009★ 28 cited

A study of the associated production of photons and b-quark jets in p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

CDF collaboration

The cross section for photon production in association with at least one jet containing a -quark hadron has been measured in proton antiproton collisions at TeV.…

physics.comp-ph2009★ 57 cited

Air pollution modelling using a graphics processing unit with CUDA

Ferenc Molnar, Tamas Szakaly, Robert Meszaros +1

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful tool for parallel computing. In the past years the performance and capabilities of GPUs have increased, and the Compute Unified Dev…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 10 cited

The Equilibrium Structure of Prolate Magnetized Molecular Cores

Michael J. Cai, Ronald E. Taam

The structure of molecular cloud cores supported by thermal pressure and a poloidal magnetic field is reinvestigated in the magnetohydrostatic and axisymmetric approximation. In ad…

hep-ex2009

Hyperfine Interaction in Quarkonia

Kamal K. Seth

The recent experimental developments in the measurement of hyperfine splittings in the bound states of charmonium and bottomonium are presented. Their implications for the hyperfin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 526 cited

Visualizing Graphene Based Sheets by Fluorescence Quenching Microscopy

Jaemyung Kim, Laura J. Cote, Franklin Kim +1

Graphene based sheets have stimulated great interest due to their superior mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. A general visualization method that allows quick observati…

hep-ex2009★ 74 cited

Determination of the S-wave pi pi scattering lengths from a study of K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decays

2 Collaboration

We report the results from a study of the full sample of ~ 6.031 10^7 K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decays recorded by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS. As first observed in this experi…

hep-ex2009★ 83 cited

Search for Fermion-Pair Decays $Q\Qbar \to (\t\Wmp)(\tbar\Wpm)$ in Same-Charge Dilepton Events

The CDF Collaboration

We report the most restrictive direct limits on masses of fourth-generation down-type quarks , and quark-like composite fermions ( or ), decaying promptly t…

hep-ex2009★ 12 cited

Search for the associated production of a b quark and a neutral supersymmetric Higgs boson which decays to tau pairs

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We report results from a search for production of a neutral Higgs boson in association with a quark. We search for Higgs decays to pairs with one subsequently decaying…

hep-ex2009★ 20 cited

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH->vvbb Channel in 5.2 fb-1 of p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

A search is performed for the standard model Higgs boson in 5.2 fb-1 of p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The…

hep-ex2009★ 187 cited

Double parton interactions in photon+3 jet events in ppbar collisions sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

We have used a sample of photon+3 jets events collected by the D0 experiment with an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb^-1 to determine the fraction of events with double parton s…

astro-ph.CO2009

Detecting coalescences of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters with the Einstein Telescope

Ilya Mandel, Jonathan R. Gair, M. Coleman Miller

We discuss the capability of a third-generation ground-based detector such as the Einstein Telescope to detect mergers of intermediate-mass black holes that may have formed through…

physics.optics2009★ 128 cited

Calculating Nonlocal Optical Properties of Structures with Arbitrary Shape

Jeffrey M. McMahon, Stephen K. Gray, George C. Schatz

In a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097403 (2009)], we outlined a computational method to calculate the optical properties of structures with a spatially nonlocal dielectric…

hep-ph2009★ 25 cited

From Pamela to CDMS and Back

Qing-Hong Cao, Ian Low, Gabe Shaughnessy

We take the recent result from the CDMS collaboration as a hint that the dark matter has an elastic scattering cross section with the nucleon in the vicinity of 10^-7 pb. By crossi…

hep-ex2009★ 26 cited

Measurement of absolute branching fractions of inclusive semileptonic decays of charm and charmed-strange mesons

The CLEO Collaboration

We have measured the inclusive semileptonic branching fractions of , , and mesons. For these measurements, we have used the full CLEO-c open-charm data samples, 8…

math.RT2009★ 4 cited

On unipotent and nilpotent pieces for classical groups

Ting Xue

We show that the definition of unipotent (resp. nilpotent) pieces for classical groups given by Lusztig (resp. Lusztig and the author) coincides with the combinatorial definition u…