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cond-mat.quant-gas2013★ 10 cited

Unexpectedly Slow Two Particle Decay of Ultra-Dense Excitons in Cuprous Oxide

Laszlo Frazer, Richard D. Schaller, J. B. Ketterson

For an ultra-dense exciton gas in cuprous oxide (CuO), exciton-exciton interactions are the dominant cause of exciton decay. This study demonstrates that the accepted Auger rec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 8 cited

Third Harmonic Generation in Cuprous Oxide: Efficiency Determination

Laszlo Frazer, Richard D. Schaller, Kelvin Chang +2

The efficiency of third harmonic generation in cuprous oxide was measured. Intensities followed a non-cubic power law which indicates nonperturbative behavior. Polarization anisotr…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 23 cited

Heat capacity jump at T_c and pressure derivatives of superconducting transition temperature in the Ba(1-x)NaxFe2As2 (0.1 <= x <= 0.9) series

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Duck Young Chung, Daniel Bugaris +3

We present the evolution of the initial (up to ~ 10 kbar) hydrostatic, pressure dependencies of T_c and of the ambient pressure jump in the heat capacity associated with the superc…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 68 cited

Reconstructing the sky location of gravitational-wave detected compact binary systems: methodology for testing and comparison

Trevor Sidery, Ben Aylott, Nelson Christensen +20

The problem of reconstructing the sky position of compact binary coalescences detected via gravitational waves is a central one for future observations with the ground-based networ…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 411 cited

Living Liquid Crystals

Shuang Zhou, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg D Lavrentovich +1

Collective motion of self-propelled organisms or synthetic particles often termed active fluid has attracted enormous attention in broad scientific community because of it fundamen…

hep-ph2013★ 65 cited

Combining Resummed Higgs Predictions Across Jet Bins

Radja Boughezal, Xiaohui Liu, Frank Petriello +2

Experimental analyses often use jet binning to distinguish between different kinematic regimes and separate contributions from background processes. To accurately model theoretical…

hep-ph2013★ 46 cited

Disentangling radiative corrections using high-mass Drell-Yan at the LHC

Radja Boughezal, Ye Li, Frank Petriello

We present a detailed numerical study of lepton-pair production via the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak at the LHC. Our results consistently combine next-to-next-to-leading orde…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 401 cited

Low-threshold stimulated emission using colloidal quantum wells

Chunxing She, Igor Fedin, Dmitriy S. Dolzhnikov +4

Semiconductor nanocrystals can be synthesized using inexpensive, scalable, solution-based techniques, and their utility as tunable light emitters has been demonstrated in various a…

q-bio.PE2013★ 2 cited

Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of selection since admixture

Gaurav Bhatia, Arti Tandon, Melinda C. Aldrich +44

We scanned through the genomes of 29,141 African Americans, searching for loci where the average proportion of African ancestry deviates significantly from the genome-wide average.…

hep-ex2013★ 11 cited

Report of the Quark Flavor Physics Working Group

J. N. Butler, Z. Ligeti, J. L. Ritchie +81

This report represents the response of the Intensity Frontier Quark Flavor Physics Working Group to the Snowmass charge. We summarize the current status of quark flavor physics and…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 36 cited

Structure and substructure analysis of DAFT/FADA galaxy clusters in the [0.4-0.9] redshift range

L. Guennou, C. Adami, F. Durret +29

We analyse the structures of all the clusters in the DAFT/FADA survey for which XMM-Newton and/or a sufficient number of galaxy redshifts in the cluster range is available, with th…

hep-ex2013★ 15 cited

Updated measurements of absolute and hadronic branching fractions and at MeV

CLEO Collaboration, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro M. J. Smith +66

Utilizing the full CLEO-c data sample of 818 pb of data taken at the resonance, we update our measurements of absolute hadronic branching fractions of cha…

hep-ex2013★ 50 cited

Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LH…

hep-ex2013★ 51 cited

Measurement of four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential cross sections for the production of exactly four jets in proton-proton collisions are presented as a function of the transverse momentum pt and ps…

nucl-ex2013★ 97 cited

Event activity dependence of Y(nS) production in sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV pPb and sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV pp collisions

CMS Collaboration

The production of Y(1S), Y(2S), and Y(3S) is investigated in pPb and pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV and 2.76 TeV, respectively. The datasets…

hep-ex2013★ 137 cited

Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and an improved determination of light parton distribution functions

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 inverse…

math.DS2013★ 11 cited

Rates of mixing for the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow I: no rapid mixing in non-exceptional moduli spaces

Keith Burns, Howard Masur, Carlos Matheus +1

We show that the rate of mixing of the Weil-Petersson flow on non-exceptional (higher dimensional) moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces is at most polynomial.

hep-ex2013★ 132 cited

Study of double parton scattering using W + 2-jet events in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Double parton scattering is investigated in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV where the final state includes a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, and two j…

hep-ex2013★ 502 cited

Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state

CMS Collaboration

The properties of a Higgs boson candidate are measured in the H to ZZ to 4l decay channel, with l = e, mu, using data from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production of jets associated to bottom quarks is measured for the first time in PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair. Jet spectra are report…

hep-ex2013★ 79 cited

Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq is performed in events produced from the decay chain t t-bar to Zq + Wb, where both vector bosons decay le…

hep-ex2013★ 60 cited

Search for top squark and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

CMS Collaboration

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top quark…

hep-ex2013★ 38 cited

Measurement of the Boson Production Charge Asymmetry in Events at TeV

D0 Collaboration

We present a measurement of the boson production charge asymmetry in events at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using 9.7 fb$^{-1…

hep-ph2013★ 1 cited

Cross Section to Multiplicity Ratios at Very High Energy

M. M. Block, L. Stodolsky

Recent data from the LHC makes it possible to examine an old speculation that at very high energy the total multiplicity and the cross section in elementary particle interactions v…