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hep-ph2009★ 138 cited

Anomalous quartic WWgamma gamma, ZZgamma gamma, and trilinear WWgamma couplings in two-photon processes at high luminosity at the LHC

E. Chapon, O. Kepka, C. Royon

We study the W/Z pair production via two-photon exchange at the LHC and give the sensitivities on trilinear and quartic gauge anomalous couplings between photons and W/Z bosons for…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 69 cited

3D simulations of supernova remnants evolution including non-linear particle acceleration

Gilles Ferrand, Anne Decourchelle, Jean Ballet +2

If a sizeable fraction of the energy of supernova remnant shocks is channeled into energetic particles (commonly identified with Galactic cosmic rays), then the morphological evolu…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 86 cited

On the shape of the spectrum of cosmic-rays accelerated inside superbubbles

Gilles Ferrand, Alexandre Marcowith

Supernova remnants are believed to be a major source of cosmic-rays in the Galaxy. As their progenitors are commonly found clustered in OB associations, one has to consider the pos…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 136 cited

Substructure of the galaxy clusters in the REXCESS sample: observed statistics and comparison to numerical simulations

H. Boehringer, G. W. Pratt, M. Arnaud +6

We study the substructure statistics of a representative sample of galaxy clusters by means of two currently popular substructure characterisation methods, power ratios and centroi…

physics.ins-det2009★ 21 cited

Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter

The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group, P. Adzic, N. Almeida +267

Ensuring the radiation hardness of PbWO4 crystals was one of the main priorities during the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN. The produ…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 115 cited

The dust-scattering X-ray rings of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408

A. Tiengo, G. Vianello, P. Esposito +14

On 2009 January 22 numerous strong bursts were detected from the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408. Swift/XRT and XMM-Newton/EPIC observations carried out in the following two…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 205 cited

Fermi observations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus: diffuse gamma-ray emission in the outer Galaxy

LAT collaboration

We present the analysis of the interstellar gamma-ray emission measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope toward a region in the second Galactic quadrant at 100 deg < l < 145 deg a…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 6 cited

MOIRCS Deep Survey V: A Universal Relation for Stellar Mass and Surface Brightness of Galaxies

Takashi Ichikawa, Masaru Kajisawa, Toru Yamada +4

We present a universal linear correlation between the stellar mass and surface brightness (SB) of galaxies at 0.3<z<3, using a deep K-band selected catalog in the GOODS-North regio…

math-ph2009★ 2 cited

Nonlocal potentials and complex angular momentum theory

J. Bros, E. De Micheli, G. A. Viano

The purpose of this paper is to establish meromorphy properties of the partial scattering amplitude T(lambda,k) associated with physically relevant classes N_{w,alpha}^gamma of non…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 2 cited

Radio lobes and X-ray hot spots of the extraordinary microquasar in NGC 7793

Roberto Soria, Manfred Pakull, Jess Broderick +2

We have studied the newly-discovered microquasar in NGC 7793 in radio, optical and X-ray bands. This system comprises a large (250 x 120 pc) line-emitting optical nebula, detected…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 3 cited

The POINT-AGAPE Survey: Comparing Automated Searches of Microlensing Events toward M31

Y. Tsapras, B. J. Carr, M. J. Weston +4

Searching for microlensing in M31 using automated superpixel surveys raises a number of difficulties which are not present in more conventional techniques. Here we focus on the pro…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 2 cited

Fermi detected blazars seen by INTEGRAL

V. Beckmann, C. Ricci, S. Soldi

Multiwavelength observations are essential to constrain physical parameters of the blazars observed by Fermi/LAT. Among the 187 AGN significantly detected in public INTEGRAL data a…

hep-ph2009★ 5 cited

Extended Geometric Scaling from Generalized Traveling Waves

Robi Peschanski

We define a mapping of the QCD Balitsky-Kovchegov equation in the diffusive approximation with noise and a generalized coupling allowing a common treatment of the fixed and running…

hep-th2009★ 13 cited

Light-like mesons and deep inelastic scattering in finite-temperature AdS/CFT with flavor

E. Iancu, A. H. Mueller

We use the holographic dual of a finite-temperature, strongly-coupled, gauge theory with a small number of flavors of massive fundamental quarks to study meson excitations and deep…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 1k cited

The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +107

(Abridged) We have conducted a detailed investigation of the broad-band spectral properties of the γ-ray selected blazars of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). By combining ou…

cond-mat.str-el2009★ 96 cited

Spin dynamics in the geometrically frustrated multiferroic CuCrO2

M. Poienar, F. Damay, C. Martin +2

The spin dynamics of the geometrically frustrated triangular antiferromagnet multiferroic CuCrO2 have been mapped out using inelastic neutron scattering. The relevant spin Hamilton…

quant-ph2009★ 11 cited

Spectral measurement of the thermal excitation of a superconducting qubit

Agustin Palacios-Laloy, F. Mallet, F. Nguyen +4

We report the measurement of the fluctuations of a transmon qubit through the noise spectrum of the microwave signal that measures its state. The amplitude of the Lorentzian noise…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 76 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cosmic-Ray Induced gamma-ray Emission of the Earth's Atmosphere

LAT collaboration

We report on measurements of the cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission of Earth's atmosphere by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT has ob…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 8 cited

The Type Ia Supernova Rate in Radio and Infrared Galaxies from the CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey

M. L. Graham, C. J. Pritchet, M. Sullivan +25

We have combined the large SN Ia database of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Supernova Legacy Survey and catalogs of galaxies with photometric redshifts, VLA 1.4 GHz radio sourc…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 7 cited

Self-annihilating dark matter and the CMB: reionizing the Universe and constraining cross sections

Fabio Iocco

I summarize the recent advances in determining the effects of self-annihilating WIMP dark matter on the modification of the recombination history, at times earlier than the formati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 7 cited

Effect of the nature of alkali and alkaline-earth oxides on the structure and crystallization of an aluminoborosilicate glass developed to immobilize highly concentrated nuclear waste solutions

Arnaud Quintas, Daniel Caurant, Odile Majérus +2

A complex rare-earth rich aluminoborosilicate glass has been proved to be a good candidate for the immobilization of new high level radioactive wastes. A simplified seven-oxides co…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 138 cited

The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/ISAAC Near-Infrared Imaging of the GOODS-South Field

J. Retzlaff, P. Rosati, M. Dickinson +5

We present the final public data release of the VLT/ISAAC near-infrared imaging survey in the GOODS-South field. The survey covers an area of 172.5, 159.6 and 173.1 arcmin^2 in the…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 77 cited

First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes

E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. Benoit +41

The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with interleaved elect…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 24 cited

Golden gravitational lensing systems from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey. I. SDSS J1538+5817: one lens for two sources

C. Grillo, T. Eichner, S. Seitz +4

We present a lensing and photometric study of the exceptional system SDSS J1538+5817, identified by the SLACS survey. The lens is a luminous elliptical at redshift z=0.143. Using H…