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astro-ph.CO2013★ 3 cited

Probing the accelerating Universe with radio weak lensing in the JVLA Sky Survey

M. L. Brown, F. B. Abdalla, A. Amara +48

We outline the prospects for performing pioneering radio weak gravitational lensing analyses using observations from a potential forthcoming JVLA Sky Survey program. A large-scale…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 24 cited

Dynamics of Polymers: a Mean-Field Theory

Glenn H. Fredrickson, Henri Orland

We derive a general mean-field theory of inhomogeneous polymer dynamics; a theory whose form has been speculated and widely applied, but not heretofore derived. Our approach involv…

math.AP2013

High-frequency stability of multidimensional ZND detonations

Olivier Lafitte, Mark Williams, Kevin Zumbrun

The rigorous study of spectral stability of strong detonations was begun by Erpenbeck in the 1960s. Working with the Zeldovitch-von Neumann-Döring (ZND) model, he identified two fu…

hep-th2013★ 20 cited

Punctures from Probe M5-Branes and N=1 Superconformal Field Theories

Ibrahima Bah, Maxime Gabella, Nick Halmagyi

We study probe M5-branes in N=1 AdS5 solutions of M-theory that arise from M5-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface. Using the BPS condition from kappa-symmetry, we classify supersym…

nucl-ex2013★ 81 cited

Transverse-energy distributions at midrapidity in , Au, and AuAu collisions at --200~GeV and implications for particle-production models

S. S. Adler, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +388

Measurements of the midrapidity transverse energy distribution, $d\Et/dη$, are presented for , Au, and AuAu collisions at GeV and additiona…

hep-ph2013★ 1 cited

The initial stages of heavy-ion collisions in the Color Glass Condensate framework

Francois Gelis

In this short review, we present the description of the early stages of a heavy ion collision at high energy in the Color Glass Condensate framework.

astro-ph.CO2013★ 102 cited

A Molecular Line Scan in the Hubble Deep Field North: Constraints on the CO Luminosity Function and the Cosmic H2 Density

F. Walter, R. Decarli, M. Sargent +19

We present direct constraints on the CO luminosity function at high redshift and the resulting cosmic evolution of the molecular gas density, (z), based on a blind mole…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 67 cited

A molecular line scan in the Hubble Deep Field North

R. Decarli, F. Walter, C. Carilli +20

We present a molecular line scan in the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N) that covers the entire 3mm window (79-115 GHz) using the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer. Our CO redshif…

quant-ph2013★ 30 cited

Shaping the distribution of vertical velocities of antihydrogen in GBAR

Gabriel Dufour, Pascal Debu, Astrid Lambrecht +3

GBAR is a project aiming at measuring the free fall acceleration of gravity for antimatter, namely antihydrogen atoms (). Precision of this timing experiment…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 1 cited

AGN Absorption Linked to Host Galaxies

Stéphanie Juneau

Multiwavelength identification of AGN is crucial not only to obtain a more complete census, but also to learn about the physical state of the nuclear activity (obscuration, efficie…

hep-th2013★ 142 cited

Holographic thermalization, quasinormal modes and superradiance in Kerr-AdS

Vitor Cardoso, Oscar J. C. Dias, Gavin S. Hartnett +2

Black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) backgrounds play a pivotal role in the gauge/gravity duality where they determine, among other things, the approach to equilibrium of the dual f…

hep-ph2013★ 72 cited

Probing new physics in diphoton production with proton tagging at the Large Hadron Collider

S. Fichet, G. von Gersdorff, O. Kepka +3

The sensitivities to anomalous quartic photon couplings at the Large Hadron Collider are estimated using diphoton production via photon fusion. The tagging of the protons proves to…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 18 cited

Young stellar object jet models: From theory to synthetic observations

O. Tesileanu, T. Matsakos, S. Massaglia +9

Astronomical observations, analytical solutions and numerical simulations have provided the building blocks to formulate the current theory of young stellar object jets. Although e…

physics.ins-det2013★ 26 cited

X-ray detection with Micromegas with background levels below 10 keVcms

S. Aune, F. Aznar, D. Calvet +26

Micromegas detectors are an optimum technological choice for the detection of low energy x-rays. The low background techniques applied to these detectors yielded remarkable backgro…

math-ph2013★ 27 cited

Rational differential systems, loop equations, and application to the q-th reductions of KP

Michel Bergère, Gaëtan Borot, Bertrand Eynard

To any solution of a linear system of differential equations, we associate a kernel, correlators satisfying a set of loop equations, and in presence of isomonodromic parameters, a…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 206 cited

Dust Production and Particle Acceleration in Supernova 1987A Revealed with ALMA

R. Indebetouw, M. Matsuura, E. Dwek +23

Supernova (SN) explosions are crucial engines driving the evolution of galaxies by shock heating gas, increasing the metallicity, creating dust, and accelerating energetic particle…

physics.ins-det2013★ 21 cited

Purification of molybdenum oxide, growth and characterization of medium size zinc molybdate crystals for the LUMINEU program

V. N. Shlegel, L. Berge, R. S. Boiko +45

The LUMINEU program aims at performing a pilot experiment on neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo using radiopure ZnMoO4 crystals operated as scintillating bolometers. Growth of…

hep-ex2013★ 19 cited

Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in WWbb events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is presented for new particles in an extension to the Standard Model that includes a heavy Higgs boson H0, an intermediate charged Higgs boson pair H+-, and a light Higgs…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 141 cited

Optical Properties of Relativistic Plasma Mirrors

H. Vincenti, S. Monchocé, S. Kahaly +2

The advent of ultrahigh-power femtosecond lasers creates a need for optical components suitable to handle ultrahigh light intensities. Due to the unavoidable laser-induced ionizati…

physics.ins-det2013★ 29 cited

A new CVD Diamond Mosaic-Detector for (n,) Cross-Section Measurements at the n\_TOF Experiment at CERN

C. Weiss, E. Griesmayer, C. Guerrero +1

At the n\_TOF experiment at CERN a dedicated single-crystal chemical vapor deposition (sCVD) Diamond Mosaic-Detector has been developed for (n,) cross-section measurements. The…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 114 cited

Large-scale chaos and fluctuations in active nematics

Sandrine Ngo, Anton Peshkov, Igor S. Aranson +3

We show that "dry" active nematics, e.g. collections of shaken elongated granular particles, exhibit large-scale spatiotemporal chaos made of interacting dense, ordered, band-like…

hep-ex2013★ 204 cited

Boosted objects and jet substructure at the LHC

BOOST2012 participants- A. Altheimer, A. Arce, L. Asquith +84

This report of the BOOST2012 workshop presents the results of four working groups that studied key aspects of jet substructure. We discuss the potential of the description of jet s…

math.CO2013★ 3 cited

On the two-point function of general planar maps and hypermaps

Jérémie Bouttier, Éric Fusy, Emmanuel Guitter

We consider the problem of computing the distance-dependent two-point function of general planar maps and hypermaps, i.e. the problem of counting such maps with two marked points a…

hep-ex2013★ 94 cited

Search for long-lived stopped R-hadrons decaying out-of-time with pp collisions using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

An updated search is performed for gluino, top squark, or bottom squark R-hadrons that have come to rest within the ATLAS calorimeter, and decay at some later time to hadronic jets…