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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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hep-th2014★ 1 cited

Quantum Exclusion of Positive Cosmological Constant?

Gia Dvali, Cesar Gomez

We show that a positive cosmological constant is incompatible with the quantum-corpuscular resolution of de Sitter metric in form of a coherent state. The reason is very general an…

hep-th2014★ 5 cited

Towards holographic higher-spin interactions: Four-point functions and higher-spin exchange

Xavier Bekaert, Johanna Erdmenger, Dmitry Ponomarev +1

Within holography, we calculate the contribution of an arbitrary spin-s gauge boson exchange in to the four-point function with scalar operators on the boundary. As an…

cond-mat.stat-mech2014★ 10 cited

The BBGKY Hierarchy and Fokker-Planck Equation for Many-Body Dissipative Randomly Driven Systems

Oleksii Sliusarenko, Alexei Chechkin, Yurii Slyusarenko

By generalizing Bogolyubov's reduced description method, we suggest a formalism to derive kinetic equations for many-body dissipative systems in external stochastic field. As a sta…

hep-th2014★ 44 cited

Special Points of Inflation in Flux Compactifications

Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Thomas W. Grimm, Irene Valenzuela

We study the realisation of axion inflation models in the complex structure moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau threefolds and fourfolds. The axions arise close to special points of these…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 184 cited

Black hole lightning due to particle acceleration at subhorizon scales

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +151

Supermassive black holes with masses of millions to billions of solar masses are commonly found in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers seek to image jet formation using radio inte…

hep-ph2014★ 22 cited

Meson spectra of asymptotically free gauge theories from holography

Johanna Erdmenger, Nick Evans, Marc Scott

Using holography, we study the low-lying mesonic spectrum of a range of asymptotically free gauge theories. First we revisit a simple top-down holographic model of QCD-like dynamic…

nucl-ex2014★ 36 cited

Effect of event selection on jetlike correlation measurement in +Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +327

Dihadron correlations are analyzed in GeV +Au collisions classified by forward charged particle multiplicity and zero-degree neutral energy in the A…

hep-ph2014★ 69 cited

Imprints of CP violation induced by sterile neutrinos in T2K data

N. Klop, A. Palazzo

We investigate the impact of light ( eV) sterile neutrinos in the long-baseline experiment T2K. We show that, within the 3+1 scheme, for mass-mixing parameters suggested by t…

hep-ph2014

Refined Applications of the "Collapse of the Wavefunction"

Leo Stodolsky

In a two-part system the "collapse of the wavefunction" of one part can put the other part in a state which would be difficult or impossible to achieve otherwise, in particular one…

hep-ex2014★ 134 cited

Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in collisions at =8 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes the trigger and offline reconstruction, identification and energy calibration algorithms for hadronic decays of tau leptons employed for the data collected fro…

hep-ex2014★ 129 cited

Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via in fully hadronic final states using collision data at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for charged Higgs bosons decaying to a lepton and a neutrino, , are presented. The analysis is based on 19.5 fb of…

hep-ex2014★ 81 cited

Observation and measurements of the production of prompt and non-prompt mesons in association with a boson in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The production of a boson in association with a meson in proton-proton collisions probes the production mechanisms of quarkonium and heavy flavour in association with vec…

hep-ex2014★ 95 cited

Measurement of Spin Correlation in Top-Antitop Quark Events and Search for Top Squark Pair Production in pp Collisions at TeV Using the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement of spin correlation in production is presented using data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collisions at a c…

hep-th2014★ 29 cited

Conformal perturbation theory and higher spin entanglement entropy on the torus

Shouvik Datta, Justin R. David, S. Prem Kumar

We study the free fermion theory in 1+1 dimensions deformed by chemical potentials for holomorphic, conserved currents at finite temperature and on a spatial circle. For a spin-thr…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 133 cited

Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010

The MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +251

A flare from the TeV blazar Mrk 421, occurring in March 2010, was observed for 13 consecutive days from radio to very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays with MAGIC, VERITAS,…

physics.ins-det2014★ 13 cited

Pion and proton showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter

The CALICE Collaboration, B. Bilki, J. Repond +169

Showers produced by positive hadrons in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter were studied. The experimental data were collected at CERN and FNA…

hep-ex2014★ 217 cited

Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to based on an excess over background of standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model…

hep-ex2014★ 36 cited

Measurement of the transverse polarization of and hyperons produced in proton-proton collisions at TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The transverse polarization of and hyperons produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is measured. The analysis uses 760 b of m…

physics.ins-det2014★ 10 cited

Signal recognition efficiencies of artificial neural-network pulse-shape discrimination in HPGe -decay searches

A. Caldwell, F. Cossavella, B. Majorovits +2

A pulse-shape discrimination method based on artificial neural networks was applied to pulses simulated for different background, signal and signal-like interactions inside a germa…

hep-ph2014★ 16 cited

Supernova deleptonization asymmetry: Impact on self-induced flavor conversion

Sovan Chakraborty, Georg Raffelt, Hans-Thomas Janka +1

During the accretion phase of a core-collapse supernova (SN), the deleptonization flux has recently been found to develop a global dipole pattern (LESA---Lepton Emission Self-susta…

hep-ex2014★ 104 cited

Search for anomalous production of prompt same-sign lepton pairs and pair-produced doubly charged Higgs bosons with TeV collisions using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A low-background inclusive search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons is presented. The search uses proton-proton collisions corresponding to 20.3 fb of integ…

hep-th2014★ 11 cited

Hydrodynamic Regimes of Spinning Black D3-Branes

Johanna Erdmenger, Mukund Rangamani, Stephan Steinfurt +1

We present the long-wavelength effective description of non-extremal spinning black D3-branes in flat space. Our setup is motivated by recent explorations of low energy dynamics on…

hep-ex2014★ 32 cited

Search for and a measurement of the branching fraction for

Belle Collaboration, D. Dutta, B. Bhuyan +148

We search for the decay and measure the branching fraction for using 121.4~ of data collected at the $Υ(\mathrm{…

hep-th2014★ 12 cited

T-duality, Non-geometry and Lie Algebroids in Heterotic Double Field Theory

Ralph Blumenhagen, Rui Sun

A number of issues in heterotic double field theory are studied. This includes the analysis of the T-dual configurations of a flat constant gauge flux background, which turn out to…