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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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astro-ph.HE2020★ 30 cited

VHE gamma-ray detection of FSRQ QSO B1420+326 and modeling of its enhanced broadband state in 2020

V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +230

Context. QSO B1420+326 is a blazar classified as a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ). In the beginning of 2020 it underwent an enhanced flux state. An extensive multiwavelength cam…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

Observation of a sudden cessation of a very-high-energy gamma-ray flare in PKS 1510-089 with H.E.S.S. and MAGIC in May 2016

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +430

The flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1510-089 is known for its complex multiwavelength behavior, and is one of only a few FSRQs detected at very high energy (VHE, GeV…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 35 cited

Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

F. Batsch, P. Muggli, R. Agnello +94

We use a relativistic ionization front to provide various initial transverse wakefield amplitudes for the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in plasma. We show experimentally t…

hep-th2020★ 16 cited

The Black Hole Entropy Distance Conjecture and Black Hole Evaporation

Marvin Lüben, Dieter Lust, Ariadna Ribes Metidieri

We extend the recently proposed Black Hole Entropy Distance Conjecture to the case of charged black holes in de Sitter space. By systematically studying distances in the space of b…

nucl-ex2020★ 27 cited

Measurements of and cross sections and their ratios in collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +356

We report on the and differential and total cross sections as well as the / and / cross-section ratios measured by the STAR experiment a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 58 cited

MAGIC observations of the nearby short gamma-ray burst GRB 160821B

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +188

The coincident detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation spanning the radio to MeV gamma-ray bands provided the first direct evidence that short ga…

hep-ph2020★ 62 cited

May the four be with you: Novel IR-subtraction methods to tackle NNLO calculations

W. J. Torres Bobadilla, G. F. R. Sborlini, P. Banerjee +21

In this report, we present a discussion about different frameworks to perform precise higher-order computations for high-energy physics. These approaches implement novel strategies…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

The Swampland at Large Number of Space-Time Dimensions

Quentin Bonnefoy, Luca Ciambelli, Dieter Lust +1

We discuss some aspects of swampland constraints - especially the swampland distance conjecture - in a large number of space-time dimensions . We analyze Kaluza-Klein (KK) state…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 38 cited

Multiwavelength variability and correlation studies of Mrk 421 during historically low X-ray and -ray activity in 20152016

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +224

We report a characterization of the multi-band flux variability and correlations of the nearby (z=0.031) blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) using data from Metsähovi, Swift, Fermi-LAT,…

hep-ph2020★ 95 cited

Higgs-mass predictions in the MSSM and beyond

P. Slavich, S. Heinemeyer, E. Bagnaschi +36

Predictions for the Higgs masses are a distinctive feature of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, where they play a crucial role in constraining the parameter space. T…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

A novel experimental system for the KDK measurement of the K decay scheme relevant for rare event searches

M. Stukel, B. C. Rasco, N. T. Brewer +26

Potassium-40 (K) is a long-lived, naturally occurring radioactive isotope. The decay products are prominent backgrounds for many rare event searches, including those involvi…

hep-ph2020★ 68 cited

Next-to-next-to-leading order event generation for top-quark pair production

Javier Mazzitelli, Pier Francesco Monni, Paolo Nason +3

The production of top-quark pairs in hadronic collisions is among the most important reactions in modern particle physics phenomenology and constitutes an instrumental avenue to st…

nucl-ex2020★ 111 cited

Global polarization of and hyperons in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +357

Global polarization of and hyperons has been measured for the first time in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV. The measurements of the and hy…

hep-th2020★ 10 cited

Scalarization-like mechanism through spacetime anisotropic scaling symmetry

Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar, Daniel F. Higuita-Borja, Julio A. Méndez-Zavaleta

We present a new family of exact black hole configurations, which is a solution to a generalized Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton setup in arbitrary dimension. These solutions are asymptot…

hep-ph2020★ 33 cited

Resonant third-generation leptoquark signatures at the Large Hadron Collider

Ulrich Haisch, Giacomo Polesello

Given the hints of lepton-flavour non-universality in -meson decays, leptoquarks (LQs) are enjoying a renaissance. We propose novel Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches for such…

hep-ex2020★ 33 cited

Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries of and electromagnetic jets at forward rapidity in 200 and 500 GeV transversely polarized proton-proton collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +359

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetry (TSSA) of inclusive at center-of-mass energies () of 200 GeV and 500 GeV in trans…

physics.ins-det2020★ 8 cited

A time resolved study of injection backgrounds during the first commissioning phase of SuperKEKB

Miroslav Gabriel, Frank Simon, Hendrik Windel +13

We report on measurements of beam backgrounds during the first commissioning phase of the SuperKEKB collider in 2016, performed with the plastic scintillator and silicon photomulti…

hep-ph2020★ 13 cited

Unitarity in KK-graviton production: A case study in warped extra-dimensions

A. de Giorgi, S. Vogl

The Kaluza-Klein (KK) decomposition of higher-dimensional gravity gives rise to a tower of KK-gravitons in the effective four-dimensional (4D) theory. Such massive spin-2 fields ar…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 20 cited

Searching for axion-like particle decay in the near-infrared background: an updated analysis

Andrea Caputo, Andrea Vittino, Nicolao Fornengo +2

The extragalactic background light is comprised of the cumulative radiation from all galaxies across the history of the universe. The angular power spectrum of the anisotropies of…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 64 cited

Fast neutrino flavor conversions in one-dimensional core-collapse supernova models with and without muon creation

Francesco Capozzi, Sajad Abbar, Robert Bollig +1

In very dense environments, neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions on scales as short as a few centimeters provided that the angular distribution of the neutrino lepton numb…

hep-ph2020★ 13 cited

Seiberg-Witten map Invariant Scatterings

Duško Latas, Josip Trampetić, Jiangyang You

We investigate Scattering amplitudes of the reversible -exact Seiberg-Witten (SW) map based noncommutative (NC) quantum electrodynamics, and show explicitly the SW map invarianc…

hep-ph2020★ 48 cited

The Energy-Energy Correlation in the back-to-back limit at NLO and NLL

Markus A. Ebert, Bernhard Mistlberger, Gherardo Vita

We present the analytic formula for the Energy-Energy Correlation (EEC) in electron-positron annihilation computed in perturbative QCD to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^…

hep-ph2020★ 42 cited

TMD Fragmentation Functions at NLO

Markus A. Ebert, Bernhard Mistlberger, Gherardo Vita

We compute the unpolarized quark and gluon transverse-momentum dependent fragmentation functions (TMDFFs) at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbative QCD. Th…

nucl-ex2020★ 16 cited

Comparison of transverse single-spin asymmetries for forward production in polarized , and collisions at nucleon pair c.m. energy GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +358

The STAR Collaboration reports a measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, , for neutral pions produced in polarized proton collisions with protons (), with…