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physics.ins-det2007★ 36 cited

Detectors and flux instrumentation for future neutrino facilities

T. Abe, H. Aihara, C. Andreopoulos +66

This report summarises the conclusions from the detector group of the International Scoping Study of a future Neutrino Factory and Super-Beam neutrino facility. The baseline detect…

physics.ins-det2007★ 28 cited

Operation of a Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) in Ar, Xe and Ar-Xe

R. Alon, J. Miyamoto, M. Cortesi +8

We present the results of our recent studies of a Thick Gaseous Electron Multiplier (THGEM)-based detector, operated in Ar, Xe and Ar:Xe (95:5) at various gas pressures. Avalanche-…

hep-ex2007★ 29 cited

A Measurement of the Branching Fractions of exclusive Bbar -> D(*)(pi)l-nubar Decays in Events with a Fully Reconstructed B Meson

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We report a measurement of the branching fractions for Bbar -> D(*)(pi)l-nubar decays based on 341.1 fb-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the babar detector at…

hep-ex2007★ 10 cited

Time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B0 -> D-(+) K0 Pi+(-) decays

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present for the first time a measurement of the weak phase 2b+g obtained from a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B^0 -> D-(+) K0 Pi+(-) decays. Using a sample of approxima…

gr-qc2007★ 4 cited

Extracting the Cosmological Constant from the Wheeler DeWitt Equation in a Modified Gravity Theory

Remo Garattini

We discuss how to extract information about the cosmological constant from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, considered as an eigenvalue of a Sturm-Liouville problem. A generalization t…

physics.class-ph2007★ 187 cited

Three dimensional image correlation from X-Ray computed tomography of solid foam

Stephane Roux, François Hild, Philippe Viot +1

A new methodology is proposed to estimate 3D displacement fields from pairs of images obtained from X-Ray Computed Micro Tomography (XCMT). Contrary to local approaches, a global a…

hep-ex2007★ 49 cited

Measurement of D0-anti-D0 Mixing using the Ratio of Lifetimes for the Decays D0 --> K-pi+, K-K+, and pi-pi+

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present a measurement of - mixing parameters using the ratios of lifetimes extracted from a sample of mesons produced through the process $D^{*+}\to\D^0π^+…

hep-th2007

Gauge Dependence in the Nonlinearly Realized Massive SU(2) Gauge Theory

Daniele Bettinelli, Ruggero Ferrari, Andrea Quadri

The implementation of the 't Hooft alpha-gauge in the symmetrically subtracted massive gauge theory based on the nonlinearly realized SU(2) gauge group is discussed. The gauge inde…

hep-ph2007★ 19 cited

Effective Field Theories for Heavy Quarkonium

Nora Brambilla

We briefly review how nonrelativistic effective field theories give us a definition of the QCD potentials and a coherent field theory derived quantum mechanical scheme to calculate…

hep-ph2007

Nuclear physics inputs needed for geo-neutrino studies

G. Bellini, G. Fiorentini, A. Ianni +3

Geo-neutrino studies are based on theoretical estimates of geo-neutrino spectra. We propose a method for a direct measurement of the energy distribution of antineutrinos from decay…

hep-th2007★ 145 cited

Wrapping at four loops in N=4 SYM

F. Fiamberti, A. Santambrogio, C. Sieg +1

We present the planar four-loop anomalous dimension of the composite operator tr(phi[Z,phi]Z) in the flavour SU(2) sector of the N=4 SYM theory. At this loop order wrapping interac…

astro-ph2007★ 6 cited

Complementarity of Gamma-ray and LHC Searches for Neutralino Dark Matter in the Focus Point Region

E. Moulin, A. Jacholkowska, G. Moultaka +7

We study the complementarity between the indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays in H.E.S.S. and the supersymmetry searches with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider in the…

astro-ph2007★ 172 cited

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to Earth-skimming tau-neutrinos that interact in the Earth's crust. Tau leptons from charged-cur…

math-ph2007★ 95 cited

Determinants of Block Tridiagonal Matrices

Luca G. Molinari

An identity is proven that evaluates the determinant of a block tridiagonal matrix with (or without) corners as the determinant of the associated transfer matrix (or a submatrix of…

nucl-ex2007★ 23 cited

N/Z Dependence of Projectile Fragmentation

W. Trautmann, P. Adrich, T. Aumann +53

The N/Z dependence of projectile fragmentation at relativistic energies has been studied in a recent experiment at the GSI laboratory with the ALADiN forward spectrometer coupled t…

astro-ph2007★ 5 cited

Pinning and Binding Energies for Vortices in Neutron Stars: Comments on Recent Results

Pierre M. Pizzochero

We investigate when the energy that pins a superfluid vortex to the lattice of nuclei in the inner crust of neutron stars can be approximated by the energy that binds the vortex to…

cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 15 cited

Estimation of microscopic averages from metadynamics

Guido Tiana

With the help of metadynamics it is possible to calculate efficiently the free energy of systems displaying high energy barriers as a function of few selected "collective variables…

astro-ph2007★ 3 cited

Secondary Cosmic Ray particles due to GCR interactions in the Earth's atmosphere

G. Battistoni, F. Cerutti, A. Fassò +8

Primary GCR interact with the Earth's atmosphere originating atmospheric showers, thus giving rise to fluxes of secondary particles in the atmosphere. Electromagnetic and hadronic…

hep-ex2007★ 100 cited

Measurement of the B --> X_s gamma Branching Fraction and Photon Energy Spectrum using the Recoil Method

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present a measurement of the branching fraction and photon energy spectrum for the decay B --> X_s gamma using data from the BaBar experiment. The data sample corresponds to an…

hep-ex2007★ 38 cited

Dalitz Plot Analysis of the Decay B0(B0bar) --> K+/- pi-/+ pi0

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We report a Dalitz-plot analysis of the charmless hadronic decays of neutral B mesons to K^+/- pi^-/+ pi^0. With a sample of (231.8+/-2.6) 10^6 Upsilon(4S) to B Bbar decays collect…

nucl-ex2007★ 96 cited

Study of dielectron production in C+C collisions at 1 AGeV

HADES Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, C. Agodi +117

The emission of e+e- pairs from C+C collisions at an incident energy of 1 GeV per nucleon has been investigated. The measured production probabilities, spanning from the pi0-Dalitz…

astro-ph2007★ 111 cited

Gauge-invariant analysis of perturbations in Chaplygin gas unified models of dark matter and dark energy

V. Gorini, A. Y. Kamenshchik, U. Moschella +2

We exploit the gauge-invariant formalism to analyse the perturbative behaviour of two cosmological models based on the generalized Chaplygin gas describing both dark matter and dar…

quant-ph2007★ 45 cited

Monitoring derivation of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation

Klaus Hornberger, Bassano Vacchini

We show how the effective equation of motion for a distinguished quantum particle in an ideal gas environment can be obtained by means of the monitoring approach introduced in [EPL…

hep-th2007★ 9 cited

On the Integrable Structure of the Ising Model

Alessandro Nigro

Starting from the lattice realization of the Ising model defined on a strip with integrable boundary conditions, the exact spectrum (including excited states) of all the loca…