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hep-ex2001★ 16 cited

CPT Results from KTeV

Hogan Nguyen

I present several preliminary measurements from KTeV of the fundamental neutral kaon parameters, and their implications for CPT violation. A new limit is given on the sidereal time…

astro-ph2001★ 199 cited

The Cut & Enhance method : selecting clusters of galaxies from the SDSS commissioning data

Tomotsugu Goto, Maki Sekiguchi, Robert C. Nichol +8

We describe an automated method, the Cut & Enhance method (CE) for detecting clusters of galaxies in multi-color optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combin…

hep-lat2001★ 40 cited

Application of heavy-quark effective theory to lattice QCD: III. Radiative corrections to heavy-heavy currents

Junpei Harada, Shoji Hashimoto, Andreas S. Kronfeld +1

We apply heavy-quark effective theory (HQET) to separate long- and short-distance effects of heavy quarks in lattice gauge theory. In this paper we focus on flavor-changing current…

hep-lat2001★ 2 cited

Benchmarking and tuning the MILC code on clusters and supercomputers

Steven Gottlieb

Recently, we have benchmarked and tuned the MILC code on a number of architectures including Intel Itanium and Pentium IV (PIV), dual-CPU Athlon, and the latest Compaq Alpha nodes.…

hep-ph2001★ 32 cited

On the Large Nc Expansion in Quantum Chromodynamics

William A. Bardeen

I discuss methods based on the large Nc expansion to study nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force. I apply these methods to the analysis…

astro-ph2001★ 21 cited

LOTIS, Super-LOTIS, SDSS and Tautenburg Observations of GRB 010921

H. S. Park, G. G. Williams, D. H. Hartmann +36

We present multi-instrument optical observations of the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2)/Interplanetary Network (IPN) error box of GRB 010921. This event was the first gamma…

hep-ex2001★ 10 cited

D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker fro Run IIa

E. Kajfasz

We briefly describe the production, installation and commissioning of the new 800,000 channel D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker to be used for the 2 fb of the Run IIa at the Tev…

hep-ph2001★ 8 cited

Comparison of LMA and LOW Solar Solution Predictions in an SO(10) GUT Model

Carl H. Albright, S. Geer

Within the framework of an SO(10) GUT model that can accommodate both the LMA and LOW solar neutrino mixing solutions by appropriate choice of the right-handed Majorana matrix elem…

hep-lat2001★ 61 cited

Application of heavy-quark effective theory to lattice QCD: II. Radiative corrections to heavy-light currents

Junpei Harada, Shoji Hashimoto, Ken-Ichi Ishikawa +3

We apply heavy-quark effective theory to separate long- and short-distance effects of heavy quarks in lattice gauge theory. In this approach, the inverse heavy-quark mass and the l…

hep-ex2001★ 6 cited

Redundant Arrays of IDE Drives

D. A. Sanders, L. M. Cremaldi, V. Eschenburg +4

The next generation of high-energy physics experiments is expected to gather prodigious amounts of data. New methods must be developed to handle this data and make analysis at univ…

astro-ph2001★ 17 cited

Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Measurement From Python V

K. Coble, S. Dodelson, M. Dragovan +5

We analyze observations of the microwave sky made with the Python experiment in its fifth year of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. After modeling t…

astro-ph2001★ 762 cited

The Ghost of Sagittarius and Lumps in the Halo of the Milky Way

Heidi Jo Newberg, Brian Yanny, Constance M. Rockosi +16

We identify new structures in the halo of the Milky Way Galaxy from positions, colors and magnitudes of five million stars detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most of these s…

hep-ph2001

Measurements of Higher Order Effects in QCD from the Tevatron Collider

Thomas Nunnemann

Quantum Chromodynamics has been studied extensively at Fermilab's Tevatron collider. Between 1992 and 1996 the DØand CDF experiments, each accumulated approximately $100 \mathrm{pb…

hep-ph2001★ 1 cited

Lattice QCD and the Unitarity Triangle

Andreas S. Kronfeld

Theoretical and computational advances in lattice calculations are reviewed, with focus on examples relevant to the unitarity triangle of the CKM matrix. Recent progress in semi-le…

astro-ph2001★ 2 cited

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: The Annihilation of Super-Heavy Relics

Pasquale Blasi, Rainer Dick, Edward W. Kolb

We investigate the possibility that ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) originate from the annihilation of relic superheavy (SH) dark matter in the Galactic halo. In order to fi…

hep-ph2001★ 86 cited

Measurement of the Total Cross Section and Differential Cross Section in Collisions at TeV

The CDF collaboration

We present measurements of the B+ meson total cross section and differential cross section . The measurements use a pb^{-1} sample of collisions at $…

hep-ph2001★ 6 cited

Heavy-quark parton distribution functions and their uncertainties

Z. Sullivan, P. M. Nadolsky

We investigate the uncertainties of the heavy-quark parton distribution functions in the variable flavor number scheme. Because the charm- and bottom-quark parton distribution func…

hep-lat2001

Unquenched Studies Using the Truncated Determinant Algorithm

A. Duncan, E. Eichten, H. Thacker

A truncated determinant algorithm is used to study the physical effects of the quark eigenmodes associated with eigenvalues below 420 MeV. This initial high statistics study focuse…

hep-ex2001★ 9 cited

Measurement of Natural Widths of Sigma-c-0 and Sigma-c-++ Baryons

FOCUS Collaboration

In this paper we present a measurement of the natural widths of and . Using data from the FOCUS experiment, we find MeV/c^2…

astro-ph2001★ 79 cited

Enhanced signal of astrophysical tau neutrinos propagating through Earth

John F. Beacom, Patrick Crotty, Edward W. Kolb

Earth absorbs $\nue$ and $\numu$ of energies above about 100 TeV. As is well-known, although $\nutau$ will also disappear through charged-current interactions, the $\nutau$ flux wi…

hep-ph2001

Particle Physics-Future Directions

Chris Quigg

Wonderful opportunities await particle physics over the next decade, with the coming of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to explore the 1-TeV scale (extending efforts at LEP and t…

hep-lat2001★ 36 cited

Perturbative expansions from Monte Carlo simulations at weak coupling: Wilson loops and the static-quark self-energy

H. D. Trottier, N. H. Shakespeare, G. P. Lepage +1

Perturbative coefficients for Wilson loops and the static-quark self-energy are extracted from Monte Carlo simulations at weak coupling. The lattice volumes and couplings are chose…

hep-ex2001★ 8 cited

Search for R-parity Violating Supersymmetry in Dimuon and Four-Jets Channel

D0 collaboration, V. M. Abazov etal

We present results of a search for R-parity-violating decay of the neutralino chi_1^0, taken to be the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle. It is assumed that this decay proceeds thro…

hep-ex2001★ 1 cited

Charm Lifetimes and Mixing

Harry W. K. Cheung

A review of the latest results on charm lifetimes and D-mixing is presented. The e+e- collider experiments are now able to measure charm lifetimes quite precisely, however comparis…