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astro-ph.SR2017★ 58 cited

Triggered Star Formation Inside the Shell of a Wolf-Rayet Bubble as the origin of the Solar System

Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Nicolas Dauphas, Bradley Meyer +2

A critical constraint on solar system formation is the high Al/Al abundance ratio of 5 at the time of formation, which was about 17 times higher than…

physics.acc-ph2017

Online measurement of the energy spread of multi-turn beam in the Fermilab Booster at injection

J. Nelson, C. M. Bhat, B. S. Hendricks

We have developed a computer program interfaced with the ACNET environment of Fermilab accelerators to measure energy spread of the proton beam from the LINAC at an injection into…

physics.acc-ph2017

Progress on the design of a perpendicularly biased 2nd harmonic cavity for the Fermilab Booster

R. L. Madrak, J. E. Dey, K. L. Duel +8

A perpendicularly biased 2nd harmonic cavity is being designed and built for the Fermilab Booster. Its purpose is to flatten the bucket at injection and thus change the longitudina…

hep-ex2017★ 44 cited

A search for the exotic meson with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio +395

A search for the exotic meson decaying into the final state is performed using data corresponding to from collisions at…

physics.acc-ph2017★ 1 cited

Initial observations of micropulse elongation of electron beams in a SCRF accelerator

A. H. Lumpkin, R. Thurman-Keup, D. Edstrom +2

Commissioning at the SCRF accelerator at the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) Facility has included the implementation of a versatile bunch-length monitor located…

physics.acc-ph2017★ 29 cited

An Adiabatic Phase-Matching Accelerator

Francois Lemery, Klaus Floettmann, Philippe Piot +2

We present a general concept to accelerate non-relativistic charged particles. Our concept employs an adiabatically-tapered dielectric-lined waveguide which supports accelerating p…

hep-ph2017

LHC data and its impact on nCTEQ15 PDFs

D. B. Clark, E. Godat, T. Jezo +9

The LHC heavy ion data for W/Z production can provide new incisive information on the PDFs. This data is sensitive to the heavier quark flavors (strange and charm) in a high energy…

hep-ph2017★ 52 cited

A Flavorful Factoring of the Strong CP Problem

Prateek Agrawal, Kiel Howe

Motivated by the intimate connection between the strong CP problem and the flavor structure of the Standard Model, we present a flavor model that revives and extends the classic ${…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 32 cited

Umbrella sampling: a powerful method to sample tails of distributions

Charles Matthews, Jonathan Weare, Andrey Kravtsov +1

We present the umbrella sampling (US) technique and show that it can be used to sample extremely low probability areas of the posterior distribution that may be required in statist…

hep-ph2017★ 35 cited

Relations between Heavy-light Meson and Quark Masses

N. Brambilla, J. Komijani, A. S. Kronfeld +1

The study of heavy-light meson masses should provide a way to determine renormalized quark masses and other properties of heavy-light mesons. In the context of lattice QCD, for exa…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two

M. Smith, M. Sullivan, R. C. Nichol +87

We present observations of DES16C2nm, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z~2. DES16C2nm was discovered by the Dark Ene…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 246 cited

Galaxy growth in a massive halo in the first billion years of cosmic history

D. P. Marrone, J. S. Spilker, C. C. Hayward +34

According to the current understanding of cosmic structure formation, the precursors of the most massive structures in the Universe began to form shortly after the Big Bang, in reg…

hep-ph2017★ 17 cited

Novel Gamma-Ray Signatures of PeV-Scale Dark Matter

Carlos Blanco, J. Patrick Harding, Dan Hooper

The gamma-ray annihilation and decay products of very heavy dark matter particles can undergo attenuation through pair production, leading to the development of electromagnetic cas…

hep-ex2017★ 32 cited

Study of the state with semileptonic decays of the meson

D0 Collaboration

We present a study of the using semileptonic decays of the meson using the full Run II integrated luminosity of 10.4 fb in proton-antiproton collisions…

hep-ph2017★ 68 cited

Higgs Portals for Thermal Dark Matter - EFT Perspectives and the NMSSM -

Sebastian Baum, Marcela Carena, Nausheen R. Shah +1

We analyze a low energy effective model of Dark Matter in which the thermal relic density is provided by a singlet Majorana fermion which interacts with the Higgs fields via higher…

hep-ex2017★ 35 cited

Electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the electroweak (EW) production of two jets in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV is presented, based on data recorded…

hep-lat2017★ 299 cited

- and -meson leptonic decay constants from four-flavor lattice QCD

A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, N. Brown +14

We calculate the leptonic decay constants of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons with charm and bottom quarks in lattice quantum chromodynamics on four-flavor QCD gauge-field configura…

nucl-ex2017★ 128 cited

Measurement of prompt and nonprompt charmonium suppression in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The nuclear modification factors of J/ and (2S) mesons are measured in PbPb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV. The…

hep-ex2017★ 21 cited

Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with high-momentum Higgs bosons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for physics beyond the standard model in events with one or more high-momentum Higgs bosons, H, decaying to pairs of b quarks in association with missing transverse moment…

physics.ins-det2017★ 13 cited

MARTA: A high-energy cosmic-ray detector concept with high-accuracy muon measurement

P. Abreu, S. Andringa, P. Assis +42

A new concept for the direct measurement of muons in air showers is presented. The concept is based on resistive plate chambers (RPCs), which can directly measure muons with very g…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 46 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of redMaGiC Redshift Distributions in DES and SDSS from Cross-Correlations

R. Cawthon, C. Davis, M. Gatti +88

We present calibrations of the redshift distributions of redMaGiC galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 data. These results det…

hep-ex2017★ 40 cited

Study of Bose-Einstein correlations in pp, pPb, and PbPb collisions at 0.9-7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Quantum statistical (Bose-Einstein) two-particle correlations are measured in pp collisions at 0.9, 2.76, and 7 TeV, as well as in pPb and peripheral PbPb collisions at…

hep-ex2017★ 64 cited

Search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson to and e in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson in the and e decay modes is presented. The search is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated lumi…

physics.ins-det2017★ 635 cited

Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Many measurements and searches for physics beyond the standard model at the LHC rely on the efficient identification of heavy-flavour jets, i.e. jets originating from bottom or cha…