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hep-lat2018★ 2 cited

Improving the Kinetic Couplings in Lattice Non-Relativistic QCD

Christine T. H. Davies, Judd Harrison, Ciaran Hughes +3

We improve the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) action by comparing the dispersion relation to that of the continuum through in perturbation theory. The one-loop mat…

physics.acc-ph2018

A Cost-Effective Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron

Sergei Nagaitsev, Valeri Lebedev

The present Fermilab proton Booster is an early example of a rapidly-cycling synchrotron (RCS). Built in the 1960s, it features a design in which the combined-function dipole magne…

physics.acc-ph2018

Observations of Coherent Optical Transition Radiation Interference Fringes Generated by Laser Plasma Accelerator Electron Beamlets

Alex Lumpkin, Maxwell LaBerge, Donald Rule +10

We report initial observations of coherent optical transition radiation interferometry (COTRI) patterns generated by microbunched electrons from laser-driven plasma accelerators (L…

hep-ex2018★ 16 cited

Properties of at small opening angles in collisions with the ATLAS detector at TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to -quark pairs is a unique probe into the prop…

hep-ph2018★ 77 cited

Proton Fixed-Target Scintillation Experiment to Search for Minicharged Particles

Kevin J. Kelly, Yu-Dai Tsai

We propose a low-cost and movable setup to probe minicharged particles (or milli-charged particles) using high-intensity proton fixed-target facilities. This proposal, FerMINI, con…

physics.ins-det2018★ 8 cited

Study of the loss of Xenon Scintillation in Xenon-Trimethylamine Mixtures

A. M. F. Trindade, J. Escada, A. F. V. Cortez +75

This work investigates the capability of TMA ((CH3)3N) molecules to shift the wavelength of Xe VUV emission (160-188 nm) to a longer, more manageable, wavelength (260-350 nm). Ligh…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 42 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Validation of weak lensing cluster member contamination estimates from P(z) decomposition

T. N. Varga, J. DeRose, D. Gruen +68

Weak lensing source galaxy catalogs used in estimating the masses of galaxy clusters can be heavily contaminated by cluster members, prohibiting accurate mass calibration. In this…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 4 cited

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST

R. Margutti, P. Cowperthwaite, Z. Doctor +79

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of GW+EM multi-messenger astronomy. Exploiting this breakthrough req…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 28 cited

The Role of Magnetic Flux Expulsion to Reach Q0>3x10^10 in SRF Cryomodules

S. Posen, G. Wu, E. Harms +7

When a superconducting radiofrequency cavity is cooled through its critical temperature, ambient magnetic flux can become "frozen in" to the superconductor, resulting in degradatio…

hep-ex2018★ 76 cited

Measurement of the top quark mass in the all-jets final state at 13 TeV and combination with the lepton+jets channel

CMS Collaboration

A top quark mass measurement is performed using 35.9 fb of LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at 13 TeV. The measurement uses the…

hep-ex2018★ 88 cited

Measurement of the differential Drell-Yan cross section in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential cross section for the Drell-Yan process, based on proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experimen…

hep-ex2018★ 47 cited

Measurement of the single top quark and antiquark production cross sections in the channel and their ratio in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the cross sections for the production of single top quarks and antiquarks in the channel, and their ratio, are presented for proton-proton collisions at a cente…

hep-ex2018★ 114 cited

Measurement of the production cross section, the top quark mass, and the strong coupling constant using dilepton events in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the top quark-antiquark pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. T…

hep-ex2018★ 26 cited

Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton mass spectra from proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for nonresonant excesses in the invariant mass spectra of electron and muon pairs is presented. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 75 cited

A New RASS Galaxy Cluster Catalog with Low Contamination Extending to in the DES Overlap Region

Matthias Klein, Sebastian Grandis, Joseph Mohr +2

We present the MARD-Y3 catalog of between 1086 and 2171 galaxy clusters (52\% and 65\% new) produced using multi-component matched filter (MCMF) followup in 5000\,deg of DES-Y3…

hep-ex2018★ 53 cited

Search for vector-like quarks in events with two oppositely charged leptons and jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for the pair production of heavy vector-like partners T and B of the top and bottom quarks has been performed by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC using proton-proton col…

hep-ph2018★ 79 cited

Testing New Physics Explanations of MiniBooNE Anomaly at Neutrino Scattering Experiments

Carlos A. Argüelles, Matheus Hostert, Yu-Dai Tsai

Heavy neutrinos with additional interactions have recently been proposed as an explanation to the MiniBooNE excess. These scenarios often rely on marginally boosted particles to ex…

hep-ph2018★ 94 cited

Scalar Non-Standard Interactions in Neutrino Oscillation

Shao-Feng Ge, Stephen J. Parke

The scalar nonstandard interactions (NSI) can also introduce matter effect for neutrino oscillation in a medium. Especially the recent Borexino data prefers nonzero scalar NSI, $η_…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 357 cited

The total mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud from its perturbation on the Orphan stream

D. Erkal, V. Belokurov, C. F. P. Laporte +13

In a companion paper by Koposov et al., RR Lyrae from \textit{Gaia} Data Release 2 are used to demonstrate that stars in the Orphan stream have velocity vectors significantly misal…

hep-ph2018★ 3 cited

Almost Inert Higgs Bosons at the LHC

Christina Gao, Markus A. Luty, Nicolás A. Neill

Non-minimal Higgs sectors are strongly constrained by the agreement of the measured couplings of the 125 GeV Higgs with Standard Model predictions. This agreement can be explained…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 130 cited

Piercing the Milky Way: an all-sky view of the Orphan Stream

S. E. Koposov, V. Belokurov, T. S. Li +13

We use astrometry, broad-band photometry and variability information from the Data Release 2 of ESA's Gaia mission (GDR2) to identify members of the Orphan Stream (OS) across the w…

hep-ex2018★ 15 cited

Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark in the lepton+jets final state in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for a heavy spin-1 resonance Z' decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark partner T in the lepton+jets final state. The search is performed using a…

hep-ex2018★ 76 cited

Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two muons and two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalar particles a is performed under the hypothesis that one of the pseudoscalars decays to a pair of op…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 27 cited

A faint halo star cluster discovered in the Blanco Imaging of the Southern Sky Survey

S. Mau, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol +13

We present the discovery of a faint, resolved stellar system, BLISS J0321+0438 (BLISS 1), found in Dark Energy Camera data from the first observing run of the Blanco Imaging of the…