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hep-ph2012★ 173 cited

Simply Unnatural Supersymmetry

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Arpit Gupta, David E. Kaplan +2

The current measurement of the Higgs mass, the ubiquitous nature of loop-suppressed gaugino masses in gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking, relic dark matter density from …

hep-ph2012★ 18 cited

Gaugomaly Mediation Revisited

Arpit Gupta, David E. Kaplan, Tom Zorawski

Most generic models of hidden sector supersymmetry breaking do not feature singlets, and gauginos obtain masses from anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking. If one desires a natur…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 66 cited

Ultra-Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Small Magellanic Cloud: The Initial Mass Function of Stars with M <~ 1 Msun

Jason S. Kalirai, Jay Anderson, Aaron Dotter +7

We present a new measurement of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) based on ultra-deep, high-resolution photometry of >5,000 stars in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Clo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 23 cited

Disk Stability and Neutral Hydrogen as a Tracer of Dark Matter

Gerhardt R. Meurer, Zheng Zheng, W. J. G. de Blok

We derive the projected surface mass distribution Sigma_M for spherically symmetric mass distributions having an arbitrary rotation curve. For a galaxy with a flat rotation curve a…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 46 cited

The Abundance, Ortho/Para Ratio, and Deuteration of Water in the High-Mass Star Forming Region NGC 6334 I

M. Emprechtinger, D. C. Lis, R. Rolffs +6

We present Herschel/HIFI observations of 30 transitions of water isotopologues toward the high-mass star forming region NGC 6334 I. The line profiles of H_2^{16}O, H_2^{17}O, H_2^{…

hep-ph2012★ 62 cited

A New Twist on Top Quark Spin Correlations

Matthew Baumgart, Brock Tweedie

Top-antitop pairs produced at hadron colliders are largely unpolarized, but their spins are highly correlated. The structure of these correlations varies significantly over top pro…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 50 cited

Charge density wave fluctuations, heavy electrons, and superconductivity in KNiS

James R. Neilson, Anna Llobet, Jiajia Wen +2

Understanding the complexities of electronic and magnetic ground states in solids is one of the main goals of solid-state physics. Materials with the canonical ThCrSi-type…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 22 cited

The First Reported Infrared Emission from the SN 1006 Remnant

P. Frank Winkler, Brian J. Williams, William P. Blair +5

We report results of infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of the SN 1006 remnant, carried out with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The 24 micron image from MIPS clearly sho…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 573 cited

The rotation rates of massive stars: the role of binary interaction through tides, mass transfer and mergers

S. E. de Mink, N. Langer, R. G. Izzard +2

Rotation is thought to be a major factor in the evolution of massive stars, especially at low metallicity, with consequences for their chemical yields, ionizing flux and final fate…

q-bio.PE2012

The GenoChip: A New Tool for Genetic Anthropology

Eran Elhaik, Elliott Greenspan, Sean Staats +13

The Genographic Project is an international effort using genetic data to chart human migratory history. The project is non-profit and non-medical, and through its Legacy Fund suppo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 20 cited

Removing BAO-peak Shifts with Local Density Transforms

Nuala McCullagh, Mark C. Neyrinck, István Szapudi +1

Large-scale bulk flows in the Universe distort the initial density field, broadening the baryon-acoustic-oscillation (BAO) feature that was imprinted when baryons were strongly cou…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 198 cited

CLASH: The enhanced lensing efficiency of the highly elongated merging cluster MACS J0416.1-2403

A. Zitrin, M. Meneghetti, K. Umetsu +21

We perform a strong-lensing analysis of the merging galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (M0416; z=0.42) in recent CLASH/HST observations. We identify 70 new multiple images and candid…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 63 cited

Inferring the mass of sub-millimetre galaxies by exploiting their gravitational magnification of background galaxies

H. Hildebrandt, L. van Waerbeke, D. Scott +25

Dust emission at sub-millimetre wavelengths allows us to trace the early phases of star formation in the Universe. In order to understand the physical processes involved in this mo…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 142 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey X: Evidence for a bimodal distribution of rotational velocities for the single early B-type stars

P. L. Dufton, N. Langer, P. R. Dunstall +12

Aims: Projected rotational velocities (\vsini) have been estimated for 334 targets in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey that do not manifest significant radial velocity variations an…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 56 cited

Synchronization of Chaos in Fully-Developed Turbulence

Cristian C Lalescu, Charles Meneveau, Gregory L Eyink

We investigate chaos synchronization of small-scale motions in the three-dimensional turbulent energy cascade, via pseudo-spectral simulations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes e…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 406 cited

SDSS DR7 White Dwarf Catalog

S. J. Kleinman, S. O. Kepler, D. Koester +13

We present a new catalog of spectroscopically-confirmed white dwarf stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 spectroscopic catalog. We find 20,407 white dwarf spectra…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 41 cited

Subhaloes gone Notts: Spin across subhaloes and finders

Julian Onions, Yago Ascasibar, Peter Behroozi +15

We present a study of a comparison of spin distributions of subhaloes found associated with a host halo. The subhaloes are found within two cosmological simulation families of Milk…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 125 cited

Elemental Abundances and their Implications for the Chemical Enrichment of the Boötes~I Ultra-Faint Galaxy

Gerard Gilmore, John E. Norris, Lorenzo Monaco +3

We present a double-blind analysis of high-dispersion spectra of seven red giant members of the Boötes I ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy, complemented with re-analysis of a sim…

cs.DS2012★ 1 cited

Approximating Large Frequency Moments with Pick-and-Drop Sampling

Vladimir Braverman, Rafail Ostrovsky

Given data stream of size of numbers from , the frequency of is defined as . The -th \emph{frequency mome…

hep-ex2012★ 74 cited

Measurement of the t t-bar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with lepton + jets final states

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the t t-bar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2…

hep-ex2012★ 367 cited

Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs

CMS Collaboration

A study is presented of the mass and spin-parity of the new boson recently observed at the LHC at a mass near 125 GeV. An integrated luminosity of 17.3 inverse femtobarns, collecte…

hep-ex2012★ 54 cited

Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in events with a single lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum

The CMS Collaboration

Results are reported from a search for new physics processes in events containing a single isolated high-transverse-momentum lepton (electron or muon), energetic jets, and large mi…

math.DG2012★ 5 cited

Translating graphs by mean curvature flow

Leili Shahriyari

The aim of this work is studying translating graphs by mean curvature flow in $\Real^3$. We prove non-existence of complete translating graphs over bounded domains in $\Real^2$. Fu…

hep-ex2012★ 38 cited

Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for new physics is performed using events with isolated same-sign leptons and at least two bottom-quark jets in the final state. Results are based on a sample of proton-pr…