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math.DS2017★ 8 cited

Anomalous Anosov flows revisited

Thomas Barthelmé, Christian Bonatti, Andrey Gogolev +1

This paper is devoted to higher dimensional Anosov flows and consists of two parts. In the first part, we investigate fiberwise Anosov flows on affine torus bundles which fiber ove…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 33 cited

First results from the LIFE project: discovery of two magnetic hot evolved stars

A. J. Martin, C. Neiner, M. E. Oksala +6

We present the initial results of the Large Impact of magnetic Fields on the Evolution of hot stars (LIFE) project. The focus of this project is the search for magnetic fields in e…

physics.ins-det2017★ 4 cited

Low Background Materials and Fabrication Techniques for Cables and Connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

M. Busch, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with the…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 85 cited

CHANG-ES IX: Radio scale heights and scale lengths of a consistent sample of 13 spiral galaxies seen edge-on and their correlations

Marita Krause, Judith Irwin, Theresa Wiegert +14

The vertical halo scale height is a crucial parameter to understand the transport of cosmic-ray electrons (CRE) and their energy loss mechanisms in spiral galaxies. Until now, the…

cs.CR2017★ 10 cited

A Slow Read attack Using Cloud

Darine Ameyed, Fehmi Jaafar, Jaouhar Fattahi

Cloud computing relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. Nowadays, cloud computing has become one of the f…

hep-ph2017★ 24 cited

CNO Neutrino Grand Prix: The race to solve the solar metallicity problem

David G. Cerdeno, Jonathan H. Davis, Malcolm Fairbairn +1

Several next-generation experiments aim to make the first measurement of the neutrino flux from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (CNO) solar fusion cycle. We calculate how much time thes…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 103 cited

Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Baldwin, M. Batygov +106

The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

Contamination Control and Assay Results for the Majorana Demonstrator Ultra Clean Components

C. D. Christofferson, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment utilizing enriched Ge-76 detectors in 2 separate modules inside of a common solid shield at the Sanford Und…

quant-ph2017★ 17 cited

Spectral asymmetries in the resonance fluorescence of two-level systems under pulsed excitation

Chris Gustin, Ross Manson, Stephen Hughes

We present an open-system master equation study of the coherent and incoherent resonance fluorescence spectrum from a two-level quantum system under coherent pulsed excitation. Sev…

nucl-ex2017★ 5 cited

High-Precision Half-life Measurement for the Superallowed Fermi Emitter Mg

M. R. Dunlop, C. E. Svensson, G. C. Ball +23

A high-precision half-life measurement for the superallowed Fermi emitter Mg was performed at the TRIUMF-ISAC facility using a 4 proportional gas counter. The resul…

cs.CL2017★ 275 cited

Neural Natural Language Inference Models Enhanced with External Knowledge

Qian Chen, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling +2

Modeling natural language inference is a very challenging task. With the availability of large annotated data, it has recently become feasible to train complex models such as neura…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Stripping of the Hot Gas Halos in Member Galaxies of Abell 1795

Cory R. Wagner, Michael McDonald, Stephane Courteau

The nearby cluster Abell 1795 is used as a testbed to examine whether hot gas in cluster galaxies is stripped by the ram pressure of the intracluster medium (ICM). The expected X-r…

math.RA2017★ 4 cited

Distinguished Sets of Semi-simple Lie Algebras

Xudong Chen, Bahman Gharesifard

We call a finite, spanning set of a semi-simple real Lie algebra a distinguished set if it satisfies the following property: The Lie bracket of any two elements out of the set is,…

physics.atm-clus2017

The He2 - OCS complex: comparison between theory and experiment

J. Norooz Oliaee, N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, A. R. W. McKellar +2

OCS is an ideal probe for quantum solvation effects in cold helium clusters. He2-OCS is the "second step" in going from a single OCS molecule to a large doped superfluid helium clu…

physics.optics2017★ 5 cited

Theory of hyperbolic stratified nanostructures for surface enhanced Raman scattering

Herman M. K. Wong, Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli, Simon Axelrod +2

We theoretically investigate the enhancement of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) using hyperbolic stratified nanostructures and compare to metal nanoresonators. The photo…

math.CO2017★ 1 cited

-Foldability of Words

Beth Bjorkman, Garner Cochran, Wei Gao +6

We extend results regarding a combinatorial model introduced by Black, Drellich, and Tymoczko (2017+) which generalizes the folding of the RNA molecule in biology. Consider a word…

quant-ph2017★ 9 cited

Squeezed state evolution and entanglement in lossy coupled resonator optical waveguides

Hossein Seifoory, Marc. M. Dignam

We investigate theoretically the temporal evolution of a squeezed state in lossy coupled-cavity systems. We present a general formalism based upon the tight binding approximation a…

eess.SY2017★ 2 cited

Finite Model Approximations for Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes with Discounted Cost

Naci Saldi, Serdar Yüksel, Tamás Linder

We consider finite model approximations of discrete-time partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs) under the discounted cost criterion. After converting the original pa…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 43 cited

Deep Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam observations of Milky Way satellites Columba I and Triangulum II

Jeffrey L. Carlin, David J. Sand, Ricardo R. Munoz +9

We present deep, wide-field Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam photometry of two recently discovered satellites of the Milky Way (MW): Columba I and Triangulum II. The color magnitude diagra…

physics.app-ph2017★ 8 cited

Third Harmonic THz Generation from Graphene in a Parallel-Plate Waveguide

Parvin Navaeipour, Ibraheem Al-Naib, Marc M. Dignam

Graphene as a zero-bandgap two-dimensional semiconductor with a linear electron band dispersion near the Dirac points has the potential to exhibit very interesting nonlinear optica…

math.DS2017★ 9 cited

Invariant fibration of geodesic flows

Leo T. Butler

Let (Σ, g) be a compact finslerian 3-manifold. If the geodesic flow of g is completely integrable, and the singular set is a tamely-embedded polyhedron, then is almo…

nucl-ex2017★ 184 cited

Search for Zero-Neutrino Double Beta Decay in 76Ge with the Majorana Demonstrator

C. E. Aalseth, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +126

The \MJ\ Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. The \MJ\ \DEM\ comprises 44.1~kg of Ge detectors…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Suspension and simple optical characterization of two-dimensional membranes

David B. Northeast, Robert G. Knobel

We report on a method for suspending two-dimensional crystal materials in an electronic circuit using an only photoresists and solvents. Graphene and NbSe are suspended tens…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 54 cited

Atomic Gas in Blue Ultra Diffuse Galaxies around Hickson Compact Groups

Kristine Spekkens, Ananthan Karunakaran

We have found the atomic gas (HI) reservoirs of the blue ultra diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates identified by Róman and Trujillo in images near Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs). We con…