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physics.plasm-ph2011★ 16 cited

High Resolution Ionization of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

P. McQuillen, J. Castro, T. C. Killian

Collective effects, such as waves and instabilities, are integral to our understanding of most plasma phenomena. We have been able to study these in ultracold neutral plasmas by sh…

hep-ex2011★ 20 cited

Search for Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

We report results from searches for neutral Higgs bosons produced in p-pbar collisions recorded by the Dzero experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We study the production o…

cs.NI2011★ 2 cited

How Far Can Client-Only Solutions Go for Mobile Browser Speed?

Zhen Wang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Zhong +1

Mobile browser is known to be slow because of the bottleneck in resource loading. Client-only solutions to improve resource loading are attractive because they are immediately depl…

math.SP2011

Derivatives of L^p eigenfunctions of Schrodinger operators

Milivoje Lukic

Assuming the negative part of the potential is uniformly locally , we prove a pointwise estimate on derivatives of eigenfunctions of one-dimensional Schrodinger operator…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 10 cited

Creating Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas

J. Castro, G. Bannasch, P. McQuillen +2

We present techniques to perturb, measure and model the ion velocity distribution in an ultracold neutral plasma produced by photoionization of strontium atoms. By optical pumping…

hep-ex2011★ 24 cited

Measurement of the and Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at = 500 GeV

STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +346

We report measurements of the charge-separated and production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions a…

hep-ex2011★ 40 cited

First Measurement of the Form Factors in the Decays D0 to rho- e+ nu_e and D+ to rho0 e+ nu_e

CLEO Collaboration, S. Dobbs, Z. Metreveli +78

Using the entire CLEO-c psi(3770) to DDbar event sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 818 pb^-1 and approximately 5.4 x 10^6 DDbar events, we measure the form facto…

nucl-ex2011★ 51 cited

Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow

The STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +344

We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants ( and ) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of…

hep-ex2011★ 29 cited

Measurements of WW and WZ production in W + jets final states in p-pbar collisions

D0 Collaboration

We study WW and WZ production with () final states using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider corresponding to 4.3 fb^-1 of integrate…

cs.LO2011★ 59 cited

Reasoning About Strategies: On the Model-Checking Problem

Fabio Mogavero, Aniello Murano, Giuseppe Perelli +1

In open systems verification, to formally check for reliability, one needs an appropriate formalism to model the interaction between agents and express the correctness of the syste…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 48 cited

Spin Dynamics of a J1-J2-K Model for the Paramagnetic Phase of Iron Pnictides

Rong Yu, Zhentao Wang, Pallab Goswami +3

We study the finite-temperature spin dynamics of the paramagnetic phase of iron pnictides within an antiferromagnetic J_1-J_2 Heisenberg model on a square lattice with a biquadrati…

hep-ex2011★ 6 cited

Search for universal extra dimensions in ppbar collisions

D0 Collaboration

We present a search for Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles predicted by models with universal extra dimensions (UED) using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 fb$^…

nucl-ex2011★ 39 cited

Directed Flow of Identified Particles in Au + Au Collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 200$ GeV at RHIC

the STAR Collaboration

STAR's measurements of directed flow () around midrapidity for , K, K, and in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 200$ GeV are presented. A…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 35 cited

Magnetophonon resonance in graphite: High-field Raman measurements and electron-phonon coupling contributions

Y. Kim, Y. Ma, A. Imambekov +5

We perform Raman scattering experiments on natural graphite in magnetic fields up to 45 T, observing a series of peaks due to interband electronic excitations over a much broader m…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 200 cited

Gamma-ray Activity in the Crab Nebula: The Exceptional Flare of April 2011

R. Buehler, J. D. Scargle, R. D. Blandford +18

The Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite observed a gamma-ray flare in the Crab nebula lasting for approximately nine days in April of 2011. The source, which at optic…

hep-ex2011★ 98 cited

Search for signatures of extra dimensions in the diphoton mass spectrum at the Large Hadron Collider

CMS Collaboration

A search for signatures of extra dimensions in the diphoton invariant-mass spectrum has been performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess of events above the standard mode…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 18 cited

Quantum criticality of the sub-ohmic spin-boson model

Stefan Kirchner, Kevin Ingersent, Qimiao Si

We revisit the critical behavior of the sub-ohmic spin-boson model. Analysis of both the leading and subleading terms in the temperature dependence of the inverse static local spin…

math.ST2011

Suboptimality of Nonlocal Means for Images with Sharp Edges

Arian Maleki, Manjari Narayan, Richard G. Baraniuk

We conduct an asymptotic risk analysis of the nonlocal means image denoising algorithm for the Horizon class of images that are piecewise constant with a sharp edge discontinuity.…

stat.AP2011★ 131 cited

Incorporating biological information into linear models: A Bayesian approach to the selection of pathways and genes

Francesco C. Stingo, Yian A. Chen, Mahlet G. Tadesse +1

The vast amount of biological knowledge accumulated over the years has allowed researchers to identify various biochemical interactions and define different families of pathways. T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 67 cited

Large Area Vapor Phase Growth and Characterization of MoS2 Atomic Layers on SiO2 Substrate

Yongjie Zhan, Zheng Liu, Sina Najmaei +2

Monolayer Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a two-dimensional crystal with a direct bandgap, is a promising candidate for 2D nanoelectronic devices complementing graphene. There have be…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 93 cited

Improved Semiconductor Lattice Parameters and Band Gaps from a Middle-Range Screened Hybrid Functional

Melissa J. Lucero, Thomas M. Henderson, Gustavo E. Scuseria

We show that the middle-range exchange-correlation hybrid of Henderson, Izmaylov, Scuseria and Savin (HISS) performs extremely well for elemental and binary semiconductors with nar…

math.AG2011

Sections of Calabi-Yau threefolds with K3 fibration

Zhiyuan Li

We study sections of a Calabi-Yau threefold fibered over a curve by K3 surfaces. We show that there exist infinitely many isolated sections on certain K3 fibered Calabi-Yau threefo…

hep-ex2011★ 124 cited

J/psi and psi(2S) production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the J/psi and psi(2S) production cross sections in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC is presented. The data sample corresponds to a…

hep-ex2011★ 40 cited

Search for a Narrow ttbar Resonance in ppbar Collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

We report a search for a narrow ttbar resonance that decays into a lepton+jets final state based on an integrated luminosity of 5.3/fb of proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt{s}=1.…