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hep-ex2011★ 448 cited

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass en…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011★ 17 cited

Energy Spectra of Superfluid Turbulence in He

Laurent Boué, Victor L'vov, Anna Pomyalov +1

In superfluid He turbulence is carried predominantly by the superfluid component. To explore the statistical properties of this quantum turbulence and its differences from the…

hep-ph2011★ 2 cited

Probing the Seesaw and Gauge Mediation Scales with BR(μ\to eγ) and |U_{e3}|

Daniel Grossman, Yosef Nir

The new MEG bound on BR(μ\to eγ) provides the strongest upper bound on the scale of gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking. If, in the future, this decay is observed by MEG, the…

cond-mat.supr-con2011★ 178 cited

Adiabatic manipulations of Majorana fermions in a three-dimensional network of quantum wires

Bertrand I. Halperin, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern +3

It has been proposed that localized zero-energy Majorana states can be realized in a two-dimensional network of quasi-one-dimensional semiconductor wires that are proximity-coupled…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 148 cited

The Palomar Transient Factory photometric calibration

E. O. Ofek, R. Laher, N. Law +20

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) provides multiple epoch imaging for a large fraction of the sky. Here we describe the photometric calibration of the PTF data products that rela…

cond-mat.quant-gas2011★ 215 cited

Atomic homodyne detection of continuous variable entangled twin-atom states

C. Gross, H. Strobel, E. Nicklas +4

Historically, the completeness of quantum theory has been questioned using the concept of bipartite continuous variable entanglement. The non-classical correlations (entanglement)…

hep-th2011★ 262 cited

The Constraints of Conformal Symmetry on RG Flows

Zohar Komargodski

If the coupling constants in QFT are promoted to functions of space-time, the dependence of the path integral on these couplings is highly constrained by conformal symmetry. We beg…

physics.optics2011★ 102 cited

Controlling synchronization in large laser networks using number theory

Micha Nixon, Moti Fridman, Eitan Ronen +3

Synchronization in networks with delayed coupling are ubiquitous in nature and play a key role in almost all fields of science including physics, biology, ecology, climatology and…

cond-mat.dis-nn2011★ 170 cited

On relaxations and aging of various glasses

Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, Yoseph Imry

Slow relaxation occurs in many physical and biological systems. `Creep' is an example from everyday life: when stretching a rubber band, for example, the recovery to its equilibriu…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011★ 23 cited

Diffusion in a logarithmic potential: scaling and selection in the approach to equilibrium

Ori Hirschberg, David Mukamel, Gunter M. Schütz

The equation which describes a particle diffusing in a logarithmic potential arises in diverse physical problems such as momentum diffusion of atoms in optical traps, condensation…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011

Doped Biomolecules in miniaturized electric junctions

Elad Mentovich, Bogdan Belgorodsky, Michael Gozin +2

Control over molecular scale electrical properties within nano junctions is demonstrated, utilizing site-directed C60 targeting into protein macromolecules as a doping means. The p…

physics.ins-det2011★ 36 cited

THGEM-based detectors for sampling elements in DHCAL: laboratory and beam evaluation

L. Arazi, A. Breskin, R. Chechik +17

We report on the results of an extensive R&D program aimed at the evaluation of Thick-Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEM) as potential active elements for Digital Hadron Calorimetry (…

math.AP2011★ 14 cited

Global Well-posedness of an Inviscid Three-dimensional Pseudo-Hasegawa-Mima Model

Chongsheng Cao, Aseel Farhat, Edriss S. Titi

The three-dimensional inviscid Hasegawa-Mima model is one of the fundamental models that describe plasma turbulence. The model also appears as a simplified reduced Rayleigh-Bénard…

cs.DS2011

Efficient Computation of Distance Sketches in Distributed Networks

Atish Das Sarma, Michael Dinitz, Gopal Pandurangan

Distance computation is one of the most fundamental primitives used in communication networks. The cost of effectively and accurately computing pairwise network distances can becom…

hep-th2011★ 42 cited

The Large N Limit of Toric Chern-Simons Matter Theories and Their Duals

Antonio Amariti, Claudius Klare, Massimo Siani

We compute the large N limit of the localized three dimensional free energy of various field theories with known proposed AdS duals. We show that vector-like theories agree with th…

hep-ex2011★ 215 cited

Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Inclusive jet and dijet cross sections have been measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The…

cond-mat.quant-gas2011★ 117 cited

Tunable topological Weyl semimetal from simple cubic lattices with staggered fluxes

Jian-Hua Jiang

Three-dimensional Weyl fermions are found to emerge from simple cubic lattices with staggered fluxes. The mechanism is to gap the quadratic band touching by time-reversal-symmetry-…

hep-ex2011★ 43 cited

Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This letter presents a search for singly produced vector-like quarks, Q, coupling to light quarks, q. The search is sensitive to both charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC)…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 1 cited

Composite fermions description of fractional topological insulators

Dario Ferraro, Giovanni Viola

We propose a classification of Abelian time-reversal fractional topological insulators in terms of the composite fermions picture. We consider the standard toy mod…

hep-ph2011★ 39 cited

Relating direct CP violation in D decays and the forward-backward asymmetry in production

Yonit Hochberg, Yosef Nir

The CDF and LHCb experiments have recently provided two intriguing hints for new physics: a large forward-backward asymmetry in production, and a direct CP asymmetry in D…

hep-ex2011★ 106 cited

Observation of a new chi_b state in radiative transitions to Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S) at ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

The chi_b(nP) quarkonium states are produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS detector. Using a data samp…

hep-ex2011★ 47 cited

Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

We report a search for first generation scalar leptoquarks using 1.03 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at sqrt(s)=7 TeV and recorded by…

hep-ex2011★ 42 cited

Measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper reports a measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Th…

quant-ph2011★ 71 cited

Experimental tomography of NOON states with large photon numbers

Yonatan Israel, Itai Afek, Shamir Rosen +2

We have performed experimental quantum state tomography of NOON states with up to four photons. The measured states are generated by mixing a classical coherent state with spontane…