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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…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 57 cited

The development of lower-atmosphere turbulence early in a solar flare

N. L. S. Jeffrey, L. Fletcher, N. Labrosse +1

We present the first observational study of the onset and evolution of solar flare turbulence in the lower solar atmosphere on an unprecedented time scale of 1.7 s using the Interf…

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 7 cited

Response of a Li-glass/multi-anode photomultiplier detector to -particles from Am

E. Rofors, H. Perrey, R. Al Jebali +18

The response of a position-sensitive Li-glass scintillator detector to -particles from a collimated Am source scanned across the face of the detector has been measured.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 78 cited

LISA Pathfinder Platform Stability and Drag-free Performance

Michele Armano, Heather Audley, Jonathon Baird +75

The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitatio…

cs.CR2018★ 10 cited

Recurrent Neural Networks for Fuzz Testing Web Browsers

Martin Sablotny, Bjørn Sand Jensen, Chris W. Johnson

Generation-based fuzzing is a software testing approach which is able to discover different types of bugs and vulnerabilities in software. It is, however, known to be very time con…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 20 cited

Oriented Asymmetric Wave Propagation and Refraction Bending in Hyperbolic Media

Rair Macêdo, Thomas Dumelow, Robert E. Camley +1

Crystal quartz is a well-known anisotropic medium with optically active phonons in the THz region where hyperbolic phonon-polaritons can be excited. Here, we use this material to i…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 72 cited

Observatory science with eXTP

Jean J. M. in 't Zand, Enrico Bozzo, Jinlu Qu +181

In this White Paper we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to Observatory Science targets. These include flaring s…

hep-ph2018★ 45 cited

Showcasing HH production: Benchmarks for the (HL-)LHC

Philipp Basler, Sally Dawson, Christoph Englert +1

Current projections suggest that the LHC will have only limited sensitivity to di-Higgs production in the Standard Model (SM), possibly even after the completion of its high lumino…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 80 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Fifteen Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1129

We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from sixteen well localized candidate neutron stars assuming none of the stars has a binary companion. The searches…

hep-ex2018★ 39 cited

Search for top-quark decays with 36 fb of collision data at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for flavour-changing neutral current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark () and the Standard Model Higgs boson, , is presented. The search…

cs.DB2018★ 14 cited

Explaining Aggregates for Exploratory Analytics

Fotis Savva, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Peter Triantafillou

Analysts wishing to explore multivariate data spaces, typically pose queries involving selection operators, i.e., range or radius queries, which define data subspaces of possible i…

hep-ex2018★ 118 cited

Design and performance of the LHCb trigger and full real-time reconstruction in Run 2 of the LHC

R. Aaij, S. Akar, J. Albrecht +138

The LHCb collaboration has redesigned its trigger to enable the full offline detector reconstruction to be performed in real time. Together with the real-time alignment and calibra…

math.AG2018★ 1 cited

On the Abuaf-Ueda Flop via Non-Commutative Crepant Resolutions

Wahei Hara

The Abuaf-Ueda flop is a 7-dimensional flop related to homogeneous spaces. The derived equivalence for this flop was first proved by Ueda using mutations of semi-orthogonal d…

hep-ex2018★ 34 cited

Search for large missing transverse momentum in association with one top-quark in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes a search for events with one top-quark and large missing transverse momentum in the final state. Data collected during 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment fr…

hep-ex2018★ 47 cited

Search for chargino and neutralino production in final states with a Higgs boson and missing transverse momentum at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is conducted for the electroweak pair production of a chargino and a neutralino , where the chargino decays into the lightest neu…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

Joint X-ray, EUV and UV Observations of a Small Microflare

Iain G. Hannah, Lucia Kleint, Säm Krucker +5

We present the first joint observation of a small microflare in X-rays with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR), UV with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (I…

nucl-ex2018★ 31 cited

Exploring the Structure of the Bound Proton with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

M. Hattawy, N. A. Baltzell, R. Dupré +125

In the past two decades, deeply virtual Compton scattering of electrons has been successfully used to advance our knowledge of the partonic structure of the free proton and investi…

hep-ex2018★ 52 cited

Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for singly produced vector-like quarks , where can be either a quark with charge or a quark with charge , is performed in proton-proton collisi…

hep-ex2018★ 9 cited

Measurement of the branching fraction and asymmetry in decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +844

The branching fraction and direct asymmetry of the decay are measured using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at cent…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 9 cited

Matched-filter study and energy budget suggest no detectable gravitational-wave 'extended emission' from GW170817

Miquel Oliver, David Keitel, Andrew L. Miller +2

Van Putten & Della Valle (2018) have reported a possible detection of gravitational-wave 'extended emission' from a neutron star remnant of GW170817. Starting from the time-frequen…

hep-ex2018★ 18 cited

Search for the rare decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +844

A search for the rare leptonic decay is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of fb$…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 13 cited

Ground motion prediction at gravitational wave observatories using archival seismic data

Nikhil Mukund, Michael Coughlin, Jan Harms +13

Gravitational wave observatories have always been affected by tele-seismic earthquakes leading to a decrease in duty cycle and coincident observation time. In this analysis, we lev…

hep-ex2018★ 129 cited

Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using 2015-2016 LHC proton-proton collision data

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper presents the electron and photon energy calibration obtained with the ATLAS detector using about 36 fb of LHC proton-proton collision data recorded at $\sqrt{s}=1…