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astro-ph.GA2012★ 52 cited

Does the Sagittarius Stream constrain the Milky Way halo to be triaxial?

Rodrigo Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Nicolas F. Martin +2

Recent analyses of the stellar stream of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy have claimed that the kinematics and three-dimensional location of the M-giant stars in this structure constra…

hep-ex2012★ 50 cited

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam using the 2012 dedicated data

The OPERA Collaboration, T. Adam, N. Agafonova +168

In spring 2012 CERN provided two weeks of a short bunch proton beam dedicated to the neutrino velocity measurement over a distance of 730 km. The OPERA neutrino experiment at the u…

nucl-ex2012★ 39 cited

Fabrication of CeO2 by sol-gel process based on microfluidic technology as an analog preparation of ceramic nuclear fuel microspheres

Bin Ye, Jilang Miao, Jiaolong Li +3

Microfluidics integrated with sol-gel processes is introduced in preparing monodispersed MOX nuclear fuel microspheres using nonactive cerium as a surrogate for uranium or plutoniu…

hep-ex2012★ 14 cited

Measurement of the combined rapidity and dependence of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in collisions at TeV

D0 Collaboration

We present the first combined measurement of the rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of dijet azimuthal decorrelations, based on the recently proposed quantity . Th…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 77 cited

Shear modulus of simulated glass-forming model systems: Effects of boundary condition, temperature and sampling time

J. P. Wittmer, H. Xu, P. Polińska +2

The shear modulus G of two glass-forming colloidal model systems in d=3 and d=2 dimensions is investigated by means of, respectively, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 142 cited

ARGOS II: The Galactic Bulge Survey

K. Freeman, M. Ness, E. Wylie de Boer +8

We describe the motivation, field locations and stellar selection for the ARGOS spectroscopic survey of 28,000 stars in the bulge and inner disk of the Milky Way galaxy across lati…

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…

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…

hep-ex2012★ 40 cited

Charged kaon femtoscopic correlations in pp collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Correlations of two charged identical kaons () are measured in pp collisions at ~TeV by the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Colli…

cs.FL2012★ 12 cited

Cellular automata between sofic tree shifts

Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein, Michel Coornaert, Francesca Fiorenzi +1

We study the sofic tree shifts of , where is a regular rooted tree of finite rank. In particular, we give their characterization in terms of unrestricted Rabin autom…

hep-ex2012★ 11 cited

Search for contact interactions in opposite-sign dimuon events in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Results are reported from a search for the effects of contact interactions using events with a high-mass, oppositely charged muon pair. The events are collected in proton-proton co…

hep-ph2012★ 58 cited

Searching for sgluons in multitop events at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV

Samuel Calvet, Benjamin Fuks, Philippe Gris +1

Large classes of new physics theories predict the existence of new scalar states, commonly dubbed sgluons, lying in the adjoint representation of the QCD gauge group. Since these n…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 17 cited

Adiabatic cooling of trapped nonneutral plasmas

Giovanni Manfredi, Paul-Antoine Hervieux

Nonneutral plasmas can be trapped for long times by means of combined electric and magnetic fields. Adiabatic cooling is achieved by slowly decreasing the trapping frequency and le…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 12 cited

Nonlinear dynamics of electron-positron clusters

Giovanni Manfredi, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Fernando Haas

Electron-positron clusters are studied using a quantum hydrodynamic model that includes Coulomb and exchange interactions. A variational Lagrangian method is used to determine thei…

nucl-ex2012★ 5 cited

Global variables and correlations: Summary of the results presented at the Quark Matter 2012 conference

Boris Hippolyte, Dirk Rischke

In these proceedings, we highlight recent developments from both theory and experiment related to the global description of matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisio…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 12 cited

Approximate integrals of motion

Olivier Bienaymé, Gregor Traven

We determine approximate numerical integrals of motion of 2D symmetric Hamiltonian systems. We detail for a few gravitational potentials the conditions under which quasi-integrals…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 15 cited

Exact treatment of planar two-electron quantum dots: effects of anharmonicity on the complexity

Sebastian Schröter, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Giovanni Manfredi +2

Static properties of an anharmonic potential model for planar two-electron quantum dots are investigated using a method which allows for the exact representation of the matrix elem…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 110 cited

A sensitive survey for 13CO, CN, H2CO and SO in the disks of T Tauri and Herbig Ae stars

S. Guilloteau, E. Di Folco, A. Dutrey +3

We use the IRAM 30-m telescope to perform a sensitive search for CN N=2-1 in 42 T Tauri or Herbig Ae systems located mostly in the Taurus-Auriga region. CO J=2-1 is observed…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Simultaneous multi-band detection of Low Surface Brightness galaxies with Markovian modelling

B. Vollmer, B. Perret, M. Petremand +7

We present an algorithm for the detection of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies in images, called MARSIAA (MARkovian Software for Image Analysis in Astronomy), which is based on…

nucl-ex2012★ 7 cited

High-spin structure in K

P. -A. Söderström, F. Recchia, J. Nyberg +74

High-spin states of K have been populated in the fusion-evaporation reaction C(Si,np)K and studied by means of -ray spectroscopy techniques using one…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 80 cited

Breather mode in the many-electron dynamics of semiconductor quantum wells

F. Haas, G. Manfredi, P. K. Shukla +1

We demonstrate the existence of a novel breather mode in the self-consistent electron dynamics of a semiconductor quantum well. A non-perturbative variational method based on quant…

hep-ex2012★ 12 cited

Search for charged massive long-lived particles at sqrt(s)= 1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

We present a search for charged massive long-lived particles (CMLLPs) that are pair produced in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)= 1.96 TeV collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermila…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 17 cited

Magnetization reversal in isolated and interacting single-domain nanoparticles

H. Kesserwan, G. Manfredi, J. -Y. Bigot +1

Computational and experimental results on the thermally-induced magnetization reversal in single-domain magnetic nanoparticles are reported. The simulations are based on the direct…