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astro-ph.HE2013★ 44 cited

The face-on disk of MAXI J1836-194

T. D. Russell, R. Soria, C. Motch +5

We present Very Large Telescope optical spectra of the black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1836-194 at the onset of its 2011 outburst. Although the spectrum was taken at the be…

physics.geo-ph2013★ 6 cited

A General Criterion for Liquefaction in Granular Layers with Heterogeneous Pore Pressure

Liran Goren, Renaud Toussaint, Einat Aharonov +2

Fluid-saturated granular and porous layers can undergo liquefaction and lose their shear resistance when subjected to shear forcing. In geosystems, such a process can lead to sever…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 19 cited

Micro-wires self-assembled and 3D-connected with the help of a nematic liquid crystal

Hakam Agha, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Yves Galerne

We discuss a method for producing automatic 3D connections at right places between substrates in front to one another. The idea is based on the materialization of disclination line…

math.ST2013★ 94 cited

On kernel smoothing for extremal quantile regression

Abdelaati Daouia, Laurent Gardes, Stéphane Girard

Nonparametric regression quantiles obtained by inverting a kernel estimator of the conditional distribution of the response are long established in statistics. Attention has been,…

nucl-ex2013★ 47 cited

High-spin structures of 124-131Te: Competition of proton and neutron pair breakings

A. Astier, M. -G. Porquet, Ts. Venkova +13

The 124-131Te nuclei have been produced as fission fragments in two fusion reactions induced by heavy-ions (12C + 238U at 90 MeV bombarding energy and 18O + 208Pb at 85 MeV) and st…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013

New conserved structural fields for supercooled liquids

Jean Farago, Alexander N. Semenov, Stefan Frey +1

By considering Voronoi tessellations of the configurations of a fluid, we propose two new conserved fields, which provide structural information not fully accounted for by the usua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 17 cited

Unraveling orbital hybridization of triplet emitters at the metal-organic interface

Pascal R. Ewen, Jan Sanning, Nikos L. Doltsinis +3

We have investigated the structural and electronic properties of phosphorescent planar platinum(II) complexes at the interface of Au(111) with submolecular resolution using combine…

hep-ex2013★ 50 cited

Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LH…

hep-ex2013★ 51 cited

Measurement of four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential cross sections for the production of exactly four jets in proton-proton collisions are presented as a function of the transverse momentum pt and ps…

nucl-ex2013★ 97 cited

Event activity dependence of Y(nS) production in sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV pPb and sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV pp collisions

CMS Collaboration

The production of Y(1S), Y(2S), and Y(3S) is investigated in pPb and pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV and 2.76 TeV, respectively. The datasets…

hep-ex2013★ 137 cited

Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and an improved determination of light parton distribution functions

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 inverse…

hep-ex2013★ 132 cited

Study of double parton scattering using W + 2-jet events in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Double parton scattering is investigated in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV where the final state includes a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, and two j…

hep-ex2013★ 502 cited

Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state

CMS Collaboration

The properties of a Higgs boson candidate are measured in the H to ZZ to 4l decay channel, with l = e, mu, using data from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

quant-ph2013★ 84 cited

Reconfigurable long-range phonon dynamics in optomechanical arrays

André Xuereb, Claudiu Genes, Guido Pupillo +2

We investigate periodic optomechanical arrays as reconfigurable platforms for engineering the coupling between multiple mechanical and electromagnetic modes and for exploring many-…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production of jets associated to bottom quarks is measured for the first time in PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair. Jet spectra are report…

hep-ex2013★ 79 cited

Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq is performed in events produced from the decay chain t t-bar to Zq + Wb, where both vector bosons decay le…

hep-ex2013★ 60 cited

Search for top squark and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

CMS Collaboration

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top quark…

math.AG2013★ 30 cited

Welschinger invariants of real del Pezzo surfaces of degree

Ilia Itenberg, Viatcheslav Kharlamov, Eugenii Shustin

We compute the purely real Welschinger invariants, both original and modified, for all real del Pezzo surfaces of degree at least 2. We show that under some conditions, for such a…

hep-ex2013★ 38 cited

Measurement of the Boson Production Charge Asymmetry in Events at TeV

D0 Collaboration

We present a measurement of the boson production charge asymmetry in events at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using 9.7 fb$^{-1…

hep-ex2013★ 104 cited

Search for top-quark partners with charge 5/3 in the same-sign dilepton final state

CMS Collaboration

A search for the production of heavy partners of the top quark with charge 5/3 is performed in events with a pair of same-sign leptons. The data sample corresponds to an integrated…

nucl-ex2013★ 126 cited

Studies of azimuthal dihadron correlations in ultra-central PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Azimuthal dihadron correlations of charged particles have been measured in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV by the CMS collaboration, using data from the 2011 LHC heavy-io…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 10 cited

Scanning-gate-induced effects in nonlinear transport through nanostructures

Cosimo Gorini, Dietmar Weinmann, Rodolfo A. Jalabert

We investigate the effect of a scanning gate tip in the nonlinear quantum transport properties of nanostructures. Generally, we predict that the symmetry of the current-voltage cha…

hep-ex2013★ 320 cited

Measurement of Higgs boson production and properties in the WW decay channel with leptonic final states

CMS Collaboration

A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC is reported. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 and 19.4 inverse femt…

nlin.CD2013★ 3 cited

Transmission phase of a quantum dot and statistical fluctuations of partial-width amplitudes

Rodolfo A. Jalabert, Guillaume Weick, Hans A. Weidenmüller +1

Experimentally, the phase of the amplitude for electron transmission through a quantum dot (transmission phase) shows the same pattern between consecutive resonances. Such universa…