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astro-ph.HE2016★ 67 cited

Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +290

We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1 which inc…

physics.ins-det2016★ 12 cited

Timing Performance of a Double Layer Diamond Detector

M. Berretti, E. Bossini, M. Bozzo +4

In order to improve the time precision of detectors based on diamonds sensors we have built a detector with two scCVD layers connected in parallel to the same amplifier. This note…

gr-qc2016★ 59 cited

Testing general relativity by means of ringlasers

Angelo Tartaglia, Angela Di Virgilio, Jacopo Belfi +2

The paper discusses the optimal conguration of one or more ring lasers to be used for measuring the general relativistic effects of the rotation of the earth, as manifested on the…

hep-lat2016★ 5 cited

Phase structure of compactified gauge theories in magnetic backgrounds

Massimo D'Elia, Marco Mariti

We discuss the properties of non-abelian gauge theories formulated on manifolds with compactified dimensions and in the presence of fermionic fields coupled to magnetic backgrounds…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 52 cited

Statistical errors and systematic biases in the calibration of the convective core overshooting with eclipsing binaries. A case study: TZ Fornacis

G. Valle, M. Dell'Omodarme, P. G. Prada Moroni +1

We attempt to constrain the initial helium abundance, the age and the efficiency of the convective core overshooting of the binary system TZ Fornacis. Our main aim is in pointing o…

hep-ex2016★ 66 cited

Measurement of the CKM angle from a combination of LHCb results

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +765

A combination of measurements sensitive to the CKM angle from LHCb is performed. The inputs are from analyses of time-integrated , $B^{0} \rightarrow D K…

hep-lat2016★ 12 cited

Recent progress on QCD inputs for axion phenomenology

Claudio Bonati, Massimo D'Elia, Marco Mariti +5

The properties of the QCD axion are strictly related to the dependence of strong interactions on the topological parameter theta. We present a determination of the topological prop…

hep-th2016★ 30 cited

Theta dependence in Holographic QCD

Lorenzo Bartolini, Francesco Bigazzi, Stefano Bolognesi +2

We study the effects of the CP-breaking topological -term in the large QCD model by Witten, Sakai and Sugimoto with degenerate light flavors. We first compute the gr…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 29 cited

Multiwavelength variability study and search for periodicity of PKS 1510-089

G. Castignani, E. Pian, T. M. Belloni +14

Blazars are the most luminous and variable AGNs, and thus excellent probes of accretion and emission processes close to the central engine. We focus on PKS 1510-089 (), one…

math.DG2016

Cohomological aspects on complex and symplectic manifolds

Nicoletta Tardini

We discuss how quantitative cohomological informations could provide qualitative properties on complex and symplectic manifolds. In particular we focus on the Bott-Chern and the Ae…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 4 cited

Geant4 simulations of the lead fluoride calorimeter

A. A. Savchenko, A. A. Tishchenko, S. B. Dabagov +3

In this paper we simulate the emission by charged particles in complex structures with help of Geant4. We take into account Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation, bremsstrahlun…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +332

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monosc…

physics.ins-det2016★ 26 cited

The INFN-FBK Phase-2 R{\&}D Program

Gian-Franco Dalla Betta, Maurizio Boscardin, Marco Bomben +12

We report on the 3-year INFN ATLAS-CMS joint research activity in collaboration with FBK, started in 2014, and aimed at the development of new thin pixel detectors for the High Lum…

physics.ins-det2016★ 55 cited

Development of a new generation of 3D pixel sensors for HL-LHC

Gian-Franco Dalla Betta, Maurizio Boscardin, Giovanni Darbo +6

This paper covers the main technological and design aspects relevant to the development of a new generation of thin 3D pixel sensors with small pixel size aimed at the High-Luminos…

hep-ex2016★ 45 cited

Search for heavy gauge W' bosons in events with an energetic lepton and large missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for W' bosons in events with an electron or muon and large missing transverse momentum, using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collected with…

hep-ex2016★ 40 cited

Measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma with two jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma and two jets is performed, where the W boson decays leptonically. The data used in the analysis correspond to an integrat…

hep-ex2016★ 48 cited

Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for new massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in l nu quark anti-quark and quark anti-quark quark anti-quark final states. Results are based on d…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Search for high-energy neutrinos from bright GRBs with ANTARES

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +125

Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be sites of hadronic acceleration, thus neutrinos are expected from the decay of charged particles, produced in pγ interactions. The methods and res…

hep-ex2016★ 35 cited

Measurement of the electromagnetic transition form factor slope

The NA62 collaboration

The NA62 experiment collected a large sample of charged kaon decays in 2007 with a highly efficient trigger for decays into electrons. A measurement of the electromagnetic tr…

hep-ex2016★ 5 cited

Search for the decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763

A search for the charmless decay is performed using collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of and TeV,…

cs.CV2016★ 1.4k cited

Validation, comparison, and combination of algorithms for automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography images: the LUNA16 challenge

Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso Setio, Alberto Traverso, Thomas de Bel +29

Automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in thoracic computed tomography (CT) scans has been an active area of research for the last two decades. However, there have only been few…

hep-ex2016★ 144 cited

Search for long-lived scalar particles in decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +764

A search for a long-lived scalar particle is performed, looking for the decay with in collision data corresponding to an integrated lumin…

physics.ins-det2016★ 29 cited

Muon momentum measurement in ICARUS-T600 LAr-TPC via multiple scattering in few-GeV range

Maddalena Antonello, Bagdat Baibussinov, Vincenzo Bellini +54

The measurement of muon momentum by Multiple Coulomb Scattering is a crucial ingredient to the reconstruction of νμ CC events in the ICARUS-T600 liquid argon TPC in absence of magn…

hep-ex2016★ 77 cited

Measurement of the pair production cross-section in collisions at

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763

The production cross-section of pairs is measured using a data sample of collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13 \,{\mat…