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most citedMethods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs

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hep-ex2017★ 21 cited

Exclusive photoproduction of up to large values of Mandelstam variables and with CLAS

M. C. Kunkel, 32, 18 M. J. Amaryan +156

Exclusive photoproduction cross sections have been measured for the process with the Dalitz decay final state using tagged photon energies in the r…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 4 cited

Asymmetric access to information impacts the power-law exponent in networks

Zhenfeng Cao, Zhou He, Neil F. Johnson

The preferential attachment (PA) process is a popular theory for explaining network power-law degree distributions. In PA, the probability that a new vertex adds an edge to an exis…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 25 cited

Generalized Gelation Theory describes Human Online Aggregation in support of Extremism

Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, Zhenfeng Cao +1

Though many aggregation theories exist for physical, chemical and biological systems, they do not account for the significant heterogeneity found, for example, in populations of li…

physics.med-ph2017★ 5 cited

Plasma Medicine and Osmosis

M. N. Shneider, M. Pekker

In this paper, attention is drawn to the importance of accounting for osmotic pressure when analyzing physiological effects on cellular structures in plasma medicine. Interaction o…

nucl-ex2017★ 8 cited

Double Photoproduction off the Proton at CLAS

S. Chandavar, J. T. Goetz, K. Hicks +124

The (1500) meson resonance is one of several contenders to have significant mixing with the lightest glueball. This resonance is well established from several previous experim…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 39 cited

The Sleeping Monster: NuSTAR observations of SGR 1806-20, 11 years after the Giant Flare

George Younes, Matthew G. Baring, Chryssa Kouveliotou +5

We report the analysis of 5 NuSTAR observations of SGR 1806-20 spread over a year from April 2015 to April 2016, more than 11 years following its Giant Flare (GF) of 2004. The sour…

math.NA2017

A New Phase-Field Approach to Variational Implicit Solvation of Charged Molecules with the Coulomb-Field Approximation

Yanxiang Zhao, Yanping Ma, Hui Sun +2

We construct a new phase-field model for the solvation of charged molecules with a variational implicit solvent. Our phase-field free-energy functional includes the surface energy,…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 3 cited

Bubble Assemblies in Ternary Systems with Long Range Interaction

Chong Wang, Xiaofeng Ren, Yanxiang Zhao

A nonlocal diffuse interface model is used to study bubble assemblies in ternary systems. As model parameters vary, a large number of morphological phases appear as stable stationa…

math.AP2017★ 20 cited

Blow-up dynamics and spectral property in the -critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in high dimensions

Kai Yang, Svetlana Roudenko, Yanxiang Zhao

We study stable blow-up dynamics in the -critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in high dimensions. First, we show that in dimensions to generic blow-up behavior…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 22 cited

The Effect of Pair Cascades on the High-Energy Spectral Cutoff in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Ramandeep Gill, Jonathan Granot

The highly luminous and variable prompt emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) arises in an ultra-relativistic outflow. The exact underlying radiative mechanism shaping its non-therma…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

The High Frequency Radio Emission of the Galactic Center Magnetar SGR J1745-29 During a Transitional Period

Joseph D. Gelfand, Scott Ransom, Chryssa Kouveliotou +6

The origin of the high-frequency radio emission detected from several magnetars is poorly understood. In this paper, we report the ~40 GHz properties of SGR J1745-29 as measured us…

nucl-ex2017★ 30 cited

Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS

K. Park, M. Guidal, R. W. Gothe +3

We report on the first measurement of cross sections for exclusive deeply virtual pion electroproduction off the proton, , above the resonance region at bac…

hep-lat2017★ 27 cited

A complex path around the sign problem

Paulo F. Bedaque

We review recent attempts at dealing with the sign problem in Monte Carlo calculations by deforming the region of integration in the path integral from real to complex fields. We d…

physics.app-ph2017★ 87 cited

Waveguide based Electroabsorption Modulator Performance

Rubab Amin, Jacob B. Khurgin, Volker J. Sorger

Electro-optic modulation is a key function for data communication. Given the vast amount of data handled, understanding the intricate physics and trade-offs of modulators on-chip a…

math.AP2017

Generalized KdV equation subject to a stochastic perturbation

Annie Millet, Svetlana Roudenko

We prove global well-posedness of the subcritical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation (the mKdV and the gKdV with quartic power of nonlinearity) subject to an additive random pe…

physics.optics2017★ 30 cited

Low-loss Tunable 1-D ITO-slot Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavity

Rubab Amin, Mohammad H. Tahersima, Zhizhen Ma +4

Tunable optical material properties enable novel applications in both versatile metamaterials and photonic components including optical sources and modulators. Transparent conducti…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 19 cited

Toward understanding the physical underpinnings of spatial and spectral morphologies of pulsar wind nebulae

Oleg Kargaltsev, Noel Klingler, Sarah Chastain +1

We discuss the observational properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) linking them to the injected (at the termination shock) electron spectral energy distribution and parameters o…

hep-ph2017★ 16 cited

Features of Photoproduction at High Energies

J. Nys, V. Mathieu, C. Fernández-Ramírez +7

Hybrid/exotic meson spectroscopy searches at Jefferson Lab require the accurate theoretical description of the production mechanism in peripheral photoproduction. We develop a mode…

nucl-th2017★ 12 cited

Comprehensive Study of Observables in Compton Scattering on the Nucleon

Harald W. Griesshammer, Judith A. McGovern, Daniel R. Phillips

We present an analysis of observables in Compton scattering on the proton. Cross sections, asymmetries with polarised beam and/or targets, and polarisation-transfer observable…

cs.DC2017

On the Approximability of Related Machine Scheduling under Arbitrary Precedence

Vaneet Aggarwal, Tian Lan, Suresh Subramaniam +1

Distributed computing systems often need to consider the scheduling problem involving a collection of highly dependent data-processing tasks that must work in concert to achieve mi…

nucl-ex2017★ 12 cited

Measurement of the beam asymmetry and the target asymmetry in the photoproduction of mesons off the proton using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory

P. Roy, Z. Akbar, S. Park +143

The photoproduction of mesons off the proton has been studied in the reaction using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) and the frozen-spin target (FROS…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 42 cited

Retainment of r-process material in dwarf galaxies

Paz Beniamini, Irina Dvorkin, Joe Silk

The synthesis of -process elements is known to involve extremely energetic explosions. At the same time, recent observations find significant -process enrichment even in extr…

nucl-ex2017★ 32 cited

Measurement of the Q^2 Dependence of the Deuteron Spin Structure Function g_1 and its Moments at Low Q^2 with CLAS

K. P. Adhikari, A. Deur, L. El Fassi +145

We measured the spin structure function of the deuteron at low , where QCD can be approximated with chiral perturbation theory (PT). The data cover the resonance re…

math.CO2017★ 15 cited

Computing reflection length in an affine Coxeter group

Joel Brewster Lewis, Jon McCammond, T. Kyle Petersen +1

In any Coxeter group, the conjugates of elements in its Coxeter generating set are called reflections and the reflection length of an element is its length with respect to this exp…