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hep-lat2018★ 1 cited

Updates on Nucleon Form Factors from Clover-on-HISQ Lattice Formulation

Yong-Chull Jang, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Rajan Gupta +2

Updates on results for the electric, magnetic and axial vector form factors are presented. The data analyzed cover high statistics measurements on 11 ensembles generated with 2+1+1…

nucl-ex2018★ 111 cited

Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of -meson production at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +347

We report a new measurement of -meson production at mid-rapidity (\,\,1) in Au+Au collisions at utilizing the Heavy Flavor Tracke…

hep-ex2018★ 3 cited

Measurements of branching fraction and direct asymmetry in and a search for

The Belle Collaboration, A. B. Kaliyar, P. Behera +197

We study charmless hadronic decays of charged mesons to the final states and using a data sample that cont…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 36 cited

Rotationally invariant slave-boson and density matrix embedding theory: A unified framework and a comparative study on the 1D and 2D Hubbard Model

Tsung-Han Lee, Thomas Ayral, Yong-Xin Yao +2

We present detailed benchmark ground-state calculations of the one- and two-dimensional Hubbard model utilizing the cluster extensions of the rotationally invariant slave-boson (RI…

hep-lat2018★ 52 cited

QED self energies from lattice QCD without power-law finite-volume errors

Xu Feng, Luchang Jin

Using the infinite-volume photon propagator, we developed a method which allows us to calculate electromagnetic corrections to stable hadron masses with only exponentially suppress…

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…

hep-ph2018★ 81 cited

Associated production of a top quark pair with a heavy electroweak gauge boson at NLO+NNLL accuracy

Anna Kulesza, Leszek Motyka, Daniel Schwartländer +2

We perform threshold resummation of soft gluon corrections to the total cross sections and the invariant mass distributions for production of a top-antitop quark pair associated wi…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 43 cited

EDRIXS: An open source toolkit for simulating spectra of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Y. L. Wang, G. Fabbris, M. P. M. Dean +1

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) has become a very powerful experimental technique to probe a broad range of intrinsic elementary excitations, for example, from low energ…

hep-th2018★ 16 cited

Entanglement and thermalization

Jürgen Berges, Stefan Floerchinger, Raju Venugopalan

In a quantum field theory, apparent thermalization can be a consequence of entanglement as opposed to scatterings. We discuss here how this can help to explain open puzzles such as…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Simulating 0+1 Dimensional Quantum Gravity on Quantum Computers: Mini-Superspace Quantum Cosmology and the World Line Approach in Quantum Field Theory

Charles D. Kocher, Michael McGuigan

Quantum computers are a promising candidate to radically expand computational science through increased computing power and more effective algorithms. In particular quantum computi…

hep-lat2018

Update on form factor at zero-recoil using the Oktay-Kronfeld action

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Rajan Gupta, Sungwoo Park +9

We present an update on the calculation of semileptonic form factor at zero recoil using the Oktay-Kronfeld bottom and charm quarks on fl…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 41 cited

Anticipating acene-based chromophore spectra with molecular orbital arguments

Timothy J. H. Hele, Eric G. Fuemmeler, Samuel N. Sanders +4

Recent synthetic studies on the organic molecules tetracene and pentacene have found certain dimers and oligomers to exhibit an intense absorption in the visible region of the spec…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 34 cited

Charge-Stripe Crystal Phase in an Insulating Cuprate

He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Bryan Rachmilowitz +5

High-Tc superconductivity in cuprates is generally believed to arise from carrier doping an antiferromagnetic Mott (AFM) insulator. Theoretical proposals and emerging experimental…

hep-lat2018★ 4 cited

Axial U(1) symmetry and Dirac spectra in high-temperature phase of lattice QCD

Kei Suzuki, Sinya Aoki, Yasumichi Aoki +3

The axial symmetry in the high-temperature phase is investigated with lattice QCD simulations. The gauge ensembles are generated with Möbius domain-wall fermions,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 209 cited

VI3 - a new layered ferromagnetic semiconductor

Tai Kong, Karoline Stolze, Erik I. Timmons +6

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising candidates for next-generation electronic devices. In this regime, insulating 2D ferromagnets, which remain rare, are of special import…

hep-ph2018★ 41 cited

Forward Drell-Yan and backward jet production as a probe of the BFKL dynamics

Krzysztof Golec-Biernat, Leszek Motyka, Tomasz Stebel

We propose a new process which probes the BFKL dynamics in the high energy proton-proton scattering, namely the forward Drell-Yan (DY) production accompanied by a backward jet, sep…

hep-ex2018★ 51 cited

Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195

This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 42 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Validation of weak lensing cluster member contamination estimates from P(z) decomposition

T. N. Varga, J. DeRose, D. Gruen +68

Weak lensing source galaxy catalogs used in estimating the masses of galaxy clusters can be heavily contaminated by cluster members, prohibiting accurate mass calibration. In this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 10 cited

The use of strain to tailor electronic thermoelectric transport properties: A first principles study of 2H-phase CuAlO2

Evan Witkoske, David Guzman, Yining Feng +3

Using first principles calculations, the use of strain to adjust electronic transport and the resultant thermoelectric (TE) properties is discussed using 2H phase CuAlO2 as a test…

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 58 cited

Isotope Harvesting at FRIB: Additional opportunities for scientific discovery

E. Paige Abel, Mikael Avilov, Virginia Ayres +37

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University provides a unique opportunity to access some of the nation's most specialized scientific resources: radioiso…

hep-ex2018★ 40 cited

Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +128

The long baseline between the Earth and the Sun makes solar neutrinos an excellent test beam for exploring possible neutrino decay. The signature of such decay would be an energy-d…

quant-ph2018★ 6 cited

Quantum Computation and Visualization of Hamiltonians using Discrete Quantum Mechanics and IBM QISKit

Raffaele Miceli, Michael McGuigan

Quantum computers have the potential to transform the ways in which we tackle some important problems. The efforts by companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft to construct quantum…

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…