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astro-ph2008★ 117 cited

Vetoing atmospheric neutrinos in a high energy neutrino telescope

Stefan Schönert, Thomas K. Gaisser, Elisa Resconi +1

We discuss the possibility to suppress downward atmospheric neutrinos in a high energy neutrino telescope. This can be achieved by vetoing the muon which is produced by the same pa…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

Imaging Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Telescopes

Heinrich J. Voelk, Konrad Bernloehr

The technique of gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies (VHE: > 100 GeV) with ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is described, the H.E.S.S. array in Namibia s…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

Steady-State Solutions in Nonlinear Diffusive Shock Acceleration

B. Reville, J. G. Kirk, P. Duffy

Stationary solutions to the equations of non-linear diffusive shock acceleration play a fundamental role in the theory of cosmic-ray acceleration. Their existence usually requires…

nucl-ex2008★ 1 cited

Operation of a GERDA Phase I prototype detector in liquid argon and nitrogen

M. Barnabé Heider, A. Bakalyarov, L. Bezrukov +14

The GERDA (GERmanium Detector Array) experiment aiming to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge at the Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, will opera…

astro-ph2008★ 20 cited

Capability of Cherenkov Telescopes to Observe Ultra-fast Optical Flares

C. Deil, W. Domainko, G. Hermann +4

The large optical reflector (~ 100 m^2) of a H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope was used to search for very fast optical transients of astrophysical origin. 43 hours of observations targ…

hep-ph2008★ 63 cited

A Supersymmetric D4 Model for mu-tau Symmetry

A. Adulpravitchai, A. Blum, C. Hagedorn

We construct a supersymmeterized version of the model presented by Grimus and Lavoura (GL) in [1] which predicts theta_{23} maximal and theta_{13}=0 in the lepton sector. For this…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Simultaneous H.E.S.S. and Chandra observations of Sagittarius A* during an X-ray flare

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

The rapidly varying (~10 minute timescale) non-thermal X-ray emission observed from Sgr A* implies that particle acceleration is occuring close to the event horizon of the supermas…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

Non thermal emission from microquasar/ISM interaction

P. Bordas, V. Bosch-Ramon, J. M. Paredes +1

The interaction of microquasar jets with their environment can produce non-thermal radiation as is the case for extragalactic outflows impacting on their surroundings. We have deve…

nucl-th2008★ 14 cited

Laser-induced nonresonant nuclear excitation in muonic atoms

A. Shahbaz, C. Müller, T. J. Buervenich +1

Coherent nuclear excitation in strongly laser-driven muonic atoms is calculated. The nuclear transition is caused by the time-dependent Coulomb field of the oscillating charge dens…

hep-ph2008★ 7 cited

Physics Potential of Future Atmospheric Neutrino Searches

Thomas Schwetz

The potential of future high statistics atmospheric neutrino experiments is considered, having in mind currently discussed huge detectors of various technologies (water Cerekov, ma…

nucl-ex2008★ 5 cited

Pulse Shape Analysis with a Broad-Energy Germanium Detector for the GERDA experiment

Dušan Budjáš, Marik Barnabé Heider, Oleg Chkvorets +2

To reduce background in experiments looking for rare events, such as the GERDA double beta decay experiment, it is necessary to employ active background-suppression techniques. One…

astro-ph2008

Nuclear Masses in Astrophysics

Christine Weber, Klaus Blaum, Hendrik Schatz

Among all nuclear ground-state properties, atomic masses are highly specific for each particular combination of N and Z and the data obtained apply to a variety of physics topics.…

astro-ph2008★ 62 cited

Very high energy gamma-ray observations of the galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

Aims: The nearby galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 are studied in the very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) band to investigate VHE cosmic rays (CRs) in this class of objects wh…

physics.ins-det2008★ 16 cited

Highly Sensitive Gamma-Spectrometers of GERDA for Material Screening: Part 2

D. Budjáš, W. Hampel, M. Heisel +8

The previous article about material screening for GERDA points out the importance of strict material screening and selection for radioimpurities as a key to meet the aspired backgr…

astro-ph2008★ 7 cited

A Trigger and Readout Scheme for future Cherenkov Telescope Arrays

G. Hermann, C. Bauer, C. Foehr +3

The next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, such as e.g. CTA, will consist of about 50-100 telescopes, and cameras with in total ~100000 to ~200000 channels. The t…

hep-ex2008★ 73 cited

Kinematic distributions and nuclear effects of production in 920 GeV fixed-target proton-nucleus collisions

B Collaboration

Measurements of the kinematic distributions of mesons produced in C, Ti and W collisions at in the Feynman- region $-0.34 < x_{F}…

physics.ins-det2008★ 2 cited

Highly sensitive gamma-spectrometers of GERDA for material screening: Part I

D. Budjáš, C. Cattadori, A. Gangapshev +16

The GERDA experiment aims to search for the neutrinoless double beta-decay of 76Ge and possibly for other rare processes. The sensitivity of the first phase is envisioned to be mor…

hep-ph2008★ 399 cited

Standard Model Higgs boson mass from inflation

Fedor L. Bezrukov, Amaury Magnin, Mikhail Shaposhnikov

We analyse one-loop radiative corrections to the inflationary potential in the theory, where inflation is driven by the Standard Model Higgs field. We show that inflation is possib…

hep-ph2008★ 383 cited

On initial conditions for the Hot Big Bang

F. Bezrukov, D. Gorbunov, M. Shaposhnikov

We analyse the process of reheating the Universe in the electroweak theory where the Higgs field plays a role of the inflaton. We estimate the maximal temperature of the Universe a…

astro-ph2008★ 104 cited

Study of the Spectral and Temporal Characteristics of X-Ray Emission of the Gamma-Ray Binary LS 5039 with Suzaku

T. Takahashi, T. Kishishita, Y. Uchiyama +6

We report on the results from Suzaku broadband X-ray observations of the galactic binary source LS5039. The Suzaku data, which have continuous coverage of more than one orbital per…

astro-ph2008★ 66 cited

Two-Dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the nonresonant, cosmic-ray driven instability in SNR shocks

Yutaka Ohira, Brian Reville, John G. Kirk +1

In supernova remnants, the nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields upstream of collisionless shocks is essential for the acceleration of cosmic rays to the energy of the "knee"…

hep-ph2008★ 22 cited

Statistical Analysis of future Neutrino Mass Experiments including Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay

Werner Maneschg, Alexander Merle, Werner Rodejohann

We perform a statistical analysis with the prospective results of future experiments on neutrino-less double beta decay, direct searches for neutrino mass (KATRIN) and cosmological…

hep-ex2008★ 4 cited

V^0 production in p+A collisions at \sqrt{s} = 41.6 GeV

B Collaboration

Inclusive doubly differential cross sections d^2σ_{pA}/dx_Fdp_T^2 as a function of Feynman-x (x_F) and transverse momentum (p_T) for the production of K^0_s, Lambda^0 and anti-Lamb…

hep-ph2008★ 175 cited

Comparing Trimaximal Mixing and Its Variants with Deviations from Tri-bimaximal Mixing

Carl H. Albright, Werner Rodejohann

We analyze in detail the predictions of "trimaximal" neutrino mixing, which is defined by a mixing matrix with identical second column elements. This column is therefore identical…