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astro-ph.HE2015★ 95 cited

Tidal disruption jets of supermassive black holes as hidden sources of cosmic rays: explaining the IceCube TeV-PeV neutrinos

Xiang-Yu Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu

Cosmic ray interactions that produce high-energy neutrinos also inevitably generate high-energy gamma rays, which finally contribute to the diffuse high-energy gamma-ray background…

nucl-ex2015★ 21 cited

Mass measurements of neutron-rich Rb and Sr isotopes

R. Klawitter, A. Bader, M. Brodeur +16

We report on the mass measurements of several neutron-rich and isotopes in the region with the TITAN Penning-trap mass spectrometer. Usi…

nucl-ex2015★ 78 cited

Precision Mass Measurements of 129-131Cd and Their Impact on Stellar Nucleosynthesis via the Rapid Neutron Capture Process

D. Atanasov, P. Ascher, K. Blaum +17

Masses adjacent to the classical waiting-point nuclide 130Cd have been measured by using the Penning- trap spectrometer ISOLTRAP at ISOLDE/CERN. We find a significant deviation of…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 31 cited

ROBAST: Development of a ROOT-Based Ray-Tracing Library for Cosmic-Ray Telescopes and its Applications in the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Akira Okumura, Koji Noda, Cameron Rulten

We have developed a non-sequential ray-tracing simulation library, ROOT-based simulator for ray tracing (ROBAST), which is aimed to be widely used in optical simulations of cosmic-…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 143 cited

The XXL Survey. II. The bright cluster sample: catalogue and luminosity function

F. Pacaud, N. Clerc, P. A. Giles +40

Context. The XXL Survey is the largest survey carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite and covers a total area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields. It primarily aims at…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 6 cited

Nonlocal nonlinear response of thermal Rydberg atoms and modulational instability in absorptive nonlinear media

Lida Zhang, Jörg Evers

Nonlinear and nonlocal effects are discussed in the interaction of laser fields with thermal Rydberg atoms in electromagnetically induced transparency configuration. We show that u…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 9 cited

X-ray fluorescence spectrum of highly charged Fe ions driven by strong free-electron-laser fields

Natalia S. Oreshkina, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Christoph H. Keitel +1

The influence of nonlinear dynamical effects is analyzed on the observed spectra of controversial 3C and 3D astrophysically relevant x-ray lines in neonlike Fe and the A,…

hep-ph2015★ 49 cited

Decoherence and oscillations of supernova neutrinos

Joern Kersten, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Supernova neutrinos have several exceptional features which can lead to interesting physical consequences. At the production point their wave packets have an extremely small size $…

hep-ph2015★ 105 cited

Quark Seesaw, Vectorlike Fermions and Diphoton Excess

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Yongchao Zhang

We present a possible interpretation of the recent diphoton excess reported by the TeV LHC data in quark seesaw left-right models with vectorlike fermions proposed to…

hep-ph2015★ 66 cited

Di-photon Excess Explained by a Resonant Sneutrino in R-parity Violating Supersymmetry

B. C. Allanach, P. S. Bhupal Dev, S. A. Renner +1

We explain the recent excess seen by ATLAS and CMS experiments at around 750 GeV in the di-photon invariant mass as a narrow width sneutrino decaying to di-photons via a stau loop…

nucl-ex2015★ 15 cited

Muon capture on light isotopes in Double Chooz

Double Chooz collaboration, Y. Abe, T. Abrahão +144

Using the Double Chooz detector, designed to measure the neutrino mixing angle , the products of capture on C, C, N and O have been measur…

physics.ins-det2015★ 460 cited

Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment

The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +113

The XENON1T experiment is currently in the commissioning phase at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. In this article we study the experiment's expected sensitivity to…

hep-ph2015★ 79 cited

Asymmetric Dark Matter in the Sun and the Diphoton Excess at the LHC

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Daniele Teresi

It has been recently pointed out that a momentum-dependent coupling of the asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) with nucleons can explain the broad disagreement between helioseismological…

hep-ex2015★ 36 cited

Investigating the Spectral Anomaly with Different Reactor Antineutrino Experiments

Christian Buck, Antoine P. Collin, Julia Haser +1

The spectral shape of reactor antineutrinos measured in recent experiments shows anomalies in comparison to neutrino reference spectra. New precision measurements of the reactor ne…

hep-ex2015★ 493 cited

Angular analysis of the decay using $3\,\mbox{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +730

An angular analysis of the decay is presented. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $3.0\,{\mbox{fb}^{…

quant-ph2015

Collective dynamics in a laser-pumped mixture of two atomic ensembles

Luling Jin, Jörg Evers, Mihai Macovei

We investigate the quantum dynamics of an atomic mixture composed of two multi-atom ensembles. Each ensemble is driven separately by a coherent laser field, respectively, and dampe…

hep-ex2015★ 8 cited

First observation of the rare decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +730

The decay is observed in a data sample corresponding to of collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 201…

hep-ph2015★ 53 cited

The Scalar Triplet Contribution to Lepton Flavour Violation and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Left-Right Symmetric Model

Gulab Bambhaniya, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Srubabati Goswami +1

We analyse in detail the scalar triplet contribution to the low-energy lepton flavour violating (LFV) and lepton number violating (LNV) processes within a TeV-scale left-right symm…

nucl-th2015★ 9 cited

Effective field theory for deformed atomic nuclei

T. Papenbrock, H. A. Weidenmüller

We present an effective field theory (EFT) for a model-independent description of deformed atomic nuclei. In leading order this approach recovers the well-known results from the co…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 77 cited

Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept

A. Caldwell, E. Adli, L. Amorim +118

This report describes the conceptual steps in reaching the design of the AWAKE experiment currently under construction at CERN. We start with an introduction to plasma wakefield ac…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 21 cited

H-ATLAS/GAMA: The nature and characteristics of optically red galaxies detected at submillimetre wavelengths

A. Dariush, S. Dib, S. Hony +39

We combine Herschel/SPIRE sub-millimeter (submm) observations with existing multi-wavelength data to investigate the characteristics of low redshift, optically red galaxies detecte…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 8 cited

Absolute rate coefficients for photorecombination of berylliumlike and boronlike silicon ions

D. Bernhardt, A. Becker, C. Brandau +11

We report measured rate coefficients for electron-ion recombination for Si10+ forming Si9+ and for Si9+ forming Si8+, respectively. The measurements were performed using the electr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 39 cited

A closer view of the IGR J11014-6103 outflows

L. Pavan, G. Pühlhofer, P. Bordas +8

The complex X-ray system IGR J11014-6103 (a.k.a. the Lighthouse nebula) is composed of a bow-shock pulsar wind nebula (PWN) as well as large-scale jet-like features, all launched b…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 180 cited

Resolving the Extragalactic -ray Background above 50 GeV with Fermi-LAT

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re…