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hep-ph2015★ 9 cited

Thermalization of mini-jets in a quark-gluon plasma

Edmond Iancu, Bin Wu

We present the complete physical picture for the evolution of a high-energy jet propagating through a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analytical and numerical investigat…

nucl-th2015★ 3 cited

Observable consequences of event-by-event fluctuations of HBT radii

Christopher Plumberg, Ulrich Heinz

We explore the effects of event-by-event fluctuations of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) radii and show how they can be observed experimentally. The relation of measured HBT radii extrac…

nucl-th2015★ 473 cited

The In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group: A Novel Ab Initio Method for Nuclei

H. Hergert, S. K. Bogner, T. D. Morris +2

We present a comprehensive review of the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IM-SRG), a novel ab inito method for nuclei. The IM-SRG employs a continuous unitary transforma…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 61 cited

Searches for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306

Various extensions of the Standard Model motivate the existence of stable magnetic monopoles that could have been created during an early high-energy epoch of the Universe. These p…

cs.DC2015

HALO: Report and Predicted Response Times

Matthew Swisher

HALO: Heterogeneity-Aware Load Balancing is a paper that proposes a class of heterogeneity-aware Load Balancers (LBs) for cluster systems. LBs that are heterogeneity-aware are able…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 73 cited

APOGEE Kinematics I: Overview of the Kinematics of the Galactic Bulge as Mapped by APOGEE

M. Ness, G. Zasowski, J. A. Johnson +12

We present the stellar kinematics across the Galactic bulge and into the disk at positive longitudes from the SDSS-III APOGEE spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. APOGEE includes…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 147 cited

CLASH-VLT: A Highly Precise Strong Lensing Model of the Galaxy Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Abell S1063) and Prospects for Cosmography

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +32

We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXCJ2248 () with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 58 cited

Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT and Planck lensing

D. Kirk, Y. Omori, A. Benoit-Lévy +89

We measure the cross-correlation between weak lensing of galaxy images and of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of gravitational lensing on different sources will…

hep-ph2015★ 3 cited

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the XYZ Mesons from QCD

Eric Braaten

The XYZ mesons are mesons that contain a heavy quark and antiquark but have properties that seem to require additional constituents. Some of them are electrically charged, so they…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 99 cited

Gamma rays from the quasar PKS 1441+25: story of an escape

A. U. Abeysekara, S. Archambault, A. Archer +103

Outbursts from gamma-ray quasars provide insights on the relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei and constraints on the diffuse radiation fields that fill the Universe. The det…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 27 cited

Recurring Occultations of RW Aurigae by Coagulated Dust in the Tidally Disrupted Circumstellar Disk

Joseph E. Rodriguez, Phillip A. Reed, Robert J. Siverd +7

We present photometric observations of RW Aurigae, a Classical T Tauri system, that reveal two remarkable dimming events. These events are similar to that which we observed in 2010…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 47 cited

X-Ray Detection of Warm Ionized Matter in the Galactic Halo

F. Nicastro, F. Senatore, A. Gupta +5

We report on a systematic investigation of the cold and mildly ionized gaseous baryonic metal components of our Galaxy, through the analysis of high resolution Chandra and XMM-Newt…

hep-ex2015★ 16 cited

Time-dependent analysis of decays and studies of the system in decays

P. del Amo Sanchez, others

We measure the time-dependent asymmetry in the radiative-penguin decay , using a sample of million $Υ(4S) \to B{\kern 0.18em\overline{\kern…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 19 cited

MOA 2011-BLG-028Lb: a Neptune-mass Microlensing Planet in the Galactic Bulge

J. Skowron, A. Udalski, R. Poleski +35

We present the discovery of a Neptune-mass planet orbiting a 0.8 +- 0.3 M_Sun star in the Galactic bulge. The planet manifested itself during the microlensing event MOA 2011-BLG-02…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 110 cited

IN-SYNC IV - The Young Stellar Population in the Orion A Molecular Cloud

Nicola Da Rio, Jonathan C. Tan, Kevin R. Covey +14

We present the results of the SDSS APOGEE INfrared Spectroscopy of Young Nebulous Clusters program (IN-SYNC) survey of the Orion A molecular cloud. This survey obtained high resolu…

math.NT2015★ 8 cited

Stability of Rankin-Selberg gamma factors for , and

Qing Zhang

Let be a -adic field and be a quadratic extension. In this paper, we prove the stability of Rankin-Selberg gamma factors for , $\widetilde {\textr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 69 cited

Abundance Anomalies In Tidal Disruption Events

C. S. Kochanek

The ~10% of tidal disruption events (TDEs) due to stars more massive than the Sun should show abundance anomalies due to stellar evolution in helium, carbon and nitrogen, but not o…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong Lensing Systems in The Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin +89

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 32 cited

Enhanced Light Extraction in Tunnel Junction Enabled Top Emitting UV LEDs

Yuewei Zhang, Andrew Allerman, Sriram Krishnamoorthy +4

The efficiency of ultra violet LEDs is critically limited by the absorption losses in p-type and metal layers. In this work, surface roughening based light extraction structures ar…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 37 cited

Contact Induced Spin Relaxation in Graphene Spin Valves with Al2O3 and MgO Tunnel Barriers

Walid Amamou, Zhisheng Lin, Jeremiah van Baren +3

We investigate spin relaxation in graphene by systematically comparing the roles of spin absorption, other contact-induced effects (e.g. fringe fields, etc.), and bulk spin relaxat…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 107 cited

The large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies

Zachary Slepian, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Florian Beutler +15

We report a measurement of the large-scale 3-point correlation function of galaxies using the largest dataset for this purpose to date, 777, 202 Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

The Impact of Molecular Gas on Mass Models of Nearby Galaxies

Bradley S. Frank, W. J. G. de Blok, F. Walter +2

We present CO velocity fields and rotation curves for a sample of nearby galaxies, based on data from the HERACLES survey. We combine our data with literature THINGS, SINGS and KIN…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the Dark Energy Survey

A. Pieres, B. Santiago, E. Balbinot +57

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) harbors a rich and diverse system of star clusters, whose ages, chemical abundances, and positions provide information about the LMC history of sta…

stat.ME2015

A Critique of Dyadic Design

Skyler J. Cranmer, Bruce A. Desmarais

Dyadic research designs concern data that comprises interactions among actors. Dyadic approaches unambiguously constitute the most frequent designs employed in the empirical study…