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hep-ph2015★ 30 cited

How Resonance-Continuum Interference Changes 750 GeV Diphoton Excess: Signal Enhancement and Peak Shift

Sunghoon Jung, Jeonghyeon Song, Yeo Woong Yoon

The new scalar resonance contribution to the 750 GeV diphoton excess observed at the LHC 13 TeV necessarily interferes with the continuum background in the . The interfer…

physics.ins-det2015★ 49 cited

The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158

Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils th…

cond-mat.str-el2015★ 152 cited

Correlated impurities and intrinsic spin liquid physics in the kagome material Herbertsmithite

Tian-Heng Han, M. R. Norman, J. -J. Wen +4

Low energy inelastic neutron scattering on single crystals of the kagome spin liquid compound ZnCu3(OD)6Cl2 (Herbertsmithite) reveals antiferromagnetic correlations between impurit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 322 cited

High responsivity phototransistors based on few-layer ReS2 for weak signal detection

Erfu Liu, Mingsheng Long, Junwen Zeng +18

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides are emerging with tremendous potential in many optoelectronic applications due to their strong light-matter interactions. To fully…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 116 cited

Superconducting gap anisotropy in monolayer FeSe thin film

Y. Zhang, J. J. Lee, R. G. Moore +7

Fermi surface topology and pairing symmetry are two pivotal characteristics of a superconductor. Superconductivity in one monolayer (1ML) FeSe thin film has attracted great interes…

hep-ph2015

Novel Perspectives from Light-Front QCD, Superconformal Algebra, and Light-Front Holography

Stanley J. Brodsky

Light-Front Quantization -- Dirac's "Front Form" -- provides a physical, frame-independent formalism for hadron dynamics and structure. Observables such as structure functions, tra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 18 cited

Electric coupling in scanning SQUID measurements

Eric M. Spanton, Aaron J. Rosenberg, Yihua H. Wang +5

Scanning SQUID is a local magnetometer which can image flux through its pickup loop due to DC magnetic fields (). Scanning SQUID can also measure a sample's magnetic response to…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 41 cited

Crab flares due to turbulent dissipation of the pulsar striped wind

Jonathan Zrake

We interpret -ray flares from the Crab Nebula as the signature of turbulence in the pulsar's electromagnetic outflow. Turbulence is triggered upstream by dynamical instability o…

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…

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…

hep-ph2015★ 10 cited

The Diboson Excess: Experimental Situation and Classification of Explanations; A Les Houches Pre-Proceeding

Johann Brehmer, Gustaaf Brooijmans, Giacomo Cacciapaglia +21

We examine the `diboson' excess at TeV seen by the LHC experiments in various channels. We provide a comparison of the excess significances as a function of the mass of th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

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.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…

hep-ph2015★ 63 cited

Exotic Quarks in Twin Higgs Models

Hsin-Chia Cheng, Sunghoon Jung, Ennio Salvioni +1

The Twin Higgs model provides a natural theory for the electroweak symmetry breaking without the need of new particles carrying the standard model gauge charges below a few TeV. In…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

hep-th2015★ 112 cited

Tensor Networks from Kinematic Space

Bartlomiej Czech, Lampros Lamprou, Samuel McCandlish +1

We point out that the MERA network for the ground state of a 1+1-dimensional conformal field theory has the same structural features as kinematic space---the geometry of CFT interv…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 53 cited

Dynamical Axion Field in a Magnetic Topological Insulator Superlattice

Jing Wang, Biao Lian, Shou-Cheng Zhang

We propose that the dynamical axion field can be realized in a magnetic topological insulator superlattice or a topological paramagnetic insulator. The magnetic fluctuations of the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 10 cited

Constraining higher-order parameters for primordial non-Gaussianities from power spectra and bispectra of imaging survey

Ichihiko Hashimoto, Atsushi Taruya, Takahiko Matsubara +2

We investigate the statistical power of higher-order statistics and cross-correlation statistics to constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity from the imaging surveys. In particular…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 31 cited

Generalized liquid crystals: giant fluctuations and the vestigial chiral order of , and matter

Ke Liu, Jaakko Nissinen, Robert-Jan Slager +2

The physics of nematic liquid crystals has been subject of intensive research since the late 19th century. However, because of the limitations of chemistry the focus has been cente…

hep-th2015★ 19 cited

The Two-Loop Symbol of all Multi-Regge Regions

Till Bargheer, Georgios Papathanasiou, Volker Schomerus

We study the symbol of the two-loop n-gluon MHV amplitude for all Mandelstam regions in multi-Regge kinematics in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. While the number of distinct Mandelst…

nucl-ex2015★ 27 cited

Cosmogenic Backgrounds to 0νββ in EXO-200

200 Collaboration, J. B. Albert, D. J. Auty +84

As neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments become more sensitive and intrinsic radioactivity in detector materials is reduced, previously minor contributions to the background m…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 95 cited

On the EFT of Large Scale Structures in Redshift Space

Matthew Lewandowski, Leonardo Senatore, Francisco Prada +2

We further develop the description of redshift space distortions within the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures. First, we generalize the counterterms to include the e…