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gr-qc2007★ 12 cited

Highly distorted apparent horizons and the hoop conjecture

Hirotaka Yoshino

By analyzing the apparent horizon (AH) formation in the collision of two pp-waves with rectangular sources in four dimensions, we study to what extent the AH can be distorted witho…

q-fin.TR2007

On Financial Markets Based on Telegraph Processes

Nikita Ratanov, Alexander Melnikov

The paper develops a new class of financial market models. These models are based on generalized telegraph processes: Markov random flows with alternating velocities and jumps occu…

hep-ex2007★ 41 cited

Model-independent measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We present the first model-independent measurement of the helicity of bosons produced in top quark decays, based on a 1 fb sample of candidate events in the d…

hep-ex2007★ 239 cited

First measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top quark pair production

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We present the first measurement of the integrated forward-backward charge asymmetry in top-antitop quark pair (ttbar) production in proton-antiproton collisions in the lepton plus…

hep-ex2007★ 37 cited

Search for ZZ and Zγ^* production in p-barp collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV and limits on anomalous ZZZ and ZZγ^* couplings

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We present a study of four muon, four electron, and two muon two electron events using 1 fb^(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p-barp Collider at…

hep-ex2007★ 18 cited

A combined search for the standard model Higgs boson at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We present new results of the search for WH to lepton neutrino b b production in ppbar collisions at a center of mass energy of sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV, based on a dataset with integrated…

hep-ex2007★ 125 cited

Search for squarks and gluinos in events with jets and missing transverse energy using 2.1 fb-1 of ppbar collision data at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

A data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb-1 collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider was analyzed to search for squarks and gluinos pr…

hep-ex2007★ 32 cited

Measurement of the B0_s semileptonic branching ratio to an orbitally excited D_s** state, Br(B0_s -> Ds1(2536) mu nu)

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

In a data sample of approximately 1.3 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector between 2002 and 2006, the orbitally excited charm state D_s1(2536) has been observed with a measured mass…

math.AG2007

On the ideals of equivariant tree models

Jan Draisma, Jochen Kuttler

We introduce equivariant tree models in algebraic statistics, which unify and generalise existing tree models such as the general Markov model, the strand symmetric model, and grou…

hep-th2007★ 125 cited

Wald's entropy is equal to a quarter of the horizon area in units of the effective gravitational coupling

Ram Brustein, Dan Gorbonos, Merav Hadad

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes in Einstein's theory of gravity is equal to a quarter of the horizon area in units of Newton's constant. Wald has proposed that in gen…

cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 23 cited

Phase diagram of anisotropic boson t-J model

M. Boninsegni, N. V. Prokof'ev

We have studied by Quantum Monte Carlo simulations the low temperature phase diagram of a mixture of isotopic, hard core bosons, described by the t-Jz-Jperp model, with Jperp=a Jz.…

hep-ex2007★ 126 cited

Measurement of the shape of the boson transverse momentum distribution in ppbar -> Z/gamma* -> ee+X events produced at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

We present a measurement of the shape of the Z/gamma* boson transverse momentum (qT) distribution in ppbar -> Z/gamma* -> ee+X events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 0…

math.AG2007★ 1 cited

Descent constructions for central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras

Arturo Pianzola, Daniel Prelat, Jie Sun

We use Galois descent to construct central extensions of twisted forms of split simple Lie algebras over rings. These types of algebras arise naturally in the construction of Exten…

hep-th2007★ 39 cited

Stationary strings and branes in the higher-dimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes

David Kubiznak, Valeri P. Frolov

We demonstrate complete integrability of the Nambu-Goto equations for a stationary string in the general Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime describing the higher-dimensional rotating black h…

cond-mat.mes-hall2007★ 66 cited

Average Density of States in Disordered Graphene systems

Shangduan Wu, Lei Jing, Qunxiang Li +4

In this paper, the average density of states (ADOS) with a binary alloy disorder in disordered graphene systems are calculated based on the recursion method. We observe an obvious…

hep-ex2007★ 76 cited

Observation and properties of the orbitally excited B_{s2}* Meson

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov et al

We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B_{s2}* in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B_{s2}* meson is measured to be {5839.6 +- 1.1 (stat.) +- 0…

hep-ex2007★ 17 cited

Search for sneutrino particles in e + mu final states in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} =1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration, V. M Abazov

We report a search for R-parity violating production and decay of sneutrino particles in the e+mu final state with 1.04+-0.06 fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fer…

cond-mat.str-el2007★ 50 cited

Mean Field study of the heavy fermion metamagnetic transition

S. Viola Kusminskiy, K. S. D. Beach, A. H. Castro Neto +1

We investigate the evolution of the heavy fermion ground state under application of a strong external magnetic field. We present a richer version of the usual hybridization mean fi…

cond-mat.supr-con2007★ 9 cited

Hall Conductivity in a Spin-Triplet Superconductor

Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio, C. S. Ting

We calculate the Hall conductivity for a spin-triplet superconductor, using a generalized pairing symmetry dependent on an arbitrary phase, $\vphi$. A promising candidate for such…

hep-ph2007★ 33 cited

Positronium-ion decay

Mariusz Puchalski, Andrzej Czarnecki, Savely G. Karshenboim

We present a precise theoretical prediction for the decay width of the bound state of two electrons and a positron (a negative positronium ion), Gamma(Ps^-) = 2.087 085(12)/ns. We…

cond-mat.supr-con2007★ 11 cited

Impact of a finite cut-off for the optical sum rule in the superconducting state

F. Marsiglio, E. van Heumen, A. B. Kuzmenko

A single band optical sum rule derived by Kubo can reveal a novel kind of superconducting state. It relies, however, on a knowledge of the single band contribution from zero to inf…

hep-th2007★ 6 cited

CPT theorem in a (5+1) Galilean space-time

M. Kobayashi, M. de Montigny, F. C. Khanna

We extend the 5-dimensional Galilean space-time to a (5+1) Galilean space-time in order to define a parity transformation in a covariant manner. This allows us to discuss the discr…

hep-th2007★ 4 cited

An 8-dimensional realization of the Clifford algebra in the 5-dimensional Galilean space-time

M. Kobayashi, M. de Montigny, F. C. Khanna

We give an 8-dimensional realization of the Clifford algebra in the 5-dimensional Galilean space-time by using a dimensional reduction from the Minkowski space-time to the…

hep-ex2007★ 34 cited

Search for Supersymmetry in Di-Photon Final States at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

V. M. Abazov

We report results of a search for supersymmetry (SUSY) with gauge-mediated symmetry breaking in di-photon events collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in…