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math.DG2006★ 76 cited

Extremal metrics on blow ups

C. Arezzo, F. Pacard, M. Singer

Given a compact Kahler manifold with an extremal metric (M,ω), we give sufficient conditions on finite sets points p_1,...,p_n and weights a_1,...a_n for which the blow up of M at…

hep-lat2006★ 148 cited

Transverse spin structure of the nucleon from lattice QCD simulations

M. Göckeler, Ph. Hägler, R. Horsley +7

We present the first calculation in lattice QCD of the lowest two moments of transverse spin densities of quarks in the nucleon. They encode correlations between quark spin and orb…

hep-ex2006★ 17 cited

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV using the Decay Length Technique

A. Abulencia et al.

We report the first measurement of the top quark mass using the decay length technique in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. This technique uses the measured…

hep-ex2006★ 10 cited

Cross Section Measurements of High- Dilepton Final-State Processes Using a Global Fitting Method

M. Kruse

We present a new method for studying high- dilepton events (, , ) and simultaneously extracting the production cross sections o…

hep-lat2006★ 45 cited

First results from 2+1-Flavor Domain Wall QCD: Mass Spectrum, Topology Change and Chiral Symmetry with

D. J. Antonio, T. Blum, K. C. Bowler +23

We present results for the static interquark potential, light meson and baryon masses, and light pseudoscalar meson decay constants obtained from simulations of domain wall QCD wit…

astro-ph2006★ 304 cited

Cosmology with Weak Lensing Surveys

D. Munshi, P. Valageas, L. Van Waerbeke +1

Weak gravitational lensing is responsible for the shearing and magnification of the images of high-redshift sources due to the presence of intervening matter. The distortions are d…

astro-ph2006

The near-IR shape of the big blue bump emission from quasars: under the hot dust emission

Makoto Kishimoto, Robert Antonucci, Omer Blaes

One primary difficulty in understanding the nature of the putative accretion disk in the central engine of AGNs is that some of its key intrinsic spectral signatures are buried und…

astro-ph2006★ 66 cited

ACS photometry of newly-discovered globular clusters in the outer halo of M31

A. D. Mackey, A. Huxor, A. M. N. Ferguson +6

We report the first results from deep ACS imaging of ten classical globular clusters in the far outer regions (15 < R_p < 100 kpc) of M31. Eight of the clusters, including two of t…

physics.optics2006

Depolarization regions of nonzero volume for anisotropic, cubically nonlinear, homogenized nanocomposites

Jiajia Cui, Tom G. Mackay

An implementation of the strong-permittivity-fluctuation theory (SPFT) is presented in order to estimate the constitutive parameters of a homogenized composite material (HCM) which…

hep-ex2006★ 23 cited

Measurement of the branching ratios of the decays Xi0 --> Sigma+ e- nubar and anti-Xi0 --> anti-Sigma+ e+ nu

I Collaboration

From 56 days of data taking in 2002, the NA48/1 experiment observed 6316 Xi0 --> Sigma+ e- nubar candidates (with the subsequent Sigma+ --> p pi0 decay) and 555 anti-Xi0 --> anti-S…

astro-ph2006★ 315 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: VI. Statistical properties of clusters of galaxies

A. Finoguenov, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger +30

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the first 36 XMM-Newton pointings on the COSMOS field. We reach a depth for a total cluster flux in the 0.5-2 keV band of…

hep-ex2006★ 66 cited

Measurement of the B0 --> pi l nu Form-Factor Shape and Branching Fraction, and Determination of |Vub| with a Loose Neutrino Reconstruction Technique

B. Aubert et al.

We report the results of a study of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decay, B --> pi l nu, undertaken with approximately 227 million BBbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) re…

astro-ph2006★ 1k cited

zCOSMOS: A Large VLT/VIMOS redshift survey covering 0 < z < 3 in the COSMOS field

S. J. Lilly, O. Le Fevre, A. Renzini +42

zCOSMOS is a large redshift survey that is being undertaken in the COSMOS field using 600 hours of observation with the VIMOS spectrograph on the 8-m VLT. The survey is designed to…

cond-mat.stat-mech2006★ 12 cited

Exploring the origins of the power-law properties of energy landscapes: An egg-box model

Claire P. Massen, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Rupert W. Nash

Multidimensional potential energy landscapes (PELs) have a Gaussian distribution for the energies of the minima, but at the same time the distribution of the hyperareas for the bas…

hep-ex2006★ 224 cited

Analysis of the Quantum Numbers of the X(3872) Particle

CDF Collaboration

We present an analysis of angular distributions and correlations of the X(3872) particle in the exclusive decay mode X(3872)->J/psi pi+ pi- with J/psi->mu+ mu-. We use 780 pb -1 of…

hep-ex2006★ 11 cited

Evidence for B0->rho0rho0 Decay and Implications for the CKM Angle alpha

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We search for the decays B0->rho0rho0, B0->rho0f0, and B0->f0f0 in a sample of about 384 million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetri…

hep-ex2006★ 28 cited

Branching Fraction Measurements of B+ -> rho+ gamma, B0 -> rho0 gamma, and B0 -> omega gamma

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present a study of the decays B+ -> rho+ gamma, B0 -> rho0 gamma, and B0 -> omega gamma. The analysis is based on data containing 347 million BBbar events recorded with the BaBa…

astro-ph2006★ 159 cited

Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters

R. Spurzem, M. Giersz, D. C. Heggie +1

At least 10-15% of nearby sun-like stars have known Jupiter-mass planets. In contrast, very few planets are found in mature open and globular clusters such as the Hyades and 47 Tuc…

astro-ph2006★ 7 cited

COMBO-17 measurements of the effect of environment on the type-dependent galaxy luminosity function

S. Phleps, C. Wolf, J. A. Peacock +2

We have developed a method to calculate overdensities in multicolour surveys, facilitating a direct comparison of the local density contrast measured using galaxy samples that have…

astro-ph2006★ 3 cited

Remnants of compact binary mergers

W. Domainko, M. Ruffert

We investigate the long-term evolution and observability of remnants originating from the merger of compact binary systems and discuss the differences to supernova remnants. Compac…

hep-ph2006★ 24 cited

Aspects of radiative K^+_e3 decays

Bastian Kubis, Eike H. Müller, Jürg Gasser +1

We re-investigate the radiative charged kaon decay K+- --> pi0 e+- nu_e gamma in chiral perturbation theory, merging the chiral expansion with Low's theorem. We thoroughly analyze…

astro-ph2006★ 15 cited

A broadband spectroscopic search for CO line emission in HDF850.1: the brightest submillimetre object in the Hubble Deep Field North

J. Wagg, D. H. Hughes, I. Aretxaga +4

Using the 100-m Green Bank Telescope, we have conducted a cm-wavelength search for CO J=1-0 line emission towards the high-redshift, far-infrared luminous object, HDF850.1 over the…

math.AP2006★ 1 cited

Two-dimensional Euler flows in slowly deforming domains

J. Vanneste, D. Wirosoetisno

We consider the evolution of an incompressible two-dimensional perfect fluid as the boundary of its domain is deformed in a prescribed fashion. The flow is taken to be initially st…

astro-ph2006★ 26 cited

Probing the Nature of the G1 Clump Stellar Overdensity in the Outskirts of M31

Daniel Faria, Rachel A. Johnson, Annette M. N. Ferguson +5

We present deep HST/ACS observations of the G1 clump, a distinct stellar overdensity lying at ~30 kpc along the south-western major axis of M31 close to the G1 globular cluster (Fe…