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hep-ex2017★ 21 cited

Exclusive photoproduction of up to large values of Mandelstam variables and with CLAS

M. C. Kunkel, 32, 18 M. J. Amaryan +156

Exclusive photoproduction cross sections have been measured for the process with the Dalitz decay final state using tagged photon energies in the r…

hep-ex2017★ 19 cited

Amplitude analysis of the decay and first observation of the CP asymmetry in

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +794

The time-integrated Dalitz plot of the three-body hadronic charmless decay is studied using a collision data…

math.AG2017★ 10 cited

Super-rigid Affine Fano Varieties

Ivan Cheltsov, Adrien Dubouloz, Jihun Park

We study a wide class of affine varieties, which we call affine Fano varieties. By analogy with birationally super-rigid Fano varieties, we define super-rigidity for affine Fano va…

cs.CR2017★ 22 cited

Fast Quantum Algorithm for Solving Multivariate Quadratic Equations

Jean-Charles Faug`ere, Kelsey Horan, Delaram Kahrobaei +3

In August 2015 the cryptographic world was shaken by a sudden and surprising announcement by the US National Security Agency NSA concerning plans to transition to post-quantum algo…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

The second Herschel-ATLAS Data Release - III: optical and near-infrared counterparts in the North Galactic Plane field

Cristina Furlanetto, S. Dye, N. Bourne +8

This paper forms part of the second major public data release of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS). In this work, we describe the identification of o…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 41 cited

Candidate high-z proto-clusters among the Planck compact sources, as revealed by Herschel-SPIRE

J. Greenslade, D. L. Clements, T. Cheng +19

By determining the nature of all the Planck compact sources within 808.4 deg^2 of large Herschel surveys, we have identified 27 candidate proto-clusters of dusty star forming galax…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 36 cited

Dispersive Magnetic and Electronic Excitations in Iridate Perovskites Probed with Oxygen -Edge Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Xingye Lu, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Yaobo Huang +11

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments performed at the oxygen- edge on the iridate perovskites {\SIOS} and {\SION} reveal a sequence of well-defined dispersive…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

physics.ins-det2017★ 43 cited

Calibration, event reconstruction, data analysis and limits calculation for the LUX dark matter experiment

D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo +95

The LUX experiment has performed searches for dark matter particles scattering elastically on xenon nuclei, leading to stringent upper limits on the nuclear scattering cross sectio…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 18 cited

Ab-Initio Surface Hopping and Multiphoton Ionisation Study of the Photodissociation Dynamics of CS

Darren Bellshaw, Daniel A. Horke, Adam D. Smith +8

New ab-initio surface hopping simulations of the excited state dynamics of CS including spin-orbit coupling are compared to new experimental measurements using a multiphoton io…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 5 cited

On fragmentation of turbulent self-gravitating discs in the long cooling time regime

Ken Rice, Sergei Nayakshin

It has recently been suggested that in the presence of driven turbulence discs may be much less stable against gravitational collapse than their non turbulent analogs, due to stoch…

hep-lat2017★ 8 cited

Topological susceptibility in 2+1-flavor QCD with chiral fermions

Sinya Aoki, Guido Cossu, Hidenori Fukaya +2

We compute the topological susceptibility of 2+1-flavor lattice QCD with dynamical Möbius domain-wall fermions, whose residual mass is kept at 1 MeV or smaller. In our analys…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 6 cited

The dimensionless dissipation rate and the Kolmogorov (1941) hypothesis of local stationarity in freely decaying isotropic turbulence

W. D. McComb, R. B. Fairhurst

An expression for the dimensionless dissipation rate was derived from the Karman-Howarth equation by asymptotic expansion of the second- and third- order structure functions in pow…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 60 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and Far-infrared Images of the South and North Galactic Poles: The Largest Herschel Survey of the Extragalactic Sky

Matthew W. L. Smith, Edo Ibar, Steve J. Maddox +11

We present the largest submillimeter images that have been made of the extragalactic sky. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 660 deg$^2…

stat.AP2017★ 50 cited

Why So Many Published Sensitivity Analyses Are False. A Systematic Review of Sensitivity Analysis Practices

Andrea Saltelli, Ksenia Aleksankina, William Becker +5

Sensitivity analysis (SA) has much to offer for a very large class of applications, such as model selection, calibration, optimization, quality assurance and many others. Sensitivi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 48 cited

The skewed weak lensing likelihood: why biases arise, despite data and theory being sound

Elena Sellentin, Catherine Heymans, Joachim Harnois-Déraps

We derive the essentials of the skewed weak lensing likelihood via a simple Hierarchical Model. Our likelihood passes four objective and cosmology-independent tests which a standar…

math.OC2017

Structure-Adaptive, Variance-Reduced, and Accelerated Stochastic Optimization

Junqi Tang, Francis Bach, Mohammad Golbabaee +1

In this work we explore the fundamental structure-adaptiveness of state of the art randomized first order algorithms on regularized empirical risk minimization tasks, where the sol…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 53 cited

Uncertainties in the production of p nuclides in thermonuclear supernovae determined by Monte Carlo variations

N. Nishimura, T. Rauscher, R. Hirschi +3

Thermonuclear supernovae originating from the explosion of a white dwarf accreting mass from a companion star have been suggested as a site for the production of nuclides. Such…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 74 cited

Simultaneous, Multi-Wavelength Variability Characterization of the Free-Floating Planetary Mass Object PSO J318.5-22

Beth Biller, Johanna Vos, Esther Buenzli +15

We present simultaneous HST WFC3 + Spitzer IRAC variability monitoring for the highly-variable young (20 Myr) planetary-mass object PSO J318.5-22. Our simultaneous HST + Spit…

hep-ph2017★ 116 cited

A first look at two-loop five-gluon scattering in QCD

Simon Badger, Christian Brønnum-Hansen, Heribertus Bayu Hartanto +1

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimen…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 46 cited

ALMA Twenty-six arcmin Survey of GOODS-S at One-millimeter (ASAGAO): X-ray AGN Properties of Millimeter-Selected Galaxies

Y. Ueda, B. Hatsukade, K. Kohno +33

We investigate the X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN) properties of millimeter galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey South (GOODS-S) field detected with the Atac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 14 cited

Orphan spins and bound in-gap states in the antiferromagnet CaFeO

C. Stock, E. E. Rodriguez, N. Lee +11

CaFeO is an anisotropic antiferromagnet with two competing () and ($\uparrow \downarrow \uparrow \downar…

nucl-ex2017★ 8 cited

Double Photoproduction off the Proton at CLAS

S. Chandavar, J. T. Goetz, K. Hicks +124

The (1500) meson resonance is one of several contenders to have significant mixing with the lightest glueball. This resonance is well established from several previous experim…

hep-lat2017

Heavy Domain Wall Fermions: The RBC and UKQCD charm physics program

P. A. Boyle, L. Del Debbio, A. Juttner +3

We review the domain wall charm physics program of the RBC and UKQCD collaborations based on simulations including ensembles with physical pion mass. We summarise our current set-u…