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physics.ins-det2009

Thermal Control of a Dual Mode Parametric Sapphire Transducer

Jacopo Belfi, Nicolò Beverini, Andrea De Michele +3

We propose a method to control the thermal stability of a sapphire dielectric transducer made with two dielectric disks separated by a thin gap and resonating in the whispering gal…

hep-ph2009★ 76 cited

CDMS stands for Constrained Dark Matter Singlet

Marco Farina, Duccio Pappadopulo, Alessandro Strumia

Motivated by the two candidate Dark Matter events observed by the CDMS experiment, we consider a Constrained Dark Matter Singlet (CDMS) model that, with no free parameters, predict…

hep-ex2009★ 12 cited

Search for New Physics with a Dijet plus Missing Transverse Energy Signature in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

T. Aaltonen

We present results of a signature-based search for new physics using a dijet plus missing transverse energy data sample collected in 2 fb-1 of p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 T…

hep-ex2009★ 75 cited

Measurement of the Production Cross Section and Search for Anomalous and Couplings in Collisions at TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the boson pair production cross section and most sensitive test of anomalous and couplings in $p \bar…

math.AP2009★ 1 cited

Convergence of approximate deconvolution models to the filtered Navier-Stokes Equations

Luigi C. Berselli, Roger Lewandowski

We consider a 3D Approximate Deconvolution Model (ADM) which belongs to the class of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models. We work with periodic boundary conditions and the filter th…

hep-ex2009★ 29 cited

Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime in Lambda_b -> Lambda_c+ pi- Decays in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We report a measurement of the lifetime of the Lambda_b baryon in decays to the Lambda_C+ pi- final state in a sample corresponding to 1.1 fb^-1 collected in p-pbar collisions at s…

gr-qc2009★ 2 cited

Reduced Hamiltonian for intersecting shells and Hawking radiation

Pietro Menotti

We consider the dynamics of one or more self gravitating shells of matter in a centrally symmetric gravitational field in the Painleve' family of gauges. We give the reduced hamilt…

math.AP2009★ 10 cited

Hyperbolic-parabolic singular perturbation for Kirchhoff equations with weak dissipation

Marina Ghisi, Massimo Gobbino

We consider Kirchhoff equations with a small parameter epsilon in front of the second-order time-derivative, and a dissipative term whose coefficient may tend to 0 as t -> + infini…

hep-ex2009★ 28 cited

A study of the associated production of photons and b-quark jets in p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

CDF collaboration

The cross section for photon production in association with at least one jet containing a -quark hadron has been measured in proton antiproton collisions at TeV.…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 25 cited

Prominent spiral arms in the gaseous outer galaxy disks

G. Bertin, N. C. Amorisco

Context: Several spiral galaxies, as beautifully exhibited by the case of NGC 6946, display a prominent large-scale spiral structure in their gaseous outer disk. Such structure is…

quant-ph2009★ 13 cited

Entanglement renormalization and boundary critical phenomena

P. Silvi, V. Giovannetti, P. Calabrese +2

The multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz is applied to the study of boundary critical phenomena. We compute averages of local operators as a function of the distance from…

hep-ex2009★ 81 cited

A Search for B+ -> tau+ nu Recoiling Against B- -> D0 l- nu X

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present a search for the decay () in pairs recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B-Facto…

physics.plasm-ph2009★ 41 cited

Unlimited Energy Gain in the Laser-Driven Radiation Pressure Dominant Acceleration of Ions

S. V. Bulanov, E. Yu. Echkina, T. Zh. Esirkepov +4

The energy of the ions accelerated by an intense electromagnetic wave in the radiation pressure dominated regime can be greatly enhanced due to a transverse expansion of a thin tar…

nucl-th2009

Electromagnetic processes in a EFT framework

L. Girlanda, S. Pastore, R. Schiavilla +1

Recently, we have derived a two--nucleon potential and consistent nuclear electromagnetic currents in chiral effective field theory with pions and nucleons as explicit degrees of f…

nucl-th2009★ 2 cited

Electromagnetic Structure and Reactions of Few-Nucleon Systems in EFT

L. Girlanda, S. Pastore, R. Schiavilla +1

We summarize our recent work dealing with the construction of the nucleon-nucleon potential and associated electromagnetic currents up to one loop in chiral effective field theory…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 2 cited

Recurrent Novae: Progenitors of SN Ia?

Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, Jean M. Favre +1

We present 3D hydrodynamical simulations of the separated binary RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph), a recurrent nova and potential progenitor of a SN Ia. RS Oph is composed of a red giant (RG)…

math.DS2009★ 10 cited

The entropy of alpha-continued fractions: numerical results

Carlo Carminati, Stefano Marmi, Alessandro Profeti +1

We consider the one-parameter family of interval maps arising from generalized continued fraction expansions known as alpha-continued fractions. For such maps, we perform a numeric…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 12 cited

The spectroscopic evolution of the symbiotic star AG Draconis. I.The O VI Raman, Balmer, and helium emission line variations during the outburst of 2006-2008

S. N. Shore, G. M. Wahlgren, K. Genovali +6

AG Dra is one of a small group of low metallicity S-type symbiotic binaries with K-type giants that undergoes occasional short-term outbursts of unknown origin. Our aim is to study…

q-fin.ST2009★ 2 cited

Homogeneous Volatility Bridge Estimators

Alexander Saichev, Didier Sornette, Vladimir Filimonov +1

We present a theory of homogeneous volatility bridge estimators for log-price stochastic processes. The main tool of our theory is the parsimonious encoding of the information cont…

cond-mat.quant-gas2009★ 25 cited

Tunneling control and localization for Bose-Einstein condensates in a frequency modulated optical lattice

A. Zenesini, H. Lignier, C. Sias +3

The similarity between matter waves in periodic potential and solid-state physics processes has triggered the interest in quantum simulation using Bose-Fermi ultracold gases in opt…

hep-ex2009★ 83 cited

Search for Fermion-Pair Decays $Q\Qbar \to (\t\Wmp)(\tbar\Wpm)$ in Same-Charge Dilepton Events

The CDF Collaboration

We report the most restrictive direct limits on masses of fourth-generation down-type quarks , and quark-like composite fermions ( or ), decaying promptly t…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 72 cited

On a new Near-Infrared method to estimate the absolute ages of star clusters: NGC3201 as a first test case

G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, D. A. VandenBerg +24

We present a new method to estimate the absolute ages of stellar systems. This method is based on the difference in magnitude between the main sequence turn-off (MSTO) and a well d…

math.OC2009

On the characterization of the compact embedding of Sobolev spaces

D. Bucur, G. Buttazzo

For every positive regular Borel measure, possibly infinite valued, vanishing on all sets of -capacity zero, we characterize the compactness of the embedding $W^{1,p}({\bf R}^N)…

physics.ins-det2009★ 95 cited

Readiness of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter for LHC Collisions

The ATLAS Collaboration

The ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter has been operating continuously since August 2006. At this time, only part of the calorimeter was readout, but since the beginning of 2008, all c…