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hep-ex2008★ 25 cited

Search for anomalous top quark couplings with the D0 detector

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

Anomalous Wtb couplings modify the angular correlations of the top quark decay products and change the single top quark production cross section. We present limits on anomalous top…

astro-ph.GA2008★ 31 cited

Mid-infrared imaging of 25 local AGN with VLT-VISIR

Hannes Horst, Wolfgang J. Duschl, Poshak Gandhi +1

Aims. High angular resolution N-band imaging is used to discern the torus of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from its environment in order to allow a comparison of its mid-infrared pr…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

High Accuracy Near-infrared Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS

D. Batcheldor, G. Schneider, D. C. Hines +5

The findings of a nine orbit calibration plan carried out during HST Cycle 15, to fully determine the NICMOS camera 2 (2.0 micron) polarization calibration to high accuracy, are re…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

Constraints on Dark Energy from the Observed Expansion of our Cosmic Horizon

Fulvio Melia

Within the context of standard cosmology, an accelerating universe requires the presence of a third `dark' component of energy, beyond matter and radiation. The available data, how…

quant-ph2008★ 74 cited

An electron Talbot interferometer

Benjamin J. McMorran, Alexander D. Cronin

The Talbot effect, in which a wave imprinted with transverse periodicity reconstructs itself at regular intervals, is a diffraction phenomenon that occurs in many physical systems.…

hep-lat2008★ 17 cited

Electromagnetic splittings of hadrons from improved staggered quarks in full QCD

S. Basak, A. Bazavov, C. Bernard +10

We present our initial study of the electromagnetic splittings of charged and neutral mesons, and the violation of Dashen's theorem. Hadron masses are calculated on MILC N_f=2+1 QC…

math.AG2008★ 4 cited

Genus-One Stable Maps, Local Equations, and Vakil-Zinger's desingularization

Yi Hu, Jun Li

We describe an algebro-geometric approach to Vakil-Zinger's desingularization of the main component of the moduli of genus one stable maps to projective space. The new approach pro…

astro-ph2008★ 12 cited

Time evolution of Wouthuysen-Field coupling

I. Roy, W. Xu, J. -M. Qiu +2

We study the Wouthuysen-Field coupling at early universe with numerical solutions of the integrodifferential equation describing the kinetics of photons undergoing resonant scatter…

astro-ph2008★ 143 cited

Shattering and coagulation of dust grains in interstellar turbulence

Hiroyuki Hirashita, Huirong Yan

We investigate shattering and coagulation of dust grains in turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). The typical velocity of dust grain as a function of grain size has been calculated…

hep-th2008★ 2 cited

New Non-Trivial Vacuum Structures in Supersymmetric Field Theories

Keith R. Dienes, Brooks Thomas

In this talk, we present three examples of new non-trivial vacuum structures that can occur in supersymmetric field theories, along with explicit models in which they arise. The fi…

astro-ph2008★ 100 cited

Determination of the minimum masses of heavy elements in the envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn

Olivier Mousis, Ulysse Marboeuf, Jonathan I. Lunine +5

We calculate the minimum mass of heavy elements required in the envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn to match the observed oversolar abundances of volatiles. Because the clathration eff…

astro-ph2008★ 52 cited

A spatially resolved study of photoelectric heating and [CII] cooling in the LMC

D. Rubin, S. Hony, S. C. Madden +20

(abridged) We study photoelectric heating throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud. We quantify the importance of the [CII] cooling line and the photoelectric heating process of vario…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

Infrared Emission by Dust Around lambda Bootis Stars: Debris Disks or Thermally Emitting Nebulae?

J. R. Martínez-Galarza, I. Kamp, K. Y. L. Su +3

We present a model that describes stellar infrared excesses due to heating of the interstellar (IS) dust by a hot star passing through a diffuse IS cloud. This model is applied to…

hep-ph2008★ 6 cited

h-> mu^+ mu^- via tth Production at the LHC

Shufang Su, Brooks Thomas

In this work, we examine the process at the LHC in which a Higgs boson is produced in association with a t t-bar pair and subsequently decays to a pair of muons. We show that the s…

astro-ph2008★ 52 cited

The Young, Massive, Star Cluster Sandage-96 After the Explosion of SN 2004dj in NGC 2403

J. Vinko, K. Sarneczky, Z. Balog +12

The bright Type II-plateau supernova (SN) 2004dj occurred within the young, massive stellar cluster Sandage-96 in a spiral arm of NGC 2403. New multi-wavelength observations obtain…

nlin.SI2008★ 96 cited

Nonlinear Euler buckling

Alain Goriely, Rebecca Vandiver, Michel Destrade

The buckling of hyperelastic incompressible cylindrical tubes of arbitrary length and thickness under compressive axial load is considered within the framework of nonlinear elastic…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Stellar Age Estimation from ~3 Myr to ~3 Gyr

Lynne Hillenbrand, Eric Mamajek, John Stauffer +3

We present recent progress on quantitative estimation of stellar ages using ind icators such as theoretical evolutionary tracks, rotation, rotation-driven chrom ospheric and corona…

astro-ph2008★ 19 cited

Alternative Data Reduction Procedures for UVES: Wavelength Calibration and Spectrum Addition

Rodger I. Thompson, Jill Bechtold, John H. Black +1

This paper addresses alternative procedures to the ESO supplied pipeline procedures for the reduction of UVES spectra of two quasar spectra to determine the value of the fundamenta…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

Spitzer observations of extended Lyman-alpha Clouds in the SSA22 field

T. M. A. Webb, T. Yamada, J. -S. Huang +5

We present the results of a Spitzer IRAC and MIPS 24 micron study of extended Lyman-alpha clouds (or Lyman-alpha Blobs, LABs) within the SSA22 filamentary structure at z = 3.09. We…

cond-mat.mes-hall2008★ 103 cited

Many-body theory of electronic transport in single-molecule heterojunctions

J. P. Bergfield, C. A. Stafford

A many-body theory of molecular junction transport based on nonequilibrium Green's functions is developed, which treats coherent quantum effects and Coulomb interactions on an equa…

astro-ph2008★ 70 cited

The IR Luminosity Functions of Rich Clusters

Lei Bai, George H. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke +2

We present MIPS observations of the cluster A3266. About 100 spectroscopic cluster members have been detected at 24 micron. The IR luminosity function in A3266 is very similar to t…

astro-ph2008★ 107 cited

The spatial clustering of X-ray selected AGN in the XMM-COSMOS field

R. Gilli, G. Zamorani, T. Miyaji +70

We study the spatial clustering of 538 X-ray selected AGN in the 2 deg^2 XMM-COSMOS field that are spectroscopically identified to I_{AB}<23 and span the redshift range z=0.2-3.0.…

hep-ph2008★ 6 cited

Renormalization Group Equation and QCD Coupling Constant in the Presence of SU(3) Chromo-Electric Field

Gouranga C Nayak

We solve renormalization group equation in QCD in the presence of SU(3) constant chromo-electric field E^a with arbitrary color index a=1,2,...8 and find that the QCD coupling cons…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

The very short supersoft X-ray state of the classical nova M31N 2007-11a

M. Henze, W. Pietsch, G. Sala +9

Short supersoft X-ray source (SSS) states (durations < 100 days) of classical novae (CNe) indicate massive white dwarfs that are candidate progenitors of supernovae type Ia. We car…