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hep-ex2011★ 1 cited

Performance Study for a Muon Forward Tracker in the ALICE Experiment

Antonio Uras

ALICE is the experiment dedicated to the study of the quark gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. Improvements of ALICE sub-detectors are envisaged for the upgrade…

hep-ex2011★ 448 cited

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass en…

hep-lat2011

M_b and f_B from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET with Nf=2 light quarks

Benoît Blossier, John Bulava, Michele Della Morte +7

We present an updated analysis of the non-perturbatively renormalized b-quark mass and B meson decay constant based on CLS lattices with two dynamical non-perturbatively improved W…

nucl-ex2011★ 38 cited

Q-Value and Half-Lives for the Double-Beta-Decay Nuclide 110Pd

D. Fink, J. Barea, D. Beck +17

The 110Pd double-beta decay Q-value was measured with the Penning-trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP to be Q = 2017.85(64) keV. This value shifted by 14 keV compared to the literature…

hep-ex2011★ 42 cited

Measurement of mixing and CP violation parameters in two-body charm decays

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +585

A study of mixing and indirect CP violation in D0 mesons through the determination of the parameters y_CP and A_Γ is presented. The parameter y_CP is the deviation from unity of th…

hep-ex2011★ 53 cited

Measurement of charged particle multiplicities in collisions at TeV in the forward region

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +589

The charged particle production in proton-proton collisions is studied with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV in different intervals of pseudorapid…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 1 cited

Solar flares as harbinger of new physics

K. Zioutas, M. Tsagri, Y. Semertzidis +4

This work provides additional evidence on the involvement of exotic particles like axions and/or other WISPs, following recent measurements during the quietest Sun and flaring Sun.…

hep-ph2011★ 1 cited

Status of CMS dark matter searches in 2011

Sezen Sekmen

We present the status of dark matter searches performed by the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment using 7 TeV pp data collected by the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2010 and 2011. Th…

physics.acc-ph2011★ 9 cited

RF gymnastics in synchrotrons

R. Garoby

The RF systems installed in synchrotrons can be used to change the longitudinal beam characteristics. 'RF gymnastics' designates manipulations of the RF parameters aimed at providi…

hep-ph2011★ 551 cited

Higgs mass implications on the stability of the electroweak vacuum

Joan Elias-Miro, Jose R. Espinosa, Gian F. Giudice +3

We update instability and metastability bounds of the Standard Model electroweak vacuum in view of the recent ATLAS and CMS Higgs results. For a Higgs mass in the range 124--126 Ge…

hep-ex2011★ 26 cited

Measurement of ZZ production in leptonic final states at {\surd}s of 1.96 TeV at CDF

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +512

In this paper we present a precise measurement of the total ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at {\surd}s= 1.96 TeV, using data collected with the CDF II detector corres…

hep-ex2011

W/Z and diboson production at hadron colliders

Sara Bolognesi

A general review of the latest results about single and double vector boson production in the multipurpose experiments at LHC (ATLAS and CMS) and at Tevatron (CDF and D0) will be p…

hep-ex2011★ 1 cited

Overview of the CKM Matrix

Tim Gershon

The current status of the determination of the elements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark-mixing matrix is reviewed. Tensions in the global fits are highlighted. Particular at…

hep-ex2011★ 47 cited

Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase beta_s in B0s -> J/Psi Phi Decays with the CDF II Detector

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a measurement of the \CP-violating parameter \betas using approximately 6500 $\BsJpsiPhi$ decays reconstructed with the CDF\,II detector in a sample of collisi…

hep-ph2011★ 9 cited

Invariants, Alignment and the Pattern of Fermion Masses and Mixing

G. C. Branco, J. I. Silva-Marcos

We show that the main features of the pattern of fermion masses and mixing can be expressed in terms of simple relations among weak-basis invariants. In the quark sector, we identi…

hep-ex2011★ 5 cited

Search for new phenomena in events with two bosons and missing transverse momentum in collisions at TeV

T. Aaltonen, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, S. Amerio +512

We present a search for new phenomena in events with two reconstructed bosons and large missing transverse momentum, sensitive to processes $p\bar{p}\rightarrow X_2X_2 \rightar…

hep-lat2011

Progress on Excited Hadrons in Lattice QCD

John Bulava

The study of excited hadron spectra using Lattice QCD is currently evolving. An important step toward obtaining resonance parameters from Lattice QCD is the calculation of finite v…

physics.space-ph2011★ 5 cited

Nuclear and Non-Ionizing Energy-loss of Electrons with Low and Relativistic Energies in Materials and Space Environment

M. J. Boschini, C. Consolandi, M. Gervasi +7

The treatment of the electron-nucleus interaction based on the Mott differential cross section was extended to account for effects due to screened Coulomb potentials, finite sizes…

hep-ex2011★ 4 cited

Revisiting the 'LSND anomaly' II: critique of the data analysis

A. Bolshakova, I. Boyko, G. Chelkov +19

This paper, together with a preceding paper, questions the so-called 'LSND anomaly': a 3.8 sigma excess of antielectronneutrino interactions over standard backgrounds, observed by…

hep-ph2011★ 36 cited

Phenomenology and Cosmology of an Electroweak Pseudo-Dilaton and Electroweak Baryons

Bruce A. Campbell, John Ellis, Keith A. Olive

In many strongly-interacting models of electroweak symmetry breaking the lowest-lying observable particle is a pseudo-Goldstone boson of approximate scale symmetry, the pseudo-dila…

nucl-ex2011★ 4 cited

Single-particle isomeric states in 121Pd and 117Ru

S. Lalkovski, A. M. Bruce, A. M. Denis Bacelar +30

Neutron-rich nuclei were populated in a relativistic fission of 238U. Gamma-rays with energies of 135 keV and 184 keV were associated with two isomeric states in 121Pd and 117Ru. H…

hep-ex2011★ 8 cited

Results from the first heavy ion run at the LHC

J. Schukraft

Early November 2010, the LHC collided for the first time heavy ions, Pb on Pb, at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV/nucleon. This date marked both the end of almost 20 years of p…

hep-ph2011★ 53 cited

Forward Jets and Energy Flow in Hadronic Collisions

M. Deak, F. Hautmann, H. Jung +1

We observe that at the Large Hadron Collider, using forward + central detectors, it becomes possible for the first time to carry out calorimetric measurements of the transverse ene…

hep-ex2011★ 215 cited

Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Inclusive jet and dijet cross sections have been measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The…