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hep-ph2013★ 21 cited

Computation of multi-leg amplitudes with NJet

Simon Badger, Benedikt Biedermann, Peter Uwer +1

In these proceedings we report our progress in the development of the publicly available C++ library NJet for accurate calculations of high-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes. As a p…

physics.ins-det2013★ 5 cited

Luminosity Monitoring in ATLAS with MPX Detectors

Andre Sopczak

The ATLAS-MPX detectors are based on the Medipix2 silicon devices designed by CERN for the detection of multiple types of radiation. Sixteen such detectors were successfully operat…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 17 cited

The effective gravitational decoupling between dark matter and the CMB

Luc Voruz, Julien Lesgourgues, Thomas Tram

We present a detailed and self-contained analytical derivation of the evolution of sub-horizon cosmological perturbations before decoupling, based on previous work by S. Weinberg.…

physics.ins-det2013★ 23 cited

The performance of the LHCf detector for hadronic showers

K. Kawade, O. Adriani, L. Bonechi +24

The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment has been designed to use the LHC to benchmark the hadronic interaction models used in cosmic-ray physics. The LHCf experiment me…

physics.ins-det2013★ 3 cited

Vertex-Detector R&D for CLIC

Dominik Dannheim

A detector concept based on hybrid planar pixel-detector technology is under development for the CLIC vertex detector. It comprises fast, low-power and small-pitch readout ASICs im…

hep-th2013★ 29 cited

On Moduli Spaces in Supergravity

Senarath de Alwis, Jan Louis, Liam McAllister +2

We study the structure of the supersymmetric moduli spaces of and supergravity theories in backgrounds. In the case, the moduli space…

hep-ph2013★ 24 cited

How (non-) linear is the hydrodynamics of heavy ion collisions?

Stefan Floerchinger, Urs Achim Wiedemann, Andrea Beraudo +3

We provide evidence from full numerical solutions that the hydrodynamical evolution of initial density fluctuations in heavy ion collisions can be understood order-by-order in a pe…

hep-ph2013★ 14 cited

Supersymmetric Fits after the Higgs Discovery and Implications for Model Building

John Ellis

The data from the first run of the LHC at 7 and 8 TeV, together with the information provided by other experiments such as precision electroweak measurements, flavour measurements,…

hep-ph2013★ 108 cited

On the LHCb anomaly in B -> K* l+ l-

T. Hurth, F. Mahmoudi

The latest LHCb angular analysis of the rare decay B -> K* mu+ mu- shows some discrepancies from the SM up to the 3.7 sigma level. There is a consistent new physics explanation of…

hep-ph2013★ 99 cited

The CMSSM and NUHM1 after LHC Run 1

O. Buchmueller, R. Cavanaugh, A. De Roeck +12

We analyze the impact of data from the full Run 1 of the LHC at 7 and 8 TeV on the CMSSM with mu > 0 and < 0 and the NUHM1 with mu > 0, incorporating the constraints imposed by oth…

hep-ph2013★ 82 cited

Implications of Improved Higgs Mass Calculations for Supersymmetric Models

O. Buchmueller, M. J. Dolan, J. Ellis +8

We discuss the allowed parameter spaces of supersymmetric scenarios in light of improved Higgs mass predictions provided by FeynHiggs 2.10.0. The Higgs mass predictions combine Fey…

hep-ph2013★ 3 cited

Neutrinos in the Early Universe, Kalb-Ramond Torsion and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry

Nick E. Mavromatos, Sarben Sarkar

The generation of a matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe may be induced by the propagation of fermions in non-trivial, spherically asymmetric (and hence Lorentz violating) g…

gr-qc2013★ 45 cited

Starobinsky-type Inflation in Dynamical Supergravity Breaking Scenarios

Jean Alexandre, Nick Houston, Nick E. Mavromatos

In the context of dynamical breaking of local supersymmetry (supergravity), including the Deser-Zumino super-Higgs effect, for the simple but quite representative cases of N=1, D=4…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 6 cited

Potential of LOFT telescope for the search of dark matter

A. Neronov, A. Boyarsky, D. Iakubovskyi +1

Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) is a next generation X-ray telescope selected by European Space Agency as one of the space mission concepts within the ``Cosmic Vision'' p…

hep-ph2013★ 72 cited

Probing new physics in diphoton production with proton tagging at the Large Hadron Collider

S. Fichet, G. von Gersdorff, O. Kepka +3

The sensitivities to anomalous quartic photon couplings at the Large Hadron Collider are estimated using diphoton production via photon fusion. The tagging of the protons proves to…

hep-th2013★ 11 cited

No-hair conjectures, primordial shear and protoinflationary initial conditions

Massimo Giovannini

Anisotropic inflationary background geometries are analyzed in the context of an extended gauge action where the electric and magnetic susceptibilities are not bound to coincide an…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 16 cited

Rescuing Quadratic Inflation

John Ellis, Malcolm Fairbairn, Maria Sueiro

Inflationary models based on a single scalar field with a quadratic potential are disfavoured by the recent Planck constraints on the scalar index, $n…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 30 cited

The H.E.S.S. central data acquisition system

A. Balzer, M. Füßling, M. Gajdus +6

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located in the Khomas Highland in Namibia. It measures cosmic gamma r…

physics.gen-ph2013★ 4 cited

A New Approach to the Yang-Mills Gauge Theory of Gravity and its Applications

Yi Yang, Wai Bong Yeung

We shall give dynamics to our spacetime manifold by first identifying the local affine symmetry as the characterizing symmetry for our geometry a'la Felix Klein, this symmetry is i…

physics.ins-det2013★ 26 cited

X-ray detection with Micromegas with background levels below 10 keVcms

S. Aune, F. Aznar, D. Calvet +26

Micromegas detectors are an optimum technological choice for the detection of low energy x-rays. The low background techniques applied to these detectors yielded remarkable backgro…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 4 cited

Possible Contribution to Electron and Positron Fluxes from Pulsars and their Nebulae

S Della Torre, M Gervasi, PG Rancoita +2

The AMS-02 experiment confirms the excess of positrons in cosmic rays (CRs) for energy above 10 GeV with respect to the secondary production of positrons in the interstellar medium…

hep-ex2013★ 11 cited

Report of the Quark Flavor Physics Working Group

J. N. Butler, Z. Ligeti, J. L. Ritchie +81

This report represents the response of the Intensity Frontier Quark Flavor Physics Working Group to the Snowmass charge. We summarize the current status of quark flavor physics and…

hep-ex2013★ 19 cited

Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in WWbb events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is presented for new particles in an extension to the Standard Model that includes a heavy Higgs boson H0, an intermediate charged Higgs boson pair H+-, and a light Higgs…

hep-ex2013

Jet Production Measurements at CMS

Sanmay Ganguly

Jet production cross-section measurements are presented. The measurements are done with the data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton-proton collisions, collected with the Compa…