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astro-ph.CO2018★ 12 cited

Observation angles, Fermi coordinates, and the Geodesic-Light-Cone gauge

Giuseppe Fanizza, Maurizio Gasperini, Giovanni Marozzi +1

We show that the angular directions locally measured by a static geodesic observer in a generic cosmological background and expressed in the system of Fermi Normal Coordinates alwa…

hep-lat2018★ 52 cited

Form factors of two-hadron states from a covariant finite-volume formalism

Alessandro Baroni, Raúl A. Briceño, Maxwell T. Hansen +1

In this work we develop a Lorentz-covariant version of the previously derived formalism for relating finite-volume matrix elements to transit…

hep-ex2018★ 16 cited

Properties of at small opening angles in collisions with the ATLAS detector at TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to -quark pairs is a unique probe into the prop…

physics.comp-ph2018

Dynamic Virtualized Deployment of Particle Physics Environments on a High Performance Computing Cluster

Felix Bührer, Frank Fischer, Georg Fleig +11

The NEMO High Performance Computing Cluster at the University of Freiburg has been made available to researchers of the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Users access the cluster from ext…

hep-ph2018★ 2 cited

Supersymmetry, direct and indirect constraints

F. Mahmoudi

We present an overview of direct and indirect constraints in the MSSM, in CP-conserving and CP-violating MSSM scenarios, with some emphasis on the importance of combining the const…

hep-ex2018★ 70 cited

Elastic differential cross-section at 2.76 TeV and implications on the existence of a colourless 3-gluon bound state

TOTEM Collaboration, G. Antchev, P. Aspell +73

The proton-proton elastic differential cross section has been measured by the TOTEM experiment at TeV energy with m beam optics. The…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Development of a Quality Assurance Process for the SoLid Experiment

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, G. Ban +53

The SoLid experiment has been designed to search for an oscillation pattern induced by a light sterile neutrino state, utilising the BR2 reactor of SCKCEN, in Belgium. The…

hep-ex2018★ 83 cited

Elastic differential cross-section measurement at TeV by TOTEM

TOTEM Collaboration, G. Antchev, P. Aspell +74

The TOTEM collaboration has measured the elastic proton-proton differential cross section at TeV LHC energy using dedicated m beam opti…

hep-ph2018★ 30 cited

Symmetry Breaking and Reheating after Inflation in No-Scale Flipped SU(5)

John Ellis, Marcos A. G. Garcia, Natsumi Nagata +2

No-scale supergravity and the flipped SU(5)U(1) gauge group provide an ambitious prototype string-inspired scenario for physics below the string scale, which can accommodat…

hep-ph2018★ 53 cited

Direct Detection of Bound States of Asymmetric Dark Matter

Ahmet Coskuner, Dorota M. Grabowska, Simon Knapen +1

We study the reach of direct detection experiments for large bound states (containing or more dark nucleons) of Asymmetric Dark Matter. We consider ordinary nuclear recoils,…

nucl-ex2018★ 16 cited

decay study of the Mn - Fe - Co - Ni chain

M. Stryjczyk, Y. Tsunoda, I. G. Darby +19

Background: Shell evolution can impact the structure of the nuclei and lead to effects such as shape coexistence. The nuclei around Ni represent an excellent study case, how…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 13 cited

A hydrogen beam to characterize the ASACUSA antihydrogen hyperfine spectrometer

C. Malbrunot, M. Diermaier, M. C. Simon +19

The antihydrogen programme of the ASACUSA collaboration at the antiproton decelerator of CERN focuses on Rabi-type measurements of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydro…

hep-ph2018★ 10 cited

Extraction of the CKM phase using charmless 3-body decays of mesons

Emilie Bertholet, Eli Ben-Haim, Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya +2

The weak phase is extracted from three-body charmless decays of mesons following a method proposed by Bhattacharya, Imbeault \& London. The result is obtained by combining…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 23 cited

Two different origins of the Q-slope problem in superconducting niobium film cavities for a heavy ion accelerator at CERN

A. Miyazaki, W. Venturini Delsolaro

Superconducting niobium film cavities deposited on copper substrates (Nb/Cu) have suffered from strong field-dependent surface resistance, often referred to as the Q-slope problem,…

physics.ins-det2018★ 23 cited

Layout and Assembly Technique of the GEM Chambers for the Upgrade of the CMS First Muon Endcap Station

Aashaq Shah, CMS-Muon Collaboration

Triple-GEM detector technology was recently selected by CMS for a part of the upgrade of its forward muon detector system as GEM detectors provide a stable operation in the high ra…

hep-ph2018★ 19 cited

Collectivity in pp from resummed interference effects?

Boris Blok, Urs Achim Wiedemann

Azimuthal asymmetries in the soft transverse momentum spectra of hadronic collisions can result as a consequence of quantum interference and color flow which translates spati…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 135 cited

Dense matter with eXTP

Anna L. Watts, Wenfei Yu, Juri Poutanen +73

In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extr…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 21 cited

Black hole formation in the context of dissipative dark matter

M. A. Latif, A. Lupi, D. R. G. Schleicher +3

Black holes with masses of dwell in the centers of most galaxies, but their formation mechanisms are not well known. A subdominant dissipative component o…

physics.ins-det2018★ 5 cited

Study of the ecological gas for MRPCs

Yongwook Baek, Dowon Kim, M. C. S. Williams

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) is a gaseous detector; the performance depends very much on the gas mixture as well as the design. MRPCs are used as a timing device in…

physics.ins-det2018★ 4 cited

Technologies for Future Vertex and Tracking Detectors at CLIC

Simon Spannagel

CLIC is a proposed linear collider with center-of-mass energies of up to . Its main objectives are precise top quark and Higgs boson measurements, as…

nucl-ex2018★ 1 cited

The Future of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Facilities

Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus

The plans within the next decade of the high-energy heavy-ion facilities RHIC at BNL and LHC at CERN are reviewed in detail, focusing on the physics programme for $\sqrt{s_{NN}} \g…

hep-lat2018★ 34 cited

Topological susceptibility at from master-field simulations of the SU(3) gauge theory

Leonardo Giusti, Martin Lüscher

The topological susceptibility is computed in the SU(3) gauge theory at temperatures above the critical temperature using master-field simulations of very large lat…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Shashlik calorimeters: novel compact prototypes for the ENUBET experiment

M. Pari, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +50

We summarize in this paper the detector R&D performed in the framework of the ERC ENUBET Project. We discuss in particular the latest results on longitudinally segmented shashlik c…

hep-ex2018★ 39 cited

Search for top-quark decays with 36 fb of collision data at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for flavour-changing neutral current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark () and the Standard Model Higgs boson, , is presented. The search…