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hep-th2003★ 120 cited

Remarks on Tachyon Driven Cosmology

Ashoke Sen

We begin by reviewing the results on the decay of unstable D-branes in type II string theory, and the open-closed string duality proposal that arises from these studies. We then ap…

hep-ex2003★ 11 cited

Bose-Einstein correlations in one and two dimensions in deep inelastic scattering

ZEUS Collaboration

Bose-Einstein correlations in one and two dimensions have been studied in deep inelastic EP scattering events measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity…

hep-ex2003★ 14 cited

Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B Meson Decays to Charmless Two-Body States Containing a K0

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

We present measurements of branching fractions and \CP-violating asymmetries in decays of mesons to two-body final states containing a \Kz. The results are based on a data samp…

hep-ex2003★ 14 cited

Isolated tau leptons in events with large missing transverse momentum at HERA

ZEUS collaboration

A search for events containing isolated tau leptons and large missing transverse momentum, not originating from the tau decay, has been performed with the ZEUS detector at the elec…

astro-ph2003★ 14 cited

ACS Observations of a Strongly Lensed Arc in a Field Elliptical

J. P. Blakeslee, K. C. Zekser, N. Benitez +15

We report the discovery of a strongly lensed arc system around a field elliptical galaxy in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images of a parallel fiel…

hep-ex2003★ 4 cited

Measurement of the Branching Fraction for B- --> D0 K*-

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0 K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector from e+e- coll…

astro-ph2003★ 97 cited

On the Surface Heating of Synchronously-Spinning Short-Period Jovian Planets

Andreas Burkert, Douglas Lin, Peter Bodenheimer +2

We consider the atmospheric flow on short-period extra-solar planets through two-dimensional numerical simulations of hydrodynamics with radiation transfer. One side is always expo…

astro-ph2003★ 87 cited

On the C and N Abundances of 47 Tucanae Main Sequence Stars

Michael M. Briley, Daniel Harbeck, Graeme H. Smith +1

We report the results of an analysis of CN and CH band strengths among a large sample of 47 Tucanae main-sequence and turn-off stars presented earlier by Harbeck et al. The resulti…

astro-ph2003★ 26 cited

Keck Spectroscopy and Imaging of Globular Clusters in the Lenticular Galaxy NGC 524

Michael A. Beasley, Duncan A. Forbes, Jean P. Brodie +1

We have obtained Keck LRIS imaging and spectra for 29 globular clusters associated with the lenticular galaxy NGC 524. Using the empirical calibration of Brodie & Huchra we find th…

cond-mat.dis-nn2003★ 52 cited

Aging Dynamics of the Heisenberg Spin Glass

L. Berthier, A. P. Young

We numerically study the non-equilibrium dynamics of the three dimensional Heisenberg Edwards-Anderson spin glass following a sudden quench to its low temperature phase. The subseq…

astro-ph2003★ 82 cited

The detailed Fundamental Plane of two high redshift clusters: MS 2053-04 at z=0.58 and MS 1054-03 at z=0.83

Stijn Wuyts, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Daniel D. Kelson +2

We study the fundamental plane relation in high redshift clusters using a sample of 26 galaxies in MS 2053-04 (z=0.583) and 22 galaxies in MS 1054-03 (z=0.83). The zeropoint and sc…

astro-ph2003★ 29 cited

Star Formation and Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies

Shawfeng Dong, D. N. C. Lin, S. D. Murray

We examine the star formation history and stellar feedback effects of dwarf galaxies under the influence of extragalactic ultraviolet radiation. We consider the dynamical evolution…

astro-ph2003★ 91 cited

A comprehensive set of elemental abundances in damped Ly-alpha systems: revealing the nature of these high-redshift galaxies

M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, F. Calura, J. X. Prochaska +2

By combining our UVES-VLT spectra of a sample of four damped Ly-alpha systems (DLAs) toward the quasars Q0100+13, Q1331+17, Q2231-00 and Q2343+12 with the existing HIRES-Keck spect…

astro-ph2003★ 984 cited

Towards a Deterministic Model of Planetary Formation I: a Desert in the Mass and Semi Major Axis Distributions of Extra Solar Planets

S. Ida, D. N. C. Lin

We examine the accretion of cores of giant planets from planetesimals, gas accretion onto the cores, and their orbital migration. We adopt a working model for nascent protostellar…

hep-ex2003★ 25 cited

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries in B+ --> rho+pi0 and B+ -->rho0pi+ Decays, and Search for B0 --> rho0pi0

B. Aubert

We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries in -meson decays to , and . The data sample comprises $Υ(4S)…

math.DS2003

Non-contractible periodic orbits of Hamiltonian flows on twisted cotangent bundles

Cesar J. Niche

For many classes of symplectic manifolds, the Hamiltonian flow of a function with sufficiently large variation must have a fast periodic orbit. This principle is the base of the no…

hep-ph2003★ 22 cited

Lepton-flavor mixing and decays

Yuval Grossman, Gino Isidori, Hitoshi Murayama

The impact of possible sources of lepton-flavor mixing on decays is analysed. At the one-loop level lepton-flavor mixing originated from non-diagonal lepton mass ma…

astro-ph2003★ 35 cited

Very Isolated Early-Type Galaxies

J. T. Stocke, B. A. Keeney, A. D. Lewis +2

We use the Karachentseva (1973) ``Catalogue of Very Isolated Galaxies'' to investigate a candidate list of >100 very isolated early-type galaxies. Broad-band imaging and low resolu…

astro-ph2003★ 189 cited

The Chemical Composition Contrast between M3 and M13 Revisited: New Abundances for 28 Giant Stars in M3

Christopher Sneden, Robert P. Kraft, Puragra Guhathakurta +2

We report new chemical abundances of 23 bright red giants of the globular cluster M3, based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the Keck I telescope. Combining these data with…

hep-ex2003★ 96 cited

Measurements of the mass and width of the eta_c meson and of an eta_c(2S) candidate

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

The mass and total width of the eta_c meson have been measured in two-photon interactions at the SLAC asymmetric B-Factory with the BABAR detector. With a sample of approximately 2…

hep-ex2003★ 17 cited

Measurement of the branching fractions and CP-asymmetry of B^- -> D^0_(CP) K^- decays with the BaBar detector

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

We present a study of B- -> D^0_CP K^- decays, where D^0_CP is reconstructed in CP-even channels, based on a sample of 88.8 million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the BaB…

astro-ph2003★ 10 cited

Discovery of Globular Clusters in the Proto-Spiral NGC2915: Implications for Hierarchical Galaxy Evolution

G. R. Meurer, J. P. Blakeslee, M. Sirianni +30

We have discovered three globular clusters beyond the Holmberg radius in Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys images of the gas-rich dark matter dominated blue compac…

hep-ph2003★ 36 cited

Interpreting the time-dependent CP asymmetry in

Michael Gronau, Yuval Grossman, Jonathan L. Rosner

Flavor SU(3) is used for studying the time-dependent CP asymmetry in by relating this process to and . We calculate correlated bou…

hep-ex2003★ 31 cited

Observation of the Decay B0 => rho+ rho- and Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Polarization

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We have observed the rare decay B0 => rho+ rho- in a sample of 89 million BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. The number of observed events is 88 +23-21 +-9, with a signific…