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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…

astro-ph.SR2011

Two Remarkable Spectroscopic Categories of Young O Stars from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Nolan R. Walborn, Hugues Sana, William D. Taylor +2

The spectral and spatial characteristics of two special categories of O stars found in the VFTS dataset are presented. One of them comprises very rapid rotators, including several…

hep-lat2011★ 9 cited

B and D meson decay constants from 2+1 flavor improved staggered simulations

E. T. Neil, Jon A. Bailey, A. Bazavov +21

We give an update on simulation results for the decay constants f_B, f_{B_s}, f_D and f_{D_s}. These decay constants are important for precision tests of the standard model, in par…

hep-lat2011★ 199 cited

B- and D-meson decay constants from three-flavor lattice QCD

A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, C. M. Bouchard +20

We calculate the leptonic decay constants of B_{(s)} and D_{(s)} mesons in lattice QCD using staggered light quarks and Fermilab bottom and charm quarks. We compute the heavy-light…

physics.optics2011★ 150 cited

Three-dimensional mid-infrared photonic circuits in chalcogenide glass

Airan Rodenas, Guillermo Martin, Brahim Arezki +7

We report the fabrication of single mode buried channel waveguides for the whole mid-infrared transparency range of chalcogenide sulphide glasses by means of direct laser writing.…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 136 cited

Thermal desorption characteristics of CO, O2 and CO2 on non-porous water, crystalline water and silicate surfaces at sub-monolayer and multilayer coverages

J. A. Noble, E. Congiu, F. Dulieu +1

The desorption characteristics of molecules on interstellar dust grains are important for modelling the behaviour of molecules in icy mantles and, critically, in describing the sol…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 65 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: The fastest rotating O-type star and shortest period LMC pulsar - remnants of a supernova disrupted binary?

P. L. Dufton, P. R. Dunstall, C. J. Evans +12

We present a spectroscopic analysis of an extremely rapidly rotating late O-type star, VFTS102, observed during a spectroscopic survey of 30 Doradus. VFTS102 has a projected rotati…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 36 cited

The impact of high spatial frequency atmospheric distortions on weak lensing measurements

Catherine Heymans, Barnaby Rowe, Henk Hoekstra +4

High precision cosmology with weak gravitational lensing requires a precise measure of the Point Spread Function across the imaging data where the accuracy to which high spatial fr…

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…

hep-ex2011★ 106 cited

Observation of a new chi_b state in radiative transitions to Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S) at ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

The chi_b(nP) quarkonium states are produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS detector. Using a data samp…

hep-ex2011★ 42 cited

Measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper reports a measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Th…

hep-ex2011★ 85 cited

Search for scalar bottom pair production with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for pair production of the scalar partners of bottom quarks in 2.05 fb^-1 of pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV using the ATLAS experiment are reported. Scala…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 10 cited

Spitzer IRAC identification of Herschel-ATLAS SPIRE sources

Sam Kim, Julie L. Wardlow, Asantha Cooray +28

We use spitzer-IRAC data to identify near-infrared counterparts to submillimeter galaxies detected with Herschel-SPIRE at 250um in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area S…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 262 cited

The stellar and sub-stellar IMF of simple and composite populations

Pavel Kroupa, Carsten Weidner, Jan Pflamm-Altenburg +4

The current knowledge on the stellar IMF is documented. It appears to become top-heavy when the star-formation rate density surpasses about 0.1Msun/(yr pc^3) on a pc scale and it m…

hep-ex2011★ 57 cited

Search for the Higgs boson in the H->WW(*)->lvlv decay channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for the Higgs boson has been performed in the H->WW->lvlv channel (l=e/mu) with an integrated luminosity of 2.05/fb of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected with the…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 8 cited

UCAC3 Proper Motion Survey. II. Discovery Of New Proper Motion Stars In UCAC3 With 0.40" yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18" yr^-1 Between Declinations -47 deg and 00 deg

C. T. Finch, N. Zacharias, M. R. Boyd +2

We present 474 new proper motion stellar systems in the southern sky having no previously known components, with 0.40" yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18" yr^-1 between declinations -47 deg and 00…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 4 cited

GHz bandwidth electro-optics of a single self-assembled quantum dot in a charge-tunable device

Jonathan H. Prechtel, Paul A. Dalgarno, Robert H. Hadfield +4

The response of a single InGaAs quantum dot, embedded in a miniaturized charge-tunable device, to an applied GHz bandwidth electrical pulse is investigated via its optical response…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 22 cited

Plasma diagnostic in eruptive prominences from SDO/AIA observations at 304 Å

Nicolas Labrosse, Kristopher McGlinchey

Context. Theoretical calculations have shown that when solar prominences move away from the surface of the Sun, their radiative output is affected via the Doppler dimming or bright…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 39 cited

Convergence of SPH simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs: Sensitivity to the implementation of radiative cooling

W. K. M. Rice, D. H. Forgan, P. J. Armitage

Recent simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs, carried out using a three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code by Meru and Bate, have been interpreted as…

hep-ex2011★ 48 cited

Measurement of the production cross section for Z/gamma* in association with jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Results are presented on the production of jets of particles in association with a Z/gamma* boson, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The analy…

hep-ph2011★ 44 cited

Top polarisation studies in and production

Rohini M. Godbole, Lisa Hartgring, Irene Niessen +1

The polarisation of top quarks produced in high energy processes can be a very sensitive probe of physics beyond the Standard Model. The kinematical distributions of the decay prod…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 49 cited

Mapping spin-polarised transitions with atomic resolution

Peter Schattschneider, Bernhard Schaffer, Inga Ennen +1

The coupling between Angstrom-sized electron probes and spin polarised electronic transitions shows that the inelastically scattered probe is in a mixed state containing electron v…

cond-mat.quant-gas2011★ 866 cited

Light-cone-like spreading of correlations in a quantum many-body system

Marc Cheneau, Peter Barmettler, Dario Poletti +7

How fast can correlations spread in a quantum many-body system? Based on the seminal work by Lieb and Robinson, it has recently been shown that several interacting many-body system…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 57 cited

Discovery of a Be/X-ray pulsar binary and associated supernova remnant in the Wing of the SMC

V. Hénault-Brunet, L. M. Oskinova, M. A. Guerrero +6

We report on a new Be/X-ray pulsar binary located in the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The strong pulsed X-ray source was discovered with the Chandra and XMM-Newton X-r…