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gr-qc2008★ 87 cited

Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology: A Brief Overview

Abhay Ashtekar

A brief summary of the singularity resolution in loop quantum cosmology of homogeneous isotropic models is presented. The article is addressed to relativists who do not specialize…

cond-mat.stat-mech2008★ 8 cited

Applicability and non-applicability of equilibrium statistical mechanics to non-thermal damage phenomena: II. Spinodal behavior

S. G. Abaimov

This paper investigates the spinodal behavior of non-thermal damage phenomena. As an example, a non-thermal fiber-bundle model with the global uniform (meanfield) load sharing is c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 25 cited

Tuning magnetic frustration of nanomagnets in triangular-lattice geometry

Xianglin Ke, Jie Li, Sheng Zhang +3

We study the configuration of magnetic moments on triangular lattices of single-domain ferromagnetic islands, examining the consequences of magnetostatic interactions in this frust…

astro-ph2008★ 7 cited

Search for Primordial Black Holes with SGARFACE

M. Schroedter, F. Krennrich, S. LeBohec +7

The Short GAmma Ray Front Air Cherenkov Experiment (SGARFACE) uses the Whipple 10 m telescope to search for bursts of rays. SGARFACE is sensitive to bursts with duration from a…

hep-ex2008★ 196 cited

Measurement of D+- and D0 production in deep inelastic scattering using a lifetime tag at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, S. Chekanov

The production of D+- and D0 mesons has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 133.6 pb-1. The measurements cover the kinematic range 5 < Q^…

hep-ex2008

Diffraction at TOTEM

G. Antchev, P. Aspell, V. Avati +72

The TOTEM experiment at the LHC measures the total proton-proton cross section with the luminosity-independent method and the elastic proton-proton cross-section over a wide |t|-ra…

hep-th2008★ 26 cited

Cyclic Inflation

Tirthabir Biswas, Stephon Alexander

We present an inflationary model that is geodesically complete and does not suffer from the transplanckian problem. In most inflationary models, massless (conformal) scalar field f…

astro-ph2008★ 36 cited

Black Hole Spins of Radio Sources

Ruth A. Daly

A new approach to constraining or determining the spin of a massive black hole is proposed. A key parameter in the analysis is the dimensionless ratio, r, of the energy released to…

hep-ex2008★ 9 cited

Subjet distributions in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration, S. Chekanov

Subjet distributions were measured in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.7 pb-1. Jets were identified…

astro-ph2008★ 834 cited

Constraints on a phenomenologically parameterized neutron-star equation of state

Jocelyn S. Read, Benjamin D. Lackey, Benjamin J. Owen +1

We introduce a parameterized high-density equation of state (EOS) in order to systematize the study of constraints placed by astrophysical observations on the nature of neutron-sta…

cs.CC2008

A Factor 3/2 Approximation for Generalized Steiner Tree Problem with Distances One and Two

Piotr Berman, Marek Karpinski, Alex Zelikovsky

We design a 3/2 approximation algorithm for the Generalized Steiner Tree problem (GST) in metrics with distances 1 and 2. This is the first polynomial time approximation algorithm…

hep-ph2008★ 7 cited

On the shape of a rapid hadron in QCD

B. Blok, L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman

We visualize the fundamental property of pQCD: the smaller size of the colorless quark-gluon configurations leads to a more rapid increase of its interaction with energy. Within th…

astro-ph2008★ 52 cited

The Young, Massive, Star Cluster Sandage-96 After the Explosion of SN 2004dj in NGC 2403

J. Vinko, K. Sarneczky, Z. Balog +12

The bright Type II-plateau supernova (SN) 2004dj occurred within the young, massive stellar cluster Sandage-96 in a spiral arm of NGC 2403. New multi-wavelength observations obtain…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 8 cited

Structures and topological transitions of hydrocarbon films on quasicrystalline surfaces

Wahyu Setyawan, Renee D. Diehl, Stefano Curtarolo

Lubricants can affect quasicrystalline coatings surfaces by modifying commensurability of the interfaces. We report results of the first computer simulation studies of physically a…

physics.optics2008★ 11 cited

On the inapplicability of a negative-phase-velocity condition as a negative-refraction condition for active materials

A. Lakhtakia, T. G. Mackay, J. B. Geddes

A negative-phase-velocity condition derived by Depine and Lakhtakia [Microwave Opt Technol Lett 41 (2004) 315] for isotropic, homogeneous, passive, dielectric-magnetic materials is…

astro-ph2008★ 60 cited

Discovery of Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Radiation from the BL Lac 1ES 0806+524

VERITAS Collaboration, V. Acciari, E. Aliu +90

The high-frequency-peaked BL-Lacertae object \objectname{1ES 0806+524}, at redshift z=0.138, was observed in the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray regime by VERITAS between November…

astro-ph2008★ 310 cited

Jet breaks and Energetics of Swift GRB X-ray Afterglows

J. L. Racusin, E. W. Liang, D. N. Burrows +6

We present a systematic temporal and spectral study of all Swift-XRT observations of GRB afterglows discovered between 2005 January and 2007 December. After constructing and fittin…

hep-ex2008★ 43 cited

Measurement of charged current deep inelastic scattering cross sections with a longitudinally polarised electron beam at HERA

ZEUS Collaboration

Measurements of the cross sections for charged current deep inelastic scattering in e-p collisions with longitudinally polarised electron beams are presented. The measurements are…

astro-ph2008★ 1.8k cited

Methods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs

P. A. Evans, A. P. Beardmore, K. L. Page +22

We present a homogeneous X-ray analysis of all 318 Gamma Ray Bursts detected by the X-ray Telescope on the Swift satellite up to 2008 July 23; this represents the largest sample of…

astro-ph2008★ 170 cited

Statistical Properties of Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization

Kenji Toma, Takanori Sakamoto, Bing Zhang +6

The emission mechanism and the origin and structure of magnetic fields in gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets are among the most important open questions concerning the nature of the centra…

math.SG2008

Uniqueness of contact Hamiltonians of topological strictly contact isotopies

Augustin Banyaga, Peter Spaeth

We prove that for regular contact forms there exists a bijective correspondence between the limits of sequences of smooth strictly contact isotopies and the limits with respe…

hep-th2008★ 59 cited

Cosmology and the Noncommutative approach to the Standard Model

William Nelson, Mairi Sakellariadou

We study cosmological consequences of the noncommutative approach to the standard model. Neglecting the nonminimal coupling of the Higgs field to the curvature, noncommutative corr…

astro-ph2008★ 50 cited

Late time observations of GRB080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova

Nial R. Tanvir, Evert Rol, Andrew Levan +15

The Swift discovered GRB080319B was by far the most distant source ever observed at naked eye brightness, reaching a peak apparent magnitude of 5.3 at a redshift of z=0.937. We pre…

nucl-ex2008★ 52 cited

Observation of Two-source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction

B. I. Abelev

In ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a photon from the electromagnetic field of one nucleus can fluctuate to a quark-antiquark pair and scatter from the other nuc…