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hep-ex2008★ 25 cited

Search for anomalous top quark couplings with the D0 detector

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

Anomalous Wtb couplings modify the angular correlations of the top quark decay products and change the single top quark production cross section. We present limits on anomalous top…

hep-ex2008★ 42 cited

Measurement of Cross Sections for Jet Production in Events with a Boson in Collisions at TeV

CDF collaboration, T. Aaltonen

A measurement of the $\bjet$ production cross section is presented for events containing a boson produced in collisions at TeV, using data correspond…

hep-ex2008★ 55 cited

Observation of New Charmless Decays of Bottom Hadrons

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We search for new charmless decays of neutral b-hadrons to pairs of charged hadrons with the upgraded Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using a data sample corresponding…

hep-ex2008★ 252 cited

Search for new particles decaying into dijets in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

The CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a search for new particles whose decays produce two jets (dijets) using proton-antiproton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.13 fb-1 collected…

astro-ph2008★ 72 cited

Episodic Magnetic Bubbles and Jets: Astrophysical Implications from Laboratory Experiments

Andrea Ciardi, Sergey V. Lebedev, Adam Frank +6

Collimated outflows (jets) are ubiquitous in the universe appearing around sources as diverse as protostars and extragalactic supermassive blackholes. Jets are thought to be magnet…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Magnetic Fields in Paradigms of Planetary Nebulae and Related MHD Frontiers

Eric G. Blackman

Many, if not all, post AGB stellar systems swiftly transition from a spherical to a powerful aspherical pre-planetary nebula (pPNE) outflow phase before waning into a PNe. The pPNe…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

Infrared Emission by Dust Around lambda Bootis Stars: Debris Disks or Thermally Emitting Nebulae?

J. R. Martínez-Galarza, I. Kamp, K. Y. L. Su +3

We present a model that describes stellar infrared excesses due to heating of the interstellar (IS) dust by a hot star passing through a diffuse IS cloud. This model is applied to…

math-ph2008★ 6 cited

Approximate quantum and acoustic cloaking

Allan Greenleaf, Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas +1

At any energy E > 0, we construct a sequence of bounded potentials , supported in an annular region in three-space, which act as approxi…

cond-mat.other2008★ 104 cited

Sculpting the Vortex State of a Spinor BEC

K. C. Wright, L. S. Leslie, A. Hansen +1

We use Raman-detuned laser pulses to achieve spatially-varying control of the amplitude and phase of the spinor order parameter of a Bose-Einstein condensate. We present experiment…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008

Two Approaches to Dislocation Nucleation in the Supported Heteroepitaxial Equilibrium Islanding Phenomenon

J. Jalkanen, O. Trushin, K. Elder +3

We study the dislocation formation in 2D nanoscopic islands with two methods, the Molecular Static method and the Phase Field Crystal method. It is found that both methods indicate…

hep-ex2008★ 27 cited

Top Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton plus Jets Channel Using a Modified Matrix Element Method

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We report a measurement of the top quark mass, m_t, obtained from ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron using the CDF II detector. We analyze a sample cor…

hep-ex2008★ 66 cited

Search for top-quark production via flavor-changing neutral currents in W+1 jet events at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We report on the first search for top-quark production via flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC) interactions in the non-standard-model process u(c)+g -> t using ppbar collision d…

nucl-ex2008★ 108 cited

System size dependence of cluster properties from two-particle angular correlations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

B. Alver

We present results on two-particle angular correlations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at a center of mass energy per nucleon pair of 200 GeV over a broad range of pseudorapidity ($…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

Dust Processing and Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks in the Taurus-Auriga Star-Forming Region

B. A. Sargent, W. J. Forrest, C. Tayrien +9

Mid-infrared spectra of 65 T Tauri stars (TTS) taken with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope are modeled using dust at two temperatures to probe t…

astro-ph2008★ 96 cited

Silica in Protoplanetary Disks

B. A. Sargent, W. J. Forrest, C. Tayrien +10

Mid-infrared spectra of a few T Tauri stars (TTS) taken with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope show prominent narrow emission features indicating…

hep-ex2008★ 13 cited

Measurement of the kT Distribution of Particles in Jets Produced in ppbar Collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96$-TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a measurement of the transverse momentum with respect to the jet axis () of particles in jets produced in collisions at TeV. Results are…

astro-ph2008★ 25 cited

MMT/AO 5 micron Imaging Constraints on the Existence of Giant Planets Orbiting Fomalhaut at ~13-40 AU

Matthew A. Kenworthy, Eric E. Mamajek, Philip M. Hinz +5

A candidate < 3 Jupiter mass, extrasolar planet was recently imaged by Kalas et al. (2008) using HST/ACS at 12.7" (96 AU) separation from the nearby (d = 7.7 pc) young (~200 Myr) A…

hep-ex2008★ 84 cited

Inclusive Search for Squark and Gluino Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

T. Aaltonen

We report on a search for inclusive production of squarks and gluinos in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV, in events with large missing transverse energy and multiple jets of h…

hep-ex2008★ 20 cited

New Measurement of Exclusive Decays of the chi_c0 and chi_c2 to Two-Meson Final States

CLEO Collaboration, D. M. Asner

Using a sample of 2.59 times 10^7 psi(2S) decays collected by the CLEO--c detector, we present results of a study of chi_{c0} and chi_{c2} decays into two-meson final states. We pr…

quant-ph2008★ 65 cited

Narrow absorptive resonances in a four-level atomic system

M. G. Bason, A. K. Mohapatra, K. J. Weatherill +1

We study the effect of a control beam on a Lambda electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system in 87Rb. The control beam couples one ground state to another excited state…

hep-th2008★ 12 cited

New Spin(7) holonomy metrics admiting G2 holonomy reductions and M-theory/IIA dualities

S. Salur, O. Santillan

IAs is well known, when D6 branes wrap a special lagrangian cycle on a non compact CY 3-fold in such a way that the internal string frame metric is Kahler there exists a dual descr…

hep-ex2008★ 14 cited

Evidence for the decay B_s^0 --> D_s^(*)D_s^(*) and a measurement of Delta_Gamma_s^CP/Gamma_s

D0 Collaboration, V. M. Abazov

We search for the semi-inclusive process B_s^0 --> D_s^(*)D_s^(*) using 2.8 fb^-1 of ppbar collisions at s^(1/2) = 1.96 TeV recorded by the D0 detector operating at the Fermilab Te…

hep-ex2008★ 13 cited

Top Quark Mass Measurement in the tt-bar All Hadronic Channel using a Matrix Element Technique in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen

We present a measurement of the top quark mass in the all-hadronic channel (\tt \bb) using 943 pb of \ppbar collisions at $\sqrt {s}…

hep-th2008★ 25 cited

The structure of supersymmetry in symmetric quantum mechanics

D. Bazeia, Ashok Das, L. Greenwood +1

The structure of supersymmetry is analyzed systematically in symmetric quantum mechanical theories. We give a detailed description of supersymmetric systems associated…