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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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cond-mat.soft2017★ 60 cited

Active Brownian particles near straight or curved walls: Pressure and boundary layers

Ayhan Duzgun, Jonathan V. Selinger

Unlike equilibrium systems, active matter is not governed by the conventional laws of thermodynamics. Through a series of analytic calculations and Langevin dynamics simulations, w…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 3 cited

Kondo lattice excitation observed using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering at the Yb edge

Jason N. Hancock, Maxim Dzero, John Sarrao +4

We present a study of the resonant inelastic scattering response of \ybin\ excited at the tender Yb X-ray edge. In the high-temperature, paramagnetic phase, we observe a mult…

nucl-ex2017★ 22 cited

Search for three-nucleon short-range correlations in light nuclei

Z. Ye, P. Solvignon, D. Nguyen +100

We present new data probing short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei through the measurement of electron scattering off high-momentum nucleons in nuclei. The inclusive 4He/3He cro…

cs.DC2017

Build and Execution Environment (BEE): an Encapsulated Environment Enabling HPC Applications Running Everywhere

Jieyang Chen, Qiang Guan, Xin Liang +5

Variations in High Performance Computing (HPC) system software configurations mean that applications are typically configured and built for specific HPC environments. Building appl…

nucl-th2017★ 105 cited

Relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics

Mubarak Alqahtani, Mohammad Nopoush, Michael Strickland

In this paper we review recent progress in relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics. We begin with a pedagogical introduction to the topic which takes into account the advances in ou…

nucl-ex2017★ 36 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy in Cu+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +345

The azimuthal anisotropic flow of identified and unidentified charged particles has been systematically studied in Cu+Au collisions at = 200 GeV for harmonics $n…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 60 cited

Comparing skyrmions and merons in chiral liquid crystals and magnets

Ayhan Duzgun, Jonathan V. Selinger, Avadh Saxena

When chiral liquid crystals or magnets are subjected to applied fields or other anisotropic environments, the competition between favored twist and anisotropy leads to the formatio…

math.CA2017★ 17 cited

On the sharp upper bound related to the weak Muckenhoupt-Wheeden conjecture

Andrei K. Lerner, Fedor Nazarov, Sheldy Ombrosi

We construct an example showing that the upper bound for the norm of the Hilbert transform cannot be improved in gen…

hep-ph2017★ 79 cited

Bottomonium suppression using a lattice QCD vetted potential

Brandon Krouppa, Alexander Rothkopf, Michael Strickland

We estimate bottomonium yields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using a lattice QCD vetted, complex-valued, heavy-quark potential embedded in a realistic, hydrodynamically evol…

hep-ex2017★ 29 cited

Transverse spin-dependent azimuthal correlations of charged pion pairs measured in p+p collisions at = 500 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +344

The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, an…

cond-mat.soft2017

Distinct differences in the nanoscale behaviors of the twist-bend liquid crystal phase of a flexible linear trimer and homologous dimer

Michael R. Tuchband, Daniel A. Paterson, Mirosław Salamończyk +12

We synthesized the liquid crystal dimer and trimer members of a series of flexible linear oligomers and characterized their microscopic and nanoscopic properties using resonant sof…

nucl-ex2017★ 69 cited

Measurement of hyper triton lifetime in Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

The STAR Collaboration

A precise measurement of the hypertriton lifetime is presented. In this letter, the mesonic decay modes and $\mathrm{{^3_Λ}H \rightarrow d…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 107 cited

Elastic and viscous properties of nematic dimer CB7CB

Greta Babakhanova, Zeinab Parsouzi, Sathyanarayana Paladugu +5

We present a comprehensive set of measurements of optical, dielectric, diamagnetic, elastic and viscous properties in the nematic (N) phase formed by a liquid crystalline dimer. Th…

nucl-th2017★ 156 cited

The anisotropic non-equilibrium hydrodynamic attractor

Michael Strickland, Jorge Noronha, Gabriel Denicol

We determine the dynamical attractors associated with anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) and the DNMR equations for a 0+1d conformal system using kinetic theory in the relaxation t…

nucl-th2017★ 30 cited

Many-body forces in magnetic neutron stars

R. O. Gomes, B. Franzon, V. Dexheimer +1

In this work, we study in detail the effects of many-body forces on the equation of state and the structure of magnetic neutron stars. The stellar matter is described within a rela…

math.GR2017

Classifying Character Degree Graphs With 6 Vertices

Mark W. Bissler, Jacob Laubacher, Mark L. Lewis

We investigate prime character degree graphs of solvable groups that have six vertices. There are one hundred twelve non-isomorphic connected graphs with six vertices, of which all…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 3 cited

Zero-Field Quantum Critical Point in CeYbCoIn

Y. P. Singh, R. B. Adhikari, D. J. Haney +4

We present results of specific heat, electrical resistance, and magnetoresistivity measurements on single crystals of the heavy-fermion superconducting alloy CeYb…

hep-ex2017★ 9 cited

Measurement of the decay at MAMI

P. Adlarson, F. Afzal, C. S. Akondi +75

An experimental study of the decay has been conducted with the best up-to-date statistical accuracy, by measuring mesons produced in the re…

cs.DS2017★ 10 cited

Obstructions to a small hyperbolicity in Helly graphs

Feodor F. Dragan, Heather M. Guarnera

It is known that for every graph there exists the smallest Helly graph into which isometrically embeds ( is called the injective hull of ) such th…

hep-ph2017★ 28 cited

Anisotropy in the equation of state of strongly magnetized quark matter within the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model

Sidney S. Avancini, Veronica Dexheimer, Ricardo L. S. Farias +1

In this article, we calculate the magnetization and other thermodynamical quantities for strongly magnetized quark matter within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model at zero temperature. W…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 10 cited

The Magnetic Field Distribution in Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars

V. Dexheimer, B. Franzon, R. O. Gomes +3

In this work, we expand on a previously reported realistic calculation of the magnetic field profile for the equation of state inside strongly magnetized neutron stars. In addition…

nucl-ex2017★ 132 cited

Collision Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +343

Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heav…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 205 cited

Heliconical smectic phases formed by achiral molecules

Jordan P. Abberley, Ross Killah, Rebecca Walker +6

A series of asymmetric dimers with an odd number of atoms in the spacer were found to form different types of twisted structures despite being achiral. The formation of a variety o…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 24 cited

Tabulated Neutron Star Equations of State Modeled within the Chiral Mean Field Model

V. Dexheimer

In this special issue article, I review some of the accomplishments of the chiral mean field (CMF) model, which contains nucleon, hyperon, and quark degrees of freedom, and its app…