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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.soft2018★ 2 cited

Nematic-isotropic transition in a density-functional theory for hard spheroidal colloids

Eduardo dos S. Nascimento

We introduce a density-functional formalism based on the Parsons-Lee and the generalized van der Waals theories in order to describe the thermodynamics of anisotropic particle syst…

nucl-ex2018★ 111 cited

Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of -meson production at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +347

We report a new measurement of -meson production at mid-rapidity (\,\,1) in Au+Au collisions at utilizing the Heavy Flavor Tracke…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 92 cited

Gyrotropic Hall effect in Berry-curved materials

E. J. König, M. Dzero, A. Levchenko +1

We study the ac Hall response induced by passage of dc transport current in two- and three-dimensional metals with gyrotropic point groups -- the gyrotropic Hall effect -- and cons…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 8 cited

Structural Transition Kinetics and Activated Behavior in the Superconducting Vortex Lattice

E. R. Louden, C. Rastovski, S. J. Kuhn +5

Using small-angle neutron scattering, we investigated the behavior of a metastable vortex lattice state in MgB2 as it is driven towards equilibrium by an AC magnetic field. This sh…

physics.app-ph2018★ 27 cited

Dye-doped dual-frequency nematic cells as fast-switching polarization-independent shutters

Bing-Xiang Li, Rui-Lin Xiao, Sathyanarayana Paladugu +2

We present polarization-independent optical shutters with a sub-millisecond switching time. The approach utilizes dual-frequency nematics doped with a dichroic dye. Two nematic cel…

math.CA2018★ 3 cited

Multiple Hermite polynomials and simultaneous Gaussian quadrature

Walter Van Assche, Anton Vuerinckx

Multiple Hermite polynomials are an extension of the classical Hermite polynomials for which orthogonality conditions are imposed with respect to normal (Gaussian) weights $w…

math.NA2018★ 11 cited

A spectral method for bipartizing a network and detecting a large anti-community

A. Concas, S. Noschese, L. Reichel +1

Relations between discrete quantities such as people, genes, or streets can be described by networks, which consist of nodes that are connected by edges. Network analysis aims to i…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 24 cited

Hyperons and quarks in proto-neutron stars

J. Roark, X. Du, C. Constantinou +3

In this work, we study matter in the cores of proto-neutron stars, focusing on the impact of their composition on the stellar structure. We begin by examining the effects of finite…

cs.DC2018★ 2 cited

Efficient Dispersion of Mobile Robots on Arbitrary Graphs and Grids

Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Gokarna Sharma

The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an -node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a c…

hep-ex2018★ 38 cited

Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at = 510 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +345

We report new STAR measurements of the single-spin asymmetries for and bosons produced in polarized proton--proton collisions at = 510 GeV as a functio…

math.CV2018

Bernstein Polynomial Inequality on a Compact Subset of the Real Line

Vladimir Andrievskii

We prove an analogue of the classical Bernstein polynomial inequality on a compact subset of the real line. The Lipschitz continuity of the Green function for the complement of…

math.OC2018★ 14 cited

Toplogical derivative for nonlinear magnetostatic problem

Peter Gangl, Samuel Amstutz

The topological derivative represents the sensitivity of a domain-dependent functional with respect to a local perturbation of the domain and is a valuable tool in topology optimiz…

nucl-ex2018★ 21 cited

Experimental study of the , , and reactions at the Mainz Microtron

C. S. Akondi, K. Bantawa, D. M. Manley +78

This work measured for neutral kaon photoproduction reactions from threshold up to a c.m.\ energy of 1855MeV, focussing specifically on the , $γn\righ…

math.GR2018

-groups with as a codegree

Sarah Croome, Mark L. Lewis

Let be a -group and let be an irreducible character of . The codegree of is given by . This paper investigates the relationship between th…

hep-ph2018

Anisotropic hydrodynamics for Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV

Mubarak Alqahtani, Dekrayat Almaalol, Michael Strickland

In this proceedings, we review the basics of quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP). Thenwe present phenomenological comparisons between 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic…

nucl-th2018★ 58 cited

Distinguishing Quarks and Gluons in Pion and Kaon PDFs

Kyle D. Bednar, Ian C. Cloët, Peter C. Tandy

The leading-twist parton distribution functions of the pion and kaon are calculated for the first time using a rainbow-ladder truncation of QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSEs) t…

physics.ins-det2018★ 25 cited

Density Changes in Low Pressure Gas Targets for Electron Scattering Experiments

S. N. Santiesteban, S. Alsalmi, D. Meekins +21

A system of modular sealed gas target cells has been developed for use in electron scattering experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). Thi…

hep-ph2018★ 33 cited

Dilepton production and elliptic flow from an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma

Babak S. Kasmaei, Michael Strickland

We calculate the yield and elliptic flow of mid-rapidity dileptons emitted from the quark-gluon plasma generated in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC. We use relativistic anisotropic hydrody…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 34 cited

Injection current in ferroelectric group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers

Suman Raj Panday, Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Tonatiuh Rangel +1

We study the injection current response tensor (also known as circular photogalvanic effect or ballistic current) in ferrolectric monolayer GeS, GeSe, SnS, and SnSe. We find that t…

nucl-ex2018★ 32 cited

Updated determination of resonance parameters using a unitary, multichannel formalism

B C Hunt, D M Manley

Results are presented for an updated multichannel energy-dependent partial-wave analysis of scattering. Our earlier work incorporated single-energy amplitudes for $πN \rightar…

nucl-ex2018★ 5 cited

Measurements of Dielectron Production in AuAu Collisions at = 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV from the STAR Experiment

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +350

We report systematic measurements of dielectron () invariant-mass spectra at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at = 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV tak…

nucl-th2018★ 24 cited

Can magnetic fields stabilize or destabilize twin stars?

R. O. Gomes, V. Dexheimer, S. Han +1

Sharp phase transitions described by stiff equations of state allow for the existence of a third family of stable compact stars (besides white dwarfs and neutron stars), twin stars…

cs.DB2018★ 2 cited

A Comparative Study of Consistent Snapshot Algorithms for Main-Memory Database Systems

Liang Li, Guoren Wang, Gang Wu +3

In-memory databases (IMDBs) are gaining increasing popularity in big data applications, where clients commit updates intensively. Specifically, it is necessary for IMDBs to have ef…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018

Properties of 2D and Quasi-2D Dipolar Bosons with Non-zero Tilt Angles at T=0

Pengtao Shen, Khandker F. Quader

Recent experimental advances in creating stable dipolar bosonic systems, including polar molecules with large electric dipole moments, have led to vigorous theoretical activities.…