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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.str-el2020★ 2 cited

Interacting fermions in narrow-gap semiconductors with band inversion

Suman Raj Panday, Maxim Dzero

Highly unconventional behavior of the thermodynamic response functions has been experimentally observed in a narrow gap semiconductor samarium hexaboride. Motivated by these observ…

nucl-ex2020★ 27 cited

Measurements of and cross sections and their ratios in collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +356

We report on the and differential and total cross sections as well as the / and / cross-section ratios measured by the STAR experiment a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 1 cited

Finite temperature instabilities of 2D dipolar Bose gas at arbitrary tilt angle

Pengtao Shen, Khandker F. Quader

Advances in creating stable dipolar Bose systems, and ingenious box traps have generated tremendous interest. Theory study of dipolar bosons at finite temperature (T) has been limi…

nucl-ex2020★ 111 cited

Global polarization of and hyperons in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +357

Global polarization of and hyperons has been measured for the first time in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV. The measurements of the and hy…

physics.optics2020★ 8 cited

Mechanisms of the Intensity Dependent Refractive Index in Ultrastrongly Coupled Organic Cavity Polaritons

Samuel Schwab, William Christopherson, Michael Crescimanno +1

The nonlinear optical response of organic polaritonic matter has received increasing attention due to their enhanced and controllable nonlinear response and their potential for nov…

nucl-ex2020★ 20 cited

Measurement of the Ar(e,e p) and Ti(e,e p) cross sections in Jefferson Lab Hall A

L. Gu, D. Abrams, A. M. Ankowski +58

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has collected exclusive electron-scattering data (e,ep) in parallel kinematics using natural argon and natura…

hep-ex2020★ 33 cited

Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries of and electromagnetic jets at forward rapidity in 200 and 500 GeV transversely polarized proton-proton collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +359

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetry (TSSA) of inclusive at center-of-mass energies () of 200 GeV and 500 GeV in trans…

nucl-ex2020★ 16 cited

Comparison of transverse single-spin asymmetries for forward production in polarized , and collisions at nucleon pair c.m. energy GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +358

The STAR Collaboration reports a measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, , for neutral pions produced in polarized proton collisions with protons (), with…

hep-ph2020★ 88 cited

Bottomonium suppression in an open quantum system using the quantum trajectories method

Nora Brambilla, Miguel Ángel Escobedo, Michael Strickland +3

We solve the Lindblad equation describing the Brownian motion of a Coulombic heavy quark-antiquark pair in a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma using the highly efficient Monte Ca…

nucl-th2020★ 3 cited

Deconfinement Phase Transition under Chemical Equilibrium

Veronica Dexheimer, Krishna Aryal, Madison Wolf +2

In this work, we investigate how the assumption of chemical equilibrium with leptons affects the deconfinement phase transition to quark matter. This is done within the framework o…

hep-ex2020★ 18 cited

Deep exclusive electroproduction of at high in the quark valence regime

The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, M. Dlamini, B. Karki +159

We report measurements of the exclusive neutral pion electroproduction cross section off protons at large values of (0.36, 0.48 and 0.60) and (3.1 to 8.4 GeV) obtai…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 1 cited

Leaky Cell Model of Hard Spheres

Thomas G. Fai, Jamie M. Taylor, Epifanio G. Virga +2

We study packings of hard spheres on lattices. The partition function, and therefore the pressure, may be written solely in terms of the accessible free volume, i.e. the volume of…

hep-ph2020★ 21 cited

NNLO HTLpt predictions for the curvature of the QCD phase transition line

Najmul Haque, Michael Strickland

We present predictions for the second- and fourth-order curvature coefficients of the QCD phase transition line using the NNLO HTLpt-resummed thermodynamic potential. We present th…

nucl-ex2020★ 35 cited

Ruling out color transparency in quasi-elastic C(e,e'p) up to of 14.2 (GeV/c)

D. Bhetuwal, J. Matter, H. Szumila-Vance +87

Quasielastic C scattering was measured at space-like 4-momentum transfer squared ~=~8, 9.4, 11.4, and 14.2 (GeV/c), the highest ever achieved to date. Nucl…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 47 cited

Geometry and mechanics of disclination lines in 3D nematic liquid crystals

Cheng Long, Xingzhou Tang, Robin L. B. Selinger +1

In 3D nematic liquid crystals, disclination lines have a range of geometric structures. Locally, they may resemble or defects in 2D nematic phases, or they may have 3…

nucl-th2020★ 60 cited

Future Physics Perspectives on the Equation of State from Heavy Ion Collisions to Neutron Stars

Veronica Dexheimer, Jorge Noronha, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler +2

With the computational power and algorithmic improvements available today, the ongoing STAR/RHIC and HADES/GSI experiments, the future FAIR and NICA facilities becoming operational…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Improving Self-supervised Pre-training via a Fully-Explored Masked Language Model

Mingzhi Zheng, Dinghan Shen, Yelong Shen +2

Masked Language Model (MLM) framework has been widely adopted for self-supervised language pre-training. In this paper, we argue that randomly sampled masks in MLM would lead to un…

quant-ph2020★ 69 cited

QuGAN: A Quantum State Fidelity based Generative Adversarial Network

Samuel A. Stein, Betis Baheri, Daniel Chen +5

Tremendous progress has been witnessed in artificial intelligence where neural network backed deep learning systems have been used, with applications in almost every domain. As a r…

hep-ph2020★ 27 cited

Bottomonium suppression and elliptic flow using Heavy Quarkonium Quantum Dynamics

Ajaharul Islam, Michael Strickland

We introduce a framework called Heavy Quarkonium Quantum Dynamics (HQQD) which can be used to compute the dynamical suppression of heavy quarkonia propagating in the quark-gluon pl…

nucl-th2020★ 5 cited

3-Dimensional QCD Phase Diagrams for Strange Matter

V. Dexheimer, K. Aryal, C. Constantinou +1

In this work, we examine in detail the difference between constraining the electric charge fraction and isospin fraction when calculating the deconfinement phase transition in the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 162 cited

Colloquium: Physical properties of group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers

Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Benjamin M. Fregoso, John W. Villanova +2

We survey the state-of-the-art knowledge of ferroelectric and ferroelastic group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers. These semiconductors feature remarkable structural and mechanical p…

cs.CV2020

Interactive Visual Study of Multiple Attributes Learning Model of X-Ray Scattering Images

Xinyi Huang, Suphanut Jamonnak, Ye Zhao +4

Existing interactive visualization tools for deep learning are mostly applied to the training, debugging, and refinement of neural network models working on natural images. However…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 1 cited

Wavelength selection in a buckling garden hose

Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray

We consider sinusoidal undulations which appear on certain garden hoses under normal use. We propose an explanation and provide a model for this phenomenon, and make a connection w…

cs.NI2020★ 5 cited

Toward an Abstract Model of Programmable Data Plane Devices

Debobroto Das Robin, Javed I. Khan

SDN divides the networking landscape into 2 parts: control and data plane. SDN expanded it's foot mark starting with OpenFlow based highly flexible control plane and rigid data pla…