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astro-ph.SR2011★ 74 cited

High resolution spectroscopy of Ne II emission from young stellar objects

G. G. Sacco, E. Flaccomio, I. Pascucci +6

Constraining the spatial and thermal structure of the gaseous component of circumstellar disks is crucial to understand star and planet formation. Models predict that the [Ne II] l…

hep-ex2011★ 448 cited

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass en…

hep-ph2011

alpha_s from tau decays revisited

D. Boito, O. Cata, M. Golterman +4

Being a determination at low energies, the analysis of hadronic tau decay data provides a rather precise determination of the strong coupling alpha_s after evolving the result to M…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 251 cited

Cosmological Constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-Selected Clusters with X-ray Observations in the First 178 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey

B. A. Benson, T. de Haan, J. P. Dudley +73

We use measurements from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster survey in combination with X-ray measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. We prese…

hep-ex2011★ 20 cited

Search for Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

D0 Collaboration

We report results from searches for neutral Higgs bosons produced in p-pbar collisions recorded by the Dzero experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We study the production o…

hep-ph2011★ 22 cited

K^+ -> pi^+pi^0e^+e^-: a novel short-distance probe

Luigi Cappiello, Oscar Cata, Giancarlo D'Ambrosio +1

We study the decay K^+ -> pi^+ pi^0 e^+ e^-, currently under analysis by the NA62 Collaboration at CERN. In particular, we provide a detailed analysis of the Dalitz plot for the lo…

hep-th2011★ 18 cited

One-Loop Kahler Metric of D-Branes at Angles

Marcus Berg, Michael Haack, Jin U Kang

We evaluate string one-loop contributions to the Kahler metric of D-brane moduli (positions and Wilson lines), in toroidal orientifolds with branes at angles. Contributions due to…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 65 cited

On the Self-Similar Appearance of Galaxy Clusters in X-rays

Hans Boehringer, Klaus Dolag, Gayoung Chon

The largest uncertainty for cosmological studies using clusters of galaxies is introduced by our limited knowledge of the statistics of galaxy cluster structure, and of the scaling…

hep-ph2011★ 16 cited

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Low Left-Right Symmetry Scale?

Miha Nemevsek, Fabrizio Nesti, Goran Senjanovic +1

Experiments in progress may confirm a nonzero neutrinoless double beta decay rate in conflict with the cosmological upper limit on neutrino masses and thus require new physics beyo…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 25 cited

The Cosmic Web and galaxy evolution around the most luminous X-ray cluster: RXJ1347.5-1145

M. Verdugo, M. Lerchster, H. Boehringer +5

In this paper we study the large scale structures and their galaxy content around the most X-ray luminous cluster known, RX J1347.5-1145 at z=0.45. We make use of ugriz CFHT MEGACA…

hep-ph2011

Issues in determining alpha_s from hadronic tau decay and electroproduction data

D. Boito, O. Cata, M. Golterman +4

We discuss some key issues associated with duality-violating and non-perturbative OPE contributions to the theoretical representations of light quark current-current two-point func…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 7 cited

Distances to Galaxies from the Brightest Stars in the Universe

R. -P. Kudritzki, M. A. Urbaneja

Blue Supergiants (BSGs) are the brightest stars in the universe at visual light with absolute magnitudes up to Mv=-10 mag. They are ideal stellar objects for the determination of e…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 283 cited

The TW Hya Disk at 870 microns: Comparison of CO and Dust Radial Structures

Sean M. Andrews, David J. Wilner, A. M. Hughes +9

We present high resolution (0.3" = 16 AU), high signal-to-noise ratio Submillimeter Array observations of the 870 microns (345 GHz) continuum and CO J=3--2 line emission from the p…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 189 cited

The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS). I. A large spectroscopically selected sample of Lens Galaxies at redshift ~ 0.5

Joel R. Brownstein, Adam S. Bolton, David J. Schlegel +11

We present a catalog of 25 definite and 11 probable strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lens systems with redshifts 0.4 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.7, discovered spectroscopically by the…

hep-th2011★ 2 cited

Algorithmic deformation of matrix factorisations

Nils Carqueville, Laura Dowdy, Andreas Recknagel

Branes and defects in topological Landau-Ginzburg models are described by matrix factorisations. We revisit the problem of deforming them and discuss various deformation methods as…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 320 cited

A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre

S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, T. K. Fritz +9

Measurements of stellar orbits provide compelling evidence that the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Centre is a black hole four million times the mass of the Su…

nucl-ex2011★ 8 cited

Production of 26Al in stellar hydrogen-burning environments: spectroscopic properties of states in 27Si

A. Parikh, K. Wimmer, T. Faestermann +11

Model predictions of the amount of the radioisotope 26Al produced in hydrogen-burning environments require reliable estimates of the thermonuclear rates for the 26gAl(p,γ)27Si and…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 375 cited

Trapping dust particles in the outer regions of protoplanetary disks

P. Pinilla, T. Birnstiel, L. Ricci +4

In order to explain grain growth to mm sized particles and their retention in outer regions of protoplanetary disks, as it is observed at sub-mm and mm wavelengths, we investigate…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 9 cited

MDia and POTS - The Munich Difference Imaging Analysis for the pre-OmegaTranS Project

J. Koppenhoefer, R. P. Saglia, A. Riffeser

We describe the Munich Difference Imaging Analysis pipeline that we developed and implemented in the framework of the Astro-WISE package to automatically measure high precision lig…

physics.plasm-ph2011

Laser-driven collimated tens-GeV monoenergetic protons from mass-limited target plus preformed channel

F. L. Zheng, S. Z. Wu, H. C. Wu +5

Proton acceleration by ultra-intense laser pulse irradiating a target with cross-section smaller than the laser spot size and connected to a parabolic density channel is investigat…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 53 cited

The Cluster of Blue Stars Surrounding the M31 Nuclear Black Hole

Tod R. Lauer, Ralf Bender, John Kormendy +2

We obtained U_330 and B band images of the M31 nucleus using the High Resolution Camera of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The spatial re…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 325 cited

On the theory of disc photoevaporation

James E. Owen, Cathie J. Clarke, Barbara Ercolano

We discuss a hydrodynamical model for the dispersal of protoplanetary discs around young, low mass (<1.5 M_sun) stars by photoevaporation from the central object's energetic radiat…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 1 cited

Slow Roll Inflation: A Somehow Different Perspective

Cristiano Germani

In this note we point out that, contrary to the standard point of view, slow roll inflation is due to high gravitational friction. We show that the requirement of slow roll coincid…

hep-ex2011★ 29 cited

Measurements of WW and WZ production in W + jets final states in p-pbar collisions

D0 Collaboration

We study WW and WZ production with () final states using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider corresponding to 4.3 fb^-1 of integrate…