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cond-mat.supr-con2002★ 53 cited

Superfluid density of high-Tc cuprate systems: implication on condensation mechanisms, heterogeneity and phase diagram

Y. J. Uemura

Extensive muon spin relaxation measurements have been performed to determine the magnetic field penetration depth in high-Tc cuprate superconductors with simple hole doping, Zn-dop…

hep-th2002★ 17 cited

ADHMN boundary conditions from removing monopoles

Xingang Chen, Erick J. Weinberg

Boundary conditions play an important role in the ADHMN construction of BPS monopole solutions. In this paper we show how different types of boundary conditions can be related to e…

hep-th2002★ 16 cited

Evidence for a gravitational Myers effect

Jan de Boer, Eric Gimon, Koenraad Schalm +1

An indication for the existence of a collective Myers solution in the non-abelian D0-brane Born-Infeld action is the presence of a tachyonic mode in fluctuations around the standar…

hep-th2002★ 13 cited

Supergravity, Supermembrane and M(atrix) model on PP-Waves

Norihiro Iizuka

In the first part of this paper, we study the back-reaction of large-N light cone momentum on the maximally supersymmetric anti-pp-wave background. This gives the type IIA geometry…

astro-ph2002★ 49 cited

Discovery of a High-Redshift (z=0.96) Cluster of Galaxies Using a FIRST Wide-Angle Tailed Radio Source

Elizabeth L. Blanton, Michael D. Gregg, David J. Helfand +2

Using a combination of near-infrared and optical photometry, along with multi-object spectroscopy, we have confirmed the existence of a high-redshift cluster of galxies at z = 0.96…

nucl-th2002★ 102 cited

Does the Charm Flow at RHIC?

S. Batsouli, S. Kelly, M. Gyulassy +1

Recent PHENIX Au+Au -> e- + X data from open charm decay are shown to be consistent with two extreme opposite dynamical scenarios of ultra-relativistic nuclear reactions. Perturbat…

nucl-ex2002★ 3 cited

A Nuclear Physics Program at the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

S. Aronson, K. Assamagan, H. Gordon +7

The ATLAS collaboration has significant interest in the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We submitted a Letter of Intent to the United States Department of Energ…

hep-ph2002★ 137 cited

On the equivalence between the Boltzmann equation and classical field theory at large occupation numbers

A. H. Mueller, D. T. Son

We consider a system made up of exictations of a neutral scalar field, ϕ, having a λϕ^4 interaction term. Starting from an ensemble where the occupation number f is large, but λf i…

astro-ph2002★ 3 cited

The LXeGRIT Compton Telescope Prototype: Current Status and Future Prospects

E. Aprile, A. Curioni, K. L. Giboni +7

LXeGRIT is the first prototype of a novel concept of Compton telescope, based on the complete 3-dimensional reconstruction of the sequence of interactions of individual gamma rays…

astro-ph2002★ 2 cited

On the Background Rate in the LXeGRIT Instrument during the 2000 Balloon Flight

A. Curioni, E. Aprile, K. L. Giboni +7

LXeGRIT is the first prototype of a novel Compton telescope for MeV gamma-ray astrophysics based on a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber (LXeTPC), sensitive in the energy band of…

astro-ph2002★ 36 cited

On the Spiral Structure of NGC 2915 and Dark Matter

F. S. Masset, M. Bureau

NGC 2915 is a blue compact dwarf galaxy embedded in an extended, low surface brightness HI disk exhibiting a two-armed spiral structure and a central bar-like component. Commonly a…

nucl-ex2002★ 29 cited

Comparison of Source Images for protons, 's and 's in 6 AGeV Au+Au collisions

P. Chung, N. N. Ajitanand, J. M. Alexander +49

Source images are extracted from two-particle correlations constructed from strange and non-strange hadrons produced in 6 AGeV Au + Au collisions. Very different source images resu…

cond-mat.str-el2002★ 132 cited

Exchange interaction effects on the optical properties of LuMnO3

A. B. Souchkov, J. R. Simpson, H. D. Drew +6

We have measured the optical conductivity of single crystal LuMnO3 from 10 to 45000 cm-1 at temperatures between 4 and 300 K. A symmetry allowed on-site Mn - transition near…

cond-mat.str-el2002★ 23 cited

Dynamical mean field theory for transition temperature and optics of CMR manganites

B. Michaelis, A. J. Millis

A tight binding parametrization of local spin density functional band theory is combined with a dynamical mean field treatment of correlations to obtain a theory of the magnetic tr…

astro-ph2002★ 69 cited

Superhumps in Cataclysmic Binaries. XXIII. V442 Ophiuchi and RX J1643.7+3402

Joseph Patterson, William Fenton, John Thorstensen +15

We report the results of long observing campaigns on two novalike variables: V442 Ophiuchi and RX J1643.7+3402. These stars have high-excitation spectra, complex line profiles sign…

hep-lat2002★ 88 cited

Domain wall fermions with improved gauge actions

Y. Aoki, T. Blum, N. Christ +9

We study the chiral properties of quenched domain wall fermions with several gauge actions. We demonstrate that the residual chiral symmetry breaking, which is present for a finite…

hep-ex2002

Results from CDF and D0 (Everything but the B)

Harold G. Evans

With the start of Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron a host of new physics opportunities are opened. In this paper we will review the prospects for physics at the CDF and \Dzero exper…

hep-ph2002★ 1 cited

Observational Tests of Open Strings in Braneworld Scenarios

Katherine Freese, Matthew Lewis, Jan Pieter van der Schaar

We consider some consequences of describing the gauge and matter degrees of freedom in our universe by open strings, as suggested by the braneworld scenario. We focus on the geomet…

astro-ph2002★ 91 cited

The Soft X-ray Spectrum from NGC 1068 Observed with LETGS on Chandra

A. C. Brinkman, J. S. Kaastra, R. L. J. van der Meer +5

Using the combined spectral and spatial resolving power of the Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETGS) on board Chandra, we obtain separate spectra from the bright central source o…

hep-th2002★ 77 cited

Brane gas cosmology in M-theory: late time behavior

Richard Easther, Brian R. Greene, Mark G. Jackson +1

We investigate the late-time behavior of a universe containing a supergravity gas and wrapped 2-branes in the context of M-theory compactified on T^10. The supergravity gas tends t…

nucl-ex2002★ 60 cited

Production of and in Central 11.5 GeV/c Au + Pt Heavy Ion Collisions

E864 Collaboration

We present measurements from BNL AGS Experiment E864 of the invariant multiplicity and of the 90% Confidence Level upper limit on the yield in central 11.5 A Ge…

astro-ph2002★ 1 cited

The positron excess and supersymmetric dark matter

Edward A. Baltz, Joakim Edsjo, Katherine Freese +1

Using a new instrument, the HEAT collaboration has confirmed the excess of cosmic ray positrons that they first detected in 1994. We explore the possibility that this excess is due…

astro-ph2002★ 46 cited

DarkSUSY - A numerical package for supersymmetric dark matter calculations

Paolo Gondolo, Joakim Edsjo, Piero Ullio +3

The question of the nature of dark matter in the Universe remains one of the most outstanding unsolved problems in basic science. One of the best motivated particle physics candida…

nucl-ex2002★ 14 cited

Charge Particle Angular Correlations from Leading Photons at RHIC

M. Chiu

We report on the observation of jet-like azimuthal and pseudorapidity correlations between the highest photon (leading photon) and charged hadrons produced in both p+p and Au…