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astro-ph.SR2013★ 51 cited

Stellar Granulation as the Source of High-Frequency Flicker in Kepler Light Curves

Steven R. Cranmer, Fabienne A. Bastien, Keivan G. Stassun +1

A large fraction of cool, low-mass stars exhibit brightness fluctuations that arise from a combination of convective granulation, acoustic oscillations, magnetic activity, and stel…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 231 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler IV: Planet Sample From Q1-Q8 (22 Months)

Christopher J. Burke, Stephen T. Bryson, F. Mullally +37

We provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon nearly two years of high-precision photometry (i.e., Q1-Q8). From an initial list of nearly 13,400 Threshold Cro…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 42 cited

Evaluating Gyrochronology on the Zero-Age-Main-Sequence: Rotation Periods in the Southern Open Cluster Blanco 1 from the KELT-South Survey

P. A. Cargile, D. J. James, J. Pepper +3

We report periods for 33 members of Blanco 1 as measured from KELT-South light curves, the first reported rotation periods for this benchmark zero-age-main-sequence open cluster. T…

math.DS2013

Ergodicity of principal algebraic group actions

Hanfeng Li, Jesse Peterson, Klaus Schmidt

An \textit{algebraic} action of a discrete group is a homomorphism from to the group of continuous automorphisms of a compact abelian group . By duality, such an action…

q-bio.PE2013★ 2 cited

Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of selection since admixture

Gaurav Bhatia, Arti Tandon, Melinda C. Aldrich +44

We scanned through the genomes of 29,141 African Americans, searching for loci where the average proportion of African ancestry deviates significantly from the genome-wide average.…

cs.OH2013★ 55 cited

Exact Reconstruction of Spatially Undersampled Signals in Evolutionary Systems

Akram Aldroubi, Jacqueline Davis, Ilya Krishtal

We consider the problem of spatiotemporal sampling in which an initial state of an evolution process is to be recovered from a combined set of coarse samples from va…

math.CO2013

Criticality of counterexamples to toroidal edge-hamiltonicity

M. N. Ellingham, Emily A. Marshall

A well-known conjecture of Grünbaum and Nash-Williams proposes that 4-connected toroidal graphs are hamiltonian. The corresponding results for 4-connected planar and projective-pla…

hep-ex2013★ 50 cited

Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LH…

hep-ex2013★ 51 cited

Measurement of four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential cross sections for the production of exactly four jets in proton-proton collisions are presented as a function of the transverse momentum pt and ps…

nucl-ex2013★ 97 cited

Event activity dependence of Y(nS) production in sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV pPb and sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV pp collisions

CMS Collaboration

The production of Y(1S), Y(2S), and Y(3S) is investigated in pPb and pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV and 2.76 TeV, respectively. The datasets…

hep-ex2013★ 137 cited

Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and an improved determination of light parton distribution functions

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive pp to WX production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 inverse…

hep-ex2013★ 132 cited

Study of double parton scattering using W + 2-jet events in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Double parton scattering is investigated in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV where the final state includes a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, and two j…

hep-ex2013★ 502 cited

Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state

CMS Collaboration

The properties of a Higgs boson candidate are measured in the H to ZZ to 4l decay channel, with l = e, mu, using data from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

nucl-th2013★ 173 cited

Formation and dynamics of fission fragments

C. Simenel, A. S. Umar

Although the overall time-scale for nuclear fission is long, suggesting a slow process, rapid shape evolution occurs in its later stages near scission. Theoretical prediction of th…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The production of jets associated to bottom quarks is measured for the first time in PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair. Jet spectra are report…

hep-ex2013★ 79 cited

Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t to Zq is performed in events produced from the decay chain t t-bar to Zq + Wb, where both vector bosons decay le…

hep-ex2013★ 60 cited

Search for top squark and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

CMS Collaboration

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top quark…

hep-ph2013★ 15 cited

Weinberg's Higgs portal confronting recent LUX and LHC results together with upper limits on B^+ and K^+ decay into invisibles

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Peter B. Denton, Haim Goldberg +4

We discuss a number of experimental constraints on Weinberg's Higgs portal model. In this framework, the standard model (SM) particle spectrum is extended to include one complex sc…

hep-ex2013★ 104 cited

Search for top-quark partners with charge 5/3 in the same-sign dilepton final state

CMS Collaboration

A search for the production of heavy partners of the top quark with charge 5/3 is performed in events with a pair of same-sign leptons. The data sample corresponds to an integrated…

q-bio.PE2013★ 3 cited

Modeling of Contact Tracing in Epidemic Populations Structured by Disease Age

Xi Huo

We consider an age-structured epidemic model with two basic public health interventions: (i) identifying and isolating symptomatic cases, and (ii) tracing and quarantine of the con…

nucl-ex2013★ 126 cited

Studies of azimuthal dihadron correlations in ultra-central PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Azimuthal dihadron correlations of charged particles have been measured in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV by the CMS collaboration, using data from the 2011 LHC heavy-io…

hep-ph2013★ 46 cited

Probing Compressed Top Squarks at the LHC at 14 TeV

Bhaskar Dutta, Will Flanagan, Alfredo Gurrola +6

A feasibility study is presented for the search of the lightest top squark in a compressed scenario, where its mass is approximately equal to the sum of the masses of the top quark…

hep-ex2013★ 320 cited

Measurement of Higgs boson production and properties in the WW decay channel with leptonic final states

CMS Collaboration

A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC is reported. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 and 19.4 inverse femt…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 479 cited

Revised Stellar Properties of Kepler Targets for the Quarter 1-16 Transit Detection Run

Daniel Huber, Victor Silva Aguirre, Jaymie M. Matthews +19

We present revised properties for 196,468 stars observed by the NASA Kepler Mission and used in the analysis of Quarter 1-16 (Q1-Q16) data to detect and characterize transiting exo…