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hep-ph2012★ 16 cited

Higgs diphoton rate enhancement from supersymmetric physics beyond the MSSM

Marcus Berg, Igor Buchberger, D. M. Ghilencea +1

We show that supersymmetric "new physics" beyond the MSSM can naturally accommodate a Higgs mass near 126 GeV and enhance the signal rate in the Higgs to diphoton channel, while th…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 45 cited

Large-scale environments of binary AGB stars probed by Herschel - I. Morphology statistics and case studies of R Aquarii and W Aquilae

A. Mayer, A. Jorissen, F. Kerschbaum +14

The Mass loss of Evolved StarS (MESS) sample offers a selection of 78 Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and Red Supergiants (RSGs) observed with the PACS photometer on-board Hers…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 35 cited

On (Not)-Constraining Heavy Asymmetric Bosonic Dark Matter

Chris Kouvaris, Peter Tinyakov

Recently, constraints on bosonic asymmetric dark matter have been imposed based on the existence of old neutron stars excluding the dark matter masses in the range from ke…

hep-ex2012★ 50 cited

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam using the 2012 dedicated data

The OPERA Collaboration, T. Adam, N. Agafonova +168

In spring 2012 CERN provided two weeks of a short bunch proton beam dedicated to the neutrino velocity measurement over a distance of 730 km. The OPERA neutrino experiment at the u…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 13 cited

Adsorption of lactic acid on chiral Pt surfaces - A Density Functional Theory study

Jörn-Holger Franke, Daniel S. Kosov

The adsorption of the chiral molecule lactic acid on chiral Pt surfaces is studied by Density Functional Theory calculations. First we study the adsorption of L-lactic acid on the…

hep-ph2012★ 71 cited

Leptogenesis: beyond the minimal type I seesaw scenario

Thomas Hambye

Numerous recent evidences for neutrino masses have established the leptogenesis mechanism as a very natural possible explanation for the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. The expli…

quant-ph2012★ 2 cited

Could quantum decoherence and measurement be deterministic phenomena?

Jean-Marc Sparenberg, Réda Nour, Aylin Manço

The apparent random outcome of a quantum measurement is conjectured to be fundamentally determined by the microscopic state of the macroscopic measurement apparatus. The apparatus…

nucl-th2012★ 125 cited

Databases and tools for nuclear astrophysics applications BRUSsels Nuclear LIBrary (BRUSLIB), Nuclear Astrophysics Compilation of REactions II (NACRE II) and Nuclear NETwork GENerator (NETGEN)

Yi Xu, Stephane Goriely, Alain Jorissen +2

An update of a previous description of the BRUSLIB+NACRE package of nuclear data for astrophysics and of the web-based nuclear network generator NETGEN is presented. The new versio…

hep-ex2012★ 74 cited

Measurement of the t t-bar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with lepton + jets final states

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the t t-bar production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2…

hep-ex2012★ 367 cited

Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs

CMS Collaboration

A study is presented of the mass and spin-parity of the new boson recently observed at the LHC at a mass near 125 GeV. An integrated luminosity of 17.3 inverse femtobarns, collecte…

hep-ex2012★ 54 cited

Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in events with a single lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum

The CMS Collaboration

Results are reported from a search for new physics processes in events containing a single isolated high-transverse-momentum lepton (electron or muon), energetic jets, and large mi…

hep-th2012★ 9 cited

Holographic Constraints on a Vector Boson

Manuela Kulaxizi, Rakibur Rahman

We show that holography poses non-trivial restrictions on various couplings of an interacting field. For a vector boson in the AdS Reissner-Nordstrom background, the dual boundary…

hep-ex2012★ 38 cited

Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for new physics is performed using events with isolated same-sign leptons and at least two bottom-quark jets in the final state. Results are based on a sample of proton-pr…

cond-mat.quant-gas2012★ 185 cited

Direct imaging of topological edge states in cold-atom systems

N. Goldman, J. Dalibard, A. Dauphin +4

Detecting topological order in cold-atom experiments is an ongoing challenge, the resolution of which offers novel perspectives on topological matter. In material systems, unambigu…

hep-ph2012★ 180 cited

Predictive Model for Radiatively Induced Neutrino Masses and Mixings with Dark Matter

Michael Gustafsson, Jose Miguel No, Maximiliano A. Rivera

A minimal extension of the standard model to naturally generate small neutrino masses and provide a dark matter candidate is proposed. The dark matter particle is part of a new sca…

hep-ex2012★ 83 cited

Measurement of the Atmospheric flux in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274

We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of o…

hep-ex2012★ 11 cited

Search for contact interactions in opposite-sign dimuon events in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Results are reported from a search for the effects of contact interactions using events with a high-mass, oppositely charged muon pair. The events are collected in proton-proton co…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 302 cited

Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector

IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +274

We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the fir…

math-ph2012★ 57 cited

Two-step rational extensions of the harmonic oscillator: exceptional orthogonal polynomials and ladder operators

I. Marquette, C. Quesne

The type III Hermite exceptional orthogonal polynomial family is generalized to a double-indexed one (with even and odd such that ) and t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 47 cited

Out-of-equilibrium catalysis of chemical reactions by electronic tunnel currents

Alan A. Dzhioev, Daniel S. Kosov, Felix von Oppen

We present an escape rate theory for current-induced chemical reactions. We use Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's functions to derive a Langevin equation for the reaction coordinate.…

math.CO2012

Semidefinite programming for permutation codes

Mathieu Bogaerts, Peter Dukes

We initiate study of the Terwilliger algebra and related semidefinite programming techniques for the conjugacy scheme of the symmetric group Sym. In particular, we compute orb…

math.PR2012★ 8 cited

Resource dependent branching processes and the envelope of societies

F. Thomas Bruss, Mitia Duerinckx

Since its early beginnings, mankind has put to test many different society forms, and this fact raises a complex of interesting questions. The objective of this paper is to present…

quant-ph2012★ 56 cited

Device-independent quantum key distribution secure against adversaries with no long-term quantum memory

Stefano Pironio, Lluis Masanes, Anthony Leverrier +1

Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (DIQKD) is a formalism that supersedes traditional quantum key distribution, as its security does not rely on any detailed modelling of…

hep-th2012★ 10 cited

Field Theory Interpretation of N=2 Stringy Instantons

Riccardo Argurio, Davide Forcella, Alberto Mariotti +2

We consider stringy instanton contributions to the prepotential of low-energy N=2 theories engineered by D-brane set ups at orbifold and orientifold singularities. We show that suc…