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astro-ph.SR2013★ 9 cited

Extensive study of HD 25558, a long-period double-lined binary with two SPB components

Á. Sódor, P. De Cat, D. J. Wright +33

We carried out an extensive observational study of the Slowly Pulsating B (SPB) star, HD 25558. The ~2000 spectra obtained at different observatories, the ground-based and MOST sat…

quant-ph2013★ 190 cited

Ultimate communication capacity of quantum optical channels by solving the Gaussian minimum-entropy conjecture

V. Giovannetti, R. Garcia-Patron, N. J. Cerf +1

Optical channels, such as fibers or free-space links, are ubiquitous in today's telecommunication networks. They rely on the electromagnetic field associated with photons to carry…

hep-ph2013

Charged lepton flavor violation and the origin of neutrino masses

Thomas Hambye

The neutrino oscillations imply that charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) processes do exist. Even if the associated rates are in general expected very suppressed, it turns out t…

nucl-th2013★ 15 cited

Nuclear matter response function with a central plus tensor Landau interaction

A. Pastore, D. Davesne, J. Navarro

We present a method to obtain response functions in the random phase approximation (RPA) based on a residual interaction described in terms of Landau parameters with central plus t…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 137 cited

Pulsating red giant stars in eccentric binary systems discovered from Kepler space-based photometry

P. G. Beck, K. Hambleton, J. Vos +30

The unparalleled photometric data obtained by NASA's Kepler space telescope led to an improved understanding of red giant stars and binary stars. Seismology allows us to constrain…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 1.6k cited

Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275

We report on results of an all-sky search for high-energy neutrino events interacting within the IceCube neutrino detector conducted between May 2010 and May 2012. The search follo…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 71 cited

Growth of Black Holes in the interior of Rotating Neutron Stars

Chris Kouvaris, Peter Tinyakov

Mini-black holes made of dark matter that can potentially form in the interior of neutron stars have been always thought to grow by accreting the matter of the core of the star via…

q-bio.PE2013★ 7 cited

The Nosoi commute: a spatial perspective on the rise of BSL-4 laboratories in cities

Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Michael J. Tildesley, Catherine Linard +3

Recent H5N1 influenza research has revived the debate on the storage and manipulation of potentially harmful pathogens. In the last two decades, new high biosafety (BSL-4) laborato…

cs.DM2013

Covering Partial Cubes with Zones

Jean Cardinal, Stefan Felsner

A partial cube is a graph having an isometric embedding in a hypercube. Partial cubes are characterized by a natural equivalence relation on the edges, whose classes are called zon…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 28 cited

Possible astrometric discovery of a substellar companion to the closest binary brown dwarf system WISE J104915.57-531906.1

H. M. J. Boffin, D. Pourbaix, K. Muzic +7

Using FORS2 on the Very Large Telescope, we have astrometrically monitored over a period of two months the two components of the brown dwarf system WISE J104915.57-531906.1, the cl…

cs.CG2013★ 1 cited

Linear transformation distance for bichromatic matchings

Oswin Aichholzer, Luis Barba, Thomas Hackl +2

Let be a set of points in general position, where is a set of blue points and a set of red points. A \emph{-matching} is a plane geometric perf…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 9 cited

Effect of intermediate Minkowskian evolution on CMB bispectrum

S. A. Mironov, S. R. Ramazanov, V. A. Rubakov

We consider a non-inflationary early Universe scenario in which relevant scalar perturbations get frozen out at some point, but then are defrosted and follow a long nearly Minkowsk…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 18 cited

Statistics of Anisotropies in Inflation with Spectator Vector Fields

Mikjel Thorsrud, Federico R. Urban, David F. Mota

We study the statistics of the primordial power spectrum in models where massless gauge vectors are coupled to the inflaton, paying special attention to observational implications…

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…

math.AP2013★ 2 cited

Stability of the Einstein-Lichnerowicz constraints system

Olivier Druet, Bruno Premoselli

We study the Einstein-Lichnerowicz constraints system, obtained through the conformal method when addressing the initial data problem for the Einstein equations in a scalar field t…

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…

math.AP2013★ 27 cited

Semiclassical stationary states for nonlinear Schrödinger equations under a strong external magnetic field

Jonathan Di Cosmo, Jean Van Schaftingen

We construct solutions to the nonlinear magnetic Schrödinger equation $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} - \varepsilon^2 Δ_{A/\varepsilon^2} u + V u &= \lvert u\rvert^{p-2} u & &\text{in}\…

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…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 28 cited

On the feasibility of RADAR detection of high-energy neutrino-induced showers in ice

Krijn D. de Vries, Kael Hanson, Thomas Meures

In this article we try to answer the question whether the radar detection technique can be used for the detection of high-energy-neutrino induced particle cascades in ice. A high-e…

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…