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hep-ex2018★ 16 cited

Properties of at small opening angles in collisions with the ATLAS detector at TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The fragmentation of high-energy gluons at small opening angles is largely unconstrained by present measurements. Gluon splitting to -quark pairs is a unique probe into the prop…

hep-th2018★ 18 cited

The Most Irrational Rational Theories

Nathan Benjamin, Ethan Dyer, A. Liam Fitzpatrick +1

We propose a two-parameter family of modular invariant partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) holographically dual to pure three-dimensional gravity…

hep-ex2018★ 51 cited

Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195

This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 23 cited

The Southern HII Region Discovery Survey I: The Bright Catalog

Trey V. Wenger, John. M. Dickey, C. H. Jordan +7

The census of Galactic HII regions is vastly incomplete in the Southern sky. We use the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to observe 4-10 GHz radio continuum and hydrogen ra…

math.CO2018★ 1 cited

Split Grothendieck rings of rooted trees and skew shapes via monoid representations

David Beers, Matt Szczesny

We study commutative ring structures on the integral span of rooted trees and -dimensional skew shapes. The multiplication in these rings arises from the smash product operation…

hep-ex2018★ 42 cited

Probing Leptophilic Dark Sectors at Electron Beam-Dump Facilities

L. Marsicano, M. Battaglieri, A. Celentano +2

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may expl…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 146 cited

Increasing trend of scientists to switch between topics

An Zeng, Zhesi Shen, Jianlin Zhou +5

We analyze the publication records of individual scientists, aiming to quantify the topic switching dynamics of scientists and its influence. For each scientist, the relations amon…

physics.ins-det2018★ 20 cited

Suppression of Cosmic Muon Spallation Backgrounds in Liquid Scintillator Detectors Using Convolutional Neural Networks

A. Li, A. Elagin, S. Fraker +2

Cosmic muon spallation backgrounds are ubiquitous in low-background experiments. For liquid scintillator-based experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the spallat…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 29 cited

The Megaparsec-scale Gas-sloshing Spiral in the Remnant Cool Core Cluster Abell 1763

E. M. Douglass, E. L. Blanton, S. W. Randall +4

We present a multiwavelength study of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1763 at redshift z = 0.231. Image analysis of a 19.6 ks Chandra archival observation reveals a cluster-wide s…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 36 cited

A Galactic Plane Defined by the Milky Way HII Region Distribution

L. D. Anderson, Trey V. Wenger, W. P. Armentrout +2

We develop a framework for a new definition of the Galactic midplane, allowing for tilt (rotation about Galactic azimuth 90deg.), and roll (rotation about Galactic azimuth 0deg.) o…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Ultra-slow dynamics in a translationally invariant spin model for multiplication and factorization

Lei Zhang, Stefanos Kourtis, Claudio Chamon +2

We construct a model of short-range interacting Ising spins on a translationally invariant two-dimensional lattice that mimics a reversible circuit that multiplies or factorizes in…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

Characterising the high-mass star forming filament G351.776--0.527 with Herschel and APEX dust continuum and gas observations

S. Leurini, E. Schisano, T. Pillai +13

G351.776-0.527 is among the most massive, closest, and youngest filaments in the inner Galactic plane and therefore it is an ideal laboratory to study the kinematics of dense gas a…

hep-th2018★ 12 cited

Conformal Truncation of Chern-Simons Theory at Large

Luca V. Delacrétaz, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Emanuel Katz +1

We set up and analyze the lightcone Hamiltonian for an abelian Chern-Simons field coupled to fermions in the limit of large using conformal truncation, i.e. with a trun…

hep-ex2018★ 39 cited

Search for top-quark decays with 36 fb of collision data at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for flavour-changing neutral current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark () and the Standard Model Higgs boson, , is presented. The search…

hep-ex2018★ 76 cited

Measurement of the top quark mass in the all-jets final state at 13 TeV and combination with the lepton+jets channel

CMS Collaboration

A top quark mass measurement is performed using 35.9 fb of LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at 13 TeV. The measurement uses the…

hep-ex2018★ 88 cited

Measurement of the differential Drell-Yan cross section in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the differential cross section for the Drell-Yan process, based on proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experimen…

hep-ex2018★ 47 cited

Measurement of the single top quark and antiquark production cross sections in the channel and their ratio in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of the cross sections for the production of single top quarks and antiquarks in the channel, and their ratio, are presented for proton-proton collisions at a cente…

hep-ex2018★ 114 cited

Measurement of the production cross section, the top quark mass, and the strong coupling constant using dilepton events in pp collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of the top quark-antiquark pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. T…

hep-ex2018★ 26 cited

Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton mass spectra from proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for nonresonant excesses in the invariant mass spectra of electron and muon pairs is presented. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-…

hep-ex2018★ 53 cited

Search for vector-like quarks in events with two oppositely charged leptons and jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for the pair production of heavy vector-like partners T and B of the top and bottom quarks has been performed by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC using proton-proton col…

hep-ex2018★ 34 cited

Search for large missing transverse momentum in association with one top-quark in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes a search for events with one top-quark and large missing transverse momentum in the final state. Data collected during 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment fr…

hep-ex2018★ 47 cited

Search for chargino and neutralino production in final states with a Higgs boson and missing transverse momentum at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is conducted for the electroweak pair production of a chargino and a neutralino , where the chargino decays into the lightest neu…

math.SG2018★ 1 cited

Bulk-deformed potentials for toric Fano surfaces, wall-crossing and period

Hansol Hong, Yu-Shen Lin, Jingyu Zhao

We provide an inductive algorithm to compute the bulk-deformed potentials for toric Fano surfaces via wall-crossing techniques and a tropical-holomorphic correspondence theorem for…

stat.ML2018

Reducing Sampling Ratios Improves Bagging in Sparse Regression

Luoluo Liu, Sang Peter Chin, Trac D. Tran

Bagging, a powerful ensemble method from machine learning, improves the performance of unstable predictors. Although the power of Bagging has been shown mostly in classification pr…