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hep-ex2004★ 22 cited

Limit on the B0->rho0rho0 Branching Fraction and Implications for the CKM Angle alpha

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert et al

We search for the decay B0 -> rho0 rho0 in a data sample of about 227 million Upsilon(4S)-> BBbar decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- coll…

hep-ex2004★ 44 cited

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries for Exclusive B Decays to Charmonium

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

We report measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries of exclusive decays of neutral and charged B mesons into two-body final states containing a charmonium state an…

cond-mat.other2004★ 60 cited

Superfluid Interfaces in Quantum Solids

Evgeni Burovski, Evgeni Kozik, Anatoly Kuklov +2

One scenario for the non-classical moment of inertia of solid He-4 discovered by Kim and Chan [Nature 427, 225 (2004)] is the superfluidity of micro-crystallite interfaces. On the…

nlin.PS2004★ 6 cited

Nonlinear Lattices Generated from Harmonic Lattices with Geometric Constraints

S. Takeno, S. V. Dmitriev, P. G. Kevrekidis +1

Geometrical constraints imposed on higher dimensional harmonic lattices generally lead to nonlinear dynamical lattice models. Helical lattices obtained by such a procedure are show…

nlin.SI2004★ 21 cited

A Rich Example of Geometrically Induced Nonlinearity: From Rotobreathers and Kinks to Moving Localized Modes and Resonant Energy Transfer

P. G. Kevrekidis, S. V. Dmitriev, S. Takeno +2

We present an experimentally realizable, simple mechanical system with linear interactions whose geometric nature leads to nontrivial, nonlinear dynamical equations. The equations…

hep-ex2004★ 100 cited

Search for a Charged Partner of the X(3872) in the B Meson Decay B --> X- K, X- --> J/psi pi- pi0

B. Aubert, BaBar Collaboration

We search for a charged partner of the X(3872) in the decay B --> X- K, X- --> J/psi pi- pi0, using 234 million BBbar events collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the BaBar detecto…

astro-ph2004★ 55 cited

Highly Ionized Gas in the Galactic Halo and the High Velocity Clouds Toward PG 1116+215

Rajib Ganguly, Kenneth R. Sembach, Todd M. Tripp +1

We have obtained high resolution FUSE and HST/STIS echelle observations of the quasar PG 1116+215. The semi-continuous coverage of the ultraviolet spectrum over the wavelength rang…

cond-mat.other2004★ 121 cited

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Photonic Lattices: Theory and Experiment

P. G. Kevrekidis, Zhigang Chen, B. A. Malomed +2

We examine an example of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a double-well waveguide with a symmetric potential. The ground state of the system beyond a critical power becomes asymmet…

hep-ex2004★ 42 cited

Branching Fractions and CP Asymmetries in B0 -> pi0pi0, B+ -> pi+pi0 and B+ -> K+pi0 Decays and Isospin Analysis of the B -> pipi System

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

Based on a sample of 227 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC, we measure the branching fraction B(B0 -> pi0pi0) =…

astro-ph2004★ 49 cited

Unusual X-ray transients in the Galactic Centre

Masaaki Sakano, Robert S. Warwick, Anne Decourchelle +1

We report the discovery in the Galactic Centre region of two hard X-ray sources, designated as XMM J174457-2850.3 and XMM J174544-2913.0, which exhibited flux variations in the 2--…

cond-mat.stat-mech2004★ 21 cited

Overcoming the critical slowing down of flat-histogram Monte Carlo simulations: Cluster updates and optimized broad-histogram ensembles

Yong Wu, Mathias Koerner, Louis Colonna-Romano +4

We study the performance of Monte Carlo simulations that sample a broad histogram in energy by determining the mean first-passage time to span the entire energy space of d-dimensio…

hep-ph2004★ 3 cited

Long distance effects and strangeness in the nucleon

John F. Donoghue, Barry R. Holstein, Tobias Huber +1

We discuss the calculation of the strange magnetic radius of the proton in chiral perturbation theory. In particular we investigate the low energy component of the loop integrals i…

hep-ex2004★ 6 cited

Measurement of Branching Fraction and Dalitz Distribution for B0->D(*)+/- K0 pi-/+ Decays

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

We present measurements of the branching fractions for the three-body decays B0 -> D(*)-/+ K0 pi^+/-B0 -> D(*)-/+ K*+/- using a sample of approximate…

astro-ph2004

Study the X-ray Dust Scattering Halos with Chandra Observations of Cygnus X-3 and Cygnus X-1

Jingen Xiang, Shuang Nan Zhang, Yangsen Yao

We improve the method proposed by Yao \emph{et al} (2003) to resolve the X-ray dust scattering halos of point sources. Using this method we re-analyze the Cygnus X-1 data observed…

astro-ph2004★ 9 cited

Galaxy transmutations: The double ringed galaxy ESO 474-G26

V. Reshetnikov, F. Bournaud, F. Combes +4

Surface photometry and a 21cm HI line spectrum of the giant double-ringed galaxy ESO 474-G26 are presented. The morphology of this system is unique among the 30,000 galaxies with >…

cond-mat.soft2004★ 39 cited

Stationary states and energy cascades in inelastic gases

E. Ben-Naim, J. Machta

We find a general class of nontrivial stationary states in inelastic gases where, due to dissipation, energy is transfered from large velocity scales to small velocity scales. Thes…

astro-ph2004★ 133 cited

The Evolution of Early-type Red Galaxies with the GEMS Survey: Luminosity-size and Stellar Mass-size Relations Since z=1

Daniel H. McIntosh, Eric F. Bell, Hans-Walter Rix +14

We combine HST/ACS imaging from the GEMS survey with redshifts and rest-frame quantities from COMBO-17 to study the evolution of morphologically early-type galaxies with red colors…

hep-ex2004★ 46 cited

A search for the decay

B. Aubert, BABAR Collaboration

We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral-current decay in a data sample of 82 fb collected with the {\sl BABAR} detector at the PEP-II B-factory.…

physics.ed-ph2004★ 9 cited

Understanding the temperature and the chemical potential using computer simulations

Jan Tobochnik, Harvey Gould, Jonathan Machta

Several Monte Carlo algorithms and applications that are useful for understanding the concepts of temperature and chemical potential are discussed. We then introduce a generalizati…

hep-ex2004★ 5 cited

Measurements of B meson decays to omega K* and omega rho

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We describe searches for B meson decays to the charmless vector-vector final states omega K* and omega rho in 89 million B-Bbar pairs produced in e+e- annihilation at sqrt(s)=10.58…

astro-ph2004★ 16 cited

Gas and Stars in an HI-Selected Galaxy Sample

J. L. Rosenberg, S. E. Schneider, J. Posson-Brown

We present the results of a J-band study of the HI-selected Arecibo Dual-Beam Survey and Arecibo Slice Survey galaxy samples using the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey data. We find that th…

cond-mat.other2004★ 29 cited

Motion of discrete solitons assisted by nonlinearity management

Jesus Cuevas, Boris A. Malomed, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We demonstrate that periodic modulation of the nonlinearity coefficient in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equation can strongly facilitate creation of traveling solitons…

astro-ph2004★ 55 cited

Isotropy of the early universe from CMB anisotropies

Evan P. Donoghue, John F. Donoghue

The acoustic peak in the CMB power spectrum is sensitive to causal processes and cosmological parameters in the early universe up to the time of last scattering. We provide limits…

astro-ph2004★ 36 cited

Diameters of Mira Stars Measured Simultenously in the J,H,K' Near-Infrared Bands

R. Millan-Gabet, E. Pedretti, J. D. Monnier +5

We present the first spatially resolved observations of a sample of 23 Mira stars simultaneously measured in the near-infrared J, H and K' bands. The technique used was optical lon…