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cond-mat.soft2011★ 17 cited

Defects in Crystalline Packings of Twisted Filament Bundles: II. Dislocations and Grain Boundaries

Amir Azadi, Gregory M. Grason

Twisted and rope-like assemblies of filamentous molecules are common and vital structural elements in cells and tissue of living organisms. We study the intrinsic frustration occur…

hep-ex2011★ 448 cited

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass en…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 5 cited

AzTEC 1.1 mm Observations of the MBM12 Molecular Cloud

M. J. Kim, S. Kim, S. Youn +11

We present 1.1 mm observations of the dust continuum emission from the MBM12 high-latitude molecular cloud observed with the Astronomical Thermal Emission Camera (AzTEC) mounted on…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 42 cited

Defects in Crystalline Packings of Twisted Filament Bundles: I. Continuum Theory of Disclinations

Gregory M. Grason

We develop the theory of the coupling between in-plane order and out-of-plane geometry in twisted, two-dimensionally ordered filament bundles based on the non-linear continuum elas…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 45 cited

Environmental effects in the interaction and merging of galaxies in zCOSMOS

P. Kampczyk, S. J. Lilly, L. de Ravel +56

(Abridged) We analyze the environments and galactic properties (morphologies and star-formation histories) of a sample of 153 close kinematic pairs in the redshift range 0.2 < z <…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 92 cited

The Atlas3D Project -- XI. Dense molecular gas properties of CO-luminous early-type galaxies

Alison Crocker, Melanie Krips, Martin Bureau +24

Surveying eighteen 12CO-bright galaxies from the ATLAS3D early-type galaxy sample with the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) 30m telescope, we detect 13CO(1-0) and…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 36 cited

Detecting the warm-hot intergalactic medium through X-ray absorption lines

Yangsen Yao, J. Michael Shull, Q. Daniel Wang +1

The warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) at temperatures 1E5-1E7 K is believed to contain 30-50% of the baryons in the local universe. However, all current X-ray detections of the…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 272 cited

Herschel Far-Infrared and Sub-millimeter Photometry for the KINGFISH Sample of Nearby Galaxies

D. A. Dale, G. Aniano, C. W. Engelbracht +39

New far-infrared and sub-millimeter photometry from the Herschel Space Observatory is presented for 61 nearby galaxies from the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Surv…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 48 cited

Luminous and High Stellar Mass Candidate Galaxies at z ~ 8 Discovered in CANDELS

Haojing Yan, Steven L. Finkelstein, Kuang-Han Huang +26

One key goal of the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey is to track galaxy evolution back to z ~ 8. Its two-tiered "wide and deep"…

hep-ex2011★ 215 cited

Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Inclusive jet and dijet cross sections have been measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The…

cs.SI2011

Characterizing Continuous Time Random Walks on Time Varying Graphs

Daniel Figueiredo, Philippe Nain, Bruno Ribeiro +2

In this paper we study the behavior of a continuous time random walk (CTRW) on a stationary and ergodic time varying dynamic graph. We establish conditions under which the CTRW is…

hep-ex2011★ 43 cited

Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This letter presents a search for singly produced vector-like quarks, Q, coupling to light quarks, q. The search is sensitive to both charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC)…

hep-ex2011★ 106 cited

Observation of a new chi_b state in radiative transitions to Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S) at ATLAS

ATLAS Collaboration

The chi_b(nP) quarkonium states are produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS detector. Using a data samp…

gr-qc2011★ 59 cited

Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz

J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott +782

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of many incoherent sources of gravitational waves, of either cosmological or astrophysical…

hep-ex2011★ 47 cited

Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

We report a search for first generation scalar leptoquarks using 1.03 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at sqrt(s)=7 TeV and recorded by…

hep-ex2011★ 42 cited

Measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper reports a measurement of D*+/- meson production in jets from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Th…

hep-ex2011★ 17 cited

B0 meson decays to rho0 K*0, f0 K*0, and rho-K*+, including higher K* resonances

The BABAR Collaboration

We present branching fraction measurements for the decays B0 -> rho0 K*0, B0 -> f0 K*0, and B0 -> rho- K*+, where K* is an S-wave (K pi)_0* or a K*(892) meson; we also measure B0 -…

hep-ex2011★ 85 cited

Search for scalar bottom pair production with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for pair production of the scalar partners of bottom quarks in 2.05 fb^-1 of pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV using the ATLAS experiment are reported. Scala…

hep-ex2011★ 14 cited

Search for production of resonant states in the photon-jet mass distribution using pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

This Letter describes a model-independent search for production of new resonant states in photon-jet events in 2.11 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. We compare…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 85 cited

The Herschel Exploitation of Local Galaxy Andromeda (HELGA). I: Global far-infrared and sub-mm morphology

J. Fritz, G. Gentile, M. W. L. Smith +30

We have obtained Herschel images at five wavelengths from 100 to 500 micron of a ~5.5x2.5 degree area centred on the local galaxy M31 (Andromeda), our nearest neighbour spiral gala…

hep-ex2011★ 57 cited

Search for the Higgs boson in the H->WW(*)->lvlv decay channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search for the Higgs boson has been performed in the H->WW->lvlv channel (l=e/mu) with an integrated luminosity of 2.05/fb of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected with the…

hep-ex2011★ 62 cited

Search for extra dimensions using diphoton events in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Using data recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a search for evidence of extra spatial dimensions has been performed through an analysis of the di…

math.GT2011★ 4 cited

Seiberg-Witten invariants of 3-orbifolds and non-Kähler surfaces

Weimin Chen

A formula is given which computes the Seiberg-Witten invariant of a 3-orbifold from the invariant of the underlying manifold. As an application, we derive a formula for the Seiberg…

hep-ex2011★ 39 cited

Study of Bbar --> Xu l nubar decays in BBbar events tagged by a fully reconstructed B-meson decay and determination of |V_{ub}|

The BABAR Collaboration

We report measurements of partial branching fractions for inclusive charmless semileptonic B decays Bbar --> Xu l nubar, and the determination of the CKM matrix element |V_{ub}|. T…