Evidence for simultaneous jets and disk winds in luminous low-mass X-ray binaries

Kavli Affiliate: Norbert Schulz | First 5 Authors: Jeroen Homan, Joseph Neilsen, Jessamyn L. Allen, Deepto Chakrabarty, Rob Fender | Summary: Recent work on jets and disk winds in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) suggests that they are to a large extent mutually exclusive, with jets observed in spectrally hard states and disk winds observed in […]


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Discovery of a z=0.65 Post-Starburst BAL Quasar in the DES Supernova Fields

Kavli Affiliate: R. G. McMahon | First 5 Authors: Dale Mudd, Paul Martini, Suk Sien Tie, Chris Lidman, Richard McMahon | Summary: We present the discovery of a z=0.65 low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar in a post-starburst galaxy in data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and spectroscopy from the Australian Dark Energy Survey […]


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High purity NaI(Tl) scintillator to search for dark matter

Kavli Affiliate: Kunio Inoue | First 5 Authors: Ken-Ichi Fushimi, Hiroyasu Ejiri, Ryuta Hazama, Haruo Ikeda, Kunio Inoue | Summary: A high purity and large volume NaI(Tl) scintillator was developed to search for cosmic dark matter. The required densities of radioactive impurities (RIs) such as U-chain, Th-chain are less than a few ppt to establish […]


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Spectroscopic Studies of the Physical Origin of Environmental Aging Effects on Doped Graphene

Kavli Affiliate: N. C. Yeh | First 5 Authors: J. -K. Chang, C. -C. Hsu, S. -Y. Liu, C. -I Wu, M. Gharib | Summary: The environmental aging effect of doped graphene is investigated as a function of the organic doping species, humidity, and the number of graphene layers adjacent to the dopant by studies […]


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Markov Chains and Unambiguous Automata

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | First 5 Authors: Christel Baier, Stefan Kiefer, Joachim Klein, David Müller, James Worrell | Summary: Unambiguous automata are nondeterministic automata in which every word has at most one accepting run. In this paper we give a polynomial-time algorithm for model checking discrete-time Markov chains against omega-regular specifications represented as unambiguous […]


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The $ω$-SQUIPT: phase-engineering of Josephson topological materials

Kavli Affiliate: Yu V. Nazarov | First 5 Authors: E. Strambini, S. D’Ambrosio, F. Vischi, F. S. Bergeret, Yu. V. Nazarov | Summary: Multi-terminal superconducting Josephson junctions based on the proximity effect offer the bright opportunity to tailor non trivial quantum states in nanoscale weak-links. These structures can realize exotic topologies in multidimensions as, for […]


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S-folds and 4d N=3 superconformal field theories

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Ofer Aharony, Yuji Tachikawa, Kiyonori Gomi, , | Summary: S-folds are generalizations of orientifolds in type IIB string theory, such that the geometric identifications are accompanied by non-trivial S-duality transformations. They were recently used by Garcia-Etxebarria and Regalado to provide the first construction of four dimensional N=3 […]


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Women in physics in the United States: recruitment and retention

Kavli Affiliate: Edmund Bertschinger | First 5 Authors: Nina Abramzon, Patrice Benson, Edmund Bertschinger, Susan Blessing, Geraldine L. Cochran | Summary: Initiatives to increase the number, persistence, and success of women in physics in the US reach pre-teen girls through senior women. Programs exist at both the local and national levels. In addition, researchers have […]


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