Kavli Affiliate: Richard Kessler | First 5 Authors: Richard Kessler, Alex Conley, Saurabh Jha, Stephen Kuhlmann, | Summary: We have publicly released a blinded mix of simulated SNe, with types (Ia, Ib, Ic, II) selected in proportion to their expected rate. The simulation is realized in the griz filters of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert M. Wald | First 5 Authors: Robert M. Wald, , , , | Summary: The motion of sufficiently small body in general relativity should be accurately described by a geodesic. However, there should be “gravitational self-force” corrections to geodesic motion, analogous to the “radiation reaction forces” that occur in electrodynamics. It is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Carlos Wagner | First 5 Authors: Patrick Draper, Tao Liu, Carlos E. M. Wagner, , | Summary: We analyze the Tevatron reach for neutral Higgs bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), using current exclusion limits on the Standard Model Higgs. We study four common benchmark scenarios for the soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters […]
Kavli Affiliate: Thomas M. Crawford | First 5 Authors: Samir Garzon, Richard A. Webb, Mark Covington, Shehzaad Kaka, Thomas M. Crawford | Summary: In large magnetoresistance devices spin torque-induced changes in resistance can produce GHz current and voltage oscillations which can affect magnetization reversal. In addition, capacitive shunting in large resistance devices can further reduce […]
Kavli Affiliate: Karen L. Byrum | First 5 Authors: Robert G. Wagner, Karen L. Byrum, Mayly Sanchez, Alexandre V. Vaniachine, Oswald Siegmund | Summary: We advocate support of research aimed at developing alternatives to the photomultiplier tube for photon detection in large astroparticle experiments such as gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy, and direct dark matter detectors. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Joshua A. Frieman | First 5 Authors: Joshua A. Frieman, , , , | Summary: The discovery ten years ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating put in place the present cosmological model, in which the Universe is composed of 4% baryons, 20% dark matter, and 76% dark energy. Yet the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | First 5 Authors: Yang Bai, Marcela Carena, Eduardo Ponton, , | Summary: We propose a scenario in which the Planck scale is dynamically linked to the electroweak scale induced by top condensation. The standard model field content, without the Higgs, is promoted to a 5D warped background. There is also […]
Kavli Affiliate: Scott P. Wakely | First 5 Authors: H. S. Ahn, P. S. Allison, M. G. Bagliesi, J. J. Beatty, G. Bigongiari | Summary: We present new measurements of heavy cosmic-ray nuclei at high energies per- formed during the first flight of the balloon-borne cosmic-ray experiment CREAM (Cosmic-Ray Energetics And Mass). This instrument uses […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luca Grandi | First 5 Authors: R. Acciarri, M. Antonello, B. Baibussinov, M. Baldo-Ceolin, P. Benetti | Summary: A dedicated test of the effects of Oxygen contamination in liquid Argon has been performed at the INFN-Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS, Italy) within the WArP R&D program. Two detectors have been used: the WArP 2.3 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paolo Privitera | First 5 Authors: M. Ave, , , , | Summary: The fluorescence detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays requires a detailed knowledge of the fluorescence light emission from nitrogen molecules over a wide range of atmospheric parameters, corresponding to altitudes typical of the cosmic ray shower development in the […]