Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 115:3 (2015) 031801
Authors:
G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, O Abdinov, R Aben, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, J Adelman, S Adomeit, T Adye, AA Affolder, T Agatonovic-Jovin, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, M Agustoni, SP Ahlen, F Ahmadov, G Aielli, H Akerstedt, TPA Åkesson, G Akimoto, AV Akimov, GL Alberghi, J Albert, S Albrand, MJ Alconada Verzini, M Aleksa, IN Aleksandrov, C Alexa, G Alexander, T Alexopoulos, M Alhroob, G Alimonti, L Alio, J Alison, SP Alkire, BMM Allbrooke, PP Allport, A Aloisio, A Alonso, F Alonso, C Alpigiani, A Altheimer, B Alvarez Gonzalez, MG Alviggi, K Amako, Y Amaral Coutinho, C Amelung, D Amidei, SP Amor Dos Santos, A Amorim, S Amoroso, N Amram, G Amundsen, C Anastopoulos, LS Ancu, N Andari, T Andeen, CF Anders, G Anders, KJ Anderson, A Andreazza, V Andrei, S Angelidakis, I Angelozzi, P Anger, A Angerami, F Anghinolfi, AV Anisenkov, N Anjos, A Annovi, M Antonelli, A Antonov, J Antos, F Anulli, M Aoki, L Aperio Bella, G Arabidze, Y Arai, JP Araque, ATH Arce, FA Arduh, J-F Arguin, S Argyropoulos, M Arik, AJ Armbruster, O Arnaez, V Arnal, H Arnold, M Arratia, O Arslan, A Artamonov, G Artoni, S Asai, N Asbah, A Ashkenazi, B Åsman, L Asquith, K Assamagan, R Astalos, M Atkinson, NB Atlay, B Auerbach, K Augsten, M Aurousseau, G Avolio, B Axen, MK Ayoub, G Azuelos, MA Baak, AE Baas, C Bacci, H Bachacou, K Bachas, M Backes, M Backhaus, E Badescu, P Bagiacchi, P Bagnaia, Y Bai, T Bain, JT Baines, OK Baker, P Balek, T Balestri, F Balli, E Banas, Sw Banerjee, AAE Bannoura, HS Bansil, L Barak, SP Baranov, EL Barberio, D Barberis, M Barbero, T Barillari, M Barisonzi, T Barklow, N Barlow, SL Barnes, BM Barnett, RM Barnett, Z Barnovska, A Baroncelli, G Barone, AJ Barr, F Barreiro, J Barreiro Guimarães da Costa, R Bartoldus, AE Barton, P Bartos, A Bassalat, A Basye, RL Bates, SJ Batista, JR Batley, M Battaglia, M Bauce, F Bauer, HS Bawa, JB Beacham, MD Beattie, T Beau, PH Beauchemin, R Beccherle, P Bechtle, HP Beck, K Becker, M Becker, S Becker, M Beckingham, C Becot, AJ Beddall, A Beddall, VA Bednyakov, CP Bee, LJ Beemster, TA Beermann, M Begel, JK Behr, C Belanger-Champagne, WH Bell, G Bella, L Bellagamba, A Bellerive, M Bellomo, K Belotskiy, O Beltramello, O Benary, D Benchekroun, M Bender, K Bendtz, N Benekos, Y Benhammou, E Benhar Noccioli, JA Benitez Garcia, DP Benjamin, JR Bensinger, S Bentvelsen, L Beresford, M Beretta, D Berge, E Bergeaas Kuutmann, N Berger, F Berghaus, J Beringer, C Bernard, NR Bernard, C Bernius, FU Bernlochner, T Berry, P Berta, C Bertella, G Bertoli, F Bertolucci, C Bertsche, D Bertsche, MI Besana, GJ Besjes, O Bessidskaia Bylund, M Bessner, N Besson, C Betancourt, S Bethke, AJ Bevan, W Bhimji, RM Bianchi, L Bianchini, M Bianco, O Biebel, SP Bieniek, M Biglietti, J Bilbao De Mendizabal, H Bilokon, M Bindi, S Binet, A Bingul, C Bini, CW Black, JE Black, KM Black, D Blackburn, RE Blair, J-B Blanchard, JE Blanco, T Blazek, I Bloch, C Blocker, W Blum, U Blumenschein, GJ Bobbink, VS 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Yuan, A Yurkewicz, I Yusuff, B Zabinski, R Zaidan, AM Zaitsev, J Zalieckas, A Zaman, S Zambito, L Zanello, D Zanzi, C Zeitnitz, M Zeman, A Zemla, K Zengel, O Zenin, T Ženiš, D Zerwas, D Zhang, F Zhang, J Zhang, L Zhang, R Zhang, X Zhang, Z Zhang, X Zhao, Y Zhao, Z Zhao, A Zhemchugov, J Zhong, B Zhou, C Zhou, L Zhou, L Zhou, N Zhou, CG Zhu, H Zhu, J Zhu, Y Zhu, X Zhuang, K Zhukov, A Zibell, D Zieminska, NI Zimine, C Zimmermann, R Zimmermann, S Zimmermann, Z Zinonos, M Zinser, M Ziolkowski, L Živković, G Zobernig, A Zoccoli, M zur Nedden, G Zurzolo, L ZwalinskiThe galaxy luminosity function at z ≃ 6 and evidence for rapid evolution in the bright end from z ≃ 7 to 5
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 452:2 (2015) 1817-1840
Authors:
Rebecca Bowler, JS Dunlop, RJ McLure, HJ McCracken, B Milvang-Jensen, H Furusawa, Y Taniguchi, O Le Fèvre, JPU Fynbo, Matthew Jarvis, B HäußlerAbstract:
We present the results of a search for bright (-22.7 ≤MUV ≤-20.5) Lyman-break galaxies at z≃6 within a total of 1.65 deg < sup > 2 < /sup > of imaging in theUltraVISTA/Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) fields. The deep near-infrared imaging available in the two independent fields, in addition to deep optical (including z′-band) data, enables the sample of z ≃ 6 star-forming galaxies to be securely detected longward of the break (in contrast to several previous studies). We show that the expected contamination rate of our initial sample by cool Galactic brown dwarfs is ≲3 per cent and demonstrate that they can be effectively removed by fitting brown dwarf spectral templates to the photometry. At z ≃ 6, the galaxy surface density in the UltraVISTA field exceeds that in the UDS by a factor of ≃ 1.8, indicating strong cosmic variance even between degree-scale fields at z > 5. We calculate the bright end of the restframe Ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function (LF) at z ≃ 6. The galaxy number counts are a factor of ~1.7 lower than predicted by the recent LF determination by Bouwens et al. In comparison to other smaller area studies, we find an evolution in the characteristic magnitude between z ≃ 5 and z ≃ 7 of δM* ~ 0.4, and show that a double power law or a Schechter function can equally well describe the LF at z = 6. Furthermore, the bright end of the LF appears to steepen from z ≃ 7 to z ≃ 5, which could indicate the onset of mass quenching or the rise of dust obscuration, a conclusion supported by comparing the observed LFs to a range of theoretical model predictions.Total eclipse of the heart: The AM CVn Gaia14aae / ASSASN-14cn
(2015)
Authors:
HC Campbell, TR Marsh, M Fraser, ST Hodgkin, E de Miguel, BT Gänsicke, D Steeghs, A Hourihane, E Breedt, SP Littlefair, SE Koposov, L Wyrzykowski, G Altavilla, N Blagorodnova, G Clementini, G Damljanovic, A Delgado, M Dennefeld, AJ Drake, J Fernández-Hernández, G Gilmore, R Gualandi, A Hamanowicz, B Handzlik, LK Hardy, DL Harrison, K Ilkiewicz, PG Jonker, CS Kochanek, Z Kolaczkowski, Z Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, R Kotak, G van Leeuwen, G Leto, P Ochner, M Pawlak, L Palaversa, G Rixon, K Rybicki, BJ Shappee, SJ Smartt, MAP Torres, L Tomasella, M Turatto, K Ulaczyk, S van Velzen, O Vince, NA Walton, P Wielgórski, T Wevers, P Whitelock, A Yoldas, F De Angeli, P Burgess, G Busso, R Busuttil, T Butterley, KC Chambers, C Copperwheat, AB Danilet, VS Dhillon, DW Evans, L Eyer, D Froebrich, A Gomboc, G Holland, TW-S Holoien, JF Jarvis, N Kaiser, DA Kann, D Koester, U Kolb, S Komossa, EA Magnier, A Mahabal, J Polshaw, JL Prieto, T Prusti, M Riello, A Scholz, G Simonian, KZ Stanek, L Szabados, C Waters, RW WilsonConstraining ultra large-scale cosmology with multiple tracers in optical and radio surveys
(2015)
Authors:
David Alonso, Pedro G FerreiraTwo fast X-ray transients in archival Chandra data
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 450:4 (2015) 3765-3770