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Physical Review D, a leading journal in elementary particle physics, field theory, gravitation, and cosmology, appears monthly in two sections, D1 and D15:
D1: reports on experimental high-energy physics, phenomenologically oriented theory of particles and fields, cosmic-ray physics, electroweak interactions, applications of QCD and lattice gauge theory.
D15: covers general relativity, quantum theory of gravitation, cosmology, particle astrophysics, formal aspects of theory of particles and fields, general and formal development in gauge field theories and string theory.
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APS Announces 149 New Outstanding Referees for 2012 February 28, 2012 The editors of the APS journals have selected 149 new Outstanding Referees for 2012, out of more than 60,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2012 honorees come from 31 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a sortable listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees. More News/Announcements
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Physics: Gravity Finds a New Partner January 19, 2012
A well-known model for studying magnetic phase transitions may provide a path to developing a quantum theory of gravity. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. D 85, 024032 (2012)] Read Article | More Synopses |
Samuel A. Goudsmit Papers available online July 26, 2011 The Niels Bohr Library and Archives is pleased to announce that it has digitized the complete Samuel A. Goudsmit Papers
(1921–1979, 30 linear feet, approximately 67,000 images). The Goudsmit Papers are a major international collection of correspondence, research notebooks, reports, World War II science documents, and other material of Goudsmit, a Dutch physicist who spent most of his career in the US and was involved at the cutting-edge of physics for more than 50 years. Goudsmit became Editor of Physical Review in 1951 and was responsible for launching Physical Review Letters seven years later. In 1967 he was named APS Editor-in-Chief. More News/Announcements
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Editorial: Redefining Length July 11, 2011 A picture is worth 170 words, not one thousand, according to APS's new length scheme that aims to ease the frustrations typically associated with estimating the length of Letters and other short papers.
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APS Updates all Scanned Archival PDFs in our Physical Review Online Archive June 6, 2011 The American Physical Society is pleased to announce a refresh of all PDFs contained in the scanned portion of our Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA). APS was one of the first publishers to put our entire backfile online, completing the scanning process in May 2001. In those early days, APS opted to put our content online quickly and in an inexpensive manner that would then allow us to take advantage of any future improvements in technology. We have now completed the next step by partnering with Aquaforest. Using their Autobahn DX conversion software, we have efficiently reprocessed our entire scanned archive of approximately 250,000 articles, further compressing them and adding searchable text. Researchers will find these enhanced PDFs faster to download and much more convenient to navigate and read. APS is committed to ensuring the long-term availability and usability of all of the information that we publish. More News/Announcements
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American Physical Society continues as MathJax Supporter May 13, 2011 The American Physical Society has announced that it will continue its support for the MathJax project for another year. APS was one of first organizations to become a MathJax Supporter, and is now one of the first to renew. The announcement represents an important milestone for MathJax, since support of organizations like APS over time is key to ensuring the project’s long-term success. Read More | More News/Announcements
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Deepest care and concern for colleagues in Japan March 23, 2011 APS has expressed its deepest care and concern for colleagues in Japan who have been affected by the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emergency. If you are having difficulties accessing our journals because of this situation, please contact us at help@aps.org and we will try to assist you. More News/Announcements
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APS to Adopt Creative Commons Licensing and Publish Open Access Articles and Journals February 15, 2011 Authors in most Physical Review journals have a new alternative: to pay an article-processing charge whereby their accepted manuscripts will be available barrier-free and open access on publication. These manuscripts will be published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), the most permissive of the CC licenses, granting authors and others the right to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given. This new alternative is in addition to traditional subscription-funded publication; authors may choose one or the other for their accepted papers.
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Editorial: Expanded Open Access and Creative Commons February 15, 2011 As of 15 February 2011, authors in most Physical Review journals will have a new alternative: to pay an article-processing charge whereby their accepted manuscripts will be available barrier-free and open access on publication.
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APS Online Journals Available Free in U.S. High Schools February 9, 2011 The American Physical Society (APS) announces a new public access initiative that will give high school students and teachers in the United States full use of all online APS journals.
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APS Announces 143 New Outstanding Referees for 2011 February 9, 2011 The editors of the APS journals have selected 143 new Outstanding Referees for 2011, out of more than 45,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2011 honorees come from 23 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a sortable listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees. More News/Announcements
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Recently published Rapid Communications in Physical Review D.
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New relation between transverse angular momentum and generalized parton distributions
Elliot Leader
I derive a rigorous relation between the expectation value of the transverse component of the Belinfante version of the angular momentum ⟨JTbel⟩ of a quark in a transversely polarized nucleon in terms of the generalized parton distributions H and E, namely ⟨JTbel(quark)⟩=[1/2M][P0∫-11dxxEq(x,0,0)+M∫... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 051501 (2012)] Published Thu Mar 1, 2012
Minimal extension of tribimaximal mixing and generalized Z2×Z2 symmetries
Shivani Gupta, Anjan S. Joshipura, and Ketan M. Patel
We discuss consequences of combining the effective Z2×Z2 symmetry of the tribimaximal neutrino mass matrix with the CP symmetry. Imposition of such generalized Z2×Z2 symmetries leads to predictive neutrino mass matrices determined in terms of only four parameters and leads to a nonzero θ13 and maxim... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031903 (2012)] Published Tue Feb 21, 2012
Vanishing thermal mass in the strongly coupled QCD/QED medium
Hisao Nakkagawa, Hiroshi Yokota, and Koji Yoshida
In this paper we perform a nonperturbative analysis of a thermal quasifermion in thermal QCD/QED by studying its self-energy function through the Dyson-Schwinger equation with the hard-thermal-loop resummed improved ladder kernel. Our analysis reveals several interesting results, some of which may f... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031902 (2012)] Published Fri Feb 17, 2012
Model dependence of the bremsstrahlung effects from the superluminal neutrino at OPERA
Fedor Bezrukov and Hyun Min Lee
We revisit the bremsstrahlung process of a superluminal neutrino motivated by OPERA results. From a careful analysis of the plane-wave solutions of the superluminal neutrino, we find that the squared matrix elements contain additional terms from Lorentz violation due to the modified spin sum for the... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031901 (2012)] Published Mon Feb 6, 2012
Search for spin-dependent short-range force between nucleons using optically polarized 3He gas
W. Zheng, H. Gao, B. Lalremruata, Y. Zhang, G. Laskaris, W. M. Snow, and C. B. Fu
We propose a new method to detect short-range P- and T-violating interactions between nucleons, based on measuring the precession frequency shift of polarized 3He nuclei in the presence of an unpolarized mass. To maximize the sensitivity, a high-pressure 3He cell with thin glass windows (250 μm) is... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031505 (2012)] Published Thu Feb 23, 2012
Fast fits for lattice QCD correlators
K. Hornbostel, G. P. Lepage, C. T. H. Davies, R. J. Dowdall, H. Na, and J. Shigemitsu (HPQCD collaboration)
We illustrate a technique for fitting lattice QCD correlators to sums of exponentials that is significantly faster than traditional fitting methods—10–40 times faster for the realistic examples we present. Our examples are drawn from a recent analysis of the Υ spectrum, and another recent analysis o... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031504 (2012)] Published Wed Feb 8, 2012
High-precision fBs and heavy quark effective theory from relativistic lattice QCD
C. McNeile, C. T. H. Davies, E. Follana, K. Hornbostel, and G. P. Lepage (HPQCD Collaboration)
We present a new determination of the Bs leptonic decay constant from lattice QCD simulations that use gluon configurations from MILC and a highly improved discretization of the relativistic quark action for both valence quarks. Our result, fBs=0.225(4) GeV, is almost 3 times more accurate than pre... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031503 (2012)] Published Tue Feb 7, 2012
Flavor SU(4) breaking between effective couplings
Bruno El-Bennich, Gastão Krein, Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts, and David J. Wilson
Using a framework in which all elements are constrained by Dyson-Schwinger equation studies in QCD, and therefore incorporate a consistent, direct and simultaneous description of light- and heavy-quarks and the states they constitute, we analyze the accuracy of SU(4)-flavor symmetry relations betwee... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031502 (2012)] Published Tue Feb 7, 2012
Precise predictions for Z-boson +4 jet production at hadron colliders
H. Ita, Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, D. A. Kosower, and D. Maître
We present the cross section for production of a Z boson in association with four jets at the Large Hadron Collider, at next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling. When the Z decays to neutrinos, this process is a key irreducible background to many searches for new physics. Its computation has been m... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031501 (2012)] Published Mon Feb 6, 2012
Effect of the reactor antineutrino anomaly on the first Double-Chooz results
Carlo Giunti and Marco Laveder
We investigate the possible effects of short-baseline ν̅ e disappearance implied by the reactor antineutrino anomaly on the Double-Chooz determination of ϑ13 through the normalization of the initial antineutrino flux with the Bugey-4 measurement. We show that the effects are negligible and th... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031301 (2012)] Published Wed Feb 8, 2012
First muon-neutrino disappearance study with an off-axis beam
K. Abe et al. (The T2K Collaboration)
We report a measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in the T2K experiment. The 295-km muon-neutrino beam from Tokai to Kamioka is the first implementation of the off-axis technique in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. With data corresponding to 1.43×1020 protons on target, we obser... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031103 (2012)] Published Wed Feb 22, 2012
Search for CP violation in the decay τ-→π-Ks0(≥Oπ0)ντ
J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
We report a search for CP violation in the decay τ-→π-KS0(≥0π0)ντ using a data set of 437×106 τ-lepton pairs, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 476 fb-1, collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- storage rings. The CP-violating decay-rate asymmetry is determi... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031102 (2012)] Published Mon Feb 13, 2012
Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with muon antineutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector
P. Adamson et al. (The MINOS Collaboration)
We have searched for sidereal variations in the rate of antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Near Detector. Using antineutrinos produced by the NuMI beam, we find no statistically significant sidereal modulation in the rate. When this result is placed in the context of the Standard Model Extension... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 031101 (2012)] Published Thu Feb 9, 2012
Remarks on the quantum numbers of X(3872) from the invariant mass distributions of the ρJ/ψ and ωJ/ψ final states
C. Hanhart, Yu. S. Kalashnikova, A. E. Kudryavtsev, and A. V. Nefediev
We reanalyze the two- and three-pion mass distributions in the decays X(3872)→ρJ/ψ and X(3872)→ωJ/ψ and argue that the present data favor the 1++ assignment for the quantum numbers of the X. [Phys. Rev. D 85, 011501 (2012)] Published Fri Jan 6, 2012
Transition radiation from the neutrino-photon interaction in matter
Juan Carlos D’Olivo and José Antonio Loza
We show that, because of their effective electromagnetic interaction in matter, transition radiation is emitted whenever neutrinos goes across the boundary between two media with different indices of refraction. This effect occurs in the context of the standard model and does not depend on any exoti... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 011303 (2012)] Published Mon Jan 30, 2012
Is there evidence for sterile neutrinos in IceCube data?
V. Barger, Y. Gao, and D. Marfatia
Data from the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector and Mini-Booster Neutrino experiments, and the revised expectations of the antineutrino flux from nuclear reactors suggest the existence of eV-mass sterile neutrinos. The 3+2 and 1+3+1 scenarios accommodate all relevant short-baseline neutrino data... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 011302 (2012)] Published Wed Jan 18, 2012
Search for new phenomena in events with two Z bosons and missing transverse momentum in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)
We present a search for new phenomena in events with two reconstructed Z bosons and large missing transverse momentum, sensitive to processes pp̅ →X2X2→ZZX1X1, where X2 is an unstable particle decaying as X2→ZX1 and X1 is undetected. The particles X1 and X2 may be, among other possibilities, ... [Phys. Rev. D 85, 011104 (2012)] Published Thu Jan 26, 2012
Measurement of the relative branching ratio of Bs0→J/ψf0(980) to Bs0→J/ψϕ
V. M. Abazov et al. (The D0 Collaboration)
We present a measurement of the relative branching fraction, Rf0/ϕ, of Bs0→J/ψf0(980), with
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