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| Preprint Number | Author(s) | Title |
| MCTP-08-01 | Edward Timko | Angular Correlations among the Leptons in Polarized ZZ to 4 Lepton Decays |
| MCTP-08-02 | Nemanja Kaloper and Scott Watson | Geometric Precipices in String Cosmology |
| MCTP-08-04 | B.Acharya, K. Bobkov, G.L. Kane, P. Kumar, J. Shao | The G2-MSSM - A Well Motivated Model from M-Theory |
| MCTP-08-05 | Jason Kumar, Arvind Rajaraman, James D. Wells | Probing CP-violation at colliders through interference effects in diboson production and decay |
| MCTP-08-06 | Timothy Cohen and Aaron Pierce | Testing U(1) Solution to the Mu Problem |
| MCTP-08-07 | Katherine Freese, Matthew G. Brown, William H. Kinney | The Phanton Bounce: A New Proposal for an Oscillating Cosmology |
| MCTP-08-08 | Cosimo Bambi and Katherine Freese | Dangerous Implications of a Minimum Length in Quantum Gravity |
| MCTP-08-09 | Yanou Cui and David Morrissey | Non-Thermal Dark Matter from Cosmic Strings |
| MCTP-08-10 | Katherine Freese, Christopher Savage, William H. Kinney | Natural Inflation: The Status after WMAP 3-year data |
| MCTP-08-11 | Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar, Anthony Aguirre | Dark Matter Capture in the first star: A Power source and a limit on Stellar Mass |
| MCTP-08-12 | Bobby S. Acharya, Piyush Kumar, Konstantin Bobkov, Gordon Kane, Jing Shao, Scott Watson | Non-thermal Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem in String Frameworks. |
| MCTP-08-13 | Eung Jin Chun, Jason L. Evans, David E. Morrissey, James D. Wells | Higgs Boson Exempt No-Scale Supersymmetry with a Neutrino Seesaw: Implications for Lepton Flavor Violation and Leptogenesis |
| MCTP-08-14 | A. Menon, Arun N.Thalapillil | Interaction of Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos with Weak Gravitational Fields |
MCTP-08-15 |
Maruskin, J. M., Scheeres, D. J., Adams, F. C., and Bloch, A. M. |
The Eccentric Frame Decomposition of Central Force Fields |
| MCTP-08-16 | Adams, F. C., and Bloch, A. M. | Hill's Equation with Random Forcing Terms |
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Adams, F. C., Laughlin, G., and Bloch, A. M. | Turbulence in Extrasolar Planetary Systems Implies that Mean Motion Resonances are Rare |
| MCTP-08-18 | Y.P. Bliokh, S. Savel'ev, F. Nori | Electron beam instability in left-handed media |
| MCTP-08-19 | J.Q. You, X. Hu, S. Ashhab, F. Nori |
Comment on: "Introducing the Transmon: a new superconducting qubit from optimizing the Cooper Pair Box" |
| MCTP-08-20 | A. Tonomura, F. Nori |
Disturbance without the force |
| MCTP-08-21 | S. Ashhab, J.R. Johansson, A.M. Zagoskin, F. Nori |
Single-artificial-atom lasing and its suppression by strong pumping |
| MCTP-08-22 | H. Ian, Z.R. Gong, Y.-x. Liu, C.P. Sun, F. Nori |
Cavity optomechanical coupling assisted by an atomic gas |
| MCTP-08-23 | L. Zhou, Z.R. Gong, Y.-x. Liu, C.P. Sun, F. Nori |
Controllable scattering of photons inside a one-dimensional resonator waveguide |
| MCTP-08-24 | K. Maruyama, F. Nori |
Entanglement purification using natural spin chain dynamics and single spin measurements |
| MCTP-08-25 | S. Savel'ev, A.O. Sboychakov, A.L. Rakhmanov, F. Nori |
Nonlocal macroscopic quantum tunneling and quantum terahertz electrodynamics in layered superconductors: Theory and simulations |
| MCTP-08-26 | D.I. Tsomokos, S. Ashhab, F. Nori |
Fully-connected network of superconducting qubits in a cavity |
| MCTP-08-27 | T. Yamamoto, M. Watanabe, J.Q. You, Yu.A. Pashkin, O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura, F. Nori, J.S. Tsai |
Spectroscopy of superconducting charge qubits coupled by a Josephson inductance |
| MCTP-08-28 | L.F. Wei, J.R. Johansson, L.X. Cen, S. Ashhab, F. Nori |
Controllable coherent population transfers in superconducting qubits for quantum computing |
| MCTP-08-29 | A.L. Rakhmanov, A.M. Zagoskin, S. Savel'ev, F. Nori |
Quantum metamaterials: Electromagnetic waves in a Josephson qubit line |
| MCTP-08-30 | J.Q. You, Y.-x. Liu, F. Nori |
Simultaneous cooling of an artificial atom and its neighboring quantum system |
| MCTP-08-31 | K. Maruyama, F. Nori, V. Vedral |
Physics of Maxwell's demon and information |
| MCTP-08-32 | K.Yu. Bliokh, Yu.P. Bliokh, V. Freilikher, S. Savel'ev, F. Nori |
Unusual resonators: Plasmonics, metamaterials, and random media |
| MCTP-08-33 | S. Ashhab, A.O. Niskanen, K. Harrabi, Y. Nakamura, T. Picot, P.C. de Groot, C.J.P.M. Harmans, J.E. Mooij, F. Nori |
Interqubit coupling mediated by a high-excitation-energy quantum object |
| MCTP-08-34 | J.R. Johansson, L.G. Mourokh, A.Yu. Smirnov, F. Nori |
Enhancing the conductance of a two-electron quantum shuttle |
| MCTP-08-35 | A. Frieman, M.S. Turner and D. Huterer | Dark Energy and the Acceerating Universe |
| MCTP-08-36 | G. Zhao, D. Huterer and X. Zhang | High-resolution temporal constraints on the dynamics of dark energy |
| MCTP-08-37 | N. Dalal, O. Dore, D. Huterer and A. Shirokov |
The imprints of primordial non-gaussianities on large-scale structure: scale dependent bias and abundance of virialized objects |
| MCTP-08-38 | E. S. Voges, M. S. Oey, R. A. M. Walterbos, & T. M. Wilkinson | A Reexamination of Observed and Predicted Stellar Ionizing Fluxes in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| MCTP-08-39 | E. Gimon, F. Larsen, and J. Simon | Black Holes in Supergravity: the non-BPS branch |
| MCTP-08-40 | A. Castro, J. Davis, F. Larsen, and P. Kraus | String Theory Effects on Five-Dimensional Black Hole Physics |
| MCTP-08-41 | Wei Zhang, G.-D. Lin, L.-M. Duan | BCS-BEC Crossover of a Quasi-two-dimensional Fermi Gas: the Significance of Dressed Molecules |
| MCTP-08-42 | G.-D. Lin, Wei Zhang, L.-M. Duan | Characteristics of Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice |
| MCTP-08-43 | M. Raidal et al |
Flavour physics of leptons and dipole moments |
| MCTP-08-44 | Gordon L. Kane, Alexey A. Petrov, Jing Shao and Lian-Tao Wang | Initial determination of the spin of the gluino and squark at LHC |
| MCTP-08-45 | M. Artuso, B. Meadows, A. Petrov | Charm Meson Decays |
| MCTP-08-46 | C. Bambi, A. Dolgov, A. Petrov | Primordial black holes and the obvserved Galactic 511-keV line |
| MCTP-08-47 | M. Carena, A. Menon, C.E. Wagner | Interplay between B physics constraints and dark matter searches |
| MCTP-08-48 | Diana Vaman and Y.P.- Yao | Space-Cone Gauge, Lorentz invariance on-shell recursion for one loop Yang-Mills Amplitudes |
| MCTP-08-49 | Diana Vaman and Y.P.- Yao | Analytic Scattering Amplitudes for QCD |
| MCTP-08-50 | Hai Lin | Kac-Moody Extensions of 3-Algebras and M2-branes |
| MCTP-08-51 | Kentaro Hanaki and Hai Lin | M2-M5 Systems in N=6 Chern-Simons Theory |
| MCTP-08-52 | James T. Liu and Phillip Szepietowski | Higher derivative corrections to R-charged AdS_5 black holes and field redefinitions |
| MCTP-08-53 | James T. Liu and Wafic A. Sabra | Hamilton-Jacobi Counterterms for Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity |
| MCTP-08-54 | Phill Grajek, Gordon Kane, Daniel J. Phalen, Aaron Pierce, and Scott Watson | Neutralino Dark Matter from Indirect Detection Revisited |
| MCTP-08-55 | David E. Morrissey and Aaron T. Pierce | Light Pseudoscalars and LHC Higgs Signatures in the NMSSM with Gauge or Gaugino Mediation |
| MCTP-08-56 | De-fu Hou, James T. Liu and Hai-cang Ren | Partition Function of a Wilson Loop in a Strongly Coupled N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma with Fluctuations |
| MCTP-08-57 | Ibrahima Bah, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Cesar A. Terrero-Escalante | Holographic Geometric Entropy at Finite Temperature from Black Holes in Global AdS Spaces |
| MCTP-08-58 | Spencer Chang, Aaron Pierce and Neal Weiner | Using the Energy Spectrum at DAMA/LIBRA to Probe Light Dark Matter |
| MCTP-08-59 | Christopher Savage, Graciela Gelmini, Paolo Gondolo, Katherine Freese |
Compatibility of DAMA/LIBRA dark matter detection with other searches |
| MCTP-08-60 | Timothy Cohen, David E. Morrissey and Aaron Pierce |
Changes in Dark Matter Properties After Freeze-Out |
| MCTP-08-61 | A. Farmany, S. Abbasi and A. Naghipour | Correction to the Higher Dimensional Black Hole Entropy |
| MCTP-08-62 | Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Vincent G. J. Rodgers and Kory Stiffler | Luscher Term for k-string Potential from Holographic One-loop Corrections |
| MCTP-08-63 | Benjamin A. Burrington and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas | Coulomb Phase Gluon Scattering at Strong Coupling |
| MCTP-08-64 | Thomas Flacke, Arjun Menon and Daniel J. Phalen | Non-minimal Universal Extra Dimensions |
| MCTP-08-65 | Sunghoon Jung, James D. Wells | Comparison of EDM and LHC for probing CP violation in triple boson vertices |
| MCTP-08-66 | Abbas Farmany, Roshanak Lotfikar, Shahryar Abbasi, Ali Naghipour, Amin Farmany | Non-commutative geometry and matrix quantum mechanics |
| MCTP-08-67 | Jason L. Evans, David E. Morrissey, and James D. Wells | Vacuum Stability with Tachyonic Boundary Higgs Masses in No-Scale Supersymmetry or Gaugino Mediation |
| MCTP-08-68 | Sera Cremonini, Kentaro Hanaki, James T. Liu, Phillip Szepietowski |
Black holes in five-dimensional gauged supergravity with higher derivatives |
| MCTP-08-69 | Phill Grajek, Gordon Kane, Daniel Phalen, Aaron Pierce, Scott Watson | Is the PAMELA Positron Excess Winos? |
| MCTP-08-70 | Rykoff, E. S.; McKay, T. A.; Becker, M. R.; Evrard, A.; Johnston, D. E.; Koester, B. P.; Rozo, E.; Sheldon, E. S.; Wechsler, R. H. | Measuring the Mean and Scatter of the X-Ray Luminosity--Optical Richness Relation for maxBCG Galaxy Clusters, Astrophys. J., 675, 1106. |
| MCTP-08-71 | Nord, B.; Stanek, R.; Rasia, E.; Evrard, A.E. | Effects of Selection and Covariance on X-ray Scaling Relations of Galaxy Clusters, Monthly Notices Royal Astron Soc, 381, 10. |
| MCTP-08-72 | Evrard, A.E., Bialek, J., Busha, M., White, M., Habib, S., Heitmann, K., Warren, M., Rasia, E., Tormen, G., Moscardini, L., Power, C., Jenkins, A.R., Gao, L., Frenk, C.S., Springel, V.,White, S. D. M., and Diemand, J. | Virial Scaling of Massive Dark Matter Halos: Why Clusters Prefer a High Normalization Cosmology, Astrophys. J., 672, 122. |
| MCTP-08-73 | Rykoff, E. S.; Evrard, A.E.; McKay, T.A.; Becker, M.R.; Johnston, D.E.; Koester, B.P.; Nord, B.; Rozo, E.; Sheldon, E.S.; Stanek, R.; Wechsler, R.H., | The Lx-M Relation of Clusters of Galaxies, Monthly Notices Royal Astron Soc, 387, 28. |
| MCTP-08-74 | Rozo, E.; Wechsler, R.H.; Koester, B.P.; Evrard, A.E.; McKay, T.A. | Optically-Selected Cluster Catalogs as a Precision Cosmology Tool, Astrophys. J., submitted, (astro-ph/0703574). |
| MCTP-08-75 | Rozo, E.; Wechsler, R.H.; Koester, B.P.; Evrard, A.E.; McKay, T.A.; Johnston, D.; Sheldon, E.S.; Annis, J.; Frieman, J.A. | Cosmological Constraints from SDSS maxBCG Cluster Abundances, Astrophys. J., submitted, (astroph/0703571). |
| MCTP-08-76 | Johnston, D.E.; Sheldon, E.S.; Wechsler, R.H.; Rozo, E.; Koester, B.P.; Frieman, J.A.; McKay, T.A.; Evrard, A.E.; Becker, M.R.; Annis, J. | Crosscorrelation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters II: Cluster Density Profiles and the Mass-Richness Relation, Astrophys. J., submitted, (arXiv.org:0709.1159). |
| MCTP-08-77 | Rozo, E.; Rykoff, E.S.; Evrard, A.; Becker, M.; McKay, T.; Wechsler, R.H.;Koester, B.P.; Hao, J.; Hansen, S.; Sheldon, E.; Johnston, D.; Annis, J.; Frieman,J. | Constraining the Scatter in the Mass-Richness Relation of maxBCG Clusters With Weak Lensing and X-ray Data, Astrophys. J., submitted, (arXiv.org:0809.2794) |
| MCTP-08-78 | Rozo, E.; Rykoff, E.S.; Koester, B.P.; McKay, T.; Hao, J.; Evrard, A.; Wechsler,R.H.; Hansen, S.; Sheldon, E.; Johnston, D.; Becker, M.; Annis, J.; Bleem, L.; Scranton, R. | An Improved Cluster Richness Estimator, Astrophys. J.,submitted, (arXiv.org:0809.2797) |
| MCTP-08-79 | Katherine Freese, Peter Bodenheimer, Douglas Spolyar, Paolo Gondolo | Stellar Structure of Dark Stars: a first phase of Stellar Evolution due to Dark Matter Annihilation |
| MCTP-08-80 | Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar, Anthony Aguirre, Peter Bodenheimer, Paolo Gondolo, J.A. Sellwood, Naoki Yoshida | Dark Stars: Dark Matter in the First Stars leads to a New Phase of Stellar Evolution |
| MCTP-08-81 | Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar and Paolo Gondolo | The Effect of Dark Matter on the First Stars: A New Phase of Stellar Evolution |
| MCTP-08-82 | Christopher Savage, Katherine Freese and Paolo Gondolo | Annual modulation of dark matter in the presence of streams |
| MCTP-08-83 | Amjad Ashoorioon and Katherine Freese | Gravity Waves from Chain Inflation |
| MCTP-08-84 | Cosimo Bambi, Douglas Spolyar, Alexander Dolgov, Katherine Freese and Marta Volonteri | Implications of primordial black holes on the first stars and the origin of the super-massive black holes |