Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2015

[1351] arXiv:1510.08127 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux by Super-Kamiokande: energy spectra, geomagnetic effects, and solar modulation

E. Richard, K. Okumura, K. Abe, Y. Haga, Y. Hayato, M. Ikeda, K. Iyogi, J. Kameda, Y. Kishimoto, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, M. Nakahata, T. Nakajima, Y. Nakano, S. Nakayama, A. Orii, H. Sekiya, M. Shiozawa, A. Takeda, H. Tanaka, T. Tomura, R. A. Wendell, R. Akutsu, T. Irvine, T. Kajita, K. Kaneyuki, Y. Nishimura, L. Labarga, P. Fernandez, J. Gustafson, C. Kachulis, E. Kearns, J. L. Raaf, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, S. Berkman, C. M. Nantais, H. A. Tanaka, S. Tobayama, M. Goldhaber, W. R. Kropp, S. Mine, P. Weatherly, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, V. Takhistov, K. S. Ganezer, B. L. Hartfiel, J. Hill, N. Hong, J. Y. Kim, I. T. Lim, R. G. Park, A. Himmel, Z. Li, E. OSullivan, K. Scholberg, C. W. Walter, T. Wongjirad, T. Ishizuka, S. Tasaka, J. S. Jang, J. G. Learned, S. Matsuno, S. N. Smith, M. Friend, T. Hasegawa, T. Ishida, T. Ishii, T. Kobayashi, T. Nakadaira, K. Nakamura, Y. Oyama, K. Sakashita, T. Sekiguchi, T. Tsukamoto, A. T. Suzuki, Y. Takeuchi, T. Yano, S. V. Cao, T. Hiraki, S. Hirota, K. Huang, T. Kikawa, A. Minamino, T. Nakaya, K. Suzuki, Y. Fukuda, K. Choi, Y. Itow, T. Suzuki, P. Mijakowski, K. Frankiewicz, J. Hignight, J. Imber, C. K. Jung, X. Li, J. L. Palomino, M. J. Wilking, C. Yanagisawa

Comments: 30 pages, 31 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 052001 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[1352] arXiv:1510.08129 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The Harmonic Oscillator in the Classical Limit of a Minimal-Length Scenario

T. S. Quintela Jr., J. C. Fabris, J. A. Nogueira

Comments: Accepted for publication in Brazilian Journal of Physics

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[1353] arXiv:1510.08195 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter from membrane inflationary paradigm

Sayantan Choudhury, Arnab Dasgupta

Comments: 67 pages, 27 figures, 1 table, Final version, Accepted for publication in Physics of the Dark Universe

Journal-ref: Phys. Dark Univ. 13 (2016) pp. 35-65

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[1354] arXiv:1510.08205 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Infinite efficiency of collisional Penrose process: Can over-spinning Kerr geometry be the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos ?

Mandar Patil, Tomohiro Harada, Ken-ichi Nakao, Pankaj S. Joshi, Masashi Kimura

Comments: 55 pages, 10 figures, section added, authors added, published in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 104015 (2016)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1355] arXiv:1510.08253 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Spin precession in anisotropic cosmologies

A.Yu. Kamenshchik, O.V. Teryaev

Comments: 15 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1356] arXiv:1510.08340 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Rutherford scattering and Keplerian orbits for electrically charged bodies in heterotic string theory

J. R. Villanueva, Marco Olivares

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[1357] arXiv:1510.08377 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Light wave propagation through a dilaton-Maxwell domain wall

J.R. Morris, A. Schulze-Halberg

Comments: 9 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) 8, 085026

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[1358] arXiv:1510.08432 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The covariant formulation of f(T) gravity

Martin Krššák, Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Comments: 12 pages, version published in CQG

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 33 (2016) 115009

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1359] arXiv:1510.08514 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Affleck-Dine leptogenesis and its backreaction to inflaton dynamics

Masaki Yamada

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1360] arXiv:1510.08540 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Hints of a PeV Scale Supersymmetric Neutrino Sector: Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, keV and PeV Anomalies

Bibhushan Shakya, Samuel B. Roland, James D. Wells

Comments: Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[1361] arXiv:1510.08584 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Electroweak interaction of particles with accelerated matter and astrophysical applications

Maxim Dvornikov (IZMIRAN, Tomsk State University)

Comments: 3 pages in LaTeX2e; 17lomcon style file is included; contribution to the proceedings of the 17th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics

Journal-ref: in: Particle Physics at the Year of Light, ed. by A.I. Studenikin (World Scientific, Singapore, 2017), pp. 495-498

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1362] arXiv:1510.08585 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The impact of the orbital decay of the LAGEOS satellites on the frame-dragging tests

Lorenzo Iorio

Comments: LaTex2e, 2 tables, 1 figure, 12 pages. At press in Advances in Space Research (ASR)

Journal-ref: Adv.Space Res.57:493-498,2016

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[1363] arXiv:1510.08766 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Exclusion of a Consistent Quantum Cosmology Scenario

Boris Bolliet, Aurelien Barrau, Julien Grain, Susanne Schander

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 124011 (2016)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1364] arXiv:1510.08768 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: New potentials for string axion inflation

Tatsuo Kobayashi, Akane Oikawa, Hajime Otsuka

Comments: 20 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 083508 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1365] arXiv:1510.08770 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Kerr Geodesics Following the Axis of Symmetry

J. Gariel, N.O. Santos, Anzhong Wang

Comments: revtex4, no figures and tables. Gen. Relativ. Grav. 48 (2016) 66

Journal-ref: Gen. Relativ. Grav. 48 (2016) 66

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[1366] arXiv:1510.08858 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A light particle solution to the cosmic lithium problem

Andreas Goudelis, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor improvements, matches published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211303 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[1367] arXiv:1510.08864 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Galileons as the Scalar Analogue of General Relativity

Remko Klein, Mehmet Ozkan, Diederik Roest

Comments: 6 pages, v2: Version appeared in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 044053 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[1368] arXiv:1510.08889 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: An effective field theory approach to tidal dynamics of spinning astrophysical systems

Solomon Endlich, Riccardo Penco

Comments: 6 pages, new title, new appendix on spin supplementary conditions, additional references, matches published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 064021 (2016)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[1369] arXiv:1510.09099 (cross-list from physics.soc-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring Metrics - A forty year longitudinal cross-validation of citations, downloads, and peer review in Astrophysics

Michael J. Kurtz, Edwin A. Henneken

Comments: Author's version of manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST); 35 pages 16 figures

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Digital Libraries (cs.DL)

[1370] arXiv:1510.09113 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Starobinsky Model in Rainbow Gravity

Auttakit Chatrabhuti, Vicharit Yingcharoenrat, Phongpichit Channuie

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. v2: corrections and improvement, version to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D93 (2016) 043515

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1371] arXiv:1510.09215 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: Identification of Light Cosmic-Ray Nuclei with AMS-02

Nicola Tomassetti, Alberto Oliva

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures - Proceeding of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)