Heavy-Flavour Hadro-Production from Fixed-Target to Collider Energies
C. Lourenco,H. K. Wohri +1 more
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In this paper, the authors review the hadro-production data presently available on open charm and beauty absolute production cross-sections, collected by experiments at CERN, DESY and Fermilab.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2006-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Parton.read more
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A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case.
Sergey Alekhin,Wolfgang Altmannshofer,Takehiko Asaka,Brian Batell,Fedor Bezrukov,Kyrylo Bondarenko,Alexey Boyarsky,Ki-Young Choi,Cristóbal Corral,Nathaniel Craig,David Curtin,Sacha Davidson,Sacha Davidson,André de Gouvêa,Stefano Dell'Oro,Patrick deNiverville,P. S. Bhupal Dev,Herbi K. Dreiner,Marco Drewes,Shintaro Eijima,Rouven Essig,Anthony Fradette,Björn Garbrecht,Belen Gavela,Gian F. Giudice,Mark D. Goodsell,Mark D. Goodsell,Dmitry Gorbunov,Stefania Gori,Christophe Grojean,Alberto Guffanti,Thomas Hambye,Steen Honoré Hansen,Juan Carlos Helo,Juan Carlos Helo,Pilar Hernández,Alejandro Ibarra,Artem Ivashko,Artem Ivashko,Eder Izaguirre,Joerg Jaeckel,Yu Seon Jeong,Felix Kahlhoefer,Yonatan Kahn,Andrey Katz,Andrey Katz,Andrey Katz,Choong Sun Kim,Sergey Kovalenko,Gordan Krnjaic,Valery E. Lyubovitskij,Valery E. Lyubovitskij,Valery E. Lyubovitskij,Simone Marcocci,Matthew McCullough,David McKeen,Guenakh Mitselmakher,Sven Moch,Rabindra N. Mohapatra,David E. Morrissey,Maksym Ovchynnikov,Emmanuel A. Paschos,Apostolos Pilaftsis,Maxim Pospelov,Maxim Pospelov,Mary Hall Reno,Andreas Ringwald,Adam Ritz,Leszek Roszkowski,Valery Rubakov,Oleg Ruchayskiy,Oleg Ruchayskiy,Ingo Schienbein,Daniel Schmeier,Kai Schmidt-Hoberg,Pedro Schwaller,Goran Senjanovic,Osamu Seto,Mikhail Shaposhnikov,Lesya Shchutska,J. Shelton,Robert Shrock,Brian Shuve,Michael Spannowsky,Andrew Spray,Florian Staub,Daniel Stolarski,Matt Strassler,Vladimir Tello,Francesco Tramontano,Anurag Tripathi,Sean Tulin,Francesco Vissani,Martin Wolfgang Winkler,Kathryn M. Zurek,Kathryn M. Zurek +95 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation.
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A facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case
Sergey Alekhin,Wolfgang Altmannshofer,Takehiko Asaka,Brian Batell,Fedor Bezrukov,Kyrylo Bondarenko,Alexey Boyarsky,Nathaniel Craig,Ki-Young Choi,Cristóbal Corral,David Curtin,Sacha Davidson,André de Gouvêa,Stefano Dell'Oro,Patrick deNiverville,P. S. Bhupal Dev,Herbi K. Dreiner,Marco Drewes,Shintaro Eijima,Rouven Essig,Anthony Fradette,Björn Garbrecht,Belen Gavela,Gian F. Giudice,Dmitry Gorbunov,Stefania Gori,Christophe Grojean,Mark D. Goodsell,Alberto Guffanti,Thomas Hambye,Steen Honoré Hansen,Juan Carlos Helo,Pilar Hernández,Alejandro Ibarra,Artem Ivashko,Eder Izaguirre,Joerg Jaeckel,Yu Seon Jeong,Felix Kahlhoefer,Yonatan Kahn,Andrey Katz,Choong Sun Kim,Sergey A. Kovalenko,Gordan Krnjaic,Valery E. Lyubovitskij,Simone Marcocci,Matthew McCullough,David McKeen,Guenakh Mitselmakher,Sven-Olaf Moch,Rabindra N. Mohapatra,David E. Morrissey,Maksym Ovchynnikov,Emmanuel A. Paschos,Apostolos Pilaftsis,Maxim Pospelov,Mary Hall Reno,Andreas Ringwald,Adam Ritz,Leszek Roszkowski,Valery Rubakov,Oleg Ruchayskiy,Jessie Shelton,Ingo Schienbein,Daniel Schmeier,Kai Schmidt-Hoberg,Pedro Schwaller,Goran Senjanovic,Osamu Seto,Mikhail Shaposhnikov,Brian Shuve,Robert Shrock,Lesya Shchutska,Michael Spannowsky,Andrew Spray,Florian Staub,Daniel Stolarski,Matt Strassler,Vladimir Tello,Francesco Tramontano,Anurag Tripathi,Sean Tulin,Francesco Vissani,Martin Wolfgang Winkler,Kathryn M. Zurek +84 more
TL;DR: The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment at CERN as discussed by the authors was designed to search for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments.
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How to find neutral leptons of the nuMSM
TL;DR: In this paper, a lower and an upper bound on the strength of interaction of neutral leptons was established from cosmological considerations and from the data on neutrino oscillations.
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How to find neutral leptons of the νMSM
TL;DR: In this article, a lower and an upper bound on the strength of interaction of neutral leptons coming from cosmological considerations and from the data on neutrino oscillations was established.
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Light inflaton Hunter's Guide
Fedor Bezrukov,D. S. Gorbunov +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the phenomenology of a realistic version of the chaotic inflationary model, which can be fully and directly explored in particle physics experiments and discuss the ways to find the inflaton.
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