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Submissions from 2010

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Can IBEX identify variations in the galactic environment of the sun using energetic neutral atoms?, Priscilla C. Frisch, Jacob Heerikhuisen, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Bob DeMajistre, Geoffrey B. Crew, Herbert O. Funsten, Paul Janzen, David J. McComas, Eberhard Moebius, Hans-Reinhard Mueller, Danielle Brett Reisenfeld, Nathan A. Schwadron, Jonathan D. Slavin, and Gary Paul Zank

Energetic neutral atoms from the Earth's subsolar magnetopause, S. A. Fuselier, H. O. Funsten, D. Hiertzler, P. Janzen, Harald A. Kucharek, D. J. McComas, Eberhard Moebius, T. E. Moore, S. M. Petrinec, D. B. Reisenfeld, Nathan A. Schwadron, K. J. Trattner, and P. Wurz

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Enhanced binding energy of manganese acceptors close to the GaAs(110) surface, J. K. Garleff, A. P. Wijnheijmer, A. Yu Silov, J. van Bree, W. Van Roy, J. M. Tang, M. E. Flatte, and P. M. Koenraad

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Studies of Insulating Superconductors, Shawna M. Hollen, J C. Joy, Maura Lynch, H Q. Nguyen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Yin, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.

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Further Analysis of a Cooper Pair Insulator, Shawna M. Hollen, H Q. Nguyen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Jin, and J M. Valles Jr.

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Coronal faraday rotation fluctuations and a wave/turbulence-driven model of the solar wind, Joseph V. Hollweg, Steven R. Cranmer, and Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Modeling radiation belt radial diffusion in ULF wave fields: 2. Estimating rates of radial diffusion using combined MHD and particle codes, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, Mary K. Hudson, and Scot R. Elkington

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Modeling radiation belt radial diffusion in ULF wave fields: 1. Quantifying ULF wave power at geosynchronous orbit in observations and in global MHD model, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, Howard J. Singer, and W. Jeffrey Hughes

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Excitation of low-frequency waves in the solar wind by newborn interstellar pickup ions H(+) and He(+) as seen by Voyager at 4.5 AU, Colin J. Joyce, Charles W. Smith, Philip A. Isenberg, Neil Murphy, and Nathan A. Schwadron

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Perpendicular proton heating due to energy cascade of fast magnetosonic waves in the solar corona, Sergei A. Markovskii, Bernard J. Vasquez, and Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Metastable anions of dinitrobenzene: resonances for electron attachment and kinetic energy release, A. Mauracher, S. Denifl, A. Edtbauer, M. Hager, M. Probst, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, P. Scheier, T. A. Field, and K. Graupner

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Evolving outer heliosphere: Large-scale stability and time variations observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, D. J. McComas, M. Bzowski, P. Frisch, G. B. Crew, M. A. Dayeh, R. DeMajistre, H. O. Funsten, S. A. Fuselier, M. Gruntman, P. Janzen, M. A. Kubiak, G Livadiotis, Eberhard Moebius, D. B. Reisenfeld, and Nathan A. Schwadron

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Acoustic surface plasmon on Cu(111), Karsten Pohl, B. Diaconescu, G. Vercelli, L. Vattuone, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, and M. Rocca

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Ion-molecule reactions of ammonia clusters with C60 aggregates embedded in helium droplets, Harald Schobel, Christian Leidlmair, Peter Bartl, Abid Aleem, Michaela Hager, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, and Paul Scheier

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Galactic cosmic ray radiation hazard in the unusual extended solar minimum between solar cycles 23 and 24, Nathan A. Schwadron, A. J. Boyd, K. Kozarev, M. Golightly, Harlan E. Spence, L. W. Townsend, and M. Owens

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Magnetic flux balance in the heliosphere, Nathan A. Schwadron, D. E. Connick, and Charles W. Smith

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Superposition of stochastic processes and the resulting particle distributions, Nathan A. Schwadron, M. Dayeh, M. Desai, H. Fahr, J. R. Jokipii, and Martin A. Lee

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Earth‐Moon‐Mars Radiation Environment Module framework, Nathan A. Schwadron, L. Townsend, K. Kozarev, M. A. Dayeh, F. Cucinotta, M. Desai, M. Golightly, D. Hassler, R. Hatcher, M. Y. Kim, A. Posner, M. PourArsalan, Harlan E. Spence, and R. K. Squier

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CRaTER: The cosmic ray telescope for the effects of radiation experiment on the lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission, Harlan E. Spence, A. W. Case, M. J. Golightly, T. Heine, B. A. Larsen, J. B. Blake, P. Caranza, W. R. Crain, J. George, M. Lalic, A. Lin, and M. D. Looper

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Spatially-resolved structure and electronic properties of graphene on polycrystalline Ni, Jiebing Sun, James B. Hannon, Rudolph M. Tromp, Priya Johari, Ageeth A. Bol, Vivek B. Shenoy, and Karsten Pohl

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Structure and oscillatory multilayer relaxation of the bismuth (100) surface, J. Sun, J. Wang, J. Wells, Y. M. Koroteev, G. Bihlmayer, E. V. Chulkov, Ph Hofmann, and Karsten Pohl

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Meson-baryon scattering lengths from mixed-action lattice QCD, A. Torok, S. R. Beane, W. Detmold, T. C. Luu, K. Originos, A. Parreno, M. J. Savage, and A. Walker-Loud

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Parameterizations of the linear energy transfer spectrum for the CRaTER instrument during the LRO mission, L. W. Townsend, Y. M. Charara, N. Delauder, M. PourArsalan, J. A. Anderson, C. M. Fisher, Harlan E. Spence, Nathan A. Schwadron, M. J. Golightly, and F. A. Cucinotta

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Examining periodic solar-wind density structures observed in the SECCHI heliospheric imagers, N. Viall, A. Vourlidas, Harlan E. Spence, and R. Howard

Submissions from 2009

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High statistics analysis using anisotropic clover lattices. II. Three-baryon systems, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud

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High statistics analysis using anisotropic clover lattices: Single hadron correlation functions, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud

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Ion observations from geosynchronous orbit as a proxy for ion cyclotron wave growth during storm times, L. W. Blum, E. A. MacDonald, S. P. Gary, M. F. Thomsen, and Harlan E. Spence

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Palladium diffusion into bulk copper via the (100) surface, E. Bussman, J. Sun, Karsten Pohl, and G. L. Kellogg

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Alfven wave reflection and turbulent heating in the solar wind from 1 solar radius to 1 AU: an analytical treatment, Benjamin D.G. Chandran and Joseph V. Hollweg

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The turbulent heating rate in strong magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with nonzero cross helicity , Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes, Joseph V. Hollweg, and William Dorland

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Constraining low-frequency Alfvenic turbulence in the solar wind using density-fluctuation measurements, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes, Qian Xia, and Peera Pongkitiwanichakul

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Argon clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Peter Bartl, Stephan Denifl, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier

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On the size of ions solvated in helium clusters , Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Philipp Waldburger, Stefan Jaksch, Andreas Mauracher, Stephan Denifl, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier

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Ion-molecule reactions in helium nanodroplets doped with C(60) and water clusters, Stephan Denifl, Fabio Zappa, Ingo Maehr, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Abid Aleem, Andreas Mauracher, Michael Probst, Jan Urban, Pavel Mach, Arntraud Bacher, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier

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Parker/buoyancy instabilities with anisotropic thermal conduction, cosmic rays, and arbitrary magnetic field strength, Timothy J. Dennis and Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Molecular self-assembly of functionalized fullerenes on a metal surface , Bogdan Diaconescu, Teng Yang, Savas Berber, Mikael Jazdzyk, Glen P. Miller, David Tomanek, and Karsten Pohl

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High field magnetoresistance peak near the superconductor insulator transition in amorphous Bi films patterned with a nanohoneycomb array of holes, Shawna M. Hollen, H Q. Nguyen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Yin, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.

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Assessing access of galactic cosmic rays at Moon's orbit, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, and B. T. Kress

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Power-law singularity in the local density of states due to the point defect in graphene, Wen-Min Huang, Jian-Ming Tang, and Hsiu-Hau Lin

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Electron attachment to doped helium droplets: C(60)(-), (C(60))(2)(-), and C(60)D(2)O(-) anions , S. Jaksch, I. Maehr, S. Denifl, A. Bacher, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, and P. Scheier

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Experimental evidence for the existence of an electronically excited state of the proposed dihydrogen radical cation He-H-H-He , Stefan Jaksch, Filipe Ferreria da Silva, Stephan Denifl, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier

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Multipoint, high time resolution galactic cosmic ray observations associated with two interplanetary coronal mass ejections, Andrew P. Jordan, Harlan E. Spence, J. B. Blake, T. Mulligan, D. N. A. Shaul, and M. Galametz

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Near–infrared photoabsorption by C602- dianions in a storage ring, U. Kadhane, J. U. Andersen, E. Bonderup, B. Concina, P. Hvelplund, M. B. Suhr Kirketerp, B. Liu, S. Brondsted Nielsen, S. Panja, J. Rangama, K. Stochkel, S. Tomita, Henning Zettergren, Klavs Hansen, A. E. K. Sunden, S. E. Canton, Olof Echt, and J. S. Forster

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Near-infrared photoabsorption by C(60) dianions in a storage ring, U. Kadhane, J. U. Andersen, E. Bonderup, B. Concina, P. Hvelplund, M. Kirketerp, B. Suhr, B. Liu, S. Bronsted Nielsen, S. Panja, J. Rangama, K. Stochkel, and S. Tomita

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Interhemispheric observations of impulsive nitrate enhancements associated with the four large ground-level solar cosmic ray events (1940–1950), L. Kepko, Harlan E. Spence, D. F. Smart, and M. A. Shea

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Self-assembly of methanethiol on the reconstructed Au(111) surface, Georgi Nenchev, Bogdan Diaconescu, Frank Hagelberg, and Karsten Pohl

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Observation of giant positive magnetoresistance in a Cooper pair insulator., H Q. Nguyen, Shawna M. Hollen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Yin, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles

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Superconductor-insulator transitions in films patterned with a disordered nanohoneycomb hole array, H Q. Nguyen, Shawna M. Hollen, M D. Stewart Jr, Aijun Yin, J Shainline, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.

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Scale-dependent angle of alignment between velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in solar wind turbulence, J. J. Podesta, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, A. Bhattacharjee, D. A. Roberts, and M. L. Goldstein

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A novel metric for coronal MHD models, D. J. Schmit, S. Gibson, G. De Toma, M. Wiltberger, W. J. Hughes, Harlan E. Spence, P. Riley, J. A. Linker, and Z. Mikic

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Buoyancy instabilities in galaxy clusters: convection due to adiabatic cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction, Prateek Sharma, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, and Ian J. Parrish

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Enhanced suppression of superconductivity in amorphous films with nano-scale patterning, M D. Stewart Jr, H Q. Nguyen, Shawna M. Hollen, Aijun Yin, J. M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.

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Relative occurrence rates and connection of discrete frequency oscillations in the solar wind density and dayside magnetosphere, N. M. Viall, L. Kepko, and Harlan E. Spence

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Are periodic solar wind number density structures formed in the solar corona?, N. M. Viall, Harlan E. Spence, and J. Kasper

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Energy dissipation and ion heating at the heliospheric termination shock, P. Wu, D. Winske, S. P. Gary, Nathan A. Schwadron, and Martin A. Lee

Submissions from 2008

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Topology from cosmology?, Vijay Balasubramanian, Per Berglund, Raul Jimenez, Joan Simon, and Licia Verde

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Multipion systems in lattice QCD and the three-pion interaction, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Martin J. Savage, and Aaron Torok

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K(+)K(+) scattering length from lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud

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Precise determination of the I=2 pi pi scattering length from mixed-action lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud

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Hadronic interactions from lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Kostas Originos, and Martin J. Savage

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An event study to provide validation of TING and CMIT geomagnetic middle-latitude electron densities at the F2 peak, A. G. Burns, W. Wang, M. Wiltberger, S. C. Soloman, Harlan E. Spence, T. L. Killeen, R. E. Lopez, and J. E. Landivar

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Ambient solar wind's effect on ICME transit times, A. W. Case, Harlan E. Spence, M. J. Owens, P. Riley, and D. Odstrcil

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Anisotropic spatial structure of deep acceptor states in GaAs and GaP, C. Celebi, P. M. Koenraad, A. Yu Silov, W. Van Roy, A. M. Monakhov, J. M. Tang, and M. E. Flatte

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Strong anisotropic MHD turbulence with cross helicity, Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Weakly turbulent magnetohydrodynamic waves in compressible low-beta plasmas, Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Isotope effects in dissociative electron attachment to the DNA base thymine , S. Denifl, P. Sulzer, F. Zappa, S. Moser, B. Kraeutler, Olof E. Echt, D. K. Bohme, T. D. Maerk, and P. Scheier

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Electron impact ionization/dissociation of hydrocarbon molecules relevant to the edge plasma, Atomic and Plasma-Material Interaction Data for Fusion, Stephan Denifl, S. Feil, M. Winkler, Michael Probst, Olof Echt, S. Matt-Leubner, V. Grill, Paul Scheier, and Tilmann D. Mark

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Electron Scattering on Neon Droplets: Singly and Multiply Charged Neon Clusters, Stephan Denifl, Fabio Zappa, I. Mahr, Paul Scheier, Olof Echt, and Tilmann D. Mark

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Dissociative electron attachment to DNA bases near absolute zero temperature: Freezing dissociation intermediates, Stephan Denifl, Fabio Zappa, Andreas Mauracher, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Arntraud Bacher, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, Diethard K. Bohme, and Paul Scheier

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Multipion states in lattice QCD and the charged-pion condensate, William Detmold, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, Silas R. Beane, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, and Assumpta Parreno

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Atomically precise impurity identification and modification on the manganese doped GaAs(110) surface with scanning tunneling microscopy, J. K. Garleff, C. Celebi, W. Van Roy, J. M. Tang, M. E. Flatte, and P. M. Koenraad

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Geotail and LFM comparisons of plasma sheet climatology: 1. Average values, T. B. Guild, Harlan E. Spence, E. L. Kepko, V. Merkin, J. G. Lyon, M. Wiltberger, and C. C. Goodrich

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Geotail and LFM comparisons of plasma sheet climatology: 2. Flow variability, T. B. Guild, Harlan E. Spence, E. L. Kepko, V. Merkin, J. G. Lyon, M. Wiltberger, and C. C. Goodrich

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Large production system for hyperpolarized Xe-129 for human lung imaging studies, F. William Hersman, Iulian C. Ruset, Stephen Ketel, Iga Muradian, Silviu D. Covrig, Jan Distelbrink, Walter Porter, David Watt, Jeffrey Ketel, John Brackett, Aaron Hope, and Samuel Patz

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A quantitative assessment of empirical magnetic field models at geosynchronous orbit during magnetic storms, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, H. J. Singer, and N. A. Tsyganenko

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Formation of even-numbered hydrogen cluster cations in ultracold helium droplets, S. Jaksch, A. Mauracher, A. Bacher, S. Denifl, F. Ferreira de Silva, H. Schoebel, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, M. Probst, D. K. Bohme, and P. Scheier

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Hydrocarbon characteristics in fusion edge plasmas from electron-molecule and ion-surface collision experiments, Alexander Kendl, K. Becker, Stephan Denifl, Olof Echt, N. Endstrasser, B. Farizon, S. Feil, L. Feketeova, V. Grill, Z. Herman, Tilmann D. Mark, S. Matejcik, S. Matt-Leubner, Michael Probst, Bilal Rasul, Paul Scheier, W. Schustereder, J. D. Skalny, Philipp Sulzer, M. Winkler, and Fabio Zappa

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Transition from disorder to order in thin metallic films studied with angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy , Dah-An Luh, Cheng-maw Cheng, Chi-Ting Tsai, Ku-Ding Tsuei, and Jian-Ming Tang

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Atomic-layer-resolved bound states in quantum wells analyzed using a pseudopotential approach , Dah-An Luh, Cheng-Maw Cheng, Ku-Ding Tsuei, and Jian-Ming Tang

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How students use mathematical resources in an electrostatics context, Dawn C. Meredith and Karen A. Marrongelle

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Metrics for solar wind prediction models: Comparison of empirical, hybrid, and physics‐based schemes with 8 years of L1 observations, M. J. Owens, Harlan E. Spence, S. McGregor, W. J. Hughes, J. M. Quinn, C. N. Arge, P. Riley, J. Linker, and D. Odstrcil

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Human pulmonary imaging and spectroscopy with hyperpolarized Xe-129 at 0.2T, Samuel Patz, Iga Muradian, Mirko I. Hrovat, Iulian C. Ruset, George Topulos, Silviu D. Covrig, Eric Frederick, Hiroto Hatabu, F. William Hersman, and James P. Butler

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Numerical simulations of buoyancy instabilities in galaxy cluster plasmas with cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction, Y. Rasera and Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Abundance profiles in cooling-core clusters: a fossil record of past AGN-driven convection?, Y. Rasera, B. Lynch, K. Srivastava, and Benjamin D.G. Chandran

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Posteruptive phenomena in coronal mass ejections and substorms: Indicators of a universal process?, K. K. Reeves, T. B. Guild, W. J. Hughes, K. E. Korreck, J. Lin, J. Raymond, S. Savage, Nathan A. Schwadron, Harlan E. Spence, D. F. Webb, and M. Wiltberger

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High-efficiency resonant rf spin rotator with broad phase space acceptance for pulsed polarized cold neutron beams, P. N. Seo, L. Barron-Palos, J. D. Bowman, T. E. Chupp, C Crawford, M. Dabaghyan, M. Dawkins, S. J. Freedman, T. Gentile, M. T. Gericke, R. C. Gillis, G. L. Greene, F. William Hersman, G. L. Jones, M. Kandes, S. Lamoreaux, B. Lauss, M. B. Lueschner, R. Mahurin, M. Mason, J. Mei, G. S. Mitchell, H. Nann, S. A. Page, S. I. Penttila, W. D. Ramsay, A. Salas Bacci, S. Santra, M. Sharma, T. B. Smith, W. M. Snow, W. S. Wilburn, and H. Zhu

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Band structure effects on the Be(0001) acoustic surface plasmon energy dispersion , V. M. Silkin, J. M. Pitarke, E. V. Chulkov, B. Diaconescu, Karsten Pohl, L. Vattuone, L. Savio, P. H. Hofmann, D. Farias, M. Rocca, and P. M. Echenique

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Space Technology 5 multi-point measurements of near-Earth magnetic fields: Initial results, J. A. Slavin, G. Le, R. J. Strangeway, Y. Wang, S. A. Boardsen, M. B. Moldwin, and Harlan E. Spence

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Magnetic circular dichroism from the impurity band in III-V diluted magnetic semiconductors, Jian-Ming Tang and Michael E. Flatte

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Inherent length-scales of periodic solar wind number density structures, N. M. Viall, L. Kepko, and Harlan E. Spence

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Metastable Dissociation of Anions Formed by Electron Attachment, Fabio Zappa, Manuel Beikircher, Andreas Mauracher, Stephan Denifl, Michael Probst, Natcha Injan, Jumras Limtrakul, Arntraud Bacher, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, Paul Scheier, Thomas A. Field, and Karola Graupner

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Ultracold water cluster anions , Fabio Zappa, Stephan Denifl, Ingo Maehr, Arntraud Bacher, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier

Submissions from 2007

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The Gell-Mann-Okubo mass relation among baryons from fully-dynamical mixed-action lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane

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Hyperon-nucleon scattering from fully-dynamical lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Paulo F. Bedaque, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Elisabetta Pallante, Assumpta Parreno, and Martin J. Savage

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N-boson energies at finite volume and three-boson interactions, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, and Martin J. Savage

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Strong-isospin violation in the neutron-proton mass difference from fully-dynamical lattice QCD and PQQCD, Silas R. Beane, Kostas Originos, and Martin J. Savage

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Separation of spatial and temporal structure of auroral particle precipitation, A. Boudouridis and Harlan E. Spence

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Convection and AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies, Benjamin D.G. Chandran and Yann Rasera

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Overview: The Instrument Suite and Mission, G. Chin, S. Brylow, M. Foote, J. Garvin, J. Kasper, J. Keller, M. Litvak, I. Mitrofanov, D. Paige, K. Raney, M. Robinson, A. Sanin, D. Smith, Harlan E. Spence, P Spudis, S. A. Stern, and M. Zuber

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Self-organized nanotemplating on misfit dislocation networks investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy, Bogdan Diaconescu, Georgi Nenchev, Joshua Jones, and Karsten Pohl