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Candidate and supervisor experiences of doctoral study in a structured, interdisciplinary training environment (2019)
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Kiley, M., & Halliday, D. P. (2019). Candidate and supervisor experiences of doctoral study in a structured, interdisciplinary training environment. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 56(5), 663-674. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1570306

This study aimed to understand doctoral candidates’ and supervisors’ positive and negative experiences of undertaking a doctorate in a structured interdisciplinary research training environment. Interviews were held with 16 candidates and eight super... Read More about Candidate and supervisor experiences of doctoral study in a structured, interdisciplinary training environment.

Dynamics of aggregated states resolved by gated fluorescence in films of room temperature phosphorescent emitters (2019)
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dos Santos, P. L. L., Silveira, O. J., Huang, R., Jardim, G., Matos, M. J. S., da Silva Júnior, E. N., …Cury, L. A. (2019). Dynamics of aggregated states resolved by gated fluorescence in films of room temperature phosphorescent emitters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(7), 3814-3821. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp07005a

Phenazine derivative molecules were studied using steady state and time resolved fluorescence techniques and demonstrated to lead to strong formation of aggregated species, identified as dimers by time dependent density functional theory calculations... Read More about Dynamics of aggregated states resolved by gated fluorescence in films of room temperature phosphorescent emitters.

Optical Properties and Dielectric Functions of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells (2019)
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Mendis, B. G., Ramasse, Q. M., Shalvey, T., Major, J. D., & Durose, K. (2019). Optical Properties and Dielectric Functions of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2(2), 1419-1427. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b01995

CdTe thin-film solar cells have complex microstructures, such as grain boundaries within the absorber layer, as well as CdS window, and Au back contact interfaces, where the local structure and chemistry undergo significant changes. The optical prope... Read More about Optical Properties and Dielectric Functions of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces in CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells.

Evolution of the cold gas properties of simulated post-starburst galaxies (2019)
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Davis, T. A., van de Voort, F., Rowlands, K., McAlpine, S., Wild, V., & Crain, R. A. (2019). Evolution of the cold gas properties of simulated post-starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(2), 2447-2461. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz180

Post-starburst galaxies are typically considered to be a transition population, en route to the red sequence after a recent quenching event. Despite this, recent observations have shown that these objects typically have large reservoirs of cold molec... Read More about Evolution of the cold gas properties of simulated post-starburst galaxies.

Gamma-Ray Production in the Extended Halo of the Galaxy and Possible Implications for the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays (2019)
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Liu, R., Yan, H., Wang, X., Shao, S., & Li, H. (2019). Gamma-Ray Production in the Extended Halo of the Galaxy and Possible Implications for the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays. Astrophysical Journal, 871(1), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf567

Various studies have implied the existence of a gaseous halo around the Galaxy extending out to ~100 kpc. Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) that propagate to the halo, either by diffusion or by convection with the possibly existing large-scale Galactic wind... Read More about Gamma-Ray Production in the Extended Halo of the Galaxy and Possible Implications for the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays.

Precision Distances to Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters from Pan-STARRS1 3π RR Lyrae (2019)
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Hernitschek, N., Cohen, J. G., Rix, H., Magnier, E., Metcalfe, N., Wainscoat, R., …Burgett, W. (2019). Precision Distances to Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters from Pan-STARRS1 3π RR Lyrae. Astrophysical Journal, 871(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf388

We present new spatial models and distance estimates for globular clusters and dwarf spheroidals orbiting our Galaxy based on RR Lyrae (RRab) stars in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3π survey. Using the PS1 sample of RRab stars from Sesar et al. in 16 globula... Read More about Precision Distances to Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters from Pan-STARRS1 3π RR Lyrae.

How high is the neutrino floor? (2019)
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Bœhm, C., Cerdeño, D. G., Machado, P. A. N., Campo, A. O.-D., & Reid, E. (2019). How high is the neutrino floor?. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(01), Article 043. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/01/043

In this paper, we compute the contribution to the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section from new physics models in the neutrino sector. We use this information to calculate the maximum value of the so-called neutrino floor for di... Read More about How high is the neutrino floor?.

Multiphase circumgalactic medium probed with MUSE and ALMA (2019)
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Péroux, C., Zwaan, M. A., Klitsch, A., Augustin, R., Hamanowicz, A., Rahmani, H., …Milliard, B. (2019). Multiphase circumgalactic medium probed with MUSE and ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 1595-1613. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz202

Galaxy haloes appear to be missing a large fraction of their baryons, most probably hiding in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), a diffuse component within the dark matter halo that extends far from the inner regions of the galaxies. A powerful tool to... Read More about Multiphase circumgalactic medium probed with MUSE and ALMA.

Exclusive LHC physics with heavy ions: SuperChic 3 (2019)
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Harland-Lang, L., Khoze, V., & Ryskin, M. (2019). Exclusive LHC physics with heavy ions: SuperChic 3. The European Physical Journal C, 79(1), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6530-5

We present results of the updated SuperChic 3 Monte Carlo event generator for central exclusive production. This extends the previous treatment of proton–proton collisions to include heavy ion (pA and AA) beams, for both photon and QCD-initiated prod... Read More about Exclusive LHC physics with heavy ions: SuperChic 3.

The PAU Survey: early demonstration of photometric redshift performance in the COSMOS field (2019)
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Eriksen, M., Alarcon, A., Gaztanaga, E., Amara, A., Cabayol, L., Carretero, J., …Tortorelli, L. (2019). The PAU Survey: early demonstration of photometric redshift performance in the COSMOS field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 4200-4215. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz204

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS) is an innovative photometric survey with 40 narrow-bands at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). The narrow-bands are spaced at 100 Å intervals covering the range 4500–8500 Å and, in combination... Read More about The PAU Survey: early demonstration of photometric redshift performance in the COSMOS field.

Lattice-depth measurement using multipulse atom diffraction in and beyond the weakly diffracting limit (2019)
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Beswick, B. T., Hughes, I. G., & Gardiner, S. A. (2019). Lattice-depth measurement using multipulse atom diffraction in and beyond the weakly diffracting limit. Physical Review A, 99(1), Article 013614. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.99.013614

Precise knowledge of optical lattice depths is important for a number of areas of atomic physics, most notably in quantum simulation, atom interferometry, and for the accurate determination of transition matrix elements. In such experiments, lattice... Read More about Lattice-depth measurement using multipulse atom diffraction in and beyond the weakly diffracting limit.

The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits (2019)
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Fattahi, A., Belokurov, V., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S., Gómez, F. A., Grand, R. J., …Springel, V. (2019). The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(4), 4471-4483. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz159

Using the astrometry from the ESA’s Gaia mission, previous works have shown that the Milky Way stellar halo is dominated by metal-rich stars on highly eccentric orbits. To shed light on the nature of this prominent halo component, we have analysed 28... Read More about The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits.

Does radiative feedback make faint z > 6 galaxies look small? (2019)
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Ploeckinger, S., Schaye, J., Hacar, A., Maseda, M. V., Hodge, J. A., & Bouwens, R. J. (2019). Does radiative feedback make faint z > 6 galaxies look small?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 4379-4392. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz173

Recent observations of lensed sources have shown that the faintest (⁠MUV≈−15mag⁠) galaxies observed at z = 6−8 appear to be extremely compact. Some of them have inferred sizes of less than 40 pc for stellar masses between 106 and 107M⊙⁠, comparable t... Read More about Does radiative feedback make faint z > 6 galaxies look small?.

Higgs vacuum decay from particle collisions? (2019)
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Cuspinera, L., Gregory, R., Marshall, K. M., & Moss, I. G. (2019). Higgs vacuum decay from particle collisions?. Physical Review D, 99(2), Article 024046. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.024046

We examine the effect of large extra dimensions on black hole seeded vacuum decay using the Randall-Sundrum model as a prototype for warped extra dimensions. We model the braneworld black hole by a tidal solution and solve the Higgs equations of moti... Read More about Higgs vacuum decay from particle collisions?.

Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors (2019)
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Ballett, P., Hostert, M., Pascoli, S., Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F., Tabrizi, Z., & Funchal, R. Z. (2019). Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(1), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282019%29119

Neutrino trident scattering is a rare Standard Model process where a charged-lepton pair is produced in neutrino-nucleus scattering. To date, only the dimuon final-state has been observed, with around 100 total events, while the other channels are as... Read More about Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors.

Slot-Die Coating of Double Polymer Layers for the Fabrication of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (2019)
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C, A., Colella, M., Griffin, J., Kingsley, J., Scarratt, N., Luszczynska, B., & Ulanski, J. (2019). Slot-Die Coating of Double Polymer Layers for the Fabrication of Organic Light Emitting Diodes. Micromachines, 10(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10010053

This study presents the slot-die coating process of two layers of organic materials for the fabrication of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), which is commonly used in OLEDs and... Read More about Slot-Die Coating of Double Polymer Layers for the Fabrication of Organic Light Emitting Diodes.

MUSE sneaks a peek at extreme ram-pressure stripping events – IV. Hydrodynamic and gravitational interactions in the Blue Infalling Group (2019)
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Fossati, M., Fumagalli, M., Gavazzi, G., Consolandi, G., Boselli, A., Yagi, M., …Wilman, D. J. (2019). MUSE sneaks a peek at extreme ram-pressure stripping events – IV. Hydrodynamic and gravitational interactions in the Blue Infalling Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(2), 2212-2228. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz136

We report new wide-field (≈4 × 4 arcmin2) Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of the Blue Infalling Group (BIG), a compact group of galaxies located at a projected distance of ≃150 kpc from the X-ray centre of the A1367 cluster at z... Read More about MUSE sneaks a peek at extreme ram-pressure stripping events – IV. Hydrodynamic and gravitational interactions in the Blue Infalling Group.

Rapid Black Hole Growth at the Dawn of the Universe: Super-Eddington Quasar at z=6.6 (2019)
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Tang, J., Goto, T., Ohyama, Y., Jin, C., Done, C., Lu, T., …Kim, S. J. (2019). Rapid Black Hole Growth at the Dawn of the Universe: Super-Eddington Quasar at z=6.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(2), 2575-2586. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz134

We present the analysis of a new near-infrared (NIR) spectrum of a recently discovered z = 6.621 quasar PSO J006 + 39 in an attempt to explore the early growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). This NIR (rest-frame ultraviolet, UV) spectrum shows... Read More about Rapid Black Hole Growth at the Dawn of the Universe: Super-Eddington Quasar at z=6.6.

The First Swift Intensive AGN Accretion Disk Reverberation Mapping Survey (2019)
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Edelson, R., Gelbord, J., Cackett, E., Peterson, B., Horne, K., Barth, A., …Villforth, C. (2019). The First Swift Intensive AGN Accretion Disk Reverberation Mapping Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 870(2), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf3b4

Swift intensive accretion disk reverberation mapping of four AGN yielded light curves sampled ~200–350 times in 0.3–10 keV X-ray and six UV/optical bands. Uniform reduction and cross-correlation analysis of these data sets yields three main results:... Read More about The First Swift Intensive AGN Accretion Disk Reverberation Mapping Survey.

Correcting for fibre assignment incompleteness in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (2019)
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Smith, A., He, J., Cole, S., Stothert, L., Norberg, P., Baugh, C., …Wechsler, R. H. (2019). Correcting for fibre assignment incompleteness in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), 1285-1300. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz059

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) will be a survey of bright, low-redshift galaxies, which is planned to cover an area of ∼14000 square degrees in three passes. Each pass will cover the survey area with ∼2000... Read More about Correcting for fibre assignment incompleteness in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey.