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Table of Contents (Print) PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW Dä For editorial and subscription correspondence, Postmaster send address changes to: please see inside front cover (ISSN: 1550-7998) APS Subscription Services P.O. Box 41 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 5 CONTENTS D1 SEPTEMBER 2014 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Measurement of the electric charge of the top quark in tt¯ events (8 pages) ........................................................ 051101(R) V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration) BRST-symmetry breaking and Bose-ghost propagator in lattice minimal Landau gauge (5 pages) ............................. 051501(R) Attilio Cucchieri, David Dudal, Tereza Mendes, and Nele Vandersickel ARTICLES pffiffiffi Search for supersymmetry in events with four or more leptons in s ¼ 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector (33 pages) ................................................................................................................................. 052001 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) pffiffiffi Low-mass vector-meson production at forward rapidity in p þ p collisions at s ¼ 200 GeV (12 pages) .................. 052002 A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) Measurement of Collins asymmetries in inclusive production of charged pion pairs in eþe− annihilation at BABAR (26 pages) 052003 J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration) Measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H → γγ and H → ZZÃ → 4l channels in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (35 pages) ................................................................... 052004 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) pffiffiffi Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at s ¼ 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (30 pages) .......... 052005 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Search for low-mass dark matter with CsI(Tl) crystal detectors (6 pages) .......................................................... 052006 H. S. Lee, H. Bhang, J. H. Choi, S. Choi, I. S. Hahn, E. J. Jeon, H. W. Joo, W. G. Kang, B. H. Kim, G. B. Kim, H. J. Kim, J. H. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. C. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. H. Kim, J. H. Lee, J. K. Lee, S. J. Lee, D. S. Leonard, J. Li, J. Li, Y. J. Li, X. R. Li, S. S. Myung, S. L. Olsen, J. W. Park, I. S. Seong, J. H. So, and Q. Yue (KIMS Collaboration) 0 Flavor tagged time-dependent angular analysis of the Bs → J=ψϕ decay and extraction of ΔΓs and the weak phase ϕs in ATLAS (26 pages) ....................................................................................................................... 052007 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Search for pair-producedpffiffiffi third-generation squarks decaying via charm quarks or in compressed supersymmetric scenarios in pp collisions at s ¼ 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (36 pages) ............................................................. 052008 G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Observation of J=ψ → ppa¯ 0ð980Þ at BESIII (8 pages) ................................................................................ 052009 M. Ablikim et al. (BESII Collaboration) Measurement of the inclusive νμ charged current cross section on iron and hydrocarbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam (15 pages) ................................................................................................................................. 052010 K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration) Copyright 2014 American Physical Society (Continued) 1550-7998(20140901)90:5;1-Z Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics. Please visit http://physics.aps.org/. By suggesting a few manuscripts each week, we hope to promote reading across fields. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. D 90, 010001 (2014). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 5 D1 SEPTEMBER 2014 0 Measurement of CP violation in Bs → ϕϕ decays (17 pages) ........................................................................ 052011 R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Jet vetoes for Higgs boson production at future hadron colliders (10 pages) ...................................................... 053001 Radja Boughezal, Christfried Focke, Ye Li, and Xiaohui Liu The quest for neutrinoless double beta decay: Pseudo-Dirac, Majorana, and sterile neutrinos (10 pages) .................... 053002 A. Meroni and E. Peinado Limitations and opportunities of off-shell coupling measurements (10 pages) ..................................................... 053003 Christoph Englert and Michael Spannowsky Muon decay spin asymmetry (5 pages) ................................................................................................... 053004 Fabrizio Caola, Andrzej Czarnecki, Yi Liang, Kirill Melnikov, and Robert Szafron Effective theory and simple completions for neutrino interactions (13 pages) ...................................................... 053005 Mark B. Wise and Yue Zhang N3LO Higgs boson and Drell-Yan production at threshold: The one-loop two-emission contribution (12 pages) ........... 053006 Ye Li, Andreas von Manteuffel, Robert M. Schabinger, and Hua Xing Zhu Coy dark matter and the anomalous magnetic moment (5 pages) .................................................................... 053007 Andi Hektor and Luca Marzola Short baseline reactor ν¯ − e scattering experiments and nonstandard neutrino interactions at source and detector (11 pages) 053008 Amir N. Khan, Douglas W. McKay, and F. Tahir Determination of the mixing between active neutrinos and sterile neutrino through the quark-lepton complementarity and self- complementarity (6 pages) .............................................................................................................. 053009 Hong-Wei Ke, Tan Liu, and Xue-Qian Li Angular distribution in two-particle emission induced by neutrinos and electrons (8 pages) .................................... 053010 I. Ruiz Simo, C. Albertus, J. E. Amaro, M. B. Barbaro, J. A. Caballero, and T. W. Donnelly Cosmic neutrino background absorption line in the neutrino spectrum at IceCube (9 pages) ................................... 053011 Masahiro Ibe and Kunio Kaneta Self-consistent value of the electric radius of the proton from the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen (12 pages) ............. 053012 Savely G. Karshenboim Model-independent determination of the magnetic radius of the proton from spectroscopy of ordinary and muonic hydrogen (9 pages) ................................................................................................................................... 053013 Savely G. Karshenboim Signal of right-handed charged gauge bosons at the LHC? (5 pages) ............................................................... 053014 Frank F. Deppisch, Tomas E. Gonzalo, Sudhanwa Patra, Narendra Sahu, and Utpal Sarkar Higher hybrid charmonia in an extended potential model (20 pages) ............................................................... 054001 M. Atif Sultan, Nosheen Akbar, Bilal Masud, and Faisal Akram Isovector axial vector and pseudoscalar transition form factors of Δ in QCD (7 pages) ......................................... 054002 A. Kucukarslan, U. Ozdem, and A. Ozpineci Exclusive vector meson production at high energies and gluon saturation (17 pages) ............................................ 054003 Néstor Armesto and Amir H. Rezaeian Next-to-leading order γγ þ 2-jet production at the LHC (23 pages) ................................................................. 054004 Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, S. Höche, H. Ita, D. A. Kosower, N. A. Lo Presti, and D. Maître Difference cross sections of unpolarized SIDIS with transverse momentum dependence (8 pages) ............................ 054005 Ekaterina Christova More hidden heavy quarkonium molecules and their discovery decay modes (7 pages) ......................................... 054006 Gang Li, Xiao Hai Liu, and Zhu Zhou Heavy quarkonium wave functions at the origin and excited heavy quarkonium production via top quark decays at the LHC (12 pages) ................................................................................................................................. 054007 Qi-Li Liao and Guo-Ya Xie Telescoping jets: Probing hadronic event structure with multiple R’s (5 pages) ................................................... 054008 Yang-Ting Chien Interpreting Zc(3900) and Zc(4025)=Zc(4020) as charged tetraquark states (10 pages) ........................................ 054009 Chengrong Deng, Jialun Ping, Hongxia Huang, and Fan Wang (Continued) Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics. Please visit http://physics.aps.org/. By suggesting a few manuscripts each week, we hope to promote reading across fields. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. D 90, 010001 (2014). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 5 D1 SEPTEMBER 2014 Quark structure of the Xð3872Þ and χbð3PÞ resonances (9 pages) ................................................................... 054010 J. Ferretti, G. Galatà, and E. Santopinto Higgs-boson production through gluon fusion at NNLO QCD with parton showers (8 pages) ................................. 054011 Stefan Höche, Ye Li, and Stefan Prestel Effect of fluctuations on the QCD critical point in a finite volume (9 pages) ...................................................... 054012 Ralf-Arno Tripolt, Jens Braun, Bertram Klein, and Bernd-Jochen Schaefer Azimuthal quadrupole correlation from gluon interference in 200 GeV and 7 TeV p þ p collisions (10 pages) ............ 054013 R. L. Ray RK and future b → sll physics beyond the standard model opportunities (8 pages) ............................................
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