Volume 76, Issue 6

15 September 2007

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Equivalence principle and experimental tests of gravitational spin effects

Alexander J. Silenko and Oleg V. Teryaev

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061101(R) (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Constraints on radiative dark-matter decay from the cosmic microwave background

Le Zhang, Xuelei Chen, Marc Kamionkowski, Zong-guo Si, and Zheng Zheng

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061301(R) (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Maximal amount of gravitational waves in the curvaton scenario

N. Bartolo, S. Matarrese, A. Riotto, and A. Väihkönen

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061302(R) (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Constraints on the spectral index for the inflation models in the string landscape

Qing-Guo Huang

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061303(R) (2007) - Published 26 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Analytic study of rotating black-hole quasinormal modes

Uri Keshet and Shahar Hod

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061501(R) (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Binary black hole mergers: Large kicks for generic spin orientations

Wolfgang Tichy and Pedro Marronetti

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061502(R) (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Second- and higher-order quasinormal modes in binary black-hole mergers

Kunihito Ioka and Hiroyuki Nakano

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061503(R) (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamical interactions and the black-hole merger rate of the Universe

Ryan M. O’Leary, Richard O’Shaughnessy, and Frederic A. Rasio

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061504(R) (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Chiral dynamics of baryons from string theory

Deog Ki Hong, Mannque Rho, Ho-Ung Yee, and Piljin Yi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 061901(R) (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

ARTICLES

Apoastron shift constraints on dark matter distribution at the Galactic Center

A. F. Zakharov, A. A. Nucita, F. De Paolis, and G. Ingrosso

Phys. Rev. D 76, 062001 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Local readout enhancement for detuned signal-recycling interferometers

Henning Rehbein, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, Kentaro Somiya, Chao Li, Roman Schnabel, Karsten Danzmann, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. D 76, 062002 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR $1806 - 20$ hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO

B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 76, 062003 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Linear effects of perturbed recombination

Antony Lewis

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063001 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

White noise from dark matter: 21 cm observations of early baryon collapse

Kathryn M. Zurek and Craig J. Hogan

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063002 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Age problem in the holographic dark energy model

Hao Wei and Shuang Nan Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063003 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Probing late neutrino mass properties with supernova neutrinos

Joseph Baker, Haim Goldberg, Gilad Perez, and Ina Sarcevic

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063004 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Dynamics of quintom and hessence energies in loop quantum cosmology

Hao Wei and Shuang Nan Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063005 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Search with EGRET for a gamma ray line from the Galactic center

Anthony R. Pullen, Ranga-Ram Chary, and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063006 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Cosmic microwave background quadrupole and ellipsoidal universe

L. Campanelli, P. Cea, and L. Tedesco

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063007 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Power spectrum sensitivity of raster-scanned CMB experiments in the presence of $1 / f$ noise

Tom Crawford

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063008 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Dark energy and curvature from a future baryonic acoustic oscillation survey using the Lyman- $α$ forest

Patrick McDonald and Daniel J. Eisenstein

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063009 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Cosmological perturbation theory, instantaneous gauges, and local inertial frames

Jiří Bičák, Joseph Katz, and Donald Lynden-Bell

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063501 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Towards a nonsingular tachyonic big crunch

Robert H. Brandenberger, Andrew R. Frey, and Sugumi Kanno

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063502 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Is modified gravity required by observations? An empirical consistency test of dark energy models

Sheng Wang, Lam Hui, Morgan May, and Zoltán Haiman

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063503 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Can $f (R)$ modified gravity theories mimic a $Λ CDM$ cosmology?

S. Fay, S. Nesseris, and L. Perivolaropoulos

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063504 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

Constraining $f (R)$ gravity as a scalar-tensor theory

Thomas Faulkner, Max Tegmark, Emory F. Bunn, and Yi Mao

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063505 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

Supergravity inspired vector curvaton

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063506 (2007) - Published 14 September, 2007

Big bang nucleosynthesis with long-lived charged massive particles

Kazunori Kohri and Fumihiro Takayama

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063507 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Testing the $Λ$ cold dark matter model (and more) with the time evolution of the redshift

Kayll Lake

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063508 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Towards observable signatures of other bubble universes

Anthony Aguirre, Matthew C. Johnson, and Assaf Shomer

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063509 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Cosmological expansion and local physics

Valerio Faraoni and Audrey Jacques

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063510 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Effective equations for isotropic quantum cosmology including matter

Martin Bojowald, Hector Hernández, and Aureliano Skirzewski

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063511 (2007) - Published 26 September, 2007

Pre-inflationary vacuum in the cosmic microwave background

Brian A. Powell and William H. Kinney

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063512 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters

Thomas Dent, Steffen Stern, and Christof Wetterich

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063513 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Type I singularities and the phantom menace

Tapan Naskar and John Ward

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063514 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

N-flation: Observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum

Soo A Kim and Andrew R. Liddle

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063515 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Model-independent dark matter annihilation bound from the diffuse gamma ray flux

M. Kachelrieß and P. D. Serpico

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063516 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Cosmological constraints on $f (R)$ acceleration models

Yong-Seon Song, Hiranya Peiris, and Wayne Hu

Phys. Rev. D 76, 063517 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Achronal averaged null energy condition

Noah Graham and Ken D. Olum

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064001 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Stability of spherically symmetric solutions in modified theories of gravity

Michael D. Seifert

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064002 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Thermal derivation of the Coleman-De Luccia tunneling prescription

Adam R. Brown and Erick J. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064003 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Models of $f (R)$ cosmic acceleration that evade solar system tests

Wayne Hu and Ignacy Sawicki

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064004 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Multiple-event probability in general-relativistic quantum mechanics. II. A discrete model

Mauricio Mondragon, Alejandro Perez, and Carlo Rovelli

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064005 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Integrable cosmological models from higher dimensional Einstein equations

Masakazu Sano and Hisao Suzuki

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064006 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Open string with a background $B$ field as the first order mechanics, noncommutativity, and soldering formalism

A. A. Deriglazov, C. Neves, W. Oliveira, E. M. C. Abreu, C. Wotzasek, and C. Filgueiras

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064007 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Backreaction and the Unruh effect: New insights from exact solutions of uniformly accelerated detectors

Shih-Yuin Lin and B. L. Hu

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064008 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Spherically symmetric problem on the brane and galactic rotation curves

Alexander Viznyuk and Yuri Shtanov

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064009 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Entropy function and the attractor mechanism for spherically symmetric extremal black holes

Rong-Gen Cai and Li-Ming Cao

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064010 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Black Saturn with a dipole ring

Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064011 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Energy density-flux correlations in an unusual quantum state and in the vacuum

L. H. Ford and Thomas A. Roman

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064012 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

Unimodular cosmology and the weight of energy

Enrique Álvarez and Antón F. Faedo

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064013 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

Energy absorption problem of a brane-world black hole

Lihui Liu, Bin Wang, and Guohong Yang

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064014 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

Fluxes of higher-spin currents and Hawking radiation from charged black holes

Satoshi Iso, Takeshi Morita, and Hiroshi Umetsu

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064015 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

Energy-level shifts of a stationary hydrogen atom in a static external gravitational field with Schwarzschild geometry

Zhen-Hua Zhao, Yu-Xiao Liu, and Xi-Guo Lee

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064016 (2007) - Published 14 September, 2007

Nonadiabatic charged spherical gravitational collapse

A. Di Prisco, L. Herrera, G. Le Denmat, M. A. H. MacCallum, and N. O. Santos

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064017 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Lattice refining loop quantum cosmology, anisotropic models, and stability

Martin Bojowald, Daniel Cartin, and Gaurav Khanna

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064018 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Spin evolution of accreting neutron stars: Nonlinear development of the $r$ -mode instability

Ruxandra Bondarescu, Saul A. Teukolsky, and Ira Wasserman

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064019 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Shell-mediated tunnelling between (anti-)de Sitter vacua

Stefano Ansoldi and Lorenzo Sindoni

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064020 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Static spherically symmetric perfect fluid solutions in $f (R)$ theories of gravity

T. Multamäki and I. Vilja

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064021 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Hawking radiation from squashed Kaluza-Klein black holes: A window to extra dimensions

Hideki Ishihara and Jiro Soda

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064022 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

A global picture of quantum de Sitter space

Steven B. Giddings and Donald Marolf

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064023 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Magnification relations for Kerr lensing and testing cosmic censorship

M. C. Werner and A. O. Petters

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064024 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Graviton localization and Newton’s law for brane models with a nonminimally coupled bulk scalar field

K. Farakos, G. Koutsoumbas, and P. Pasipoularides

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064025 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Particle creation in ( $2 + 1$ ) circular dust collapse

Sashideep Gutti and T. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064026 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Quantization in black hole backgrounds

Steven B. Giddings

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064027 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Faithful effective-one-body waveforms of small-mass-ratio coalescing black hole binaries

Thibault Damour and Alessandro Nagar

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064028 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Dynamical breaking and restoration of chiral and color symmetries in the static Einstein universe

D. Ebert, A. V. Tyukov, and V. Ch. Zhukovsky

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064029 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Generalization of the Randall-Sundrum warped braneworld model to higher dimensions

Debajyoti Choudhury and Soumitra SenGupta

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064030 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

$1 / f$ fluctuations in spinning-particle motions around a Schwarzschild black hole

Hiroko Koyama, Kenta Kiuchi, and Tetsuro Konishi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064031 (2007) - Published 26 September, 2007

Quantum cosmology with a big-brake singularity

Alexander Y. Kamenshchik, Claus Kiefer, and Barbara Sandhöfer

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064032 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Generalized Nariai solutions for Yang-type monopoles

Pablo Diaz and Antonio Segui

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064033 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Inspiral, merger, and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries: A multipolar analysis

Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, José A. Gonzalez, Ulrich Sperhake, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, and Bernd Brügmann

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064034 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Rotating black hole surrounded by self-gravitating torus in the puncture framework

Masaru Shibata

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064035 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Integrability and generalized monodromy matrix

T. Lhallabi and A. Moujib

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064036 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

Interior of distorted black holes

Valeri P. Frolov and Andrey A. Shoom

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064037 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Exact solutions for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in five dimensions: Black holes, wormholes, and spacetime horns

Gustavo Dotti, Julio Oliva, and Ricardo Troncoso

Phys. Rev. D 76, 064038 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Physically sound Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamical Casimir effect

Jaume Haro and Emilio Elizalde

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065001 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Effective theories of gauge-Higgs unification models in warped spacetime

Yutaka Sakamura

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065002 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Higgs boson from the metastable supersymmetric breaking sector

Yang Bai, JiJi Fan, and Zhenyu Han

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065003 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Dilaton and second-rank tensor fields as supersymmetric compensators

Hitoshi Nishino and Subhash Rajpoot

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065004 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Nonperturbative flat direction decay

Anders Basbøll, David Maybury, Francesco Riva, and Stephen M. West

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065005 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Unparticle physics effects in $B_{s}$ - ${\bar{B}}_{s}$ mixing

Alexander Lenz

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065006 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Holography and unquenched quark-gluon plasmas

G. Bertoldi, F. Bigazzi, A. L. Cotrone, and J. D. Edelstein

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065007 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Field quantization in 5D space-time with $Z_{2}$ parity and position/momentum propagator

S. Ichinose and A. Murayama

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065008 (2007) - Published 14 September, 2007

3-point off-shell vertex in scalar QED in arbitrary gauge and dimension

A. Bashir, Y. Concha-Sánchez, and R. Delbourgo

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065009 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Zero point energy on extra dimensions: Noncommutative torus

S. Fabi, B. Harms, and G. Karatheodoris

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065010 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Interaction of a charge with a thin plasma sheet

M. Bordag

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065011 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Lessons from non-Abelian plasma instabilities in two spatial dimensions

Peter Arnold and Po-Shan Leang

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065012 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

New look at the modified Coulomb potential in a strong magnetic field

N. Sadooghi and A. Sodeiri Jalili

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065013 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

Space-time noncommutative theories at finite temperature

A. V. Strelchenko and D. V. Vassilevich

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065014 (2007) - Published 24 September, 2007

The ’t Hooft loop in the Hamiltonian approach to Yang-Mills theory in Coulomb gauge

H. Reinhardt and D. Epple

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065015 (2007) - Published 26 September, 2007

Dual field theories in $(d - 1) + 1$ emergent spacetimes from a unifying field theory in $d + 2$ spacetime

Itzhak Bars, Shih-Hung Chen, and Guillaume Quélin

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065016 (2007) - Published 27 September, 2007

$N = 8$ supersymmetric mechanics on the sphere $S^{3}$

S. Bellucci, S. Krivonos, and A. Sutulin

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065017 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Glueball spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory in $2 + 1$ dimensions

Robert G. Leigh, Djordje Minic, and Alexandr Yelnikov

Phys. Rev. D 76, 065018 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

Hall conductivity from dyonic black holes

Sean A. Hartnoll and Pavel K. Kovtun

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066001 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Brane-world black hole solutions via a confining potential

M. Heydari-Fard, H. Razmi, and H. R. Sepangi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066002 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Do unbounded bubbles ultimately become fenced inside a black hole?

F. S. Guzmán, L. Lehner, and O. Sarbach

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066003 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Dimensional duality

Daniel Green, Albion Lawrence, John McGreevy, David R. Morrison, and Eva Silverstein

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066004 (2007) - Published 12 September, 2007

Two-twistor description of a membrane

Sergey Fedoruk and Jerzy Lukierski

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066005 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Discrete $R$ -symmetry anomalies in heterotic orbifold models

Takeshi Araki, Kang-Sin Choi, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Jisuke Kubo, and Hiroshi Ohki

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066006 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Perturbative antibrane potentials in heterotic M theory

James Gray, André Lukas, and Burt Ovrut

Phys. Rev. D 76, 066007 (2007) - Published 28 September, 2007

BRIEF REPORTS

Neutrino flux from cosmic ray accelerators in the Cygnus spiral arm of the Galaxy

Luis Anchordoqui, Francis Halzen, Teresa Montaruli, and Aongus Ó Murchadha

Phys. Rev. D 76, 067301 (2007) - Published 10 September, 2007

Path-integral formulation of pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics and the role of the metric operator

A. Mostafazadeh

Phys. Rev. D 76, 067701 (2007) - Published 13 September, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Optimal filtering of the LISA data [Phys. Rev. D 70, 022003 (2004)]

Andrzej Królak, Massimo Tinto, and Michele Vallisneri

Phys. Rev. D 76, 069901 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007