Volume 76, Issue 4

15 August 2007

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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When did cosmic acceleration start?

Alessandro Melchiorri, Luca Pagano, and Stefania Pandolfi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041301(R) (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

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Revival of the thermal sneutrino dark matter

Hye-Sung Lee, Konstantin T. Matchev, and Salah Nasri

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041302(R) (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

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Improved cosmological bound on the thermal axion mass

Alessandro Melchiorri, Olga Mena, and Anže Slosar

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041303(R) (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

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Approximate Killing vectors on $S^{2}$

Gregory B. Cook and Bernard F. Whiting

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041501(R) (2007) - Published 10 August, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Practical formula for the radiated angular momentum

Carlos O. Lousto and Yosef Zlochower

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041502(R) (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Phase transition in U(1) configuration space: Oscillons as remnants of vortex-antivortex annihilation

M. Gleiser and J. Thorarinson

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041701(R) (2007) - Published 15 August, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Novel phase in the phase structure of the $(g ϕ^{4} + h ϕ^{6})_{1 + 1}$ field theoretic model

Abouzeid. M. Shalaby

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041702(R) (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

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Nongeometric fluxes as supergravity backgrounds

Fernando Marchesano and Waldemar Schulgin

Phys. Rev. D 76, 041901(R) (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

ARTICLES

Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Quantum noise in differential-type gravitational-wave interferometer and signal recycling

Atsushi Nishizawa, Masa-aki Sakagami, and Seiji Kawamura

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042002 (2007) - Published 15 August, 2007

Neutron stars in Einstein-aether theory

Christopher Eling, Ted Jacobson, and M. Coleman Miller

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042003 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Physical instrumental vetoes for gravitational-wave burst triggers

P. Ajith, M. Hewitson, J. R. Smith, H. Grote, S. Hild, and K. A. Strain

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042004 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Could the Pioneer anomaly have a gravitational origin?

Kjell Tangen

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042005 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Binary system delays and timing noise in searches for gravitationalwaves from known pulsars

Matthew Pitkin and Graham Woan

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042006 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

Constraints on the interactions between dark matter and baryons from the x-ray quantum calorimetry experiment

Adrienne L. Erickcek, Paul J. Steinhardt, Dan McCammon, and Patrick C. McGuire

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042007 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II

A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 76, 042008 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

General solution to the $E − B$ mixing problem

Kendrick M. Smith and Matias Zaldarriaga

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043001 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Signature of patchy reionization in the polarization anisotropy of the CMB

Olivier Doré, Gil Holder, Marcelo Alvarez, Ilian T. Iliev, Garrelt Mellema, Ue-Li Pen, and Paul R. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043002 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Evidence-based search method for gravitational waves from neutron star ring-downs

James Clark, Ik Siong Heng, Matthew Pitkin, and Graham Woan

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043003 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Air-shower simulations with and without thinning: Artificial fluctuations and their suppression

D. S. Gorbunov, G. I. Rubtsov, and S. V. Troitsky

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043004 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

CMB polarization power spectra contributions from a network of cosmic strings

Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz, and Jon Urrestilla

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043005 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Contribution of the cosmological constant to the relativistic bending of light revisited

Wolfgang Rindler and Mustapha Ishak

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043006 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Dynamics of “logamediate” inflation

John D. Barrow and N. J. Nunes

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043501 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Baryon asymmetry in a heavy moduli scenario

Masahiro Kawasaki and Kazunori Nakayama

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043502 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Interior spacetimes of stars in Palatini $f (R)$ gravity

Kimmo Kainulainen, Vappu Reijonen, and Daniel Sunhede

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043503 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Backreaction of Cosmological Fluctuations during Power-Law Inflation

G. Marozzi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043504 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Slow-roll reconstruction for running spectral index

Qing-Guo Huang

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043505 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Scale of gravity and the cosmological constant within a landscape

Michael L. Graesser and Michael P. Salem

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043506 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Constraints on the size of the extra dimension from Kaluza-Klein gravitino decay

David Gherson

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043507 (2007) - Published 7 August, 2007

Can we ever distinguish between quintessence and a cosmological constant?

Sirichai Chongchitnan and George Efstathiou

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043508 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Primordial perturbation spectra in a holographic phase of the Universe

Yun-Song Piao

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043509 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Detection of gravitational lensing in the cosmic microwave background

Kendrick M. Smith, Oliver Zahn, and Olivier Doré

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043510 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Stretching the inflaton potential with kinetic energy

James E. Lidsey

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043511 (2007) - Published 10 August, 2007

Quantum stability of a $w < - 1$ phase of cosmic acceleration

E. O. Kahya and V. K. Onemli

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043512 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Predicting the cosmological constant from the causal entropic principle

Raphael Bousso, Roni Harnik, Graham D. Kribs, and Gilad Perez

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043513 (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

Phantom field dynamics in loop quantum cosmology

Daris Samart and Burin Gumjudpai

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043514 (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

Warm inflation dynamics in the low temperature regime

Mar Bastero-Gil and Arjun Berera

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043515 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Effective search templates for a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background

Takeshi Chiba, Yoshiaki Himemoto, Masahide Yamaguchi, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043516 (2007) - Published 20 August, 2007

Gamma rays from dark matter minispikes in the Andromeda Galaxy M31

Mattia Fornasa, Marco Taoso, and Gianfranco Bertone

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043517 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Can strong gravitational lensing constrain dark energy?

Seokcheon Lee and Kin-Wang Ng

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043518 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Lookback time bounds from energy conditions

J. Santos, J. S. Alcaniz, M. J. Rebouças, and N. Pires

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043519 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Mass limits on neutralino dark matter

Rudy C. Gilmore

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043520 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Hamiltonian formalism in Friedmann cosmology and its quantization

Jie Ren, Xin-He Meng, and Liu Zhao

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043521 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Thin disk in higher dimensional space-time and dark matter interpretation

Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo and Patricio S. Letelier

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043522 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Towards closing the window on strongly interacting dark matter: Far-reaching constraints from Earth’s heat flow

Gregory D. Mack, John F. Beacom, and Gianfranco Bertone

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043523 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

Probing the nature of dark matter with cosmic x rays: Constraints from “dark blobs” and grating spectra of galaxy clusters

Signe Riemer-Sorensen, Kristian Pedersen, Steen H. Hansen, and Haakon Dahle

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043524 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

CMB constraint on radion evolution in the brane world scenario

K. C. Chan and M.-C. Chu

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043525 (2007) - Published 29 August, 2007

Non-Gaussianities in extended $D$ -term inflation

Francis Bernardeau and Tristan Brunier

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043526 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Viable Palatini- $f (R)$ cosmologies with generalized dark matter

Tomi Koivisto

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043527 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Relic abundance of dark matter in universal extra dimension models with right-handed neutrinos

Shigeki Matsumoto, Joe Sato, Masato Senami, and Masato Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043528 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Onset of inflation in loop quantum cosmology

Cristiano Germani, William Nelson, and Mairi Sakellariadou

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043529 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Evolution of large scale curvature fluctuations during the perturbative decay of the inflaton

Fabrizio Di Marco, Fabio Finelli, and Alessandro Gruppuso

Phys. Rev. D 76, 043530 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Nonextremal black holes are BPS

Christopher M. Miller, Koenraad Schalm, and Erick J. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044001 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Formation of closed timelike curves in a composite vacuum/dust asymptotically flat spacetime

Amos Ori

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044002 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Final spin of a coalescing black-hole binary: An effective-one-body approach

Thibault Damour and Alessandro Nagar

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044003 (2007) - Published 7 August, 2007

Free Yang-Mills theory versus toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds

Tatsuma Nishioka and Tadashi Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044004 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

QCD and spin effects in black hole air showers

Marco Cavaglià and Arunava Roy

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044005 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Spatial averaging limit of covariant macroscopic gravity: Scalar corrections to the cosmological equations

Aseem Paranjape and T. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044006 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Circular and noncircular nearly horizon-skimming orbits in Kerr spacetimes

Enrico Barausse, Scott A. Hughes, and Luciano Rezzolla

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044007 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Consistency of $f (R) = \sqrt{R^{2} - R_{0}^{2}}$ gravity with cosmological observations in the Palatini formalism

M. Sadegh Movahed, Shant Baghram, and Sohrab Rahvar

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044008 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Derivative expansion of the heat kernel in curved space

L. L. Salcedo

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044009 (2007) - Published 8 August, 2007

Decay of massive scalar hair on brane black holes

Marek Rogatko and Agnieszka Szypłowska

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044010 (2007) - Published 10 August, 2007

Papapetrou energy-momentum tensor for Chern-Simons modified gravity

David Guarrera and A. J. Hariton

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044011 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Frame dragging and superenergy

L. Herrera, J. Carot, and A. Di Prisco

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044012 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Virial theorem and the dynamics of clusters of galaxies in the brane world models

T. Harko and K. S. Cheng

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044013 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Quantum time uncertainty in Schwarzschild–anti-de Sitter black holes

Pablo Galán, Luis J. Garay, and Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044014 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Lattice-refining loop quantum cosmology and inflation

William Nelson and Mairi Sakellariadou

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044015 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Polymer quantum mechanics and its continuum limit

Alejandro Corichi, Tatjana Vukašinac, and José A. Zapata

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044016 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Traversable wormholes: Minimum violation of the null energy condition revisited

O. B. Zaslavskii

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044017 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Short-distance contribution to the spectrum of Hawking radiation

I. Agulló, J. Navarro-Salas, Gonzalo J. Olmo, and Leonard Parker

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044018 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Constraint damping in first-order evolution systems for numerical relativity

Robert Owen

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044019 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Scalar-field perturbations from a particle orbiting a black hole using numerical evolution in $2 + 1$ dimensions

Leor Barack and Darren A. Golbourn

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044020 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Some exact solutions with torsion in 5D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

F. Canfora, A. Giacomini, and S. Willison

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044021 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

(Not) summing over Kaluza-Klein states

Johannes Hirn and Verónica Sanz

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044022 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

Do static atoms outside a Schwarzschild black hole spontaneously excite?

Hongwei Yu and Wenting Zhou

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044023 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

Solution generating theorems for the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation

Petarpa Boonserm, Matt Visser, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044024 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

New infinite-dimensional hidden symmetries for heterotic string theory

Ya-Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044025 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Galaxy clustering constraints on deviations from Newtonian gravity at cosmological scales. II. Perturbative and numerical analyses of power spectrum and bispectrum

Akihito Shirata, Yasushi Suto, Chiaki Hikage, Tetsuya Shiromizu, and Naoki Yoshida

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044026 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Cosmology of modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow, and David F. Mota

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044027 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Consistent Lorentz violation in flat and curved space

Gia Dvali, Oriol Pujolàs, and Michele Redi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044028 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Lorentzian and signature changing branes

Marc Mars, José M. M. Senovilla, and Raül Vera

Phys. Rev. D 76, 044029 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Metric for gradient renormalization group flow of the worldsheet sigma model beyond first order

T. Oliynyk, V. Suneeta, and E. Woolgar

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045001 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Anthropic tuning of the weak scale and of $m_{u} / m_{d}$ in two-Higgs-doublet models

S. M. Barr and Almas Khan

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045002 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Role of radiation reaction forces in the dynamics of centrifugally accelerated particles

G. T. Dalakishvili, A. D. Rogava, and V. I. Berezhiani

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045003 (2007) - Published 10 August, 2007

Density profiles of supernova matter and determination of neutrino parameters

Shao-Hsuan Chiu

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045004 (2007) - Published 10 August, 2007

Confinement in $N = 1$ supersymmetric QCD: One step beyond Seiberg’s duality

M. Shifman and A. Yung

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045005 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Effect of virtual pairs for relativistic bound-state problems

Mohsen Emami-Razavi and Marian Kowalski

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045006 (2007) - Published 14 August, 2007

Delta expansion on the lattice and dilated scaling region

Hirofumi Yamada

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045007 (2007) - Published 15 August, 2007

Spectrum and thermodynamic properties of two-dimensional $N = (1, 1)$ super Yang-Mills theory with fundamental matter and a Chern-Simons term

John R. Hiller, Stephen Pinsky, Yiannis Proestos, Nathan Salwen, and Uwe Trittmann

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045008 (2007) - Published 16 August, 2007

Non-Abelian plasma instabilities for extreme anisotropy

Peter Arnold and Guy D. Moore

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045009 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Non-Abelian vortices in Chern-Simons theories and their induced effective theory

L. G. Aldrovandi and F. A. Schaposnik

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045010 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Magnetic phases in three-flavor color superconductivity

Efrain J. Ferrer and Vivian de la Incera

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045011 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Casimir-Polder intermolecular forces in minimal length theories

O. Panella

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045012 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Moving detectors in cavities

Nathaniel Obadia

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045013 (2007) - Published 29 August, 2007

Predictive model for dark matter, dark energy, neutrino masses, and leptogenesis at the TeV scale

Narendra Sahu and Utpal Sarkar

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045014 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Quantum gravity and charge renormalization

David J. Toms

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045015 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Casimir forces in a piston geometry at zero and finite temperatures

M. P. Hertzberg, R. L. Jaffe, M. Kardar, and A. Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045016 (2007) - Published 30 August, 2007

Holographic mixing quantified

Brian Batell and Tony Gherghetta

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045017 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Lorentz covariant statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of the relativistic ideal gas and preferred frame

K. Kowalski, J. Rembieliński, and K. A. Smoliński

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045018 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

QED electrical conductivity using the two-particle-irreducible effective action

M. E. Carrington and E. Kovalchuk

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045019 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Emergence of tricritical point and liquid-gas phase in the massless $2 + 1$ dimensional Gross-Neveu model

Jean-Loïc Kneur, Marcus Benghi Pinto, Rudnei O. Ramos, and Ederson Staudt

Phys. Rev. D 76, 045020 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Isospin diffusion in thermal AdS/CFT correspondence with flavor

Johanna Erdmenger, Matthias Kaminski, and Felix Rust

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046001 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Four-loop dressing phase of $N = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory

N. Beisert, T. McLoughlin, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046002 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Note on chiral symmetry breaking from intersecting branes

Yi-hong Gao, Jonathan P. Shock, Wei-shui Xu, and Ding-fang Zeng

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046003 (2007) - Published 6 August, 2007

Geometrically engineering the standard model: Locally unfolding three families out of $E_{8}$

Jacob L. Bourjaily

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046004 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

Quantum algebra of $N$ superspace

Nicolás Hatcher, A. Restuccia, and J. Stephany

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046005 (2007) - Published 9 August, 2007

All-order consistency of 5D supergravity vacua

Patrick Meessen

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046006 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Global geometry of the supersymmetric ${AdS}_{3} / {CFT}_{2}$ correspondence in M-theory

Pau Figueras, Oisín A. P. Mac Conamhna, and Eoin Ó Colgáin

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046007 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Spiky strings, giant magnons, and $β$ deformations

N. P. Bobev and R. C. Rashkov

Phys. Rev. D 76, 046008 (2007) - Published 27 August, 2007

BRIEF REPORTS

Entropy of Reissner-Nordstrom black holes with minimal length revisited

Myungseok Yoon, Jihye Ha, and Wontae Kim

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047501 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Strains and axial outflows in the field of a rotating black hole

D. Bini, F. de Felice, and A. Geralico

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047502 (2007) - Published 31 August, 2007

Induction of the four-dimensional Lorentz-breaking non-Abelian Chern-Simons action

M. Gomes, J. R. Nascimento, E. Passos, A. Yu. Petrov, and A. J. da Silva

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047701 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Doubly special relativity and Finsler geometry

S. Mignemi

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047702 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

$N = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills multiplet in nonadjoint representations

Hitoshi Nishino and Subhash Rajpoot

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047703 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007

Casimir pistons with hybrid boundary conditions

Xiang-hua Zhai and Xin-zhou Li

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047704 (2007) - Published 17 August, 2007

Gluon condensate, Wilson loops and gauge/string duality

Oleg Andreev and Valentin I. Zakharov

Phys. Rev. D 76, 047705 (2007) - Published 28 August, 2007

COMMENTS

Doubly special relativity and canonical transformations: Comment on “Lagrangian for doubly special relativity particle and the role of noncommutativity”

J. Antonio García

Phys. Rev. D 76, 048501 (2007) - Published 15 August, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Cosmology of mass-varying neutrinos driven by quintessence: Theory and observations [Phys. Rev. D 73, 083515 (2006)]

A. W. Brookfield, C. van de Bruck, D. F. Mota, and D. Tocchini-Valentini

Phys. Rev. D 76, 049901 (2007) - Published 13 August, 2007