Most cited papers in High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
What are the most cited papers in High-Energy Particle Collisions Research?
The most cited paper in High-Energy Particle Collisions Research is "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" (G. Aad et al., 2012), with 10,856 citations. Next come "PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual" (9,135) and "The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations" (7,957).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 1,429 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC G. Aad et al. · Physics Letters B | 14 Aug 2012 | 10,856 |
| 2 | PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Journal of High Energy Physics | 9 May 2006 | 9,135 |
| 3 | The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations Johan Alwall, Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Jul 2014 | 7,957 |
| 4 | The anti- k t jet clustering algorithm Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P Salam, Gregory Soyez · Journal of High Energy Physics | 16 Apr 2008 | 6,780 |
| 5 | A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Computer Physics Communications | 2 Feb 2008 | 5,734 |
| 6 | An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, Stefan Ask, Jesper Roy Christiansen et al. · Computer Physics Communications | 11 Feb 2015 | 5,680 |
| 7 | The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC S. Chatrchyan et al. · Journal of Instrumentation | 14 Aug 2008 | 5,508 |
| 8 | Asymptotic freedom in parton language Guido Altarelli, G. Parisi · Nuclear Physics B | Aug 1977 | 5,320 |
| 9 | QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations Mikhail A Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, В. И. Захаров · Nuclear Physics B | Feb 1979 | 4,739 |
| 10 | The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider G. Aad et al. · Journal of Instrumentation | 14 Aug 2008 | 4,271 |
| 11 | Parton distributions for the LHC Alan D. Martin, W. J. Stirling, Robert Samuel Thorne et al. · The European Physical Journal C | 3 Jul 2009 | 4,164 |
| 12 | Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions? H. David Politzer · Physical Review Letters | 25 Jun 1973 | 4,130 |
| 13 | Chiral perturbation theory to one loop Jürg Gasser, H. Leutwyler · Annals of Physics | Nov 1984 | 4,057 |
| 14 | Chiral perturbation theory: Expansions in the mass of the strange quark Jürg Gasser, H. Leutwyler · Nuclear Physics B | 1985 | 3,496 |
| 15 | Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark–gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions Joseph R. Adams et al. · Nuclear Physics A | 19 May 2005 | 3,424 |
| 16 | Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics Glen Cowan, Kyle Cranmer, Eilam Gross et al. · The European Physical Journal C | Feb 2011 | 3,325 |
| 17 | New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis Pumplin, Jon, Stump, D R, Huston, J et al. | 2002 | 3,086 |
| 18 | DELPHES 3: a modular framework for fast simulation of a generic collider experiment J. de Favereau, Christophe Delaere, P. Demin et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Feb 2014 | 3,071 |
| 19 | Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration K. Adcox et al. · Nuclear Physics A | 5 Jul 2005 | 3,069 |
| 20 | Exclusive processes in perturbative quantum chromodynamics G. Peter Lepage, Stanley J. Brodsky · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Nov 1980 | 2,963 |
| 21 | Mesons in a relativized quark model with chromodynamics Stephen Godfrey, Nathan Isgur · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 1985 | 2,929 |
| 22 | J/ψ suppression by quark-gluon plasma formation Tetsuo Matsui, Helmut Satz · Physics Letters B | Oct 1986 | 2,914 |
| 23 | A New Method for Combining NLO QCD with Shower Monte Carlo Algorithms Paolo Nason · Journal of High Energy Physics | 15 Nov 2004 | 2,912 |
| 24 | Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hägen, T. W. B. Kibble · Physical Review Letters | 16 Nov 1964 | 2,840 |
| 25 | Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region James D. Bjorken · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 1983 | 2,804 |
| 26 | Parton distributions for the LHC run II Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Apr 2015 | 2,763 |
| 27 | Matching NLO QCD computations with parton shower simulations: the POWHEG method Stefano Frixione, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari · Journal of High Energy Physics | 23 Nov 2007 | 2,758 |
| 28 | Weak decays beyond leading logarithms Gerhard Buchalla, Andrzej J. Buras, Markus E. Lautenbacher · Reviews of Modern Physics | Oct 1996 | 2,659 |
| 29 | High-energy-physics event generation with PYTHIA 5.7 and JETSET 7.4 Torbjörn Sjöstrand · Computer Physics Communications | Aug 1994 | 2,579 |
| 30 | One-loop corrections for e+e− annihilation into μ+μ− in the Weinberg model Giampiero Passarino, Martinus J. G. Veltman · Nuclear Physics B | Nov 1979 | 2,529 |
| 31 | Final report of the E821 muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement at BNL G. W. Bennett et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 7 Apr 2006 | 2,521 |
| 32 | Baryons in the expansion Edward H. Witten · Nuclear Physics B | Nov 1979 | 2,517 |
| 33 | Parton fragmentation and string dynamics B. G. Andersson, Gösta Gustafson, Gunnar Ingelman et al. · Physics Reports | Jul 1983 | 2,513 |
| 34 | Semihard processes in QCD L.V. Gribov · Physics Reports | Nov 1983 | 2,504 |
| 35 | The bonn meson-exchange model for the nucleon—nucleon interaction R. Machleidt, Karl Holinde, Ch. Elster · Physics Reports | May 1987 | 2,461 |
| 36 | QCD and resonance physics. applications Mikhail A Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov · Nuclear Physics B | Feb 1979 | 2,446 |
| 37 | Rigorous QCD analysis of inclusive annihilation and production of heavy quarkonium Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Eric Braaten, G. Peter Lepage · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Feb 1995 | 2,427 |
| 38 | New parton distributions for collider physics Hung-Liang Lai, Marco Guzzi, Joey Walter Huston et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 26 Oct 2010 | 2,355 |
| 39 | Quark–gluon plasma and color glass condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment I. C. Arsene et al. · Nuclear Physics A | 11 Mar 2005 | 2,279 |
| 40 | Event generation with SHERPA 1.1 T. Gleisberg, Stefan Höche, Frank Krauss et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | 3 Feb 2009 | 2,274 |
| 41 | The PHOBOS perspective on discoveries at RHIC Birger B. Back et al. · Nuclear Physics A | 15 Apr 2005 | 2,268 |
| 42 | Parton distributions with LHC data Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza et al. · Nuclear Physics B | 11 Oct 2012 | 2,266 |
| 43 | Herwig++ physics and manual M. Bähr, Stefan Gieseke, M. Gigg et al. · The European Physical Journal C | 19 Nov 2008 | 2,256 |
| 44 | Exact evolution equation for the effective potential Christof Wetterich · Physics Letters B | Feb 1993 | 2,205 |
| 45 | QCD and instantons at finite temperature David J. Gross, Robert D. Pisarski, Laurence G. Yaffe · Reviews of Modern Physics | 1981 | 2,186 |
| 46 | Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N = 2 supersymmetric QCD N. Seiberg, E. Witten · Nuclear Physics B | Dec 1994 | 2,139 |
| 47 | Microscopic models for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions Steffen A. Bass · Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | 1998 | 2,100 |
| 48 | HERWIG 6: an event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes) Gennaro Corcella, I.G. Knowles, Giuseppe Marchesini et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | 9 Jan 2001 | 2,096 |
| 49 | Computing quark and gluon distribution functions for very large nuclei Larry McLerran, Raju Venugopalan · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Mar 1994 | 2,061 |
| 50 | High-energy-physics event generation with Pythia 6.1 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, P. Edén, Christer Friberg et al. · Computer Physics Communications | Apr 2001 | 2,060 |
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