Most cited papers in Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
What are the most cited papers in Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies?
The most cited paper in Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies is "The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity" (JUAN M. MALDACENA, 1998), with 14,697 citations. Next come "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" (10,856) and "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC" (10,126).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 2,716 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity JUAN M. MALDACENA · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 14,697 |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC S. Chatrchyan et al. · Physics Letters B | 17 Aug 2012 | 10,126 |
| 4 | Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems Alan H. Guth · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Jan 1981 | 10,058 |
| 5 | PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Journal of High Energy Physics | 9 May 2006 | 9,135 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | A Model of Leptons Steven Weinberg · Physical Review Letters | 20 Nov 1967 | 7,399 |
| 8 | Review of Particle Physics Masaharu Tanabashi et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. | 17 Aug 2018 | 7,268 |
| 9 | CP Conservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles R. D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn · Physical Review Letters | 20 Jun 1977 | 7,150 |
| 10 | Geant4 developments and applications John E. Allison et al. · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science | Feb 2006 | 7,047 |
| 11 | Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory Gubser, S S, Klebanov, Igor R, Polyakov, A M · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 17 Feb 1998 | 6,891 |
| 12 | The anti- k t jet clustering algorithm Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P Salam, Gregory Soyez · Journal of High Energy Physics | 16 Apr 2008 | 6,780 |
| 13 | CP-Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction M. Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa · Progress of Theoretical Physics | Feb 1973 | 6,651 |
| 14 | The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter Nima Arkani–Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali · Physics Letters B | Jun 1998 | 6,617 |
| 15 | A new inflationary universe scenario: A possible solution of the horizon, flatness, homogeneity, isotropy and primordial monopole problems Andrei D Linde · Physics Letters B | Feb 1982 | 6,495 |
| 16 | Review of Particle Physics J. Beringer et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 20 Jul 2012 | 6,020 |
| 17 | Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, Goran Senjanović · Physical Review Letters | 7 Apr 1980 | 5,939 |
| 18 | A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Computer Physics Communications | 2 Feb 2008 | 5,734 |
| 19 | An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, Stefan Ask, Jesper Roy Christiansen et al. · Computer Physics Communications | 11 Feb 2015 | 5,680 |
| 20 | Large N field theories, string theory and gravity Ofer Aharony, Steven S. Gubser, JUAN M. MALDACENA et al. · Physics Reports | 2000 | 5,620 |
| 21 | The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC S. Chatrchyan et al. · Journal of Instrumentation | 14 Aug 2008 | 5,508 |
| 22 | Asymptotic freedom in parton language Guido Altarelli, G. Parisi · Nuclear Physics B | Aug 1977 | 5,320 |
| 23 | Review of Particle Physics Particle Data Group et al. · Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | 13 Jul 2020 | 5,261 |
| 24 | A New Light Boson? Steven Weinberg · Physical Review Letters | 23 Jan 1978 | 5,239 |
| 25 | Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos Y. Fukuda et al. · Physical Review Letters | 24 Aug 1998 | 5,135 |
| 26 | Review of Particle Physics C. Amsler et al. · Physics Letters B | 5 Aug 2008 | 5,093 |
| 27 | Particle dark matter: evidence, candidates and constraints Gianfranco Bertone, Dan Hooper, Joseph I. Silk · Physics Reports | 9 Nov 2004 | 5,054 |
| 28 | Problem of Strong P and T Invariance in the Presence of Instantons Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 30 Jan 1978 | 4,791 |
| 29 | μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays? Peter Minkowski · Physics Letters B | Apr 1977 | 4,789 |
| 30 | QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations Mikhail A Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, В. И. Захаров · Nuclear Physics B | Feb 1979 | 4,739 |
| 31 | Regularization and renormalization of gauge fields Gerard ’t Hooft, Martinus J. G. Veltman · Nuclear Physics B | Jul 1972 | 4,620 |
| 32 | Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons Peter W. Higgs · Physical Review Letters | 19 Oct 1964 | 4,600 |
| 33 | Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces Howard M. Georgi, Sheldon L. Glashow · Physical Review Letters | 25 Feb 1974 | 4,555 |
| 34 | A planar diagram theory for strong interactions Gerard ’t Hooft · Nuclear Physics B | Apr 1974 | 4,547 |
| 35 | Confinement of quarks Kenneth G. Wilson · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Oct 1974 | 4,521 |
| 36 | Unified cosmic history in modified gravity: From F ( R ) theory to Lorentz non-invariant models Shin’ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov · Physics Reports | 3 May 2011 | 4,380 |
| 37 | Ultraviolet Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories David J. Gross, Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 25 Jun 1973 | 4,340 |
| 38 | Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Sidney Coleman, Erick J. Weinberg · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Mar 1973 | 4,324 |
| 39 | The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider G. Aad et al. · Journal of Instrumentation | 14 Aug 2008 | 4,271 |
| 40 | New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis Jonathan Pumplin, Daniel Robert Stump, Joey Huston et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | 4 Jul 2002 | 4,237 |
| 41 | Supersymmetry, supergravity and particle physics Hans Peter Nilles · Physics Reports | Aug 1984 | 4,215 |
| 42 | Supersymmetric dark matter Gerard Jungman, Marc Kamionkowski, K. Griest · Physics Reports | Mar 1996 | 4,186 |
| 43 | 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 |
| 44 | Neutrino oscillations in matter L. Wolfenstein · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | May 1978 | 4,149 |
| 45 | Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions? H. David Politzer · Physical Review Letters | 25 Jun 1973 | 4,130 |
| 46 | The world as a hologram Leonard Susskind · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Nov 1995 | 4,087 |
| 47 | Chiral perturbation theory to one loop Jürg Gasser, H. Leutwyler · Annals of Physics | Nov 1984 | 4,057 |
| 48 | Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons F. Englert, R. Brout · Physical Review Letters | 31 Aug 1964 | 4,055 |
| 49 | Barygenesis without grand unification M. Fukugita, T. Yanagida · Physics Letters B | Jun 1986 | 3,935 |
| 50 | The EvtGen particle decay simulation package David Lange · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | Apr 2001 | 3,929 |
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