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Most Cited High Energy Physics Articles
1998

Articles with most citations in the HEP (PREPRINT) database


Positions are based on the number of citations in the HEP database [SLAC-SPIRES], between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 1998. The situation may change with time. For your convenience, pointers to the number of citations between January 1, 1998 and today are also added.

See also the 'All-Time Favorites' list, and a review of this years most cited HEP Papers by Michael Peskin, SLAC Theory Group.


In a category of its own:


  1. A) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS. PARTICLE DATA GROUP
    By R.M. Barnett, C.D. Carone, D.E. Groom, T.G. Trippe, C.G. Wohl, B. Armstrong, P.S. Gee, G.S. Wagman (LBL, Berkeley), F. James, M. Mangano, K. Monig, L. Montanet (CERN), J.L. Feng, H. Murayama (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley), J.J. Hernandez (Valencia U.), A. Manohar (UC, San Diego), M. Aguilar-Benitez (Madrid, CIEMAT & CERN), C. Caso (Genoa U. & INFN, Genoa), R.L. Crawford (Glasgow U.), M. Roos, N.A. Tornqvist (Helsinki U.), K.G. Hayes (Hillsdale Coll.), K. Hagiwara, K. Nakamura, M. Tanabashi (KEK, Tsukuba), K.A. Olive (Minnesota U.), K. Honscheid (Ohio State U.), P.R. Burchat (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), R.E. Shrock (SUNY, Stony Brook), S. Eidelman (Novosibirsk, IYF), R.H. Schindler (SLAC), A. Gurtu (Tata Inst.), K. Hikasa (Tohoku U.), G. Conforto (Urbino U. & INFN, Florence), R.L. Workman (Virginia Tech), C. Grab (Zurich, ETH), C. Amsler (Zurich U.).
    Earlier editions were titled 'Review of Particle Properties.'
    Published in Phys.Rev.D54:1-720,1996
    796 citations between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 1998
    (Number of citations between January 1, 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

    B) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS. PARTICLE DATA GROUP.
    By C. Caso, G. Conforto, A. Gurtu, M. Aguilar-Benitez, C. Amsler, R.M. Barnett, P.R. Burchat, C.D. Carone, O. Dahl, M. Doser, S. Eidelman, J.L. Feng, M. Goodman, C. Grab, D.E. Groom, K. Hagiwara, K.G. Hayes, J.J. Hernandez, K. Hikasa, K. Honscheid, F. James, M.L. Mangano, A.V. Manohar, K. Monig, H. Murayama, K. Nakamura, K.A. Olive, A. Piepke, M. Roos, R.H. Schindler, R.E. Shrock, M. Tanabashi, N.A. Tornqvist, T.G. Trippe, P. Vogel, C.G. Wohl, R.L. Workman, B. Armstrong, J.L. Casas Serradilla, B.B. Filimonov, P.S. Gee, S.B. Lugovsky, S. Mankov, F. Nicholson, K.S. Babu, D. Besson, O. Biebel, R.N. Cahn, R.L. Crawford, R.H. Daltiz, T. Damour, K. Desler, R.J. Donahue, D.A. Edwards, J. Erler, V.V. Ezhela, A. Fasso, W. Fetscher, D. Froidevaux, T.K. Gaisser, L. Garren, S. Geer, H.J. Gerber, F.J. Gilman, H.E. Haber, C. Hagmann, I. Hinchliffe, C.J. Hogan, G. Hohler, J.D. Jackson, K.F. Johnson, D. Karlen, B. Kayser, K. Kleinknecht, I.G. Knowles, C. Kolda, P. Kreitz, P. Langacker, R. Landua, L. Littenberg, D.M. Manley, J.March-Russell, T. Nakada, H. Quinn, G. Raffelt, B. Renk, M.T. Ronan, L.J. Rosenberg, M. Schmitt, D.N. Schramm, D. Scott, T. Sjostrand, G.F. Smoot, S. Spanier, M. Srednicki, T. Stanev, M. Suzuki, N.P. Tkachenko, G. Valencia, K. van Bibber, R. Voss, L. Wolfenstein, S. Youssef (CERN & LBL, Berkeley & Genoa U. & INFN, Genoa & Urbino U. & INFN, Florence & Tata Inst. & Madrid, CIEMAT & Zurich U. & Stanford U., Appl. Mech. Dept. & William-Mary Coll. & Novosibirsk, IYF & UC, Berkeley, Astronomy Dept. & Argonne & Zurich, ETH & KEK, Tsukuba & Hillsdale Coll. & Valencia U. & Tohoku U. & Ohio State U. & UC, San Diego & Minnesota U. & Cal Tech, Kellogg Lab & Helsinki U. & SLAC & SUNY, Stony Brook & Virginia Tech & Virginia Tech & Serpukhov, IFVE). 1998.
    Published in Eur.Phys.J.C3:1-794,1998

    378 citations between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 1998
    (Number of citations between January 1, 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

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  2. THE LARGE N LIMIT OF SUPERCONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES AND SUPERGRAVITY
    By Juan Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9711200
    456 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  3. ANTI-DE SITTER SPACE AND HOLOGRAPHY
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:253-291,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9802150
    356 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  4. GAUGE THEORY CORRELATORS FROM NONCRITICAL STRING THEORY
    By S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.B428:105-114,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9802109
    321 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  5. M THEORY AS A MATRIX MODEL: A CONJECTURE
    By T. Banks (Rutgers U., Piscataway), W. Fischler (Texas U.), S.H. Shenker (Rutgers U., Piscataway), L. Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D55:5112-5128,1997
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9610043
    225 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  6. HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS EVENT GENERATION WITH PYTHIA 5.7 AND JETSET 7.4
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (CERN).
    Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.82:74-90,1994
    205 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  7. SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
    By H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
    184 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  8. THE SEARCH FOR SUPERSYMMETRY: PROBING PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
    By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), G.L. Kane (Michigan U.).
    Published in Phys.Rept.117:75,1985
    178 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  9. ELECTRIC - MAGNETIC DUALITY, MONOPOLE CONDENSATION, AND CONFINEMENT IN N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994 (Erratum-ibid B430:485-486,1994)
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9407087
    174 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  10. EVIDENCE FOR OSCILLATION OF ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINOS
    By SuperKamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.81:1562-1567,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9807003
    169 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  11. NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    161 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  12. DIRICHLET BRANES AND RAMOND-RAMOND CHARGES
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, ITP).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.75:4724-4727,1995
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9510017
    157 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  13. BOUND STATES OF STRINGS AND P-BRANES
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B460:335-350,1996
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9510135
    156 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  14. CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTION
    By M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
    Published in Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
    150 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  15. ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
    By G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
    149 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  16. TASI LECTURES ON D-BRANES
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, ITP).
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9611050
    149 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  17. INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE CHOOZ LONG BASELINE REACTOR NEUTRINO OSCILLATION EXPERIMENT
    By CHOOZ Collaboration (M. Apollonio et al.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.B420:397-404,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9711002
    149 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  18. DYNAMICAL PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE PROTON AND SMALL X PHYSICS
    By M. Gluck, E. Reya (Dortmund U.), A. Vogt (DESY).
    Published in Z.Phys.C67:433-448,1995
    148 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  19. MONOPOLES, DUALITY AND CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING IN N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC QCD
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B431:484-550,1994
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9408099
    144 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  20. STRING THEORY DYNAMICS IN VARIOUS DIMENSIONS
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B443:85-126,1995
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9503124
    144 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  21. IMPROVED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS FROM GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF RECENT DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING AND INCLUSIVE JET DATA
    By H.L. Lai, J. Huston (Michigan State U.), S. Kuhlmann (Argonne), F. Olness (Southern Methodist U.), J. Owens (Florida State U.), D. Soper (Oregon U.), W.K. Tung, H. Weerts (Michigan State U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D55:1280-1296,1997
    e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9606399
    144 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  22. RESONANCE AMPLIFICATION OF OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER AND SPECTROSCOPY OF SOLAR NEUTRINOS
    By S.P. Mikheev, A.Yu. Smirnov (Moscow, INR).
    Published in Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.42:913-917,1985 (Yad.Fiz.42:1441-1448,1985)
    135 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  23. THE BLACK HOLE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME
    By Maximo Banados (Santiago, Ctr. Estudios Cientificos & Chile U., Santiago), Claudio Teitelboim (Santiago, Ctr. Estudios Cientificos & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jorge Zanelli (Santiago, Ctr. Estudios Cientificos & Chile U., Santiago).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.69:1849-1851,1992
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9204099
    130 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  24. A PLANAR DIAGRAM THEORY FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS
    By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974
    128 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  25. HETEROTIC AND TYPE I STRING DYNAMICS FROM ELEVEN-DIMENSIONS
    By Petr Horava (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B460:506-524,1996
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9510209
    128 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  26. ANTI-DE SITTER SPACE, THERMAL PHASE TRANSITION, AND CONFINEMENT IN GAUGE THEORIES
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:505-532,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9803131
    127 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  27. ATMOSPHERIC MUON-NEUTRINO / ELECTRON-NEUTRINO RATIO IN THE MULTIGEV ENERGY RANGE
    By Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.B335:237-245,1994
    126 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  28. EVIDENCE FOR ANTI-MUON-NEUTRINO ---> ANTI-ELECTRON-NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS FROM THE LSND EXPERIMENT AT LAMPF
    By LSND Collaboration (C. Athanassopoulos et al.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.77:3082-3085,1996
    e-Print Archive: nucl-ex/9605003
    126 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  29. QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. NONPERTURBATIVE EFFECTS IN OPERATOR EXPANSION
    By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:385,1979
    124 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  30. MICROSCOPIC ORIGIN OF THE BEKENSTEIN-HAWKING ENTROPY
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.B379:99-104,1996
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9601029
    123 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  31. PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975
    120 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  32. THE POMERANCHUK SINGULARITY IN QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
    By Ya.Ya. Balitskii, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.28:822-829,1978 (Yad.Fiz.28:1597-1611,1978)
    117 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  33. CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY TO ONE LOOP
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in Annals Phys.158:142,1984
    116 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  34. SOLUTIONS OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL FIELD THEORIES VIA M THEORY
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B500:3-42,1997
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9703166
    115 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  35. CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY: EXPANSIONS IN THE MASS OF THE STRANGE QUARK
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B250:465,1985
    114 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  36. ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
    By Julian Schwinger (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.82:664-679,1951
    112 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  37. STRONG COUPLING EXPANSION OF CALABI-YAU COMPACTIFICATION
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B471:135-158,1996
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9602070
    112 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  38. A MODEL OF LEPTONS
    By S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    106 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  39. 4-D CONFORMAL THEORIES AND STRINGS ON ORBIFOLDS
    By Shamit Kachru (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley & Santa Barbara, ITP), Eva Silverstein (SLAC & Santa Barbara, ITP).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4855-4858,1998
    e-Print Archive: hep-th/9802183
    106 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)

  40. DYNAMICAL MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES BASED ON AN ANALOGY WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. I
    By Y. Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961
    103 citations between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations between 1 Jan 1998 and today is here. Total number of citations is here)


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