Constraints on upper crustal seismic anisotropy provide insight into the local stress orientation and structural fabric, but such constraints are scarce except in areas with dense recordings of local seismicity. We investigate directionally dependent Rayleigh wave ellipticity, or Rayleigh wave H/V (horizontal to vertical) amplitude ratios, between 8 and 20 s period across USArray to infer azimu...

The azimuthal anisotropy parameter v 2 has been measured with high statistics for identified hadrons in √ s N N = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions with the STAR experiment. At high transverse momentum (p T) a strong v 2 for π + + π − and p + p is observed. In the intermediate p T region, number-of-constituent-quark scaling was tested to high precision. A detailed comparison of v 2 for the multi-strange...

It is proposed that the presence of a tilted and anisotropic Dirac cone can be verified using the interlayer magnetoresistance in the layered Dirac fermion system, which is realized in quasi-two-dimensional organic compound α-(BEDT-TTF)2 I3. Theoretical formula for the interlayer magnetoresistance is derived using the analytic Landau level wave functions and assuming local tunneling of electron...

Measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged hadrons are presented for PbPb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV over an extended transverse momentum range. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The anisotropy parameter (v2) is extracted up to a significantly higher pT region than previously achieved, by correlating charged tracks with respect to the event plane reconstruct...

A study of collective behavior in heavy ion collisions provides one of the most sensitive and promising probes for investigation of possible formation of new extreme state of strong interacting matter and elucidating its properties. Systematic of experimental results for final state azimuthal anisotropy is presented for heavy ion interactions at RHIC. Experimental data for azimuthal anisotropy ...

A high-resolution model of P-wave anisotropic tomography beneath Mainland China and surrounding regions is determined using a large number of arrival-time data recorded by the China seismic network, the International Seismological Centre (ISC) and temporary seismic arrays deployed on the Tibetan Plateau. Our results provide important new insights into the subducted Indian plate and mantle dynam...

The Tibetan Plateau results from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates during the Cenozoic, which produced at least 2,000 km of convergence. Its tectonics is dominated by an eastward extrusion of crustal material that has been explained by models implying either a mechanical decoupling between the crust and the lithosphere, or lithospheric deformation. Discriminating between these end...

Three methods for analyzing azimuthal anisotropy from cross-dipole logs are applied to data from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. These techniques are based on the phenomena of flexural wave splitting in anisotropic materials and are analogous to the techniques used for VSP data processing. The four-component cross-dipole logging data obtained with a Schumberger tool from a vertically-fractur...