ParticleBites

Crystals are dark matter’s best friends

Or how to cross-check dark matter hopes.

The XENON1T Excess : The Newest Craze in Particle Physics

Paper: Observation of Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T Authors: XENON1T Collaboration Recently the particle physics world has been abuzz

Are You Magnetic?

It’s no secret that the face of particle physics lies in the collaboration of scientists all around the world –

A Charming Story

This post is intended to give an overview of the motivation, purpose, and discovery of the charm quark. The Problem

Listening for axions

Updates from the most veteran axion hunting experiment.

Dark matter from down under

It isn’t often I get to plug an important experiment in high-energy physics located within my own vast country so

Dark Matter Cookbook: Freeze-In

In my previous post, we discussed the features of dark matter freeze-out. The freeze-out scenario is the standard production mechanism

Three Birds with One Particle: The Possibilities of Axions

Title: “Axiogenesis” Author: Raymond T. Co and Keisuke Harigaya Reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02080.pdf On the laundry list of problems in particle physics,

LHCb’s Flavor Mystery Deepens

Title: Measurement of CP -averaged observables in the B0→ K∗0µ+µ− decay Authors: LHCb Collaboration Refference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04831 In the Standard Model,

Does antihydrogen really matter?

Article title: Investigation of the fine structure of antihydrogen Authors: The ALPHA Collaboration Reference: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2006-5 (Open Access) Physics often doesn’t