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The lighter side of Dark Matter

Article title: “Absorption of light dark matter in semiconductors” Authors: Yonit Hochberg, Tongyan Lin, and Kathryn M. Zurek Reference: arXiv:1608.01994

Discovering the Tau

This plot is the first experimental evidence for the particle that would eventually be named the tau. On the horizontal

The early universe in a detector: investigations with heavy-ion experiments

Title: “Probing dense baryon-rich matter with virtual photons” Author: HADES Collaboration Reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0583-8 The quark-gluon plasma, a sea of unbound

When light and light collide

Title: “Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” Author: ATLAS Collaboration Reference: doi:10.1038/nphys4208

Going Rogue: The Search for Anything (and Everything) with ATLAS

Title: “A model-independent general search for new phenomena with the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV” Author: The ATLAS Collaboration Reference: ATLAS-PHYS-CONF-2017-001

Grad students can apply now for ComSciCon’18!

Applications are now open for the Communicating Science 2018 workshop, to be held in Boston, MA on June 14-16, 2018!

A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments

Hi ParticleBiters! In lieu of a typical HEP paper summary this month, I’m linking a comprehensive overview of the new

Why Electroweak SUSY is the Next Big Thing

Title: “Search for new physics in events with two low momentum opposite-sign leptons and missing transverse energy at s =

Beauty-full exotic bound states at the LHC

Article: Beauty-full Tetraquarks Authors: Yang Bai, Sida Lu, and James Osborn Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00012 Good Day Nibblers, As you probably already

It’s A Wrap! Summary of ATLAS Updates from 2016

Article: Latest ATLAS results from Run 2 Authors: Claudia Gemme on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration Reference: arXiv:1612.01987 2016 certainly