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Uncovering a Higgs Hiding Behind Backgrounds

Hello particle munchers, Last time I discussed the Higgs boson decay into photons, i.e. `shining light on the Higgs boson‘. This

Cosmic Microwave Background: The Role of Particles in Astrophysics

Over the past decade, a new trend has been emerging in physics, one that is motivated by several key questions:

A Tau Neutrino Runs into a Candy Shop…

Tau events in the IceCube ultra high energy neutrino detector can be classified depending on how the 'double bang' is

The Glashow Resonance on Ice

The authors of have found that the absence of Glashow resonant neutrino events in IceCube is not yet a bona-fide

Shining Light on the Higgs Boson

Now I know what you're thinking…But photons only `talk to' particles which carry electric charge and the Higgs is electrically

Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies

Hi Particle Biters, Last week there were some exciting new results from the Fermi-LAT collaboration in dark matter searches! Dark

Muon to electron conversion

Not all searches for new physics involve colliding protons at the the highest human-made energies. An alternate approach is to

LHC Run II: What To Look Out For

The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest proton collider, and in a mere five years of active data acquisition,

An update from AMS-02, the particle detector in space

Last Thursday, Nobel Laureate Sam Ting presented the latest results (CERN press release) from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment, a particle detector

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments

Title: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments Author: Alberto Garfagnini Published: arXiv:1408.2455 Neutrinoless double beta decay is a theorized process that, if observed,