ParticleBites

Article: Calculating Track-Based Observables for the LHC Authors: Hsi-Ming Chang, Massimiliano Procura, Jesse Thaler, and Wouter J. Waalewijn Reference: arXiv:1303.6637

Does the Higgs talk to itself?

Article: Indirect probes of the trilinear Higgs Coupling Authors: Martin Gorbahn, Ulrich Haisch Reference: 1607.03773 Hello particle munchers, I’m back to further discuss

Universality classes are not that universal (...and some of its other shortcomings)

Article: Shortcomings of New Parameterizations of Inflation Authors: J. Martin, C. Ringeval and V. Vennin Reference: arXiv:1609.04739 The Cosmic Microwave Background

Daya Bay and the search for sterile neutrinos

Today I bring you news from the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment, which detects neutrinos emitted by three nuclear power

A new anomaly: the electromagnetic duality anomaly

Article: Electromagnetic duality anomaly in curved spacetimes Authors: I. Agullo, A. del Rio and J. Navarro-Salas Reference: arXiv:1607.08879 Disclaimer: this blogpost requires some

Horton Hears a Sterile Neutrino?

Article: Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments Authors: Daya

Inspecting the Higgs with a golden probe

Hello particle nibblers, After recovering from a dead-diphoton-excess induced depression (see here, here, and here for summaries) I am back

Dragonfly 44: A potential Dark Matter Galaxy

Title: A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion and ~100 Globular Clusters for the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44 Publication: ApJ, v828, Number

Searching for Magnetic Monopoles with MoEDAL

Article: Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL prototype trapping detector in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC Authors:

Gravity in the Next Dimension: Micro Black Holes at ATLAS

Article: Search for TeV-scale gravity signatures in high-mass final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s)=13