ParticleBites

Making Smarter Snap Judgments at the LHC

Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider happen fast. 40 million times a second, bunches of 1011 protons are smashed together.

Proton Momentum: Hiding in Plain Sight?

Protons and neutrons at first glance seem like simple objects. They have well defined spin and electric charge, and we

The neutrino from below

Article title: The ANITA Anomalous Events as Signatures of a Beyond Standard Model Particle and Supporting Observations from IceCube Authors:

Neutrinos: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?

Title: “Upper Bound of Neutrino Masses from Combined Cosmological Observations and Particle Physics Experiments” Author: Loureiro et al. Reference: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.081301

Gamma Rays from Andromeda: Evidence of Dark Matter?

In a recent paper , Chris Karwin et al. report an excess in gamma rays that seem to be originating

Hullabaloo Over The Hubble Constant

Title: The Expansion of the Universe is Faster than Expected Author: Adam Riess Reference: Nature Arxiv There is a current

Solar Neutrino Problem

Why should we even care about neutrinos coming from the sun in the first place? In the 1960’s, the processes

Riding the wave to new physics

Article title: “Particle physics applications of the AWAKE acceleration scheme” Authors: A. Caldwell, J. Chappell, P. Crivelli, E. Depero, J.

The Delirium over Helium

Title: “New evidence supporting the existence of the hypothetic X17 particle” Authors: A.J. Krasznahorkay, M. Csatlós, L. Csige, J. Gulyás,

Dark Photons in Light Places

Title: “Searching for dark photon dark matter in LIGO O1 data” Author: Huai-Ke Guo, Keith Riles, Feng-Wei Yang, & Yue