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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

The Delirium over Beryllium

Recently there's some press regarding early hints of a new particle observed in a nuclear physics experiment. In this bite,

Jets aren’t just a game of tag anymore

One way in which phenomenologists are utilizing jet substructure technology is in the study of hadron production. Baumgart et. al.

What is “Model Building”?

So what is it that theorists do, besides sipping espresso and scribbling on chalk boards? In this post we describe

The CMB sheds light on galaxy clusters: Observing the kSZ signal with ACT and BOSS

A new 4.1σ measurement of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (kSZ) signal has been made from the most recent Atacama Cosmology Telescope