ParticleBites

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

Letting the Machines Search for New Physics

Article: “Anomaly Detection for Resonant New Physics with Machine Learning” Authors: Jack H. Collins, Kiel Howe, Benjamin Nachman Reference :

Quark nuggets of wisdom

Article title: “Dark Quark Nuggets” Authors: Yang Baia, Andrew J. Long, and Sida Lu Reference: arXiv:1810.04360 Information, gold and chicken.

Discovering the Top Quark

This post is about the discovery of the most massive quark in the Standard Model, the Top quark. Below is