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750 GeV Bump Update

So, where do we stand today? After considering the data from 2015 (at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy) and 2012 (at

Probing the Standard Model with muons: new results from MEG

It turns out that many new physics models predict CLFV at levels that are within range of the next generation

Jets: From Energy Deposits to Physics Objects

Title: “Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV” Author: The CMS Collaboration

The dawn of multi-messenger astronomy: using KamLAND to study gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226

By combining information from gravitational wave events with the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and electromagnetic signatures such as gamma ray

Discovery of a New Particle or a Sick and Twisted Santa?

Good day particle nibblers, The last time I was here I wrote about the potentially exciting “bump” which was observed

Dark matter or Pulsars?

The universe has a way of keeping scientists guessing. For over 70 years, scientists have been trying to understand the

The Fermi LAT Data Depicting Dark Matter Detection

The center of the galaxy is brighter than astrophysicists expected. Could this be the result of the self-annihilation of dark

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: The Continuing Search for SUSY

Title: “Search for top squarks in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in √s = 13

Respecting your “Elders”

Theoretical physicists have designed a new way to explain the how dark matter interactions can explain the observed amount of

QCD, CP, PQ, and the Axion

Before we dig into all the physics behind these acronyms (beyond SM physics! dark matter!), let’s start by breaking