The papers are accessible on the arXiv preprint server<\/a>. Most of our posts are based on papers from\u00a0hep-ph<\/a> (high energy phenomenology) and hep-ex<\/a> (high energy experiment).<\/p>\n Reading a technical paper from an unfamiliar subfield is intimidating. It may not be obvious how the techniques used by the researchers really work or what role the new research plays in answering the bigger questions motivating that field, not to mention the obscure jargon! For most people, it takes years for scientific papers to become meaningful.<\/p>\n Our goal is to solve this problem, one paper at a time. With each brief ParticleBite<\/em>, you should not only learn about one interesting piece of current work, but also get a peek at the broader picture of research in particle physics.<\/p>\n ParticleBites<\/em> is written and edited by graduate students and postdocs working in high energy physics. Feel free to contact us<\/a> if you’re interested in applying to write for ParticleBites.<\/p>\n ParticleBites<\/em> was founded in 2013 by Flip Tanedo following the\u00a0Communicating Science (ComSciCon) 2013 workshop<\/a>.\u00a0It is now organized and directed by Flip and Julia Gonski, with ongoing guidance from Nathan Sanders.<\/p>\n The ParticleBites<\/em>\u00a0logo is a cartoon\u00a0a\u00a0gauge boson picking up a longitudinal polarization\u00a0from “eating” a Goldstone boson. It represents the part of the phenomenon of electroweak symmetry breaking which\u00a0plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics.\u00a0The cartoon is based on one of Flip’s\u00a0blog posts<\/a> on\u00a0Quantum Diaries (US\/LHC).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n ParticleBites\u00a0has been hosted and supported by the\u00a0American Astronomical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the past ParticleBites,\u00a0was\u00a0generously hosted on the AstroBites<\/a><\/em> server thanks to to generosity of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics<\/a>. We especially thank the AstroBites organizers of the Communicating Science 2013 workshop<\/a> for their encouragement, guidance, and support while setting up ParticleBites<\/em>. Any views or opinions expressed here are solely those of the ParticleBites<\/em> authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is ParticleBites? ParticleBites is an online particle physics journal club written by graduate students and postdocs. Each post presents an interesting paper in a brief format that\u00a0is accessible to undergraduate students in the physical sciences who are interested in active research. The papers are accessible on the arXiv preprint server. Most of our posts … <\/p>\nWhy read ParticleBites?<\/h2>\n
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