Physics

The Distribution of Dark Mater in Relation to Direct Detection.

If the distribution of dark matter in the region near Earth is lower than it is usually assumed then the interpretation of null results of direct detection efforts must be reconsidered. Astrophysicists have been searching for hard evidence of dark matter f ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 24 2014 - 6:32am

A New Search For The A Boson With CMS

I am quite happy to report today that the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has just published a new search which fills a gap in studies of extended Higgs boson sectors. It is a search for the decay of the A boson into Zh pairs, where the Z ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2014 - 4:54am

Quantum Whirlpool Stirred By Spiral Laser Beam

A whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons has been created using a spiral laser beam. Polaritons are hybrid particles that have properties of both matter and light. The ability to control polariton flows in this way could aid the deve ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2014 - 10:27am

Xi_b: LHC Discovers Two New Particles In The Baryon Family!

The LHCb experiment collaborators at the Large Hadron Collider have announced discovery of two new particles in the baryon family. The particles, known as the Xi_b'-  and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen befo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2014 - 3:22pm

Extraordinary Claims: Review My Paper For $10

Bringing the concept of peer review to another dimension, I am offering you to read a review article I just wrote. You are invited to contribute to its review by suggesting improvements, corrections, changes or amendments to the text. I sort of need some s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2014 - 9:13am

Reasons Serious Scientists Should Not Fear The Winnower and other OA Open Review Journals.

I have been given the privilege of publishing during the Beta test period in the Open Access journal  The Winnower  for no cost but my time and care.  I was also given assistance by the International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics to publish my work ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 24 2014 - 6:24am

Volunteer-Based Peer Review: A Success

A week ago I offered readers of this blog to review a paper I had just written, as its publication process did not include any form of screening (as opposed to what is customary for articles in particle physics, which receive multiple review stages). That& ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2014 - 7:17am

A Disturbance In The Force: 'Giant' Charge Density Oscillation Discovered In Nanomaterials

In metals like copper and aluminium, conduction electrons move around freely, in the same way as particles in a gas or a liquid. But when impurities are introduced into the metal's crystal lattice, electrons cluster together in a uniform pattern arou ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2014 - 12:27pm

On integrating out short-distance physics

I submitted an article with simple calculations where the "short-distance physics" is integrated out automatically rather than "manually". http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8326 Happy reading! Abstract: ...

Blog Post - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Dec 31 2015 - 1:21pm

Help Me Choose New Physics Benchmarks With Cluster Analysis

Yesterday I worked from scratch at a problem which certainly others have already solved in the past. I have mixed feelings with such situations: on one side I hate to reinvent the wheel, especially if there is an easy way to access a good solution; on the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 29 2014 - 9:04am