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Category Archives: Astrophysics
Exploring the “Higgs Portal”
The Higgs boson is unique. Does it open a door to Dark Matter? All known fundamental particles acquire mass by interacting with the Higgs boson. Actually, more correctly, they interact with a quantum field which is present even in “empty” … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, dark matter, Higgs, LHC
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Particle & astro-particle physics annual UK meeting
The annual UK particle physics and astroparticle physics conference was hosted by Imperial this week, and has just finished. Some slightly random highlights.
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Chris McCabe, dark matter, Imperial, IoP, Jim Virdee, Rebecca Chislett, Theodore Zorbas, Xin-Ran Liu
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A Dark Matter mystery explained?
A paper on the arXiv this morning offers an explanation for an intriguing, long-standing anomalous result from the DAMA experiment. According to our current best model of how the universe hangs together, the Earth orbits the Sun within a galactic … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Cosmic Shambles, DAMA, dark matter
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – review
Back in the Guardian (well, the Observer actually) with a review of Stephen Hawking’s final book . A couple of paragraphs didn’t make the edit; no complaints from me about that, but I put them here mainly for the sake of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Writing
Tagged books, Guardian, reviews, science fiction, Stephen Hawking
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