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Scanning Earth’s Interior with Neutrinos

August 8, 2017

Future neutrino experiments may provide tomographic scans of Earth’s interior by viewing solar neutrinos that pass through our planet’s layers.  

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A. N. Ioannisian, A. Yu. Smirnov, and D. Wyler
Phys. Rev. D 96, 036005 (2017)


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Neutron-Star Implosions as Heavy-Element Sources

August 7, 2017

A dramatic scenario in which a compact black hole eats a spinning neutron star from inside might explain a nearby galaxy’s unexpectedly high abundance of heavy elements.

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George M. Fuller, Alexander Kusenko, and Volodymyr Takhistov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061101 (2017)


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Updated T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 1.5×1021 protons on target

T2K measured the neutrino mass difference δm322 and the mixing angle θ23 both for neutrinos and, separately, for anti-neutrinos. Their results for the mass difference and mixing angle are not only highly competitive, but, since they show no difference in these two modes, provide important evidence that CPT is not violated within the accuracy of their measurements.

K. Abe et al. (The T2K Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 96, 011102(R) (2017)


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Spinning Black Holes May Grow Hair

July 24, 2017

A spinning black hole may lose up to 9% of its mass by spontaneously growing “hair” in the form of excitations of a hypothetical particle field with a tiny mass.

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William E. East and Frans Pretorius
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041101 (2017)


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New constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter from intermediate and small scale Lyman-α forest data

Using data on the Lyman-α spectra obtained by the X-shooter and HIRES/MIKE spectrographs, bounds on warm dark matter are computed using state-of-the-art analysis. This places a new best lower limit of 5.3 keV on the mass of thermal relic dark matter.

Vid Iršič et al.
Phys. Rev. D 96, 023522 (2017)


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New Kaluza-Klein instantons and the decay of AdS vacua

By performing clever manipulations of complicated equations of motion, the authors obtain new instanton solutions of eleven-dimensional supergravity. These results support a previously proposed conjecture that all non-supersymmetric anti-de-Sitter (AdS) vacua must be unstable.

Hirosi Ooguri and Lev Spodyneiko
Phys. Rev. D 96, 026016 (2017)


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Lattice calculation of electric dipole moments and form factors of the nucleon

The authors reexamine the form of the expression used to extract the nucleon EDM from lattice QCD calculations and discover a subtle additional subtraction due to mixing between form factors. They check their claim by comparing with a different method to compute the EDM. Applying their correction to previous computations they obtain more consistent results, albeit now all consistent with a vanishing EDM within errors.

M. Abramczyk et al.
Phys. Rev. D 96, 014501 (2017)

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