Monday, December 3

Neutralino dark matter and the Fermi gamma-ray lines. Guillaume Chalons, Matthew J. Dolan, Christopher McCabe

An over-massive black hole in the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277. Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Karl Gebhardt, Kayhan Gültekin, Glenn van de Ven, Arjen van der Wel& Jonelle L. Walsh


Low energy cosmic ray positron fraction explained by charge-sign dependent solar modulation. Luca Maccione

Monday, November 26

• On the spin-dependent sensitivity of XENON100. Mathias Garny, Alejandro Ibarra, Miguel Pato, Stefan Vogl
• Hard X-ray emission lines from the decay of Ti-44 in the remnant of supernova 1987A, S. A. Grebenev, A. A. Lutovinov, S. S. Tsygankov, C. Winkler [Jacco]
• Dark matter signals at the LHC: forecasts from ton-scale direct detection experiments. Giorgio Arcadi, Riccardo Catena, Piero Ullio

"Is a tabletop search for Planck scale signals feasible" http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3816
"Inflation from Flux Cascades" http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3416

Monday, November 19, 2012

Monday, November 19, 2012

• Limit on Neutrinoless ββ Decay of Xe-136 from the First Phase of KamLAND-Zen and Comparison with the Positive Claim in Ge-76, KamLAND-Zen Collaboration [Patrick]

Monday, November 12

• Highlights of Fermi symposium: "Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines in the Milky Way Diffuse with the Fermi Large Area Telescope"Andrea Albert http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/mtgs/symposia/2012/program/fri/AAlbert.pdf
• The northwestern ejecta knot in SN 1006, Sjors Broersen, Jacco Vink, Marco Miceli, Fabrizio Bocchino, Gilles Maurin, Anne Decourchelle
• A Possible Cosmological Explanation of why Supersymmetry is hiding at the LHC, Antonio Riotto
• Conformal Symmetry for Black Holes in Four Dimensions and Irrelevant Deformations, Marco Baggio, Jan de Boer, Juan I. Jottar, Daniel R. Mayerson
• Direct detection of self-interacting dark matter, Mark Vogelsberger, Jesus Zavala

November 5

- Co-genesis of Matter and Dark Matter with Vector-like Fourth Generation Leptons
Chiara Arina, Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Narendra Sahu


- Neutrino signals from electroweak bremsstrahlung in solar WIMP annihilation
Nicole F. Bell, Amelia J. Brennan, Thomas D. Jacques

Monday, Oct 29, 2012

• Limit on sterile neutrino contribution from the Mainz Neutrino Mass Experiment, Christine Kraus, Andrej Singer, Kathrin Valerius, Christian Weinheimer [Patrick]
• Highlights from "Neutrinos at the forefront of elementary particle physics and astrophysics" [Samia]
• Search for Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with the Fermi-LAT. Berenji, B. [Gf]

Monday, October 22

• Chasing a consistent picture for dark matter direct searches. Chiara Arina
• Gravity waves from cosmic bubble collisions. Michael P. Salem, Prashant Saraswat, Edgar Shaghoulian
• Unidentified sources in the Fermi-LAT second source catalog: the case for DM subhalos. Hannes-S. Zechlin, Dieter Horns

Monday, October 15

Today we meet in room B0.206

• Sensitivity of IceCube-DeepCore to neutralino dark matter in the MSSM-25. Hamish Silverwood, Pat Scott, Matthias Danninger, Christopher Savage, Joakim Edsjö, Jenni Adams, Anthony M Brown, Klas Hultqvist
• Binaries with the eyes of CTA; J.M. Paredes, S. Markoff, et al. [CTA Consortium]
• Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation; Silas R. Beane, Zohreh Davoudi, Martin J. Savage
• Cosmic Dark Energy Emerging from Gravitationally Effective Vacuum Fluctuations: Bruno M. Deiss

Monday, October 8

• Nonlinear shock acceleration and gamma-ray emission from Tycho and Kepler. G. Morlino, D. Caprioli [Jacco]
• Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies from Diffuse Radio Emission. Emma Storm, Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo, Lawrence Rudnick [Jacco]
• An argument that the dark matter is axions, P. Sikivie [Salome -> ?]
• Sensitivity of IceCube-DeepCore to neutralino dark matter in the MSSM-25. Hamish Silverwood, Pat Scott, Matthias Danninger, Christopher Savage, Joakim Edsjö, Jenni Adams, Anthony M Brown, Klas Hultqvist Postponed to next week
• The Shortest-Known–Period Star Orbiting Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole, L. Meyer, A. M. Ghez et al. [Gf]
• Testing MOND Over a Wide Acceleration Range in X-Ray Ellipticals. Mordehai Milgrom [Gf]

Monday, October 1st

Today we will meet the new postdocs and students, and hear what they are working on.

We will also discuss Jet Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in 
M87, perhaps our astro friends have comments?

Monday, September 24

• Stringent and Robust Constraints on the Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section From the Region of the Galactic Center: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3015 [Shin'Ichiro]
• Radio Mini-Halo Emission from Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters and Heating of the Cool Cores: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4639 [Shin'Ichiro]
• Ben will tell us about "Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?" by Polchinski et al http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.3123

Monday, September 17

• Gf will give an overview of IDM 2012 and discuss the plans for IDM 2014
• Ben will tell us about "Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?" by Polchinski et al http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.3123
• Maria will tell us about "Nuclear uncertainties in the spin-dependent structure functions for direct dark matter detection" by Cerdeno et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6426

Monday, September 10

• The Top 10^{500} Reasons Not to Believe in the Landscape, T. Banks (Gf -> Jan, Ben?)

• Shin'Ichiro will tell us about PACIFIC 2012

• Gf will give an overview of IDM 2012 and discuss the plans for IDM 2014

Monday, April 23

1. No Dark Matter in the solar neighborhood?

http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1217/eso1217.pdf

From last week:

1. arXiv:1204.0626: "Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment", RENO collaboration. 
2. arXiv:1204.1923: "Mantle geoneutrinos in KamLAND and Borexino", G. Fiorentini, G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, F. Mantovani, A. M. Rotunno. 

Monday, April 16, 2012

1. arXiv:1204.0626: "Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment", RENO collaboration. 
2. arXiv:1204.1923: "Mantle geoneutrinos in KamLAND and Borexino", G. Fiorentini, G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, F. Mantovani, A. M. Rotunno. 

Monday, April 2

1) arXiv:1203.6617

Dark Matter Direct Search Rates in Simulations of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Stream

Chris W. Purcell, Andrew R. Zentner, Mei-Yu Wang

Monday, March 26, 2012

1. ICARUS collaboration, arXiv:1203.3433: "Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the ICARUS detector at the CNGS beam"  
2. F. Tamburini, B. Thidé, G. Molina-Terriza & G. Anzolin, Nature Physics 7, 195–197 (2011): "Twisting of light around rotating black holes"

Monday, March 12

1) arXiv:1203.1669
Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration


2) arXiv:1203.1312
Fermi LAT Search for Internal Bremsstrahlung Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilation

Torsten Bringmann, Xiaoyuan Huang, Alejandro Ibarra, Stefan Vogl, Christoph Weniger

3) arXiv:1203.1626 (Sera)

Characterizing Cosmic-Ray Propagation in Massive Star-Forming Regions: The Case of 30 Doradus and the Large Magellanic Cloud

E.J. Murphy, T.A. Porter, I.V. Moskalenko, G. Helou, A.W. Strong

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previous papers, deserving further discussions:


3) arXiv:1202.4039
Fermi-LAT Observations of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission: Implications for Cosmic Rays and the Interstellar Medium
The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

4)  arXiv:1202.4179
No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results
R. Bernabei et al. (DAMA Collaboration)

Monday 27 Feb, 2012

1) arXiv:1202.4039
Fermi-LAT Observations of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission: Implications for Cosmic Rays and the Interstellar Medium
The Fermi-LAT Collaboration


2)  arXiv:1202.4179
No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results
R. Bernabei et al. (DAMA Collaboration)

Monday Feb 20, 2012

1) Anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi LAT, Fermi LAT collaboration,  http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1202.2856


2) The inner structure of haloes in Cold+Warm dark matter models
Andrea V. Maccio', Oleg Ruchayskiy, Alexey Boyarsky, Juan C. Munoz-Cuartas
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1202.2858

Monday, Jan 30, 2012

Articles for discussion today:

• arXiv:1201.4664: "Measurement of the Double-Beta Decay Half-life of ^{136}Xe in KamLAND-Zen", A. Gando et al. (KamLAND-Zen Collaboration). [Patrick]

Monday, Jan 23

• arXiv:1201.0753 Fermi-LAT constraints on dark matter annihilation cross section with the Fornax cluster; Shin'ichiro Ando, Daisuke Nagai 
• arXiv:1201.1003 Evidence for extended gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters
• Jiaxin Han, Carlos S. Frenk, Vincent R. Eke, Liang Gao, Simon D. M. White
• arXiv:1201.2691 Search for Dark Matter Satellites using the FERMI-LAT The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Monday, Jan 9, 2012

Articles for discussion today:

• arXiv:1112.6353: "Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment", Y. Abe et al. [Double Chooz Collaboration]. (Patrick)
• arXiv:1201.1386v1: "First Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Study with an Off-Axis Beam", K. Abe et al. [T2K Collaboration]. (Patrick)