Monday, January 28

• Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector. IceCube collaboration
• Bekenstein's story about table-top-quantum-gravity. http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4322 [I-Sheng]
• Papers about Higgs mass and vacuum instability: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0491; http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0393; http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3112 [I-Sheng]
• Hooper & Xue, 1210.1220, Testing The Light Dark Matter Hypothesis With AMS [CW]
• Gupta et al., 1301.4405, The Galactic wind haze and its gamma-ray spectrum [CW]
• Fan & Reece, 1301.2597, Probing Charged Dark Matter Through h -> gamma gamma, Gamma ray lines, and EDMs [CW]

Monday, January 21

[I-Sheng]: I noticed a seemingly on-going debate about whether a fast-spinning blackhole could be practically used as a particle accelerator (with SM scattering, DM annihilation observables). Here is a list of papers involved and the latest one among them came out last week.

http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0909.0169
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0911.2243
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0911.3363
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1212.1235
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1159
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3429

• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7430/full/nature11717.html [Jacco]
• Addendum to: QRPA uncertainties and their correlations in the analysis of neutrinoless double β decay, A. Faessler, G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, V. Rodin, A.M. Rotunno, F. Simkovic, http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1587 [Patrick].

Monday, January 14

• Hints on the Nature of Dark Matter from the Properties of Milky Way Satellites. Donnino Anderhalden, Aurel Schneider, Andrea V. Maccio, Juerg Diemand, Gianfranco Bertone [Gf]
• Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M31. Matthew J. Middleton, James C.A. Miller-Jones, Sera Markoff et al. [Gf -> Sera]
• Taming astrophysical bias in direct dark matter searches. Miguel Pato, Louis E. Strigari, Roberto Trotta, Gianfranco Bertone. [Gf]