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]