GRAPPA Club

Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe, A. Loeb, http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613, [I-Sheng]

Dark matter or neutrino recoil? Interpretation of recent experimental results, Maxim Pospelov and Josef Pradler, http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1311.5764 [Christoph]
How secret interactions can reconcile sterile neutrinos with cosmology, Steen Hannestad, Rasmus Sloth Hansen, Thomas Tram, http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5926 [Irene]
The largest structure of the Universe, defined by Gamma-Ray Bursts, I. Horvath, J. Hakkila, Z. Bagoly, http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1104, [Ben?], see also: http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/universes-largest-structure-is-a-cosmic-conundrum-131119.htm, http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Monster-Gamma-Ray-Burst-Challenges-Theories-232889371.html
ATLAS-CONF-2013-108, https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2013-108/, [David B.]
Constraints on Large-Scale Dark Acoustic Oscillations from Cosmology, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Roland de Putter, Alvise Raccanelli, Kris Sigurdson, http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1310.3278, [Kalliopi]

Dark matter or neutrino recoil? Interpretation of recent experimental results, Maxim Pospelov and Josef Pradler, http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/abs/1311.5764 [Christoph]
Diffuse gamma-ray emission from BL Lac blazars, M. Di Mauro, F. Donato, G. Lamanna, D. A. Sanchez, P. D. Serpico, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.5708v1.pdf [Francesca]

Constraining Dark Matter-Baryon Scattering with Linear Cosmology, Dvorkin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1311.2937, [Francesca]
Compactifying de Sitter naturally selects a small cosmological constant, Brown et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2586, [Ben]
Distributed SUSY breaking: Dark Energy, Newton's Law and the LHC, Burgess et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3911, [Ben]
Baryons in the relativistic jet of stellar-mass black hole candidate 4U 1630-47, Trigo et al., http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12672.html, [Sera/Christoph]

Astrophysical black holes may radiate, but they do not evaporate, G. Ellis, http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4771, [Ben]
A new framework for numerical simulations of structure formation, M. Schaller et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1310.5102, [Michael]
Collapse of self-interacting fields in asymptotically flat spacetimes:
do self-interactions render Minkowski spacetime unstable?, Okawa et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1235v1, [I-Sheng]

Monday, November 4

Fermi-LAT Detection of a Break in the Gamma-Ray Spectrum of the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A, Yuan et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8287, [Jacco]
Implication of neutrino backgrounds on the reach of next generation dark matter direct detection experiments, Billard et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5458 [David S.]
Direct Detection Portals for Self-interacting Dark Matter, Kaplinghat et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1310.7945 [Christoph]

Monday, October 28

Dark matter production from Goldstone boson interactions and implications for direct searches and dark radiation, Garcia-Cely et al., arXiv:1310.6256 [Christoph]