From the deuteron to hyper-hydrogen 4, produced in nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC, lessons from the QCD phase boundary
More than 50 years after the discovery of neutrons stars, their interior composition and structure remains unknown. Because the extreme densities and matter asymmetry in neutron star interiors are out of reach for Earth laboratories, the equation of state of bulk nuclear matter is unknown, with important implication for astrophysics and nuclear physics. Thankfully, measurements of neutron...
Results from B factories, the LHC and Fermilab suggest that flavor physics could be an alternate path to breaking the Standard Model of particle physics. I review some of the possibilities for Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) discoveries at Belle II and a few relevant recent results including the first evidence for the missing energy "penguin" decay B->K nu nubar reported at EPS Hamburg in...
The proton radius puzzle began in 2010 when the CREMA Collaboration released their measurement of the proton radius (Pohl et. al (2010)) from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy: rp=0.84184(67) fm, This was five standard deviations smaller that the accepted CODATA value at that time (0.8768(69) fm), and sparked an enduring and intriguing puzzle. This puzzle has been addressed in repeated electron...
The IceCube Observatory, that instruments a cubic-kilometer of the South Pole ice, records neutrinos from various sources and over a broad range of energies. These events can be used to gain insight into astrophysical phenomena as well as into the fundamental properties of the neutrino itself. In this talk, I will give an overview over some recent scientific highlights, including the...
