Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | Summary:The fourth "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM’26) meeting was held April 14-17, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany, hosted by the Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). These proceedings detail the contributions that were presented during MDvDM’26, illustrating the unprecedented progress in theoretical, computational […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | Summary:We review recent advances in particle physics enabled and motivated by the rapid progress of quantum technologies. The continued development of quantum computing toward large-scale, fault-tolerant systems has the potential to address dynamical problems that remain extremely challenging for classical computational approaches, opening new avenues for studying nonperturbative dynamical processes. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lijing Shao | Summary:We study spontaneous scalarization near and at extremality in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory. As Reissner-Nordström (RN) extremality is approached from below, the nonextremal scalarization existence curves collapse toward a common critical threshold $α_c=1/4$ given by the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound for the near-horizon throat (AdS$_2times S^2$) of its extremal black hole. For a polynomial […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gregory Herczeg | Summary:Star clusters with ages of a few Myr have a previously unexplained dispersion in the lithium equivalent widths. In this work, we show that much of the lithium spread of the young cluster NGC 2264 can be attributed to the observational presence of starspots. We demonstrate that the equivalent width […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Stryker | Authors: Luciano Dyballa, Greg D Field, Michael P Stryker and Steven W Zucker | Summary: A challenge in sensory neuroscience is understanding how populations of neurons operate in concert to represent diverse stimuli. To meet this challenge, we have created “encoding manifolds” that reveal the overall responses of brain areas […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | Summary:Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) in the Milky Way are ideal probes of low-mass galaxy formation and dark matter because they are highly dark-matter dominated. In the lowest-mass systems, however, unresolved binary orbital motion complicates dynamical mass estimates by inflating measured velocity dispersions and biasing the interpretation of the inferred masses. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nergis Mavalvala | Summary:Continuous quantum displacement measurements are fundamentally limited by a trade-off between readout imprecision and measurement back-action, constrained by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. In the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), these two quantum noise components dominate much of the observation band, making it an excellent testbed. We induce a sub-Hz-linewidth optomechanical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Samuel Pfaff | Authors: Ryan H. Hsu, Claire E. Williams, Geraldine Maier, Miriam Gullo, Karen Lettieri, Cindy J. Alvarez, Kip J. Hermann, Stella Kramer, Satchidananda Panda, Lukas C. Bachmann and Samuel L. Pfaff | Summary: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal disorder caused by dystrophin mutations, leading to progressive muscle degeneration and cardiac failure. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:Dark matter sets the gravitational environment in which galaxies form and evolve, but cannot be observed directly. We present a conditional diffusion model that reconstructs the projected dark matter density field from the galaxy stellar-mass density field for direct application to galaxy surveys. The model is trained on CAMELS and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Aaron Roodman | Summary:The Unresolved $γ$-Ray Background (UGRB) encodes the collective emission of source populations that are too faint to be detected individually, and its cross-correlation with tracers of the large-scale structure has emerged as a powerful tool to characterize those populations. In this work, we analyze the weak-lensing–UGRB cross-correlation using a reference […]