Kavli Affiliate: Scott A. Hughes | First 5 Authors: Scott A. Hughes, , , , | Summary: This article is based on a pair of lectures given at the 2005 SLAC Summer Institute. Our goal is to motivate why most physicists and astrophysicists accept the hypothesis that the most massive, compact objects seen in many […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Zee | First 5 Authors: Daniel E. Holz, Anthony Zee, , , | Summary: As has been previously proposed, a minimal modification of the standard $SU(3)times SU(2)times U(1)$ theory provides a viable dark matter candidate. Such a particle, a scalar gauge singlet, is naturally self-interacting—making it of particular interest given recent developments […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Zee | First 5 Authors: Anthony Zee, , , , | Summary: We discuss the problem of adding random matrices, which enable us to study Hamiltonians consisting of a deterministic term plus a random term. Using a diagrammatic approach and introducing the concept of “gluon connectedness," we calculate the density of energy […]