Kavli Affiliate: Nicola Omodei | First 5 Authors: Kristi Engel, Jordan Goodman, Petra Huentemeyer, Carolyn Kierans, Tiffany R. Lewis | Summary: Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about particle acceleration in environments so extreme they cannot be […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Keith Bechtol, Simon Birrer, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Katelin Schutz, Susmita Adhikari | Summary: The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities, and spins of these halos can be tied to the underlying fundamental […]
Kavli Affiliate: Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann | First 5 Authors: Marcelo A. Alvarez, Arka Banerjee, Simon Birrer, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann | Summary: Powerful new observational facilities will come online over the next decade, enabling a number of discovery opportunities in the “Cosmic Frontier”, which targets understanding of the physics of the early universe, dark […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yi Zhou | First 5 Authors: Rong-Yang Sun, Hui-Ke Jin, Hong-Hao Tu, Yi Zhou, | Summary: The nature of the ground state for the $S = 1/2$ kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet (KHAF) has been elusive. We revisit this challenging problem and provide numerical evidence that its ground state might be a chiral spin liquid. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Prajwal Niraula, Avi Shporer, Ian Wong, Julien de Wit, | Summary: Space-based photometric missions widely use statistical validation tools for vetting transiting planetary candidates, particularly when other traditional methods of planet confirmation are unviable. In this paper, we refute the planetary nature of three previously validated planets […]
Kavli Affiliate: Katrin Heitmann | First 5 Authors: Kyle Dawson, Andrew Hearin, Katrin Heitmann, Mustapha Ishak, Johannes Ulf Lange | Summary: Joint studies of imaging and spectroscopic samples, informed by theory and simulations, offer the potential for comprehensive tests of the cosmological model over redshifts z<1.5. Spectroscopic galaxy samples at these redshifts can be increased […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Jorge De Blas, Dario Buttazzo, Rodolfo Capdevilla, David Curtin, Roberto Franceschini | Summary: In the path towards a muon collider with center of mass energy of 10 TeV or more, a stage at 3 TeV emerges as an appealing option. Reviewing the physics potential of such muon […]
Kavli Affiliate: Liantao Wang | First 5 Authors: Chiara Aimè, Aram Apyan, Mohammed Attia Mahmoud, Nazar Bartosik, Alessandro Bertolin | Summary: The perspective of designing muon colliders with high energy and luminosity, which is being investigated by the International Muon Collider Collaboration, has triggered a growing interest in their physics reach. We present a concise […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Yao-Yuan Mao, Annika H. G. Peter, Susmita Adhikari, Keith Bechtol, Simeon Bird | Summary: Establishing that Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a flagship dark matter experiment is an essential pathway toward understanding the physical nature of dark matter. In the past two decades, wide-field astronomical surveys […]
Kavli Affiliate: Katrin Heitmann, Aaron Roodman | First 5 Authors: Bob Blum, Seth W. Digel, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann | Summary: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in 2024, spanning an area of 18,000 square degrees in six bands, with more than 800 observations […]