Monday, December 9

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

Monday, December 2

• 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]

Monday, November 25

• 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]

Monday, November 18

• 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]

Monday, November 11

• 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]
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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]

Monday, October 21

Maria Eugenia
"Stability of the CMSSM against sfermion VEVs"
J. E. Camargo-Molina, B. O'Leary, W. Porod, F. Staub
http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7212

Kallia
"Bounds on self-interacting fermion dark matter from observations of old neutron stars"
Joseph Bramante, Keita Fukushima, Jason Kumar, Elan Stopnitzky
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3509

Roberta Diamanti
"Constraining dark matter late-time energy injection: decays and p-wave annihilations"
Roberta Diamanti, Laura Lopez-Honorez, Olga Mena, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Aaron C. Vincent
http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2578

Mark Lovell
Angulo et al.
Extending the halo mass resolution of N-body simulations
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3880

Monday, October 14

1. Fabio

   Search for cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission in Galaxy Clusters: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5654 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6278, http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0197)

   
   
2. Christoph Weniger

   Dark Matter Constraints from Observations of 25 Milky Way Satellite Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1310.0828)

   ReplyDelete
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   Michael Feyereisen
   J. Bohannon, "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?", Science Vol. 342 no. 6154 pp. 60-65 (2013)
   (DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60)
4. Michael

   A Dark-Disk Universe (http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3271)
5. 
   
   Gabriele Sabato

   Hideki Okawa, Josh Kunkle, Elliot Lipeles
   "Prospects on the search for invisible Higgs decays in the ZH channel at the LHC and HL-LHC: A Snowmass White Paper"
   (http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7925)

Monday, October 7

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Monday, September 30

• Colliding clusters and dark matter self-interactions, F. Kahlhoefer et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.3419, [Christoph]

Monday, September 23

• Rapid Gamma-ray flux variability during the 2013 March Crab Nebula flare, M. Mayer et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6698 [David]
• Colliding clusters and dark matter self-interactions, F. Kahlhoefer et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.3419, [Christoph]

Monday, September 16

• Spitzer, Gaia, and the Potential of the Milky Way, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Kathryn V. Johnston, http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.2670,[Christoph] 
• CDMSlite: A Search for Low-Mass WIMPs using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment, R. Agnese et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3259, [Chiara]

Monday, September 9

• Dissecting X-ray–Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy, Wang et al. 2013, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/981 [Sera?]
• Stringent Constraints On The Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section From Subhalo Searches With The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Asher Berlin & Dan Hooper, http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1309.0525 [Christoph]
• Sextans' cold substructures as a dynamical judge: Core, Cusp or MOND? [Shin'ichiro]

Monday, September 2 

• News from the SUSY 2013 Conference [Maria]
• Dissecting X-ray–Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy, Wang et al. 2013, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/981 [Jacco/Christoph] 
• Constraints on WIMP Annihilation for Contracted Dark Matter in the Inner Galaxy with the Fermi-LAT, German A. Gomez-Vargas et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.3515, [Christoph]
• Update on singlet dark matter, Cline et al. 2013, http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4710 [Christoph]

Monday, July 8 

• New limits on Dark Matter Annihilation from AMS cosmic ray positron data, Bergström et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3983 [Christoph] 

Monday, June 17 

• A Spin-Dependent Interpretation for Possible Signals of Light Dark Matter, Matthew R. Buckley, W. Hugh Lippincott, http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2349
• Dynamical generation of the weak and Dark Matter scale,
  Thomas Hambye, Alessandro Strumia, http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2329 [Christoph]

Monday, June 10 

• Thin disk of co-rotating dwarfs: a fingerprint of dissipative (mirror) dark matter?, R. Foot, Z. K. Silagadze, http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1305
• Dark Matter investigation by DAMA at Gran Sasso, R. Bernabei et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1411 [Christoph]

Monday, June 3 

• Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Dark Matter Implications, LAT Collaboration, arXiv:1305.5597 [Christoph];

• Closing in on the Fermi Line with a New Observation Strategy, C. Weniger, M. Su, D. Finkbeiner, T. Bringmann, N. Mirabal, arXiv:1305.4710 [Christoph].

Monday, May 27

• First observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube
• IceCube neutrinos, press release; talk file at IPA 2013
• The entropy of a hole in spacetime [Bartek]

Monday, May 13 

• Properties of Causal Holographic Information, Ben Freivogel and Benjamin Mosk, arXiv:1304.7229 [Ben];

• Complementarity of direct and indirect Dark Matter detection experiments,
  Chiara Arina, Gianfranco Bertone and Hamish Silverwood, arXiv:1304.5119 [Hamish];
• Rolling Through a Vacuum, Jan Pieter van der Schaar and I-Sheng Yang,
  http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1304.6954 [I-Sheng].

Monday, April 15

• Response of the XENON100 Dark Matter Detector to Nuclear Recoils, E. Aprile et al. [XENON100 Collaboration], arXiv:1304.1427
• Higgsogenesis, Servant & Tulin, http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3464
• A New Result on the Origin of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background, Ming Zhou, Jiancheng Wang. http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3575
• Another Dark Matter Sign from a Minnesota Mine, http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/04/another-dark-matter-sign-from-a-minnesota-mine.html

Monday, April 8

• Open discussion about Planck results, including highlights from ESTEC meeting last week, and the following papers 1303.5087 and 1304.1270 
• AMS-02 results http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i14/e141102

Monday, March 18

Extraordinary Magnification of the Ordinary Type Ia Supernova PS1-10afx. Robert M. Quimby, Marcus C. Werner, Masamune Oguri, Surhud More, Anupreeta More, Masayuki Tanaka, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Takashi J. Moriya, Gaston Folatelli, Keiichi Maeda, Melina Bersten


The Scale of Inflation in the Landscape. Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal

Monday, March 11

Large Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio in Small-Field Inflation
Takeshi Kobayashi, Tomo Takahashi


The Most Precise Extra-Galactic Black-Hole Mass Measurement
Andrew Gould


CMB bounds on dark matter annihilation: nucleon energy-losses after recombination
Christoph Weniger, Pasquale D. Serpico, Fabio Iocco, Gianfranco Bertone

Monday, March 4

Two Emission Mechanisms in the Fermi Bubbles: A Possible Signal of Annihilating Dark Matter
Dan Hooper, Tracy R. Slatyer [Christoph]

Sterile Neutrinos: Cosmology vs Short-BaseLine Experiments
Maria Archidiacono, Nicolao Fornengo, Carlo Giunti, Steen Hannestad, Alessandro Melchiorri


Two ultimate tests of constrained supersymmetry
Kamila Kowalska, Leszek Roszkowski, Enrico Maria Sessolo

Monday, February 25

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data. XENON100 collaboration [Patrick?]

Thermodynamics of Higher Spin Black Holes in AdS3, Jan de Boer, Juan I. Jottar. arXiv:1302.0816

Into the lair: gravitational-wave signatures of dark matter. Caio F.B. Macedo, Paolo Pani, Vitor Cardoso, Luis C.B. Crispino

Monday, February 11

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data. XENON100 collaboration [Patrick?]

Highlights from Aspen conference "Closing in on Dark Matter" https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=197862

Limits on Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with the Fermi-LATBijan Berenji, Elliott Bloom, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, for the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Gamma rays from the Galactic bulge and large extra dimensions. Michel Casse, Jacques Paul, Gianfranco Bertone, Guenter Sigl

Monday, February 4

• Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data. XENON100 collaboration [Patrick?]
• Realistic neutron star constraints on bosonic asymmetric dark matter. Nicole F. Bell, Andrew Melatos, Kalliopi Petraki [Kallia?]
• A new probe of dark matter properties: gravitational waves from an intermediate mass black hole embedded in a dark matter mini-spike. Kazunari Eda, Yousuke Itoh, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Joseph Silk

Monday, January 28

• Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector. IceCube collaboration
• Bekenstein's story about table-top-quantum-gravity. http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4322 [I-Sheng]
• Papers about Higgs mass and vacuum instability: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0491; http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0393; http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3112 [I-Sheng]
• Hooper & Xue, 1210.1220, Testing The Light Dark Matter Hypothesis With AMS [CW]
• Gupta et al., 1301.4405, The Galactic wind haze and its gamma-ray spectrum [CW]
• Fan & Reece, 1301.2597, Probing Charged Dark Matter Through h -> gamma gamma, Gamma ray lines, and EDMs [CW]

Monday, January 21

[I-Sheng]: I noticed a seemingly on-going debate about whether a fast-spinning blackhole could be practically used as a particle accelerator (with SM scattering, DM annihilation observables). Here is a list of papers involved and the latest one among them came out last week.

http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0909.0169
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0911.2243
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0911.3363
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1212.1235
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1159
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3429

• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7430/full/nature11717.html [Jacco]
• Addendum to: QRPA uncertainties and their correlations in the analysis of neutrinoless double β decay, A. Faessler, G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, V. Rodin, A.M. Rotunno, F. Simkovic, http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1587 [Patrick].

Monday, January 14

• Hints on the Nature of Dark Matter from the Properties of Milky Way Satellites. Donnino Anderhalden, Aurel Schneider, Andrea V. Maccio, Juerg Diemand, Gianfranco Bertone [Gf]
• Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M31. Matthew J. Middleton, James C.A. Miller-Jones, Sera Markoff et al. [Gf -> Sera]
• Taming astrophysical bias in direct dark matter searches. Miguel Pato, Louis E. Strigari, Roberto Trotta, Gianfranco Bertone. [Gf]