First Search for Unstable Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

(2022)

Authors:

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, M Ahrens, JM Alameddine, AA Alves, NM Amin, K Andeen, T Anderson, G Anton, C Argüelles, Y Ashida, S Axani, X Bai, A Balagopal V., SW Barwick, B Bastian, V Basu, S Baur, R Bay, JJ Beatty, K-H Becker, J Becker Tjus, J Beise, C Bellenghi, S Benda, S BenZvi, D Berley, E Bernardini, DZ Besson, G Binder, D Bindig, E Blaufuss, S Blot, M Boddenberg, F Bontempo, JY Book, J Borowka, S Böser, O Botner, J Böttcher, E Bourbeau, F Bradascio, J Braun, B Brinson, S Bron, J Brostean-Kaiser, RT Burley, RS Busse, MA Campana, EG Carnie-Bronca, C Chen, Z Chen, D Chirkin, K Choi, BA Clark, K Clark, L Classen, A Coleman, GH Collin, JM Conrad, P Coppin, P Correa, DF Cowen, R Cross, C Dappen, P Dave, C De Clercq, JJ DeLaunay, D Delgado López, H Dembinski, K Deoskar, A Desai, P Desiati, KD de Vries, G de Wasseige, M de With, T DeYoung, A Diaz, JC Díaz-Vélez, M Dittmer, H Dujmovic, M Dunkman, MA DuVernois, T Ehrhardt, P Eller, R Engel, H Erpenbeck, J Evans, PA Evenson, KL Fan, AR Fazely, A Fedynitch, N Feigl, S Fiedlschuster, AT Fienberg, C Finley, L Fischer, D Fox, A Franckowiak, E Friedman, A Fritz, P Fürst, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, E Ganster, A Garcia, S Garrappa, L Gerhardt, A Ghadimi, C Glaser, T Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, N Goehlke, JG Gonzalez, S Goswami, D Grant, T Grégoire, S Griswold, C Günther, P Gutjahr, C Haack, A Hallgren, R Halliday, L Halve, F Halzen, M Ha Minh, K Hanson, J Hardin, AA Harnisch, A Haungs, D Hebecker, K Helbing, F Henningsen, EC Hettinger, S Hickford, J Hignight, C Hill, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, K Hoshina, W Hou, F Huang, M Huber, T Huber, K Hultqvist, M Hünnefeld, R Hussain, K Hymon, S In, N Iovine, A Ishihara, M Jansson, GS Japaridze, M Jeong, M Jin, BJP Jones, D Kang, W Kang, X Kang, A Kappes, D Kappesser, L Kardum, T Karg, M Karl, A Karle, U Katz, M Kauer, M Kellermann, JL Kelley, A Kheirandish, K Kin, T Kintscher, J Kiryluk, SR Klein, A Kochocki, R Koirala, H Kolanoski, T Kontrimas, L Köpke, C Kopper, S Kopper, DJ Koskinen, P Koundal, M Kovacevich, M Kowalski, T Kozynets, E Krupczak, E Kun, N Kurahashi, N Lad, C Lagunas Gualda, JL Lanfranchi, MJ Larson, F Lauber, JP Lazar, JW Lee, K Leonard, A Leszczyńska, Y Li, M Lincetto, QR Liu, M Liubarska, E Lohfink, CJ Lozano Mariscal, L Lu, F Lucarelli, A Ludwig, W Luszczak, Y Lyu, WY Ma, J Madsen, KBM Mahn, Y Makino, S Mancina, IC Mariş, I Martinez-Soler, R Maruyama, S McCarthy, T McElroy, F McNally, JV Mead, K Meagher, S Mechbal, A Medina, M Meier, S Meighen-Berger, J Micallef, D Mockler, T Montaruli, RW Moore, R Morse, M Moulai, T Mukherjee, R Naab, R Nagai, U Naumann, J Necker, LV Nguyen, H Niederhausen, MU Nisa, SC Nowicki, A Obertacke Pollmann, M Oehler, B Oeyen, A Olivas, E O'Sullivan, H Pandya, DV Pankova, N Park, GK Parker, EN Paudel, L Paul, C Pérez de los Heros, L Peters, J Peterson, S Philippen, S Pieper, A Pizzuto, M Plum, Y Popovych, A Porcelli, M Prado Rodriguez, B Pries, GT Przybylski, C Raab, J Rack-Helleis, A Raissi, M Rameez, K Rawlins, IC Rea, Z Rechav, A Rehman, P Reichherzer, R Reimann, G Renzi, E Resconi, S Reusch, W Rhode, M Richman, B Riedel, EJ Roberts, S Robertson, G Roellinghoff, M Rongen, C Rott, T Ruhe, D Ryckbosch, D Rysewyk Cantu, I Safa, J Saffer, P Sampathkumar, SE Sanchez Herrera, A Sandrock, M Santander, S Sarkar, S Sarkar, K Satalecka, M Schaufel, H Schieler, S Schindler, T Schmidt, A Schneider, J Schneider, FG Schröder, L Schumacher, G Schwefer, S Sclafani, D Seckel, S Seunarine, A Sharma, S Shefali, N Shimizu, M Silva, B Skrzypek, B Smithers, R Snihur, J Soedingrekso, D Soldin, C Spannfellner, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, J Stachurska, M Stamatikos, T Stanev, R Stein, J Stettner, T Stezelberger, T Stürwald, T Stuttard, GW Sullivan, I Taboada, S Ter-Antonyan, J Thwaites, S Tilav, F Tischbein, K Tollefson, C Tönnis, S Toscano, D Tosi, A Trettin, M Tselengidou, CF Tung, A Turcati, R Turcotte, CF Turley, JP Twagirayezu, B Ty, MA Unland Elorrieta, N Valtonen-Mattila, J Vandenbroucke, N van Eijndhoven, D Vannerom, J van Santen, J Veitch-Michaelis, S Verpoest, C Walck, W Wang, TB Watson, C Weaver, P Weigel, A Weindl, MJ Weiss, J Weldert, C Wendt, J Werthebach, M Weyrauch, N Whitehorn, CH Wiebusch, N Willey, DR Williams, M Wolf, G Wrede, J Wulff, XW Xu, JP Yanez, E Yildizci, S Yoshida, S Yu, T Yuan, Z Zhang, P Zhelnin

Heart of darkness

Inference: International Review of Science 6:4 (2022)

Abstract:

Is the standard model of cosmology wrong? Subir Sarkar argues that the discovery of dark energy, the basis of widely accepted models, was simply an accident waiting to happen. He claims that long-held assumptions are no longer tenable in light of recent data -- data that undermines the inference that the universe is dominated by a cosmological constant.

Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments

(2022)

Authors:

JM Campbell, M Diefenthaler, TJ Hobbs, S Höche, J Isaacson, F Kling, S Mrenna, J Reuter, S Alioli, JR Andersen, C Andreopoulos, AM Ankowski, EC Aschenauer, A Ashkenazi, MD Baker, JL Barrow, M van Beekveld, G Bewick, S Bhattacharya, N Bhuiyan, C Bierlich, E Bothmann, P Bredt, A Broggio, A Buckley, A Butter, JM Butterworth, EP Byrne, CM Carloni Calame, S Chakraborty, X Chen, M Chiesa, JT Childers, J Cruz-Martinez, J Currie, N Darvishi, M Dasgupta, A Denner, FA Dreyer, S Dytman, BK El-Menoufi, T Engel, S Ferrario Ravasio, D Figueroa, L Flower, JR Forshaw, R Frederix, A Friedland, S Frixione, H Gallagher, K Gallmeister, S Gardiner, R Gauld, J Gaunt, A Gavardi, T Gehrmann, A Gehrmann-De Ridder, L Gellersen, W Giele, S Gieseke, F Giuli, EWN Glover, M Grazzini, A Grohsjean, C Gütschow, K Hamilton, T Han, R Hatcher, G Heinrich, I Helenius, O Hen, V Hirschi, M Höfer, J Holguin, A Huss, P Ilten, S Jadach, A Jentsch, SP Jones, W Ju, S Kallweit, A Karlberg, T Katori, M Kerner, W Kilian, MM Kirchgaeßer, S Klein, M Knobbe, C Krause, F Krauss, J Lang, J-N Lang, G Lee, SW Li, MA Lim, JM Lindert, D Lombardi, L Lönnblad, M Löschner, N Lurkin, Y Ma, P Machado, V Magerya, A Maier, I Majer, F Maltoni, M Marcoli, G Marinelli, MR Masouminia, P Mastrolia, O Mattelaer, J Mazzitelli, J McFayden, R Medves, P Meinzinger, J Mo, PF Monni, G Montagna, T Morgan, U Mosel, B Nachman, P Nadolsky, R Nagar, Z Nagy, D Napoletano, P Nason, T Neumann, LJ Nevay, O Nicrosini, J Niehues, K Niewczas, T Ohl, G Ossola, V Pandey, A Papadopoulou, A Papaefstathiou, G Paz, M Pellen, G Pelliccioli, T Peraro, F Piccinini, L Pickering, J Pires, W Płaczek, S Plätzer, T Plehn, S Pozzorini, S Prestel, CT Preuss, AC Price, S Quackenbush, E Re, D Reichelt, L Reina, C Reuschle, P Richardson, M Rocco, N Rocco, M Roda, A Rodriguez Garcia, S Roiser, J Rojo, L Rottoli, GP Salam, M Schönherr, S Schuchmann, S Schumann, R Schürmann, L Scyboz, MH Seymour, F Siegert, A Signer, G Singh Chahal, A Siódmok, T Sjöstrand, P Skands, JM Smillie, JT Sobczyk, D Soldin, DE Soper, A Soto-Ontoso, G Soyez, G Stagnitto, J Tena-Vidal, O Tomalak, F Tramontano, S Trojanowski, Z Tu, S Uccirati, T Ullrich, Y Ulrich, M Utheim, A Valassi, A Verbytskyi, R Verheyen, M Wagman, D Walker, BR Webber, L Weinstein, O White, J Whitehead, M Wiesemann, C Wilkinson, C Williams, R Winterhalder, C Wret, K Xie, T-Z Yang, E Yazgan, G Zanderighi, S Zanoli, K Zapp

Mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to dilepton production at the LHC in the high invariant mass region

(2022)

Authors:

Federico Buccioni, Fabrizio Caola, Herschel A Chawdhry, Federica Devoto, Matthias Heller, Andreas von Manteuffel, Kirill Melnikov, Raoul Röntsch, Chiara Signorile-Signorile

Active Galactic Nuclei population studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Proceedings of Science 395 (2022)

Authors:

H Abdalla, H Abe, S Abe, A Abusleme, F Acero, A Acharyya, V Acín Portella, K Ackley, R Adam, C Adams, SS Adhikari, I Aguado-Ruesga, I Agudo, R Aguilera, A Aguirre-Santaella, F Aharonian, A Alberdi, R Alfaro, J Alfaro, C Alispach, R Aloisio, R Alves Batista, JP Amans, L Amati, E Amato, L Ambrogi, G Ambrosi, M Ambrosio, R Ammendola, J Anderson, M Anduze, EO Angüner, LA Antonelli, V Antonuccio, P Antoranz, R Anutarawiramkul, J Aragunde Gutierrez, C Aramo, A Araudo, M Araya, A Arbet-Engels, C Arcaro, V Arendt, C Armand, T Armstrong, F Arqueros, L Arrabito, B Arsioli, M Artero, K Asano, Y Ascasíbar, J Aschersleben, M Ashley, P Attinà, P Aubert, CB Singh, D Baack, A Babic, M Backes, V Baena, S Bajtlik, A Baktash, C Balazs, M Balbo, O Ballester, J Ballet, B Balmaverde, A Bamba, R Bandiera, A Baquero Larriva, P Barai, C Barbier, V Barbosa Martins, M Barcelo, M Barkov, M Barnard, L Baroncelli, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, D Bastieri, PI Batista, I Batkovic, C Bauer, R Bautista-González, J Baxter, U Becciani, J Becerra González, Y Becherini, G Beck, J Becker Tjus, W Bednarek, A Belfiore, L Bellizzi, R Belmont, W Benbow, D Berge, E Bernardini, MI Bernardos, K Bernlöhr, A Berti

Abstract:

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory is the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Building on the strengths of current IACTs, CTA is designed to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity, with unprecedented angular and energy resolution. CTA will also increase the energy reach of IACTs, observing photons in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 100 TeV. These advances in performance will see CTA heralding in a new era for high-energy astrophysics, with the emphasis shifting from source discovery, to population studies and precision measurements. In this talk we discuss CTA’s ability to conduct source population studies of γ-ray bright active galactic nuclei and how this ability will enhance our understanding on the redshift evolution of this dominant γ-ray source class.