Sissa Medialab is organizing JCOM Masterclasses in partnership with SISSA, the International School of Advanced Studies, ICTP, the “Abdus Salam” International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICGEB, the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste.
Did the early Universe undergo inflation, a period of extremely rapid, almost exponential, expansion? Since its development in the 1980s, the idea of inflation has been very appealing from a theoretical viewpoint, although solid observational evidence was still to be found. Recently, the Planck satellite released its full survey data, shedding some light on the question.
Today, the Universe is expanding and is believed to have done so for all of its history. One piece of evidence for this is the increasing redshift of distant galaxies: The more distant a galaxy is from us, the more its emitted light is stretched to larger wavelengths, in short, looks redder. This stretching of the light is, in turn, caused by the expansion of space itself, to a degree correctly predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The Physics Department at Durham University is seeking to fill a Temporary Lectureship in Neutrino Physics and related areas for a fixed-term period of 2 years. Applications are invited from suitably qualified individuals with relevant research interests and with a commitment to teaching. For further details Click here.
Takashi Toma, a member of the Invisibles network who was in Durham IPPP until October 2014, has recently been awarded the "Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan"
In the article Aaron Vincent, Pat Scott and Aldo Serenelli show that a certain model of asymmetric dark matter can potentially solve a decade-old problem known as the Solar Abundance Problem, which is a mismatch between the theory and observations of the sun.
The meeting, which will take place in Tehran, will consist of a 3-day school, followed by a 2-day conference.
An excursion is planned for the fourth day.
The meeting will cover topics in neutrino physics, B physics, Higgs physics, and dark matter.
The conference will include plenary talks by local and international speakers, and a poster session.
The Planck Collaboration has recently reported their results from the full mission, including its observations of both temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. The final Planck results show very good agreement with the previous 2103 data release with only CMB temperature measurements. The Planck temperature and polarization maps are consistent with the so-called LambdaCDM model, i.e. a flat universe with a cosmological constant as the dark energy component and a power-law spectrum of the primordial adiabatic scalar perturbations.
The international Doctoral School Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) offers 4 postdoctoral positions: two dedicated to theoretical studies and two to experimental studies.
The axion – a hypothetical light elementary particle – is among the most promising extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. Not only does it solve a long-standing problem within the Standard Model, the strong CP problem, but it could also be the source of dark matter, a mysterious substance five times more abundant than the ordinary 'visible' matter in our Universe. This paper reports on recent results and future plans for the search of this particle. If they exist, axions should be produced abundantly in the sun and can be searched for with special telescopes such as CAST and IAXO.
The existence of axions was postulated in 1977 by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, in a very famous paper with which they proposed an interesting solution to a very big open question of particle physics, known as strong CP problem:
