today in particle astrophysics

Authors: QUaD collaboration: P. G. Castro (1 and 2), P. Ade (3), J. Bock (4 and 5), M. Bowden (3 and 6), M. L. Brown (1 and 8), G. Cahill (9), S. Church (6), T. Culverhouse (7), R. B. Friedman (7), K. Ganga (10), W. K. Gear (3), S. Gupta (3), J. Hinderks (6 and 11), J. Kovac (5), A. E. Lange (5), E. Leitch (4 and 5), S. J. Melhuish (12), Y. Memari (1), J. A. Murphy (9), A. Orlando (3 and 5), C. Pryke (7), R. Schwarz (7), C. O'Sullivan (9), L. Piccirillo (12), N. Rajguru (3 and 13), B. Rusholme (6), A. N. Taylor (1), K. L. Thompson (6), A. H. Turner (3), E. Y. S. Wu (6), M. Zemcov (3, 4 and 5) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, (2) CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, (3) School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, (4) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (5) California Institute of Technology, (6) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, (7) Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, (8) Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, (9) Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, (10) Laboratoire APC UMR 7164, Univ. Paris Diderot-Paris 7 - CNRS - CEA - Obs. de Paris, (11) NASA Goddard, (12) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, (13) UCL)

tipa -- 1/7/2009

The First Positive Detection of Molecular Gas in a GRB Host Galaxy

Authors: J. X. Prochaska (1,2), Y. Sheffer (3), D.A. Perley (4), J. S. Bloom (4), L. A. Lopez (2), M. Dessauges-Zavadsky (5), H.-W. Chen (6), A. V. Filippenko (4), M. Ganeshalingam (4), W. Li (4), A. A. Miller (4), D. Starr (4,7) ((1) UC Santa Cruz, (2) UCO/Lick, (3) University of Toledo, (4) UC Berkeley, (5) Observatoire de Geneve, (6) U Chicago, (7) Las Cumbres Observatory)

Interpretation of the Extragalactic Radio Background

Authors: M. Seiffert, D. J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. M. Levin, M. Limon, P. M. Lubin, P. Mirel, J. Singal, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C. A. Wuensche

Diffuse neutrino flux from failed supernovae

Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

An "archaeological" quest for galactic supernova neutrinos

Authors: Rimantas Lazauskas, Cecilia Lunardini, Cristina Volpe

Candidates for Inelastic Dark Matter

Authors: Yanou Cui, David E. Morrissey, David Poland, Lisa Randall

tipa -- 1/6/2009

Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background: Cosmic-Ray Induced Albedo from Debris in the Solar System?

Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Nucleosynthesis of 56Ni in wind-driven Supernova Explosions and Constraints on the Central Engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga

Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO's S5 Data

Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Non-Abelian Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures

Authors: Matthew Baumgart, Clifford Cheung, Joshua T. Ruderman, Lian-Tao Wang, Itay Yavin

tipa -- 1/5/2009

The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300

Authors: Howard E. Bond (1), Alceste Z. Bonanos (1), Roberta M. Humphreys (2), L.A.G. Berto Monard (3), Jose L. Prieto (4), Frederick M. Walter (5) ((1) STScI, (2) U. Minnesota, (3) Bronberg Obs., (4) Ohio State U., (5) Stony Brook U.)

Microwave Background Constraints on Mixing of Photons with Hidden Photons

Authors: Alessandro Mirizzi (Max Planck Institut, Munich), Javier Redondo (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg), Guenter Sigl (Hamburg University)

Introduction to the Standard Model and Electroweak Physics

Authors: Paul Langacker

classic papers of the year -- 2008

Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions

T.D. Lee (Columbia University, New York, New York) , Chen-Ning Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

Experimental Test Of Parity Conservation In Beta Decay

C.S. Wu (Columbia University, New York, New York) , E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson (National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.)

The strength of the weak interactions

Lincoln Wolfenstein (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

The Connection Between Spin and Statistics

W. Pauli (Physikalisches Institut, Eidg. Technischen Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland)

Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra

Uhlenbeck, G. E., Goudsmit, S.

Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays

N. Cabibbo (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Violation of CP Invariance, c Asymmetry, and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

A.D. Sakharov

See also

Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe

Alpher, Ralph A.; Herman, Robert C. (Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, MD)

On the Stopping of fast particles and on the creation of positive electrons

H. Bethe (Manchester), W. Heitler (Bristol)

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin

Klebesadel, Ray W.; Strong, Ian B.; Olson, Roy A. (University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

A Generalist Looks Back

Salpeter, Edwin E.

tipa -- 12/25/2008

Dissecting Pamela (and ATIC) with Occam's Razor: existing, well-known Pulsars naturally account for the "anomalous" Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Data

Authors: Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

tipa -- 12/24/2008

Vetoing atmospheric neutrinos in a high energy neutrino telescope

Authors: Stefan Schönert, Thomas K. Gaisser, Elisa Resconi, Olaf Schulz

tipa -- 12/23/2008

Aspherical Core-Collapse Supernovae in Red Supergiants Powered by Nonrelativistic Jets

Authors: Sean M. Couch, J. Craig Wheeler, Milos Milosavljevic

An Atlas For Interpreting Gamma-Ray Pulsar Light Curves

Authors: Kyle P. Watters (1), Roger W. Romani (1), Patrick Weltevrede (2), Simon Johnston (2) ((1) Stanford University, (2) ATNF)

CNO "Breakout" and Nucleosynthesis in Classical Novae

Authors: S.Ami Glasner, Jame.W. Truran

Mass Ejection by Strange Star Mergers and Observational Implications

Authors: A. Bauswein (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), R. Oechslin (1), G. Pagliara (2), I. Sagert (3), J. Schaffner-Bielich (2), M.M. Hohle (4,5), R. Neuhaeuser (4) ((1) MPI Astrophysik, Garching; (2) Inst. Theor. Physik, Univ. Heidelberg; (3) Inst. Theor. Physik, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt; (4) Astrophysik. Inst., Univ. Jena; (5) MPI Extraterr. Physik, Garching)