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The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce that it will begin sponsoring Astrobites, a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. This mutually beneficial collaboration aims to enhance the dissemination of research, educational resources, and career insights in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.

A new Collection by the Physical Review journals celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—the theoretical basis for the strong force of nature that binds quarks and gluons into hadrons.

To mark the 243rd American Astronomical Society meeting, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, and Physical Review D highlighted several significant papers in astrophysics to illustrate the type of research these journals seek to publish.

With the goal of broadening its coverage of astrophysics, PRD hired astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as an Associate Editor and appointed three experts in astrophysics to its Editorial Board.

The CMS collaboration measured cross sections of associated Higgs boson production followed by the Higgs boson’s decay in the bottom-antibottom channel. Combining measurements where the associated vector boson was a $Z$ or a $W$, they find that the measured interaction strength agrees with the standard model prediction to within one sigma within an error of about 20%.

Spacetime wrinkles known as cosmic strings, which might have formed in the early Universe, could be a dominant source of gravitational waves at ultrahigh frequencies, according to new calculations.

Spacetime wrinkles known as cosmic strings, which might have formed in the early Universe, could be a dominant source of gravitational waves at ultrahigh frequencies, according to new calculations.

Synopsis on:
Géraldine Servant and Peera Simakachorn
Phys. Rev. D 109, 103538 (2024)

An experiment at CERN seeks signs of dark matter by looking for missing energy and momentum in the debris of particle collisions.

Synopsis on:
Yu. M. Andreev et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211803 (2024)

The paper successfully models X-ray observational aspects of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei as due to collisions between a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) accretion disk and a stellar mass black hole or main sequence star orbiting around a nuclear supermassive black hole (SMBH). This can have key implications in understanding EMRIs and stellar orbits in the vicinity of SMBHs.

The paper presents the first cosmological constraints from SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) redshift-space galaxy skew spectra. This work goes beyond two-point statistics, accesses cosmological information down to nonlinear scales, and uses the Simulation-Based Inference of Galaxies (SIMBIG) forward modeling framework to improve constraints for several cosmological parameters up to 38%.

Modeling of neutrino-nucleus scattering is essential to making sense of neutrino experimental data. In this paper, the MicroBooNE collaboration proposes and measures a set of generalized kinematic imbalance variables that are particularly well-suited for separating out and modeling nuclear effects. The usefulness of these variables is demonstrated by comparing data to event generators.

APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2024 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.

From nature’s tiniest particles to waves that traverse the Universe—physicists remember resounding finds from the last half-century.

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