In a paper posted on March 5 to the online repository arXiv, TESSERACT researchers including Texas A&M physicist Rupak Mahapatra presented their first dark matter results, finding no evidence of low-mass dark matter between masses of 44 MeV/c2 and 87 MeV/c2 (where MeV is millions of electronvolts). For comparison, the mass of a proton is […]

Officials with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) announced today (Dec. 13) that Northwestern University has joined the international consortium in its quest to construct the $2.54 billion observatory dedicated to exploring the distant universe. With the addition of Northwestern, which is home to the world-renowned Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the newly […]

Established in 2011 by the APS Division of Particles and Fields, the Primakoff Award is bestowed annually to physicists who have received a Ph.D. within the last seven years in recognition of accomplishments in both experimental and theoretical particle physics. It is supported by the Henry Primakoff Lecture Fund, created by members of the physics […]