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Theoretical physics. University of Massachusetts. https://websites.umass.edu/donoghue/
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I haven’t seen it mentioned here yet, but we have gotten word from CERN that both Mary K Gaillard and Jonathan Rosner have died. Their paper with Ben Lee was the entry to charm physics for so many of us, but each had separately a large impact on particle physics.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Great news! Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics by Ta-Pei Cheng and Ling-Fong Li (Oxford) is now OPEN ACCESS! 🎉 You can read and download it for free using the PDF link below. 📖✨ fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

submitted 153 days ago • 2 comments

I don't mean to keep harping on my books, but I just noticed that my QFT book with Lorenzo Sorbo "A Prelude to Quantum Field Theory" is presently discounted to only $22.37 on the Princeton University Press website. Seems to be a good price. press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

This was posted due to the news that Gene Golowich has passed away. A sad event an an end of an era for many of us.

submitted 159 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks for highlighting this. I had felt that it was mostly forgotten. Also thanks for doing these posts throughout December - I have enjoyed them and saved many for further study.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

My new paper giving reasons why the cosmological constant and Newton's constant should not be treated as running parameters in physical processes. arxiv.org/abs/2412.08773

submitted 198 days ago • 4 comments

Astro/cosmo folks: Does anyone have an informed opinion on this work which says that the recent DESI result on running dark energy depends heavily on a couple of outlier points. The authors give the appropriate caveats, but it seems important. arxiv.org/abs/2412.01740

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments

This should be good. The first few chapters can be previewed on the CUP site cup.org/3XTHKLC

submitted 227 days ago • 1 comment

I am moving here from Twitter. That site is too full of misinformation and unhappiness. It is part of the problem and hopefully moving here can recreate a portion of the Science Twitter experience.

submitted 235 days ago • 2 comments