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Evaluation of Student Understanding of Uncertainty in Level 1 Undergraduate Physics Laboratories (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Petts, P. L., Swift, G. P., & Nightingale, S. C. (2021). Evaluation of Student Understanding of Uncertainty in Level 1 Undergraduate Physics Laboratories. In 10th International Conference New Perspectives in Science Education (413-419)

In recent years, work has been undertaken at Durham University to investigate how student understanding of uncertainty in experimental measurements changed throughout the course of the instruction they had during their first year of undergraduate lab... Read More about Evaluation of Student Understanding of Uncertainty in Level 1 Undergraduate Physics Laboratories.

Trinity: An Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope to Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brown, A. M., Bagheri, M., Doro, M., Gazda, E., Kieda, D., Lin, C., …Wang, A. (2021). Trinity: An Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope to Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos. In A. Kappes, & B. Keilhauer (Eds.), Proceedings of Science: ICRC 2021

Earth-skimming neutrinos are those which travel through the Earth’s crust at a shallow angle. For Ultra-High-Energy (E휈 > 1 PeV; UHE) earth-skimming tau neutrinos, there is a high-probability that the tau lepton created by a neutrino-Earth interacti... Read More about Trinity: An Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope to Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos.

Resurrecting low-mass axion dark matter via a dynamical QCD scale (2021)
Journal Article
Heurtier, L., Huang, F., & Tait, T. M. (2021). Resurrecting low-mass axion dark matter via a dynamical QCD scale. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(12), Article 216. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282021%29216

In the framework where the strong coupling is dynamical, the QCD sector may confine at a much higher temperature than it would in the Standard Model, and the temperature-dependent mass of the QCD axion evolves in a non-trivial way. We find that, depe... Read More about Resurrecting low-mass axion dark matter via a dynamical QCD scale.

SU Lyn - a transient symbiotic star (2021)
Journal Article
Iłkiewicz, K., Mikołajewska, J., Scaringi, S., Teyssier, F., Stoyanov, K. A., & Fratta, M. (2022). SU Lyn - a transient symbiotic star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 2707-2717. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3637

SU Lyn is a binary system composed of a white dwarf and a red giant star. Although it is known to be bright and variable at X-ray wavelengths, the optical counterpart of the source appeared as a single red giant without prominent emission lines. Beca... Read More about SU Lyn - a transient symbiotic star.

Astrometric excess noise in Gaia EDR3 and the search for X-ray binaries (2021)
Journal Article
Gandhi, P., Buckley, D., Charles, P., Hodgkin, S., Scaringi, S., Knigge, C., …Zhao, Y. (2022). Astrometric excess noise in Gaia EDR3 and the search for X-ray binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(3), 3885-3895. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3771

Astrometric noise (ϵ) in excess of parallax and proper motion is a potential signature of orbital wobble (ω) of individual components in binary star systems. The combination of X-ray selection with astrometric noise could then be a powerful tool for... Read More about Astrometric excess noise in Gaia EDR3 and the search for X-ray binaries.

The evolution of the oxygen abundance gradients in star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulations (2021)
Journal Article
Tissera, P. B., Rosas-Guevara, Y., Sillero, E., Pedrosa, S. E., Theuns, T., & Bignone, L. (2022). The evolution of the oxygen abundance gradients in star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 1667-1684. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3644

We analyse the evolution of the oxygen abundance gradient of star-forming galaxies with stellar mass M∗≥109M⊙ in the EAGLE simulation over the redshift range z = [0, 2.5]. We find that the median metallicity gradient of the simulated galaxies is clos... Read More about The evolution of the oxygen abundance gradients in star-forming galaxies in the eagle simulations.

Looking for a twist: probing the cosmological gravitomagnetic effect via weak lensing-kSZ cross correlations (2021)
Journal Article
Barrera-Hinojosa, C., Li, B., & Cai, Y. (2022). Looking for a twist: probing the cosmological gravitomagnetic effect via weak lensing-kSZ cross correlations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(3), 3589-3604. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3657

General relativity predicts that the rotational momentum flux of matter twists the space–time via a vector gravitomagnetic (frame-dragging) field, which remains undetected in cosmology. This vector field induces an additional gravitational lensing ef... Read More about Looking for a twist: probing the cosmological gravitomagnetic effect via weak lensing-kSZ cross correlations.

Potential of CMS as a high-energy neutrino scattering experiment (2021)
Journal Article
Foldenauer, P., Kling, F., & Reimitz, P. (2021). Potential of CMS as a high-energy neutrino scattering experiment. Physical Review D, 104(11), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.113005

With its enormous number of produced neutrinos the LHC is a prime facility to study the behavior of high-energy neutrinos. In this paper we propose a novel search strategy for identifying neutrino scattering via displaced appearing jets in the high g... Read More about Potential of CMS as a high-energy neutrino scattering experiment.