Year: 2022

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. “The existence of Dark Matter (DM) is well established and supported by a variety of astrophysical and cosmological observations.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

EVERYTHING DECAYS. “Any kind of order, even that as simple as the arrangement of atoms in a molecule, is unnatural and happens only by chance encounters that reverse the general trend. Life is a rare and unreasonable thing.” (The 2nd law of thermodynamics, and the unstable equilibrium of life). https://lnkd.in/e9Getcik View in LinkedIn

Garlic in the process of being converted into the very expensive form of black garlic during prolonged warming. View in LinkedIn

DARK MATTER. “Its particle nature is still the subject of exciting speculations since no evidence has been found, neither in direct production at the LHC, nor in direct detection at underground experiments, over an amazingly large interval of masses and physical properties.” (LHC = The Large Hadron Collider). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

NO HEN’S TOOTH. “Since DM is abundant in the Universe, particle astrophysics in space is the right environment for indirect searches of DM particles.” (DM = dark matter). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

“ANTIPARTICLES (e+, p−, D−, anti-3He) constitute a golden channel for this search, since the rare antiparticle component of DM annihilation/decay products, would give rise to an observable excess on these fluxes with respect to the tiny standard astro-physical expectations, not influenced by the otherwise large background of standard CRs.” (DM = dark matter; CR = cosmic ray). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

HUNTING OF THE SNARK. “Access to space is mandatory to avoid atmospheric background and to ensure an extended observation time. A collection factor of ≈ 20 m2-sr years is needed to increase by a factor 10(3) current limits on anti-4He or heavier nuclear anti-matter.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

PLANNING. “For the Voyage 2035–2050 program a new generation of detectors/electronics will be available and tested (e.g. SiPM, silicon pixel detectors) allowing to reach even better performances with reduced power requirements.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

ANTIPARTICLE SAMPLE. “Our planet is constantly bombarded by Cosmic Rays (CRs), high-energy charged particles reaching us from regions of space external to the Solar System.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

MURMURINGS. “Our results suggest that flocks behave as critical systems, poised to respond maximally to environmental perturbations. Whatever the origin of the scale-free behavior is, the very low value of the exponent γ that we find, i.e., the fact that the correlation is almost not decaying with the distance, is by far the most surprising and exotic feature of bird flocks. How starlings achieve such a strong correlation remains a mystery to us.” https://lnkd.in/eUVrNwuW View in LinkedIn