Probing Ultralight Dark Matter at the Mega-Planck Scale with the Thorium Nuclear Clock Ultralight dark matter is expected to induce oscillations of nuclear parameters. These oscillations are characterized by extremely weak couplings or high suppression scales, with the Planck scale - th...

Probing Ultralight Dark Matter at the Mega-Planck Scale with the Thorium Nuclear Clock

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16804

Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?"

Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."

Thanks Andres!!

Temperature Sensitivity of a Thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock Researchers have characterized the temperature-induced frequency shifts of a thorium-229 nuclear transition---an important step in establishing thorium clocks as next-generation frequency standards.

My first author postdoc paper is finally published in PRL today!

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In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and NIST Fellow and @colorado.edu physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts.
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The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World | Quanta Magazine Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unli...

In Tennessee, where Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli lives and works, policies targeting transgender people are on the rise. “Fifty percent of my brain is thinking about this, how can I survive, and in the remaining 50% of the brain, I can think about physics.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicis...

The winter issue of "Light & Matter" is here! Read the latest about #nuclearclocks, #AtomicClocks, #quantumphysicstumphysics #physicsresearch, and more in the latest installment of our quarterly journal.

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