Peter Denton

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I haven't wanted to use an em dash more in the last year or so — yet I keep on avoiding it so I'm not mistaken for an LLM.

Peter's Acronym of the Day:

SEAL - A Symmetry EncourAging Loss for High Energy Physics

I have long held that taking vowels from the middle of words is an acronym crime

arxiv.org/abs/2511.01982

Thanks for reporting on this!

Also remember that this is the median age of first time homebuyers, not the median age people stop renting. That is, many people never stop renting their whole lives.

Nice to see BNLs C2QA renewed

Happy Halloween!

Picture of text. Energy when full: 13.9 Wh, designed energy: 57 Wh

The maximum charge of my laptop's battery is down 75%, just like its user

Agreed! I guess we are coauthors!

The LHC is testing for high-lumi. They have a crossing with over 200 collisions and over 9000 tracks, jesus!
home.cern/news/news/ac...

As a human who has sent you fan mail before, I will make sure that any future emails are clealry not LLM to get throuhg... by filing them with typos.

TLDR: The physics behind NANOGrav's signal may also appear in supernova which can be identified with the neutrino data from a future galactic supernova.

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If such a phase transition happened then, it will (most likely) also happen in core-collapse supernova! This will leave a host of imprints on the neutrino signal from the supernova which we work out thanks largely to Anna's work, especially her recent PRL on new physics in supernova.

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NANOGrav and others have seen a gravitational wave-like signal that may well be coming from a novel phase transition in the early Universe at a temperature of 10s of MeV. There are a lot of details here, but they actually don't matter!

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Paper day! 🧪🔭⚛️ arxiv.org/abs/2510.23713

"Glimpsing Physics of Nano-Hz Gravitational Waves in Neutrinos from Core-Collapse Supernovae"

Along with Hooman Davoudiasl and Anna Suliga (@aniafasolka.bsky.social) we realized that supernova recreate what NANOGrav might have seen.

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LLM caution even for those who understand AI: neurosciencenews.com/ai-dunning-k...

Can we agree to stop writing referee reports assuming the referees are men?

This seems like a real easy one everybody.

RIP Peter Minkowski, the creator of the seesaw

Can you translate this to plain English?

How scientists are pushing back against Trump’s funding ‘deal’ for universities Six institutions have so far rejected the administration’s list of demands over academic freedom concerns.

New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universities—to some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact

With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

This plot goes pretty hard

Just had a conversation coming to the same conclusion.

Peter's Acronym of the Day is about SUSY (which is also good, but not an acronym):

Sequestered Conformal Anomaly Mediation: SCAM

arxiv.org/abs/2510.11784

Decide for yourself what deeper underlying meaning the authors are suggesting.

Axion Quality Problem: Keep Calm and Baryon Axion models generically suffer from a severe quality problem when coupled to gravity. In this article we provide a very simple model with a high quality axion. The axion is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone b...

This is a title for the ages, good work!

"Axion Quality Problem: Keep Calm and Baryon"

arxiv.org/abs/2510.07366

Me too

There is no 690 GeV resonance In a series of $\sim 30$ papers starting in 1991, it has been claimed that the Higgs field should be heavier than its now-measured value. To reconcile this idea with reality, it was modified to the as...

Cline updates his note: arxiv.org/abs/2509.20115

ELENA: a software for fast and precise computation of first order phase transitions and gravitational waves production in particle physics models We present ELENA (EvaLuator of tunnElliNg Actions), an open-source Python package designed to compute the full evolution of first-order phase transitions in the early Universe generated by particle ph...

Peter's Acronym of the Day:

ELENA: EvaLuator of tunnElliNg Actions

arxiv.org/abs/2510.00289

A local government website had a link to a map showing recycling centers that required me to log in for some reason. Contacted them, they fixed in a few hours on a Friday afternoon, and let me know.

Feels pretty damn nice when local government works.

With no public advanced warning, BNL director JoAnne Hewett has stepped down today.

I think she was a pretty good lab director, and everyone I knew was very excited to see a prominent female high energy theorist running a big lab.

The feeling is one of shock here today.