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The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce that it will begin sponsoring Astrobites, a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. This mutually beneficial collaboration aims to enhance the dissemination of research, educational resources, and career insights in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.

A new Collection by the Physical Review journals celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—the theoretical basis for the strong force of nature that binds quarks and gluons into hadrons.

To mark the 243rd American Astronomical Society meeting, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, and Physical Review D highlighted several significant papers in astrophysics to illustrate the type of research these journals seek to publish.

With the goal of broadening its coverage of astrophysics, PRD hired astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as an Associate Editor and appointed three experts in astrophysics to its Editorial Board.

This presents a numerical study of black hole thermodynamics in Causal Set theory. The authors introduced a new code that allows the generation of causal sets corresponding to Schwarzschild black holes, and then they tested whether the proposed horizon molecules model is consistent with the continuum Bekenstein-Hawking formula.

To adapt a SU(3) gauge theory on a quantum computer, the authors suggest using an eight level system, or qu8it, in order to match the number of generators. They find that this can speed up simulations by a factor of five.

The authors propose a novel method to probe potential Dark Matter substructures by means of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) observations. They discuss two potential observational scenarios, as well as experimental setups and challenges.

Electron neutrinos produced by proton–proton collisions at the LHC have been experimentally observed.

Synopsis on:
Roshan Mammen Abraham et al. (FASER Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021802 (2024)

The explosion of core-collapse supernovae leaving neutron star or black hole remnants are difficult to simulate in their full complexity. This paper shows how important features can be captured even in spherical symmetry as long as the effects of aspects of neutrino-driven convection are introduced. Performing simulations for different metallicities, the authors find a surprising bimodal mass distribution for neutron stars and black holes in the low-mass gap.

The authors study stimulated photon-photon collision with a three-laser pulses setup and derive a general analytical formula for the angular distribution and the number of signal photons. This formula should prove to be generally useful for the imminent high-power-laser experiments, given its applicability to a wide parameter space.

APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2024 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.

From nature’s tiniest particles to waves that traverse the Universe—physicists remember resounding finds from the last half-century.

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