Comments on: All your darkmatter are belong to unparticles

By: Tatsuru Kikuchi

Tatsuru Kikuchi — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:16:22 +0000

Hi Pamela,

If you are still interested in our work, please let see my talk at the international workshop on the Grand Unified Theories:

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=87&sessionId=1&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=19791

or given at the KEK Annual Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology:

http://research.kek.jp/group/riron/workshop/KEKPH0712/Dec14/14.10.Kikuchi.pdf

Tatsuru Kikuchi
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Theory Group, KEK
1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, JAPAN
E-mail: tatsuru_at_post.kek.jp (”_at_” has to be replaced by @)

By: Tatsuru Kikuchi

Tatsuru Kikuchi — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:06:42 +0000

Hi Pamela,

Thanks for this interesting post and advertising our paper!

Indeed, a few months ago, we have proposed a possibility for the unparticle as a candidate of the Dark Matter.
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Tatsuru Kikuchi and Nobuchika Okada
“Unparticle Dark Matter”
arXiv:0711.1506 [hep-ph].
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I think this is the first paper that tried to explain the dark matter in terms of the unparticle. Basically, the conclusion is as follows: it is indeed possible to explain the observed dark matter relic abundance in terms of unparticle by itself; it is so amazing and so interesting.

Tatsuru Kikuchi
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Theory Group, KEK
1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, JAPAN
E-mail: tatsuru_at_post.kek.jp (”_at_” has to be replaced by @)

By: ZZMike

ZZMike — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:28:54 +0000

If there are unparticles, must there be anti-unparticles?

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Burzycki.org - Tech and Interesting Facts — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:11:46 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:13:59 +0000

Science is definitely a good place to find bad English!

Oddly enough, of the several papers I’ve published I had my first ever experience of having real English grammar editing with my latest paper due out shortly in Astrobiology (http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4274).

I gave my style manual a workout looking up “dangling participle”, “split infinitive” and other dastardly terms.

By: Bee

Bee — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:13:53 +0000

Hi Pamela, Thanks for this interesting post. I have to admit though I don't find the unparticle idea particularly compelling. Possible phenomenology isn't the only thing that matters. I have had a brief post on the Unparticles in September. Best, B.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:48:15 +0000

Thanks for unravelling that for us Pamela. the last frontier still remains just that, an unknown frontier with many secrets…

By: Philip Atherton

Philip Atherton — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:03:58 +0000

As long as the LHC isn’t

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30420

By: Jorge Schrauwen

Jorge Schrauwen — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:21:19 +0000

Oh yeah I can’t wait for the LHC either, I at CERN this august and man its impressive!

Here is a picture of the atlast detector I took when I was there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorge/1223836735/in/set-72157601580935712/

By: Doc Kinne

Doc Kinne — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:00:23 +0000

You know, the more I read and talk (turns out that one of the current researchers at CERN was one of the “brat kids” that ran around the Engineering Division of USS Accord) the more I see that a whole hell of a lot of hopes are being pinned on the LHC. I hope it can deliver!

By: Freiddie

Freiddie — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:25:25 +0000

So that’s why the title sounds so familiar!
I can’t wait for LHC either. I really want to know if Higgs bosons exist. (And I also ‘read’ somewhere, though I might have a bad memory, that LHC might create mini-black holes from proton-proton collisions)
As for math, I think there’s a universe of its own. I used to find disassembling the dy and dx odd, but now it’s sleight of hand.