A recent paper led by first and second authors Fei Ge (UC Davis graduate student) and Marius Millea (UC Davis Project Scientist) presents results from two years of surveying the millimeter wavelength sky with the third generation camera on the South Pole Telescope.

Bob Svoboda has been selected to receive the 2024 APS DPF Instrumentation Award for his work on developing neutrons as a precision calibration source for Super-Kamiokande and for DUNE. He worked to develop a submersible neutron generator for Super-K that took the absolute energy calibration from 4% to 0.7%, allowing precision measurements of the solar neutrino spectrum. For DUNE, he also discovered that it was possible to shoot neutrons deep into liquid argon for calibrations due to a weird interference feature in the cross section at 57 keV. This feature was confirmed in an experiment done at LANL by Bob, Emilija, and Mike Mulhearn.

Strange particles that have mass when moving one direction but no mass when moving in another were first theorised more than a decade ago by a team including UCD Prof. Warren Pickett. These mass-shifting particles have now been glimpsed in a semimetal exposed to extreme conditions.

Congratulations to Jaroslav Trnka, 2024 recipient, Division of Particles and Fields Fellowship, "For deep contributions to exposing hidden mathematical structures in particle scattering amplitudes."

Prof. Emilija Pantic has been selected for a Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award. The Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Awards recognize faculty providing outstanding service in advising and mentoring at the program level. Emilija was selected for her excellent service to our graduate program, as well as her positive impact on graduate students and colleagues.

Greg Watry, of the College of Letters and Science, wrote, "A UC Davis physicist is among the third annual cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Associate Professor Inna Vishik, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the College of Letters and Science, joins 18 other researchers nationwide who will each receive a five-year, $1.25 million grant to pursue new research goals and explore uncharted, innovative ideas

NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will capture the unseen cosmos: Dark matter, dark energy and millions of exploding stars

NASA selected Fiona McCluskey for a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award. Fiona is a PhD student in Andrew Wetzel’s group. This $100,000 fellowship will fund two years of Fiona’s PhD project "Deciphering Galactic Disk Formation: Galactic Archaeology in a Cosmological Context”. Congratulations Fiona!