A Verdict on the Annual Modulation: Settling a 20-Year Dark Matter Debate
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A new combined analysis from the COSINE-100 and ANAIS-112 experiments provides the strongest evidence yet against the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA dark matter claim.
Blog posts
2025
The Kernel Trick: A Guide to High-Dimensional Feature Spaces
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A technical explanation of how the kernel trick allows linear models to solve non-linear problems by implicitly operating in high-dimensional feature spaces.
A Scalpel of Electrons: The Promise and Clinical Reality of Laser-Driven Radiotherapy
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An analysis of laser-wakefield accelerators for cancer therapy, exploring how this remarkable technology has overcome physics barriers but now faces the challenge of clinical necessity.
The Next Light: Can Particle Accelerators Power the Future of Moore’s Law?
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An overview of the push for next-generation EUV light sources, comparing the incumbent laser-produced plasma technology against emerging accelerator-based Free-Electron Laser concepts.
Reconstructing Electron Bunch Current Profiles with Conditional Diffusion Models
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This work proposes using a conditional diffusion model to solve the ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing electron bunch current profiles from downstream diagnostics in plasma wakefield accelerators.
QLu: A Novel Oscillatory Activation Function for Neural Networks
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Will a new activation function with oscillatory behavior improve performance of neural networks?
Laser frequency combs: a precision revolution
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How laser frequency combs evolved from precision metrology tools to ubiquitous sensing devices powering quantum technologies and autonomous systems.
WIMP detection reaches critical threshold
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Four decades of WIMP searches reach 2.2×10^-48 cm² sensitivity—just one order of magnitude from the neutrino floor that will either reveal dark matter or redirect physics toward axions.
Cover Letter Lessons from High-Impact Journal Submissions
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Modern academic publishing has shifted toward more egalitarian, merit-focused evaluation. Cover letter tone and broad appeal matter more than author credentials or publication history when targeting high-impact journals.
The quiet decline of recombination X-ray lasers
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While X-ray laser research thrives globally, plasma-based recombination schemes that showed promise in the 1990s have quietly faded from mainstream science.
Is the DAMPE 1.4 TeV peak real?
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CALET contradicts DAMPE’s 2017 claim of a 1.4 TeV peak in cosmic-ray electrons at greater than 4-sigma significance—an intriguing discrepancy that warrants further investigation with additional data.