David Curtin
@drc83.bsky.social
Theoretical particle physics professor at the University of Toronto. Likes to keep things Natural. Dark matter and Astrophysics enjoyer. Sci-fi and scrabble fan. Proud dad. German/Australian in North America. He/him.
(1/2) The MATHUSLA CDR is out, after years of work by dozens of brilliant people, as well as a few redesigns in response to the shifting sands of the funding landscape. This groundbreaking 40m detector proposal for the HL-LHC will robustly maximize the discovery potential of our most energetic...
Conceptual Design Report for the MATHUSLA Long-Lived Particle Detector near CMS
We present the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle detector at the HL-LHC, covering the design, fabricatio...
arxiv.org
March 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
(1/2) The MATHUSLA CDR is out, after years of work by dozens of brilliant people, as well as a few redesigns in response to the shifting sands of the funding landscape. This groundbreaking 40m detector proposal for the HL-LHC will robustly maximize the discovery potential of our most energetic...
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25-year-old rando pushing code into production systems for incredibly sensitive, mission-critical Treasury payments to set up potentially illegal blocking of payments Musk doesn't like
February 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
25-year-old rando pushing code into production systems for incredibly sensitive, mission-critical Treasury payments to set up potentially illegal blocking of payments Musk doesn't like
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
um... hi my dear American friends..... the news coming from down south is truly head-spinning. how will this be affecting you? I imagine LGBTQ2S+ folks are obviously having a hard time, but it seems that all of my scientist friends and anyone relying on federal grants will be severely compromised?
January 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
um... hi my dear American friends..... the news coming from down south is truly head-spinning. how will this be affecting you? I imagine LGBTQ2S+ folks are obviously having a hard time, but it seems that all of my scientist friends and anyone relying on federal grants will be severely compromised?
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Applying for my partner's french visa for upcoming CERN sabbatical. Calling French consulate in Montreal: 'pour un service en français, compose le un 1. pour un service en anglais, compose les deux'. Press 2. <Line dead>. Thank you Montreal :D
January 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Applying for my partner's french visa for upcoming CERN sabbatical. Calling French consulate in Montreal: 'pour un service en français, compose le un 1. pour un service en anglais, compose les deux'. Press 2. <Line dead>. Thank you Montreal :D
My grad student Micah Mellors just finished his first paper, together with awesome collaborators Claudia Cornella and Gordan Krnjaic, on probing the leptonic Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism in generality using flavor-violating probes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00629
Testing the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism with Lepton Violation
The Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) mechanism offers an elegant explanation for the observed masses and mixings of Standard Model fermions. In this work, we systematically study FN models in the lepton sector, ...
arxiv.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My grad student Micah Mellors just finished his first paper, together with awesome collaborators Claudia Cornella and Gordan Krnjaic, on probing the leptonic Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism in generality using flavor-violating probes. arxiv.org/abs/2501.00629
Elon Musk’s editorial in the German newspaper ‘Welt am Sonntag’ officially, undeniably and openly makes him a self-professed neo-nazi supporter. The fact that this exact description isn’t headlines all over the US makes obvious how impotent the American press apparatus is. Get fucked you Nazi fuck.
December 31, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Elon Musk’s editorial in the German newspaper ‘Welt am Sonntag’ officially, undeniably and openly makes him a self-professed neo-nazi supporter. The fact that this exact description isn’t headlines all over the US makes obvious how impotent the American press apparatus is. Get fucked you Nazi fuck.
G’day everyone. Super intrigued by what’s happening here after basically swearing off social media (especially X-twitter) years ago. This kinda feels like the good old days of the social internet, despite the fact that we clearly live in the bad timeline. Nice to see so many physics friends here. ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 4:53 AM
G’day everyone. Super intrigued by what’s happening here after basically swearing off social media (especially X-twitter) years ago. This kinda feels like the good old days of the social internet, despite the fact that we clearly live in the bad timeline. Nice to see so many physics friends here. ❤️