Adrian Thompson
@gooble-gabble.bsky.social
Theoretical Particle Physics Postdoc
(Dark matter, neutrinos, and black holes)
Prog metal enjoyer hymnoptera.bandcamp.com
https://athompson-git.github.io/
(Dark matter, neutrinos, and black holes)
Prog metal enjoyer hymnoptera.bandcamp.com
https://athompson-git.github.io/
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[W190] Adrian Thompson: The Terrestrial Neutrino Lighthouse
YouTube video by lawphysics
www.youtube.com
I will give a talk on #neutrinos from a #muoncollider and electroweak precision on Lawphysics this morning:
www.youtube.com/live/_fd6w7o...
🧪⚛️
www.youtube.com/live/_fd6w7o...
🧪⚛️
Google scholar has a PDF reader with some nice features - in-browser text highlighting was just added, and it has a dark mode
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Google scholar has a PDF reader with some nice features - in-browser text highlighting was just added, and it has a dark mode
What I watch on a Friday night instead of Netflix www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG0i...
100 million particle moose dropped on a right-angled wedge
YouTube video by Alexander Gustafsson
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
What I watch on a Friday night instead of Netflix www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG0i...
Reposted by Adrian Thompson
It’s a great moment to celebrate milestones at CFS — in more ways than one. Today we announced we’re done manufacturing one of our key magnets and putting it through a rigorous, month-long battery of performance tests — which it passed. 1/4
#PowerMoves
#PowerMoves
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s a great moment to celebrate milestones at CFS — in more ways than one. Today we announced we’re done manufacturing one of our key magnets and putting it through a rigorous, month-long battery of performance tests — which it passed. 1/4
#PowerMoves
#PowerMoves
TIL if dealing with
(huge_number - huge_number2)
which can lead to machine precision noise in python computing, while mpmath can help a lot, sometimes just doing
(huge_number.astype('float64') - huge_number2.astype('float64'))
does the job more elegantly!
(huge_number - huge_number2)
which can lead to machine precision noise in python computing, while mpmath can help a lot, sometimes just doing
(huge_number.astype('float64') - huge_number2.astype('float64'))
does the job more elegantly!
September 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
TIL if dealing with
(huge_number - huge_number2)
which can lead to machine precision noise in python computing, while mpmath can help a lot, sometimes just doing
(huge_number.astype('float64') - huge_number2.astype('float64'))
does the job more elegantly!
(huge_number - huge_number2)
which can lead to machine precision noise in python computing, while mpmath can help a lot, sometimes just doing
(huge_number.astype('float64') - huge_number2.astype('float64'))
does the job more elegantly!
listening to a banger open.spotify.com/track/49fTxU...
Absolomb
open.spotify.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
listening to a banger open.spotify.com/track/49fTxU...
After >2 years, it's finally out!
Finding BSM Needles in Electromagnetic Haystacks at DUNE
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21228
Vedran Brdar, Bhaskar Dutta, Wooyoung Jang, Doojin Kim, Ian M. Shoemaker, Zahra Tabrizi, Adrian Thompson, Jaehoon Yu.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21228
Vedran Brdar, Bhaskar Dutta, Wooyoung Jang, Doojin Kim, Ian M. Shoemaker, Zahra Tabrizi, Adrian Thompson, Jaehoon Yu.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21228
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
After >2 years, it's finally out!
Coffee and paper review
July 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Coffee and paper review
Toying around with some iNSPIRE API - trying to make a bubblemap of activity by subfield (counting papers with keyword in title by institution over the past 15 years)
July 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Toying around with some iNSPIRE API - trying to make a bubblemap of activity by subfield (counting papers with keyword in title by institution over the past 15 years)
Cool ocean science work on "biofouling" for the Pacific One Neutrino Experiment :) 🧪⚛️
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09086
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09086
July 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Cool ocean science work on "biofouling" for the Pacific One Neutrino Experiment :) 🧪⚛️
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09086
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09086
Do metrics matter?
Some interesting statistics on faculty hires in hep-ph/th in the past two years, sourced from the rumor mill and inSPIRE data. For instance, there is a clear bias in offers to higher h-index ~ 15
Some interesting statistics on faculty hires in hep-ph/th in the past two years, sourced from the rumor mill and inSPIRE data. For instance, there is a clear bias in offers to higher h-index ~ 15
July 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Do metrics matter?
Some interesting statistics on faculty hires in hep-ph/th in the past two years, sourced from the rumor mill and inSPIRE data. For instance, there is a clear bias in offers to higher h-index ~ 15
Some interesting statistics on faculty hires in hep-ph/th in the past two years, sourced from the rumor mill and inSPIRE data. For instance, there is a clear bias in offers to higher h-index ~ 15
I will give a talk on #neutrinos from a #muoncollider and electroweak precision on Lawphysics this morning:
www.youtube.com/live/_fd6w7o...
🧪⚛️
www.youtube.com/live/_fd6w7o...
🧪⚛️
[W190] Adrian Thompson: The Terrestrial Neutrino Lighthouse
YouTube video by lawphysics
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I will give a talk on #neutrinos from a #muoncollider and electroweak precision on Lawphysics this morning:
www.youtube.com/live/_fd6w7o...
🧪⚛️
www.youtube.com/live/_fd6w7o...
🧪⚛️
Fun paper I noticed last night by Chris Cappiello and Tansu Daylan :D
Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24070
Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24070
June 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Fun paper I noticed last night by Chris Cappiello and Tansu Daylan :D
Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24070
Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24070
Nice collection of historical landmarks in Quantum theory from APS: promo.aps.org/quantum-foun...
The Quantum Foundation Collection
promo.aps.org
May 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Nice collection of historical landmarks in Quantum theory from APS: promo.aps.org/quantum-foun...
While I'm happy to have a paper out tonight myself, I can't *not* read this one, excited to learn that the author is likely a skateboarder:
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00099
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00099
May 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
While I'm happy to have a paper out tonight myself, I can't *not* read this one, excited to learn that the author is likely a skateboarder:
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00099
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00099
I just learned that our "big toes" in Hindi are expressed as the "foot's thumbs" (पैर का अंगूठा), amazing 😂
March 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I just learned that our "big toes" in Hindi are expressed as the "foot's thumbs" (पैर का अंगूठा), amazing 😂
LHCb paper on the first observation of CP violation in baryon decays, looks awesome!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16954
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16954
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LHCb paper on the first observation of CP violation in baryon decays, looks awesome!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16954
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16954
Nice paper on the possibility of LLP searches from fusion reactors: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12314
Searching for exotic scalars at fusion reactors
The energy created in deuterium-tritium fusion reactors originates from a high-intensity neutron flux interacting with the reactor's inner walls. The neutron flux can also be used to produce a self-su...
arxiv.org
February 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Nice paper on the possibility of LLP searches from fusion reactors: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12314
toying around with an idea:
athompson-git.github.io/experiments....
Keeping a searchable database of my table of past, current, and future experiments here, will be finishing it over the next few weeks. Might make it fancier if it's useful
athompson-git.github.io/experiments....
Keeping a searchable database of my table of past, current, and future experiments here, will be finishing it over the next few weeks. Might make it fancier if it's useful
February 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
toying around with an idea:
athompson-git.github.io/experiments....
Keeping a searchable database of my table of past, current, and future experiments here, will be finishing it over the next few weeks. Might make it fancier if it's useful
athompson-git.github.io/experiments....
Keeping a searchable database of my table of past, current, and future experiments here, will be finishing it over the next few weeks. Might make it fancier if it's useful
"Home has a different meaning for different people. For a select few graduate students, home was a building and a set of portakamps in the fixed-target area at Fermilab: Lab E."
I'm thankful for this little snippet of physics history still up on the CCFR page:
www.nevis.columbia.edu/ccfr/history...
I'm thankful for this little snippet of physics history still up on the CCFR page:
www.nevis.columbia.edu/ccfr/history...
www.nevis.columbia.edu
February 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Home has a different meaning for different people. For a select few graduate students, home was a building and a set of portakamps in the fixed-target area at Fermilab: Lab E."
I'm thankful for this little snippet of physics history still up on the CCFR page:
www.nevis.columbia.edu/ccfr/history...
I'm thankful for this little snippet of physics history still up on the CCFR page:
www.nevis.columbia.edu/ccfr/history...
I'm going through iNSPIRE's 2024 hep-ph papers, with 10 authors or less, sorted by citation count. It's somewhat elucidating - you can see where a lot of the action was this past year (a lot on the DESI results, for instance). It might be nice to have a year-in-review spotlight of some kind...
February 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I'm going through iNSPIRE's 2024 hep-ph papers, with 10 authors or less, sorted by citation count. It's somewhat elucidating - you can see where a lot of the action was this past year (a lot on the DESI results, for instance). It might be nice to have a year-in-review spotlight of some kind...
Throwback to a fun read:
"The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow patterns as an explanation of macrosmia"
Studied how the complex structure of dog nasal cavities create vortex flows of air that help odorant collection 🐶🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow patterns as an explanation of macrosmia"
Studied how the complex structure of dog nasal cavities create vortex flows of air that help odorant collection 🐶🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Throwback to a fun read:
"The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow patterns as an explanation of macrosmia"
Studied how the complex structure of dog nasal cavities create vortex flows of air that help odorant collection 🐶🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow patterns as an explanation of macrosmia"
Studied how the complex structure of dog nasal cavities create vortex flows of air that help odorant collection 🐶🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...