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Ranny Budnik
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Searching for Dark Matter at the Weizmann Institute
The world is generally going insane, something else:
We are having a workshop and a graduate school here at Weizmann in May - Light and Ultralight BSM.
Short notice. If you're interested (workshop or as school) - ping me - there's funding for travel etc.!
conferences.weizmann.ac.il/SRitp/May2025/
SRitp Advanced School: LULBI - Light & ultralight BSM interactions | SRitp Advanced School May 2025
conferences.weizmann.ac.il
March 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Igal Talmi, a pioneer in nuclear physics, who did his PhD with Pauli and founded physics at Weizmann.
I had the pleasure of living in the same building with him and his wife Chana, wonderful people. He still works on his physics, with a pencil and paper!
January 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Come work with us (and me!) on dark matter detection!
See details for the job, postdoc (also PhD is a possibility, talk to me):

inspirehep.net/jobs/2866521
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
January 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
So now I'm waiting for the first physicist to write a model for the collapse of the Syrian regime as a lasing process, with population inversion that had a coherent de-excitation through the country.
December 8, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) Developing a detector for light dark matter using defects in pure crystals
2) What kind of quantum sensor can detect the CνB
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) quantum sensing and quantum computing for astroparticle / neutrino physics
2) dynamical origin of the cosmological constant
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1. Looking for/at strong gravitational lenses and submm galaxies with Euclid+LSST
2. Can life exist inside a neutron star?
🔭🧪
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM
So..., I joined a couple of days ago, and already, this place is shaping up!
Now, is there an actual physics, particle, or DM feed? too few people, few experiments, could not find discussions.

X was so toxic I got used to not saying a word. Maybe that would change here.
November 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Ranny Budnik
Detectors sited underneath miles of rock are now so sensitive that they are recording the tiny recoils imparted by solar neutrinos. This unavoidable background or "fog" could frustrate the detectors' ability to discover dark matter.
First Glimpses of the Neutrino Fog
Two dark matter searches report that their detectors have likely recorded neutrinos coming from the Sun—spotting the “neutrino fog” that could imperil future dark matter searches.
physics.aps.org
November 8, 2024 at 1:23 PM