in the Eberly College of Science

AMO

Quantum degenerate gases, laser-cooled atomic clocks, optical lattices, etc.

Biological Physics

Interactions across scales from intracellular signalling to ecosystems.

Condensed Matter

Quantum coherent ground states, spintronics, magnetism, materials physics, and nanoscience.

Gravitational Physics

Quantum gravity and general relativity.

Particle Astrophysics

Ultrahigh energy cosmic-rays, cosmological neutrinos, cosmic antimatter, etc.
In the past  years
M. Ackermann, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Search for ultra high-energy neutrinos with AMANDA-II," Astrophys. J. 675, 1014 – 1040 (2008)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "The search for muon neutrinos from Northern Hemisphere gamma ray bursts with the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array," Astrophys. J. 674, 357 – 370 (2008)
D. F. Cowen (for the ICECUBE Collaboration), "Tau neutrinos in IceCube," J. Phys. Conf. Ser 60, 227 – 230 (2008)
T. DeYoung, S. Razzaque and D. F. Cowen, "Astrophysical tau neutrino detection in kilometer-scale Cherenkov detectors via muonic tau decay," Astropart. Phys. 27, 238 – 243 (2007)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Search for neutrino-induced cascades from gamma-ray bursts with AMANDA," Astrophys. J. 664, 397 – 410 (2007)
F. Herrmann, I. Hinder, D. Shoemaker, P. Laguna and R. A. Matzner, "Gravitational Recoil from Spinning Binary Black Hole Mergers," Astrophys. J. 661, 430 – 436 (2007)
F. Herrmann, D. Shoemaker, P. Laguna and I. Hinder, "Unequal-Mass Binary Black Hole Plunges and Gravitational Recoil," Class. Quantum Gravity 24, S33 – S42 (2007)
J. J. Beatty, et al. (ANITA Collaboration), "Results from the ANITA experiment," Mod. Phys. Lett. A 22, 2237 – 2246 (2007)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Multiyear search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II," Phys. Rev. D 76, 042008 (2007)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string detector," Phys. Rev. D 76, 027101 (2007)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope," Phys. Rev. D 75, 102001 (2007)
M. Ackermann, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes," Astropart. Phys. 26, 282 – 300 (2006)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "First year performance of the IceCube neutrino telescope," Astropart. Phys. 26, 155 – 230 (2006)
A. Achterberg, et al. (AMANDA Collaboration), "Limits on the muon flux from neutralino annihilations at the center of the Earth with AMANDA," Astropart. Phys. 26, 129 – 139 (2006)
M. Ackermann, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Limits to the muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA detector," Astropart. Phys. 24, 459 – 466 (2006)
C. Sopuerta, N. Yunes and P. Laguna, "Gravitational recoil velocities from eccentric binary black hole mergers," Astrophys. J. Lett. 656, L9 – L12 (2006) Abstract/Comments
B. J. Owen, "Detectability of periodic gravitational waves by intial interferometers," Class. Quantum Gravity 23, S1 – S7 (2006)
M. Ackermann, et al. (AMANDA Collaboration), "Optical properties of deep glacial ice at the South Pole," J. Geophys. Res. 111, D13203 (2006)
M. Ackermann, et al. (AMANDA Collaboration), "The IceCube prototype string in Amanda," Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 556, 169 – 181 (2006)
C. Sopuerta, N. Yunes and P. Laguna, "Gravitational Recoil from Binary Black Hole Mergers:the Close-Limit Approximation," Phys. Rev. D 74, 124010 (2006) Abstract/Comments
N. Yunes, W. Tichy, B. J. Owen and B. Brügmann, "Binary black hole initial data from matched asymptotic expansions," Phys. Rev. D 74, 104011 (2006) Abstract/Comments
M. Nayyar and B. J. Owen, "R-modes of accreting neutron stars as persistent sources of gravitational waves," Phys. Rev. D 73, 084001 (2006)
B. D. Lackey, M. Nayyar and B. J. Owen, "Observational constraints on hyperons in neutron stars," Phys. Rev. D 73, 024021 (2006)
B. Aharmim, et al. (SNO Collaboration), "Measurement of the electron neutrino and total Boron-8 Solar Neutrino Fluxes with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Phase I Dataset," to appear in Phys. Rev. D, (2006)
A. Achterberg, et al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), "Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of December 27th, 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221101 (2006)
S. Barwick, et al. (ANITA Collaboration), "Constraints on Cosmic Neutrino Fluxes from the ANITA Experiment," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171101 (2006)
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