Arisaka's Physics Colloquium on Dark Matter

Katsushi Arisaka gave a Physics Colloquium at UCLA to review the status of dark matter researches. Presentation is available either as PDF or PPT files.

Higgs results updated with 7 sigma

Significance of Higgs particle has been up to 7 sigma now.
The Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2012 hosted by Kyoto University,
The new CMS results were reported.

Axion search by Liquid Xenon

Arisaka's group has studied a possibility of searching for axion and axion-like particles by liquid Xenon detectors such as XENON100 and XENON1T.

The paper has been submitted to Astroparticle Physcis Journal, and available at

http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3810

XENON100 announced the new results from 225 days data

The XENON100 collaboration submitted a paper with the new results of a 225 days to PRL, excluding previously unexplored parameter space and questioning the light WIMP interpretation of the DAMA and CoGeNT results.

The preprint can be found here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5988

Higgs Particle has been discovered by LHC!

Finally the Higgs Particle has been discovered by LHC!
Here is the Higgs -> two gamma decay, observed by CMS.
The paper is available here.

XENON100 announced the new results

The XENON100 collaboration submitted a paper with the first results of a 11.2 days background analysis to PRL, excluding previously unexplored parameter space and questioning the light WIMP interpretation of the DAMA and CoGeNT results.

The preprint can be found here:

arXiv:1005.0380.

These results are also covered in the media:
The New York Times
New Scientist
Nature Blog
Discover Magazine Blog
Scientific American

Wired - XENON100August 6, 2009: An article about the hunt for Dark Matter and XENON100 appeared in the UK version of the Wired magazine.