- Office:
- PAB 418
- Office Hours:
- TBA
- Email:
- j.scholtz at u.washington.edu
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- Teaching
- Fall 2011: Honors 220
- Spring 2012: ---
- Research
- Dark Matter seems to pop out of two independent large scale gravitational processes: CMB structure formation, seeded in the early Universe, and Galaxy rotation curves, observed nowadays. Although there are other potential explanations for the galaxy rotation curves (MOND), no theory seems to get the CMB structure right apart from inflation with dark matter present. We have published an idea which describes a possible exotic candidate for dark matter which consist of a heavy partner to the photon and explore in this paper all the possible consequences.
Papers: hep-ph/1105.2812
- Flavor Physics poses a problem even more peculiar than dark matter. We do not understand (I do not understand) why fermions come in three generations, why it happens to both leptons and quarks (there is no known symmetry to ensure that). On top of that electromagnetism and strong force are flavor (generation) blind, whereas weak force breaks this symmetry. Moreover, in the quark sector the observed mixing angles are small, whereas the neutrino sector is quite strongly mixed.
- Physics Links
- arxiv.org - where people publish
- Inspire - where you can find published papers faster
- Ann Nelson's webpage - my advisor's webpage
- UW Physics Department
- TASI - a great summer school (almost) everyone should go to
- I, Librarian - how to keep your reading organized
- Resonaances - a great blog to learn about the latest rumours
- Web Plot Digitizer - a great way to extract data out of a graph
- The ATLAS CSC note - not much more to say here.
- Interests - Things close to my heart
- UW Kayak Club
- League of Women Voters of Washington
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