Extreme Nuclear Matter Study Using Leptons

Viewpoint: Extreme X Rays Probe Extreme Matter

Extreme X Rays Probe Extreme Matter

It takes a strong electric field to ionize atoms or ions in the creation of plasmas. These fields can be generated in lightning bolts (electric discharges), neon light bulbs, at the focus of a laser, and in the path of particle beams. It is perhaps less obvious that plasma itself can also have sufficiently strong fields within it to further ionize ions, since one might expect equal amounts of p...

Propagating leptons through matter with Muon Monte Carlo (MMC)

An accurate simulation of the propagation of muons through matter is needed for the analysis of data produced by muon/neutrino underground experiments. A muon may sustain hundreds of interactions before it is detected by the experiment. Since a small systematic uncertainty repeated hundreds of times may lead to sizable errors, requirements on the precision of the muon propagation code are very ...

Extreme Dark Matter Dominated Dwarfs

The results of a large radial velocity survey of the Draco and Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxies are presented. The velocity dispersion profiles of both objects are very similar: initially the dispersion increases with radius, while at radii approaching the outer limit of the stellar distribution we observe a sharp fall-off. We present the results of mass modeling based on these new data the...

Explaining the Mass of Leptons with Wave Structure Matter

This paper details an equation that identifies the sequence and calculation for the mass of the six leptons in the Standard Model. Surprisingly, when identifying the sequence, the magic numbers that were found in the Periodic Table of Elements for the atomic structure are also apparent in the sequence for leptons. As a result, a new table structure for lepton categorization in the Standard Mode...