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The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce that it will begin sponsoring Astrobites, a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. This mutually beneficial collaboration aims to enhance the dissemination of research, educational resources, and career insights in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.

A new Collection by the Physical Review journals celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—the theoretical basis for the strong force of nature that binds quarks and gluons into hadrons.

To mark the 243rd American Astronomical Society meeting, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, and Physical Review D highlighted several significant papers in astrophysics to illustrate the type of research these journals seek to publish.

With the goal of broadening its coverage of astrophysics, PRD hired astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as an Associate Editor and appointed three experts in astrophysics to its Editorial Board.

Some ultralight black holes that formed soon after the big bang might have been exotic objects with a net “color charge” that left potentially observable signatures.

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Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David I. Kaiser
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231402 (2024)

The Belle II Collaboration finds the first evidence for the rare decay $B^{+}\to K^{+}\nu \overline{\nu }$. Interestingly, the measured branching fraction is about 2.7 sigma larger than the standard model expectation.

A new measurement of the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ cross section from the CMD-3 experiment points to a larger hadronic contribution to muon $g-2$ than previous such measurements, which, if confirmed, would ease the tension between theory and experiment for that magnetic moment.

F. V. Ignatov et al. (CMD-3 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 109, 112002 (2024)

The CMS collaboration measured cross sections of associated Higgs boson production followed by the Higgs boson’s decay in the bottom-antibottom channel. Combining measurements where the associated vector boson was a $Z$ or a $W$, they find that the measured interaction strength agrees with the standard model prediction to within one sigma within an error of about 20%.

Spacetime wrinkles known as cosmic strings, which might have formed in the early Universe, could be a dominant source of gravitational waves at ultrahigh frequencies, according to new calculations.

Spacetime wrinkles known as cosmic strings, which might have formed in the early Universe, could be a dominant source of gravitational waves at ultrahigh frequencies, according to new calculations.

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Géraldine Servant and Peera Simakachorn
Phys. Rev. D 109, 103538 (2024)

An experiment at CERN seeks signs of dark matter by looking for missing energy and momentum in the debris of particle collisions.

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Yu. M. Andreev et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211803 (2024)

APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2024 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.

From nature’s tiniest particles to waves that traverse the Universe—physicists remember resounding finds from the last half-century.

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