Abstract: KamLAND is a one-kiloton liquid scintillator-based neutrino detector and is one of the recipients of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for its 2002 investigation of neutrino oscillations. KamLAND-Zen is the current phase of KamLAND, and it is …

Brian Fujikawa (LBNL) "New Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Results from KamLAND-Zen" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Wojtak, Hansen and Hjorth and others have measured the long-predicted gravitational redshift of light escaping from galaxy clusters using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. The effect is very small, corresponding to a velocity shift of only ~10 km/s in …

Nick Kaiser (Hawaii) "The Physics of Gravitational Redshifts in Clusters of Galaxies" Read More »