Astrophiz Podcasts

Astrophiz 88: Cate MacQueen – The Dark Photon + ‘What’s Up Doc’ with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave Listen: Today we are speaking with experimental particle physicist Cate MacQueen, who conducts analyses searching for dark matter at particle accelerators. Cate is currently based at The University of Melbourne and is part of the Dark Sector Physics team who are using the Belle II detector, which is attached to the SuperKEKB accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan. In ‘What’s Up Doc’ Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells observers and astrophotographers what to look for in the skies for the next two weeks and in ‘Ian’s tangent’ he tells us about comets captured crashing into Jupiter. In the News ,1. This latest report is assembled from a Nature article 2 days ago and a 9 August ArXiv preprint from Anderson et al available at tinyurlDOTcom/frbrepeaters Astronomers closer to cracking mystery of fast radio bursts Canadian CHIME radio telescope finds another eight repeating blasts These findings mean that there are now en