The paper by CMS collaboration (arxiv.org/abs/2503.20023) states on page 2: "Motivated by the phenomenological studies performed in Refs. [27, 28], three families of LQs are considered", where Ref 27 is a single-author paper of a young postdoc Nirmal Raj (journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/1…).

Today, I complete 15 years as a faculty member at #IISERPune. I have attempted to put together a list (based on my blogs) of some lessons that I have learnt so far. A disclaimer to note is that this list is by no means a comprehensive one, but a text of self-reflection from my

Since the last post connecting classical mechanics to QFT was fun, here's one connecting to Gravitational Waves: What does a ringing coin have in common with merging black holes? Both "chirp" -- their frequency speeds up! We can see this quite easily! Let's see how (1/n)

New paper! Dark matter can interact feebly with light. If so, underground detectors can catch even the smallest flux of dark particles passing through Earth. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24938