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Alexey Petrov
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Theoretical particle physicist, University professor, book author, and sometimes blogger. Now a Department Chair at USC!
New paper! This is a review article prepared for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. 🧪

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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New paper! Together with Arnau Bas i Beneito and Svjetlana Fajfer we study baryon number violating mixing of a Lambda baryon with its antiparticle. We show that indirect constraints on Lambda-antiLambda oscillations preclude its observation at colliders. 🧪

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November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Next week is the Nobel week! Let’s speculate on who might get the Physics prize this year?

My pick: Aharonov and Berry
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October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A cool car that I saw in Germany. You can park everywhere - and if there is no parking spot available, you just put it in your backpack!
September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Our two brand new Technology-Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) labs are (almost) ready to welcome new students next week! We use them to teach Studio Physics at the University of South Carolina 🧪
August 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The 8-point vision from the Elementary Particle Physics review panel from the National Academies: muon collider and FCC 🧪
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And we are off! Portoroz 2025 is starting 🧪
April 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A great crowd for our first Astronomy on Tap at Bierkeller Columbia! Thank you for joining us! Let’s do it again! 🧪

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April 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Some say that one should not read the papers when cleaning your room. If I did not, I would have thrown out that paper that the great John Bahcall sent to me back in 2000 when I was a postdoc at Cornell… 🧪
April 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Congratulations to my colleagues on ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb experiments on their 2025 Breakthrough Prize! 🧪
April 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Join us at Bierkeller Columbia on April 16th at 6:30 pm for the first Astronomy on Tap in Columbia, SC! We’ll have two talks, trivia, and prizes! Brought to you by USC and Bierkeller! #astronomyontap #AstroOnTap 🧪
March 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
What do you do in the mornings? Do you think it’s a prerequisite for Physics 101? 🧪
March 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ok, the tusks are still missing… 🧪
March 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Only in Japan: disposable individual drip coffee system.
March 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It is literally set in stone! 🧪
March 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It is snowing in Tsukuba (KEK Lab)…
March 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Muons are clearly green :-)
February 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My new friend Speedy. Can you estimate his speed? 🧪
February 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Age yourself with your first computer
February 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
XB-1 went supersonic today. This is an important step towards the return to civilian supersonic travel!
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Gene Golowich died… a great phenomenologist, a co-author of the monumental “Dynamics of the Standard Model” textbook, one third of the “DGH group” at UMass, my collaborator, and a friend.
January 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
SEA - ATL - CAE
Goodbye, Seattle! See you next time!
January 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Good morning from Seattle!
January 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It started snowing - in South Carolina! The University of South Carolina will be closing today at noon.
January 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New paper! Together with my postdoc Girish Kumar and my graduate student Sudheer Muhammad (first paper!) we look at the effects of the finite widths of the final state particles on the analyses of non-leptonic D meson decays. We welcome your comments!

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January 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM