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About 400 years have passed since the great discoveries by Galilei, Kepler and Newton, but astronomy still remains an important source of discoveries in physics. They start with puzzles, with phenomena difficult to explain, and which in fact need for explanation the new physics. Are such puzzles existing now? There are at least three candidates: absence of absorption of TeV gamma radiation in extragalactic space (violation of Lorentz invariance?), absence of GZK cutoff in the spectrum of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (new particle physics?), tremendous energy (up to $10^{54}$ ergs) released in Gamma Ray Bursts during a time scale of a second (collapsing stars or sources of a new type?). Do these puzzles really exist? A critical review of these phenomena is given.
We review the history of space mission in Korea focusing on the field of astronomy and astrophysics. For each mission, scientific motivation and achievement are reviewed together with some technical details of the program including mission schedule. This review includes the ongoing and currently approved missions as well as some planned ones. Within the admitted limitations of authors perspectives, some comments on the future direction of space program for astronomy and astrophysics in Korea are made at the end of this review.
Specialized computational chemistry packages have permanently reshaped the landscape of chemical and materials science by providing tools to support and guide experimental efforts and for the prediction of atomistic and electronic properties. In this regard, electronic structure packages have played a special role by using first-principledriven methodologies to model complex chemical and materials processes. Over the last few decades, the rapid development of computing technologies and the tremendous increase in computational power have offered a unique chance to study complex transformations using sophisticated and predictive many-body techniques that describe correlated behavior of electrons in molecular and condensed phase systems at different levels of theory. In enabling these simulations, novel parallel algorithms have been able to take advantage of computational resources to address the polynomial scaling of electronic structure methods. In this paper, we briefly review the NWChem computational chemistry suite, including its history, design principles, parallel tools, current capabilities, outreach and outlook.
The PANDA detector at FAIR aims to conduct an antiproton-proton experiment with a very high rate capability. It is expected to feature high mass resolution, more than 20 times better than achieved at B-factories. PANDA is in a unique position to perform highly resolved mass scan, and to measure the width of very narrow charm and charmonium-like states, whose nature is still unknown, 12 years after their discovery. In this report, we present a method to determine the width of the $D_{s0}^*(2317)^+$. We discuss the future perspectives of PANDA, based on our present simulations, in relation with the recent measurements performed by LHCb and the performances in this field at the B factories.
Recent renewed interest in the mixed valent insulator SmB6 comes from topological theory predictions and surface transport measurements of possible in-gap surface states whose existence is most directly probed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Early photoemission leading up to a recent flurry of ARPES studies of in-gap states is reviewed. Conflicting interpretations about the nature of the Sm 4f-5d hybridization gap and observed X-point bands between the f-states and the Fermi level are critically assessed using the important tools of photon polarization and spatial dependence which also provide additional insight into the origin of the more ambiguous {Gamma}-point in-gap states.
Theoretical axion models state that axions are very weakly interacting particles. In order to experimentally detect them, the use of colorful and inspired techniques becomes mandatory. There is a wide variety of experimental approaches that were developed during the last 30 years, most of them make use of the Primakoff effect, by which axions convert into photons in the presence of an electromagnetic field. We review the experimental techniques used to search for axions and will give an outlook on experiments planned for the near future.