Marius Kongsore
@mariuskongsore.com
Theoretical particle physicist at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Big Axions
We introduce big axions: axion models in which a Nambu-Goldstone mode emerges from the collective spontaneous breaking of a network of U(1) symmetries delocalized in theory space. Big axions naturally...
arxiv.org
Very excited to share a new paper, Big Axions, written with my wonderful collaborators Hannah Banks and @nealweiner.bsky.social!
These models have extremely rich theory space structure, give high-quality QCD axion candidates, and open up fascinating cosmology!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.05276
These models have extremely rich theory space structure, give high-quality QCD axion candidates, and open up fascinating cosmology!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.05276
It’s remarkable how many new questions keep emerging from QFT problems that people were calling classic decades ago.
October 12, 2026 at 3:49 AM
It’s remarkable how many new questions keep emerging from QFT problems that people were calling classic decades ago.
A tragic but predictable development. In addition to the sheer volume of papers, a lack of AI disclosure continues to be a huge problem.
arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters.
This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors.
Please read our announcement to learn more: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/
This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors.
Please read our announcement to learn more: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/
October 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM
A tragic but predictable development. In addition to the sheer volume of papers, a lack of AI disclosure continues to be a huge problem.
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An interesting result out today from LZ. Definitely not a standard wimp, but maybe an inelastic scattering or momentum dependent scattering? (1/n) www.sciencenews.org/article/dark...
Have scientists glimpsed the first dark matter particle?
Shadowy dark matter has eluded scientists for decades. The LZ experiment may have spotted one particle, called a WIMP, but more data is needed to check.
www.sciencenews.org
September 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
An interesting result out today from LZ. Definitely not a standard wimp, but maybe an inelastic scattering or momentum dependent scattering? (1/n) www.sciencenews.org/article/dark...
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Today is the final day you can leave a public comment on the OMB proposal that will destroy American science as we know it. Leave your comment at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/1M9hH
and register for our OMB Deadline Day meeting today at the link in our bio!
Article: zurl.co/3LQxi
and register for our OMB Deadline Day meeting today at the link in our bio!
Article: zurl.co/3LQxi
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
zurl.co
July 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Today is the final day you can leave a public comment on the OMB proposal that will destroy American science as we know it. Leave your comment at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/1M9hH
and register for our OMB Deadline Day meeting today at the link in our bio!
Article: zurl.co/3LQxi
and register for our OMB Deadline Day meeting today at the link in our bio!
Article: zurl.co/3LQxi
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I'm sad to report that Mark Wise, theoretical physicist at Caltech, has passed away. He was my friend and collaborator, a giant of theoretical physics, and just one of my favorite people. RIP.
www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...
www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...
Mark B. Wise
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Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
www.pma.caltech.edu
July 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I'm sad to report that Mark Wise, theoretical physicist at Caltech, has passed away. He was my friend and collaborator, a giant of theoretical physics, and just one of my favorite people. RIP.
www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...
www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...
Fireworks: because sometimes patriotism means exciting atomic and molecular transitions in public 🎆
July 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Fireworks: because sometimes patriotism means exciting atomic and molecular transitions in public 🎆
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So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
June 29, 2026 at 11:35 AM
So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
Very excited to share a new paper, Big Axions, written with my wonderful collaborators Hannah Banks and @nealweiner.bsky.social!
These models have extremely rich theory space structure, give high-quality QCD axion candidates, and open up fascinating cosmology!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.05276
These models have extremely rich theory space structure, give high-quality QCD axion candidates, and open up fascinating cosmology!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.05276
Big Axions
We introduce big axions: axion models in which a Nambu-Goldstone mode emerges from the collective spontaneous breaking of a network of U(1) symmetries delocalized in theory space. Big axions naturally...
arxiv.org
June 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Very excited to share a new paper, Big Axions, written with my wonderful collaborators Hannah Banks and @nealweiner.bsky.social!
These models have extremely rich theory space structure, give high-quality QCD axion candidates, and open up fascinating cosmology!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.05276
These models have extremely rich theory space structure, give high-quality QCD axion candidates, and open up fascinating cosmology!
arxiv.org/abs/2606.05276
Preparing a new arXiv submission this week has made me notice how uneven AI disclosure still is.
I think we should normalize simply saying when AI tools helped with coding, drafting, editing, cross-checks, literature search, etc. Transparency reduces stigma and lets readers judge the work fairly.
I think we should normalize simply saying when AI tools helped with coding, drafting, editing, cross-checks, literature search, etc. Transparency reduces stigma and lets readers judge the work fairly.
May 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Preparing a new arXiv submission this week has made me notice how uneven AI disclosure still is.
I think we should normalize simply saying when AI tools helped with coding, drafting, editing, cross-checks, literature search, etc. Transparency reduces stigma and lets readers judge the work fairly.
I think we should normalize simply saying when AI tools helped with coding, drafting, editing, cross-checks, literature search, etc. Transparency reduces stigma and lets readers judge the work fairly.
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Very thrilled to have received a New Horizons in Physics Prize: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/.... I hope this helps, in whatever small way it can, bring a spotlight on to the search for dark matter and more broadly the need for experiments and the funding to innovate, build, and operate them.
Breakthrough Prize – Fundamental Physics
Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Benjamin R. Safdi
breakthroughprize.org
April 20, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Very thrilled to have received a New Horizons in Physics Prize: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/.... I hope this helps, in whatever small way it can, bring a spotlight on to the search for dark matter and more broadly the need for experiments and the funding to innovate, build, and operate them.
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Exciting new results from the LZ experiment: new constraints on DM–nucleus scattering, a 4.5σ detection of the solar neutrino flux, and a measurement of the weak mixing angle. lz.lbl.gov
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Exciting new results from the LZ experiment: new constraints on DM–nucleus scattering, a 4.5σ detection of the solar neutrino flux, and a measurement of the weak mixing angle. lz.lbl.gov
I’m giving a public talk on magnetic monopoles at Book Club Bar in Manhattan’s East Village on January 20 at 8 pm. No physics background needed — it should be a lot of fun, and it’s guaranteed to attract a good crowd! 🧲
More info here: bookclubbar.com/events/39753...
More info here: bookclubbar.com/events/39753...
Cosmic Happy Hour: "Magnetic Monopoles" | Book Club Bar
Independent general bookstore and full service cocktail and espresso bar in the East Village of NYC, serving handcrafted drinks in a cozy community space.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m giving a public talk on magnetic monopoles at Book Club Bar in Manhattan’s East Village on January 20 at 8 pm. No physics background needed — it should be a lot of fun, and it’s guaranteed to attract a good crowd! 🧲
More info here: bookclubbar.com/events/39753...
More info here: bookclubbar.com/events/39753...
Finally got to check out the IBM quantum computer next to the Brachiosaurus at O'Hare. Thanks to @kylecranmer.bsky.social ky.social for the tip!
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Finally got to check out the IBM quantum computer next to the Brachiosaurus at O'Hare. Thanks to @kylecranmer.bsky.social ky.social for the tip!
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Is it the name of a cat or the name of a particle physics experiment?
forms.gle/f3mGxKjt6jAe...
forms.gle/f3mGxKjt6jAe...
Cat or Particle Physics Experiment
Do you know whether it's the name of the cat shown or of a particle physics experiment?
Quiz made by William Barter, using cat photos provided by colleagues in the University of Edinburgh PPE group.
forms.gle
July 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Is it the name of a cat or the name of a particle physics experiment?
forms.gle/f3mGxKjt6jAe...
forms.gle/f3mGxKjt6jAe...
‼️ Stack Overflow and Physics Stack Exchange are in steep decline — largely due to the rise of LLMs. I plotted out the data 📉 #LLMs #Physics #StackExchange #StackOverflow
July 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
‼️ Stack Overflow and Physics Stack Exchange are in steep decline — largely due to the rise of LLMs. I plotted out the data 📉 #LLMs #Physics #StackExchange #StackOverflow
📄 New paper out!
"Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons" w/ Isabel Garcia Garcia and Ken Van Tilburg
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.14867
"Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons" w/ Isabel Garcia Garcia and Ken Van Tilburg
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.14867
Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons
We construct Abelian gauge field configurations that carry non-zero instanton number. Each such "Abelian instanton" is generated by a closed magnetic worldline in four-dimensional Euclidean space, pro...
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
📄 New paper out!
"Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons" w/ Isabel Garcia Garcia and Ken Van Tilburg
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.14867
"Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons" w/ Isabel Garcia Garcia and Ken Van Tilburg
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.14867
This was a lot of fun!
Generalized symmetries in QFT and axions with Marius Kongsore @nyuphysics.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This was a lot of fun!
It was great watching the SPHEREx launch from @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social! It's not every day you get to see an instrument relevant to your own science get blasted into space.
March 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It was great watching the SPHEREx launch from @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social! It's not every day you get to see an instrument relevant to your own science get blasted into space.
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Took a while to go through this material. Highly recommend reading even just his papers with 1000+ citations. A phenomenal legacy.
On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️
On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️
February 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Took a while to go through this material. Highly recommend reading even just his papers with 1000+ citations. A phenomenal legacy.
On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️
On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️
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The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
January 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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2024 was yet another exhausting year keeping track of updates on our quest to find the axions. I have been trying my best to collect the exponentially growing literature on my GitHub AxionLimits: github.com/cajohare/Axi...
January 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
2024 was yet another exhausting year keeping track of updates on our quest to find the axions. I have been trying my best to collect the exponentially growing literature on my GitHub AxionLimits: github.com/cajohare/Axi...
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The Simons Foundation, which funds Quanta as an editorially independent magazine, created this video to honor the life of mathematician, investor and philanthropist Jim Simons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvjG...
Jim Simons: Life and Philanthropy
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Simons Foundation, which funds Quanta as an editorially independent magazine, created this video to honor the life of mathematician, investor and philanthropist Jim Simons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvjG...
Endowed my gingerbread houses with a softly broken Z2 symmetry this year. Happy holidays!
December 23, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Endowed my gingerbread houses with a softly broken Z2 symmetry this year. Happy holidays!
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Chris Dessert @nyuphysics.bsky.social bringing us the thermal axion background in the axiverse
December 2, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Chris Dessert @nyuphysics.bsky.social bringing us the thermal axion background in the axiverse