Publications by authors named "W T Hofmann"
Background: This study investigated whether a sound intervention tuned to 432 Hz (Hz) yields differential effects on cardiovascular parameters and psychological outcomes compared to 443 Hz, which is the concert pitch in German professional orchestras.
Methods: Using a randomized cross-over design, patients with cancer were recruited to receive both a 15-minute sound intervention with a body monochord tuned to 432-443 Hz. Before (pre) and after (post) intervention, cardiovascular parameters were measured using the VascAssist2.
Owing to their rapid cooling rate and hence loss-limited propagation distance, cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CRe) at very high energies probe local cosmic-ray accelerators and provide constraints on exotic production mechanisms such as annihilation of dark matter particles. We present a high-statistics measurement of the spectrum of CRe candidate events from 0.3 to 40 TeV with the High Energy Stereoscopic System, covering 2 orders of magnitude in energy and reaching a proton rejection power of better than 10^{4}.
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- Scientists did a big survey with over 59,000 people from 63 countries to understand how people think about climate change!
- They tested different ways to encourage people to believe in climate change and support actions to help the environment!
- The study includes lots of information and data that can help others learn more about what influences people's actions on climate change around the world!
Searches for new physics below twice the electron mass with GERDA.
Eur Phys J C Part Fields
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- A search for dark matter candidates in the mass range of 65 to 1021 keV was conducted using data from the GERDA experiment, focusing on energy depositions without detecting any significant signals above background noise.
- The study established stringent exclusion limits on dark photon and axion-like particle interactions with electrons, with specific constraints noted at a 150 keV mass level.
- Additional investigations into the decay rates of nucleons and electrons yielded lower lifetime limits for neutron, proton, and electron decay events at a 90% confidence interval.