Glennys Farrar

Professor Of Physics; Collegiate Professor

Education

Ph.D. 1971, Princeton; B.A. 1968, California (Berkeley)

Areas of Research/Interest

Theoretical Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Selected Publications

Auger papers not included; [Google Scholar citations on 03/17/22 ]

  1. “Scaling Laws at Large Transverse Momentum”, S. J. Brodsky and G. R. Farrar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 31, 1153 (1973) [2335] and
    “Scaling Laws for Large Momentum Transfer Processes”, Phys. Rev. D 11, 1309 (1975). [1162]
  2. “Particle Ratios in Energetic Hadron Collisions”, J. D. Bjorken and G. R. Farrar, Phys. Rev. D 9, 1449 (1974). [142]
  3. “Pion and Nucleon Structure Functions Near x=1”, G. R. Farrar and D. R. Jackson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1416 (1975). [673]
  4. “Copious Direct Photon Production as a Possible Resolution of the Prompt Lepton Puz- zle”, G. R. Farrar and S. C. Frautschi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 1017 (1976). [135]
  5. “Phenomenology of the Production, Decay, and Detection of New Hadronic States Asso- ciated with Supersymmetry”, G. R. Farrar and P. Fayet, Phys. Lett. B 76, 575 (1978) [3181] and
    “Bounds on R-hadron production from calorimetry experiments”, Phys. Lett. B 79, 442 (1978) [159] and
    “Searching for the spin-0 leptons of supersymmetry”, Phys. Lett. B 89, 191 (1980) [133]
  6. “The Pion Form-Factor”, G. R. Farrar and D. R. Jackson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 246 (1979). [544]
  7. An alternative to perturbative grand unification: How asymptotically non-free theorues can successfully predict low-energy gauge couplings, N. Cabbibo and G. R. Farrar, Phys. Lett. B 110, 107 (1982) [62].
  8. Supersymmetry at ordinary energies. II. invariance, Goldstone bosons, and gauge-fermion masses, G. R. Farrar and S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. D 27, 2732 (1983) [151]
  9. “Transparency in Nuclear Quasiexclusive Processes with Large Momentum Transfer”, G. R. Farrar, H. Liu, L. L. Frankfurt and M. I. Strikman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 686 (1988). [312]
  10. Recursive stratified sampling for multidimensional Monte Carlo integration, W. H. Press and G. R. Farrar, Computers in Physics 4,202 (1990). [137]
  11. “Light gluinos”, G. R. Farrar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1029 (1984). [97] “Experiments to find or exclude a long lived, light gluino”, Phys. Rev. D 51, 3904 (1995) [153] and
    “Detecting gluino-containing hadrons”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4111 (1996). [191]
  12. “Determining the gluonic content of isoscalar mesons”, F. E. Close, G. R. Farrar and Z. p. Li, Phys. Rev. D 55, 5749 (1997) [271]
  13. “SUSY and the electroweak phase transition”, G. R. Farrar and M. Losada, Phys. Lett. B406, 60 (1997) [105]
  14. “Baryon asymmetry of the universe in the minimal Standard Model,” G. R. Farrar and M. E. Shaposhnikov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2833-2836 (1993) [370] and
    “Baryon asymmetry of the universe in the standard electroweak theory,” Phys. Rev. D 50, 774 (1994) [441]
  15. “Soft Yukawa couplings in supersymmetric theories”, F. Borzumati, G. R. Farrar, N. Polonsky and S Thomas, Nucl. Phys. B555,53 (1999). [232]
  16. “Self-interacting dark matter”, B .D. Wandelt, R. Dave, G. R. Farrar, D. N. Spergel and P. J. Stein- hardt, Sources and detection of dark matter and dark energy in the universe, pp 263-274 (2001). [143]
  17. “Interacting dark matter and dark energy”, G. R. Farrar and P. J. E. Peebles. Astrophys. J. 604, 1 (2004). [487]
  18. “The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: luminosity functions by density environment and galaxy type”, D. J. Croton, G. R. Farrar et al, MNRAS 356,1155 (2005) [324] and
    “Where do ‘red and dead’ early-type void galaxies come from?”, MNRAS 386, 2285 (2008).[62]
  19. “Window in the dark matter exclusion limits”, Phys. Rev. D 72, 083502 (2005) [90.]
  20. “Dark matter and the baryon asymmetry”, G. R. Farrar and G. Zaharijas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041302 (2006). [179]
  21. “A New Force in the Dark Sector?” G. R. Farrar and R. A. Rosen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 171302 (2007), [101]
    “The Speed of the bullet in the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56”, V. Springel and G. Farrar. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 380, 911 (2007); [240]
    “Constrained Simulation of the Bullet Cluster” C. Lage and G. R. Farrar, Astrophys. J., 787,14 (2014) [48] and
    “The Bullet Cluster is not a Cosmological Anomaly”, JCAP 2,38 (2015). [29]
  22. “Giant AGN flares and cosmic ray bursts”, G R Farrar and A. Gruzinov Astrophysical J. 693, 329 (2009). [168]
  23. “Optical discovery of probable stellar tidal disruption flares”, S. van Velzen, G. R. Farrar, et al., Astrophysical J. 741, 73 (2011) [317] and
    “Measurement of the rate of stellar tidal disruption flares,” S. van Velzen and G. R. Farrar, Astrophys. J. 792, 53 (2014) [125] and
    “A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino,” R. Stein, S. Van Velzen, M. Kowalski, ... G. Farrar et al., Nature Astron. 5, no.5, 510-518 (2021) [65].
  24. “A New Model of the Galactic Magnetic Field”, R. Jansson and G. R. Farrar, Astrophys. J., 757,144 (2012) [633] and
    “The Galactic Magnetic Field,” Astrophys. J. Lett. 761, L11 (2012) [580].
  25. “Origin of the ankle in the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray spectrum, and of the extragalactic protons below it”, M. Unger, G. R. Farrar, L. A. Anchordoqui Phys. Rev. D 92 , 123001 (2015) [136] and
    “Probing the environments surrounding ultrahigh energy cosmic ray accelerators and their implications for astrophysical neutrinos,” M. S. Muzio, G. R. Farrar and M. Unger, Phys. Rev. D 105, no.2, 023022 (2022).
  26. “Testing hadronic interactions at Ultrahigh Energies with Air Showers Measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory”, The Pierre Auger Collaboration, G. R. Farrar corresponding author, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117,192001 (2016). [223]
  27. “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger,”, B. P. Abbott et al. [LIGO Scientific, Virgo, Fermi GBM, INTEGRAL, IceCube, AstroSat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Im- ager Team, IPN, Insight-Hxmt, ANTARES, Swift, AGILE Team, 1M2H Team, Dark Energy Camera GW-EM, DES, DLT40, GRAWITA, Fermi-LAT, ATCA, ASKAP, Las Cumbres Observatory Group, OzGrav, DWF (Deeper Wider Faster Program), AST3, CAASTRO, VINROUGE, MASTER, J-GEM, GROWTH, JAGWAR, CaltechNRAO, TTU-NRAO, NuSTAR, Pan-STARRS, MAXI Team, TZAC Consortium, KU, Nordic Optical Telescope, ePESSTO, GROND, Texas Tech University, SALT Group, TOROS, BOOTES, MWA, CALET, IKI-GW Follow-up, H.E.S.S., LOFAR, LWA, HAWC, Pierre Auger, ALMA, Euro VLBI Team, Pi of Sky, Chandra Team at McGill University, DFN, ATLAS Tele- scopes, High Time Resolution Universe Survey, RIMAS, RATIR and SKA South Africa/MeerKAT], Astrophys. J. Lett. 848, no.2, L12 (2017). [2056]
  28. “Dark Matter that Interacts with Baryons: Density Distribution within the Earth and New Constraints on the Interaction Cross-section”, D. A. Neufeld, G. R. Farrar and C. F. Mc- Kee, Astrophys. J., 866,111 (2018). [21]
  29. “Gas-rich dwarf galaxies as a new probe of dark matter interactions with ordinary mat- ter,” D. Wadekar and G. R. Farrar, Phys. Rev. D 103, no.12, 123028 (2021) [14].
  30. “The Imprint of Large Scale Structure on the Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Sky”, C. Ding, N. Globus and G. R. Farrar, Astrophysical J. Letters, 913, L13, (2021) [5].
  31. “Resonant Scattering between Dark Matter and Baryons: Revised Direct Detection and CMB Limits,”, X. Xu and G. R. Farrar, [arXiv:2101.00142 [hep-ph]] and
    “Constraints on GeV Dark Matter interaction with baryons, from a novel Dewar exper- iment,” [arXiv:2112.00707 [hep-ph]].
  32. A Stable Sexaquark: Overview and Discovery Strategies, G R Farrar, [arXiv:2201.01334 [hep-ph]].