On 8th of November, the Faculty of Physics of the University of Rijeka celebrated its anniversary. On that occasion, the faculty dean, Rajka Jurdana-Šepić presented awards, appreciation certificates, and acknowledgements. Angelo Zec received an award for the best master thesis defended at the Faculty of Physics in 2023. From the award justification: Angelo Zec defended…

Tomislav Terzić participated in the 9th edition of the Roma International Conference on AstroParticle Physics (RICAP-24), which took place from 23th till 27th of September 2024 in Villa Tuscolana in Frascati, Italy. The conference was organized by the INFN and University of Roma Tor Vergata.  Tomislav Terzić gave a talk on “Using artificial neural networks…

Paper “Approaches to photon absorption in a Lorentz invariance violation scenario” (DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.063035) was published in Physical Review D. Filip Reščić was one of the main authors. The paper can also be found in ArXiv: 2404.07842 In this work, we performed a complete and explicit calculation of the cross section for the γ-γ scattering in…

Filip Reščić and Tomislav Terzić participated at the Fifth annual conference on quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger era (QGMM24, https://teorica.fis.ucm.es/QGMM24/). The conference took place on 15th-19th July 2024 at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and was hosted by the “Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos” (IPARCOS). Filip Reščić delivered a talk…

Paper “Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from the extraordinary Mrk 421 flare of 2014 using a novel analysis method” was published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/07/044). Jelena Strišković and Tomislav Terzić are among the main authors. The paper can also be found in ArXiv: 2406.07140. We invented a novel method to…