Pheno journal club: Nature loves dilatons, loves them not...

* 1st part: journal club

- Of course, LIGO's detection of gravitational waves:

• Physical Review Letters: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
  
• Physics Viewpoint by Emanuele Berti: The First Sounds of Merging Black Holes
  
• APS News: Gravitational Waves Caught in the Act

- A 750 GeV Diphoton Signal from a Very Light Pseudoscalar in the NMSSM 
Ulrich Ellwanger, Cyril Hugonie. Feb 10, 2016. 13 pp. 
LPT-ORSAY-16-07, LUPM:16-004 
e-Print: arXiv:1602.03344 [hep-ph] | PDF

- First spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section limits from the LUX experiment 
LUX Collaboration (D.S. Akerib (Case Western Reserve U. & SLAC & KIPAC, Menlo Park) et al.). Feb 10, 2016. 6 pp. 
e-Print: arXiv:1602.03489 [hep-ex] | PDF

* 2nd part: Oriol Pujolàs visitted the IFT and talked about his recent work,

On dilatons and the LHC diphoton excess 
Eugenio Megias (Munich, Max Planck Inst.), Oriol Pujolas (Barcelona, IFAE), Mariano Quiros (ICTP-SAIFR, Sao Paulo & Barcelona, IFAE & ICREA, Barcelona). Dec 18, 2015. 36 pp. 
MPP-2015-213, UAB-FT-768 
e-Print: arXiv:1512.06106 [hep-ph] | PDF