The author is grateful to Alexander Profumo for inspiring the original idea that prompted this study […]
S. Profumo (2025), thanking his 14 year old son for asking if hypothetically larger protons could collapse to black holes.
We thank M. Pospelov for being M. Pospelov.
Eby, Fox, Harnik, Kribs (2019)
J. K. would like to thank Fermilab and the Aspen Center for Physics for hospitality and support during the final stages of this project, as well as Lufthansa for discounted WiFi access and a power outlet at a particularly critical time.
Kopp, Liu, Slatyer, Wang, Xue (2016)
P. T. thanks the Aspen Center for Physics (NSF grant #1066293) for its hospitality during a period where part of this work was completed and sends hugs to Jane Kelly and Patty Fox.
Galon, Kwa, Tanedo (2016)
P. T. would like to thank Southwest Airlines and the airspace above the California coast where part of this work was completed.
Abdullah, DiFranzio, Rajaraman, Tait, Tanedo (2014)
G. F. Lewis received no funding to support this research. C. Sharpe would also like to thank NSW police for ensuring a swift return of his belongings, including his laptop, after having them burgled from his house a few weeks before this paper’s submission. Additionally, he would like to thank his neighbour, Gary, who spotted the burglar and, rather than simply phoning the police and staying put, decided to yell ‘you better run fast mate’ before chasing the man down the street, tackling him, pinning him to the ground, and then calling the police, all while still in his pyjamas and a sleepy daze.
Sharpe, Barnes, Lewis (2023)
The author thanks the U. S. NSF for rejecting every proposal he has submitted since 1987. Not needing to renew grant support and with little prospect of obtaining it, he has been free to pursue curiousity-driven science.
J. I. Katz (2023)
We would like to thank A. Einstein; unfortunately, he's dead.
V. Gates, E. Kangaroo, M. Roachcock, W.C. Gall (1985) [parody paper]
In addition, we are unhappily indebted to A. De Rujula for introducing us to the vagaries of electron capture.
Drukier, Stodolsky (1983)
J. M. wishes to thank Charles Alcock for pointing out that an earlier attempt to calculate the boiling of strange matter for a nonidea hadron gas was in conflict with elementary thermodyamics.
Oleson, Madsen (1991)
I am indebted to C. Arabica, D. Friedan, and J. Preskill for inspiration.
J. Polchinski (1983), thanking the coffee bean.
C. Sinensis was of immense help with checking my calculations and typing up the manuscript.
N. Raj (2023), thanking the tea leaf. The manuscript bit was left out of PRD due to editorial policy of including acknowledgements "only to those individuals who contributed scientifically to the research of the paper".
We are grateful to David Curtin, Graciela Gelmini, Aniket Joglekar, Charles Horowitz, David Morrissey, Sanjay Reddy, and Michael Wagman for saucy and stirring discussions. The work of RKL is pre-heated by the Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. de-sc00012567 and de-sc0013999. The work of JA, JB and NR is baked by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. […] This work was also marinated in part at the Aspen Center for Physics.
J. Acevedo, J. Bramante, R. Leane, N. Raj (2019), in a paper themed on nuclear pasta.