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Predictions

To have predicted an experiment is the joy of a theorist.* It doesn't happen a lot: usually we are explaining experiments, rather than predicting them. Here are references to theoretical predictions originating from our group (some jointly with other groups). Certain predictions have come out, others have not (or not yet?).

* The role of theory is also intimately connected with predictions. While I know biologists who would say "who cares about a prediction in the absence of experiment?", physicists are brought up to celebrate them - they are the stuff of legend, from Dirac's prediction of antiparticles and Einstein's prediction of the bending of starlight, to the work by many that predicted the Higgs particle. We view predictions as motivations for experiment and as a means to move the discipline forward. Of course, sometimes they turn out to be wrong, but that is often how science works.
  Raymond Goldstein, Are theoretical results 'Results'?

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