Potter spoilers everywhere?
First the spoilers appeared on internet fan forums and image archives. Then they showed up in the newspaper. But have they now spread to arXiv.org, the online physics (etc.) preprint archive? This morning, a high energy theory article appeared with the title "Dyon Death Eaters"! Is nowhere safe?!
In the end, the paper's title seems to be quite a stretch. Dyons, as I'm sure everyone knows :), are fundamental particles with more than one type of charge (imagine a magnetic monopole that also has an electric charge, for example). The paper talks a lot about certain types of dyon and their decay modes. But the words "death" and "eat" appear only in the title and there's not even passing mention of Rowling or of Harry Potter, so I'm guessing that "death eaters" is somehow just supposed to refer to the dyons' "death" as they decay (or maybe to the lack of death for their stable decay products?). Just cashing in on the current craze, I guess. But this does not meet my usual standards for bad physics puns. :)
In the end, the paper's title seems to be quite a stretch. Dyons, as I'm sure everyone knows :), are fundamental particles with more than one type of charge (imagine a magnetic monopole that also has an electric charge, for example). The paper talks a lot about certain types of dyon and their decay modes. But the words "death" and "eat" appear only in the title and there's not even passing mention of Rowling or of Harry Potter, so I'm guessing that "death eaters" is somehow just supposed to refer to the dyons' "death" as they decay (or maybe to the lack of death for their stable decay products?). Just cashing in on the current craze, I guess. But this does not meet my usual standards for bad physics puns. :)