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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO experiments. He is the president of the Read More »

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The Quote Of The Week - Physics Analysis Organization

The Quote Of The Week - Physics Analysis Organization

Dec 19 2013 | comment(s)

"The senior signs the paper, the post-doc thinks, and the grad student executes"

F.S., explaining how the typical nucleus of analysis group in HEP works.

3 MeV ? You Must Be Kidding Me ?!

3 MeV ? You Must Be Kidding Me ?!

Dec 15 2013 | comment(s)

In 1989 the CDF experiment was sitting on its first precious bounty of proton-antiproton collisions, delivered by the Tevatron collider at the unprecedented energy of 1.8 TeV. One of the first measurements that was produced was the measurement of the mass of the Z boson, which was at the time known with scarce precision by the analysis of a handful of candidates produced by the CERN SppS collider, at a third of the Tevatron energy. 
Top Partners Wanted

Top Partners Wanted

Dec 10 2013 | comment(s)

No, this is not an article about top models. Rather, the subject of discussion are models that predict the existence of heavy partners of the top quark.
The Quote Of The Week - Higgs On Anderson's Role In The Higgs Mechanism

The Quote Of The Week - Higgs On Anderson's Role In The Higgs Mechanism

Dec 05 2013 | comment(s)

"During the years 1962 to 1964 a debate developed about whether the Goldstone theorem could be evaded. Anderson pointed out that in a superconductor the Goldstone mode becomes a massive plasmon mode due to its electromagnetic interaction, and that this mode is just the longitudinal partner of transversely polarized electromagnetic modes, which also are massive (the Meissner effect!). Ths was the first description of what has become known as the Higgs mechanism.
I Am Writing A Book

I Am Writing A Book

Dec 04 2013 | comment(s)

Inspired by my friend Peter Woit's openness in discussing his work in progress (a thick textbook on the foundations of quantum mechanics), I feel compelled to come out here about my own project.
Photos of Physicists In Their Environments

Photos of Physicists In Their Environments

Dec 02 2013 | comment(s)

Just a quick link to allow you to browse a very nice set of pictures taken at CERN by Andri Pol. The subjects are physicists in their daily activities - brainstorming at the blackboard, cycling around the lab, bitching about the mess in the common coffee room, or working at various pieces of hardware:
you can see them here. Enjoy!