Physics

Early-Stage Researcher Positions To Open Soon

The Marie-Curie network I am coordinating, AMVA4NewPhysics, is going to start very soon, and with its start several things are going to happen. One you should not be concerned with is the arrival of the first tranche of the 2.4Meuros that the European Rese ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 25 2015 - 1:57pm

In Memory Of David Cline

I was saddened today to hear of the death of David Cline. I do not have much to say here- I am not good with obituaries- but I do remember meeting him at a conference in Albuquerque in 2008, where we chatted on several topics, among them the history of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2015 - 6:22am

The Missing Memristor Has NOT Been Found Published By Nature Group

A simple and provocative title – The Missing Memristor has Not been Found! This harsh admission of reality without sugar coating is the very  title, and not of some opinion piece, but of a scientific paper published by the very same Nature Publishing Grou ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 29 2015 - 2:36am

What May Be Missing From Quantum Computing- A Quantum Middle Man

Quantum computing is well into its second decade of hype with little progress being made. Computer chip companies have continued to optimize available physics and have left the quantum kind to the academic sandbox. It's not stable long enough to make ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2015 - 6:16am

Radiation Detectors Click By Design

The most popular form of radiation detector used is probably the Geiger-Mueller (GM) detector.   A GM detector is typically the device seen being used on TV shows and movies when measuring radiation.   The GM detector is the device which is making clickin ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Jul 5 2015 - 4:57am

AMVA4NewPhysics Logo

Apologizing for a hiatus due to vacations, I am posting today a tentative logo of the Marie-Curie network I am coordinating, AMVA4NewPhysics. A brief explanation of the symbols at the basis of the logo is given below, in order for you to propose changes or ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2015 - 3:41pm

Parton Distribution Functions For Run 2 At The LHC

When you create an energetic collision between two protons, as the Large Hadron Collider does at large rates and very high energy, the question is what is the chance that a rare process is generated. In the quantum world, everything that is possible is als ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2015 - 3:10pm

The Ins And Outs Of QCD

Quarks and antiquarks are the teeny, tiny building blocks with which all matter is built, binding together to form protons and neutrons in a process explained by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). According to QCD, quarks possess one of three charges that allo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2015 - 9:00am

How To Search For Higgs Boson Pairs? A Phenomenological Paper From Yours Truly

Working as an experimental particle physicist in a large scientific collaboration, such as the 3000-strong CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, is a (not too uncommon) privilege, for several reasons.  One of those reasons is of purely numerical kind: the number ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2015 - 6:55am

Pentaquarks Claimed By LHCb

The CERN Director General Rolf Heuer issued the following statement today, reporting the discovery of exotic pentaquark states by the LHCb collaboration: Geneva, 14 July 2015. Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the disc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 14 2015 - 9:01am