Physics

Marek Karliner: Not A Pentaquark, But A Molecule- As He And Rosner Predicted

The reported observation of a resonant state of a J/psi meson and a proton in the decay of the Lambda_b baryon by the LHCb collaboration, broadcast by CERN today, is a very intriguing new piece of the puzzle of hadron spectroscopy- a topic on which many br ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 14 2015 - 3:37pm

Out of time, too much time, what is time? Ask Emmy or Albert

    If you like star trek or similar science fiction, you have probably heard of the term, "space-time continuum". Well it is a real thing, as is time, and yes the definition of time still works for all of our day to day scheduling of events and ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Jul 15 2015 - 8:51pm

Generalization of Newton's inertia principle in flavor phenomenology

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 12 2015 - 1:03pm

New Results From The LHC At 13 TeV!

Well, as some of you may have heard, the restart of the LHC has not been as smooth as we had hoped. In a machine as complex as this the chance that something gets in the way of a well-followed schedule is quite significant. So there have been slight delays ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 27 2015 - 6:08pm

(Well)-Paid PhD Position In Physics Offered In Padova, Italy

Are you a post-lauream student in Physics, interested in pursuing a career in particle physics, and maybe with interest in advanced machine learning applications, with an eye to a great job after your PhD? Then this posting is for you. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 30 2015 - 9:22am

Suggestion: The EM Drive Is Getting The Appropriate Level Of Attention From The Science Community

There have been many news stories saying that the EM Drive will solve almost all problems in interplanetary travel, permit low cost flying cars and who knows what else. Other stories say that it is flat out impossible and we shouldn't spend a single ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 6:00pm

Bang! Meet The Highest-Energy Hadron Collision Ever Imaged!

The 13 TeV data from LHC collisions taken this summer is quickly going through analysis programs and being used for new physics results, and everybody is wondering whether there are surprises in store... Of course that will require some more time to be asc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 31 2015 - 3:46pm

Stardust For Sale

Meteorites- stones that fall on Earth from space- are quite rare, but not so much as to make their possession impossible. In fact I know a few collectors of these strange bits of matter; and I find the very strange-looking stones quite fascinating. I mysel ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 4 2015 - 7:02am

How To Produce Exotic Baryons

Exotic baryons, what are they? But first of all, what is a baryon? Well, it depends whom you ask the question to. In the context of the static quark model, a baryon is a particle composed of a triplet of quarks, as opposed to a meson, which is a particle c ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2015 - 6:17am

Fermilab Sees Oscillating Neutrinos Change Over 500 Miles

Scientists on the NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) experiment saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, confirming that the extraordinary detector built for the project not only functions as planned but is also making great progr ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 3:49pm