Physics

Dark Matter And Particle Acceleration, Soon In Space Near You

The heart of darkness is a metaphor but it is quite literal when it comes to space. Not only is matter as we know it just a fraction of what is out there, it is only a few percent. That means the rest of the universe is truly unknown. Physicists have give ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2015 - 6:35am

The Long And Short Of Plasma Turbulence

For more than 60 years, fusion scientists have tried to use "magnetic bottles" of various shapes and sizes to confine extremely hot plasmas, with the goal of producing practical fusion energy. But turbulence in the plasma has, so far, confounded ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 9:02am

The Mysterious Z Boson Width Measurement- CDF 1989

As I am revising the book I am writing on the history of the CDF experiment, I have bits and pieces of text that I decided to remove, but which retain some interest for some reason. Below I offer a clip which discusses the measurement of the natural width ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2015 - 10:29am

100 Years of Einstein’s General Relativity

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Nov 19 2015 - 8:56pm

Anomaly!- A Different Particle Physics Book

I was very happy today to sign a contract with an international publisher that will publish a book I have written. The book, titled " Anomaly!- Scientific Discoveries and the Quest for the Unknown ", focuses on the CDF experiment, a particle dete ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2015 - 9:02am

Supersymmetry Is About To Be Discovered, Kane Says

While in the process of fact-checking information that is contained in the book I am finalizing, I had the pleasure to have a short discussion with Gordon Kane during the weekend. A Victor Weisskopf distinguished professor at the University of Michigan as ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 25 2015 - 3:24pm

LHC Collides Heavy Nuclei At New Record High Energy

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been colliding protons at record high energy since the summer, but now the time has now come to collide large nuclei (nuclei of lead, Pb, consist of 208 neutrons and protons). ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 8:00am

Single Top Production At The LHC

As an editor of the new Elsevier journal "Reviews in Physics" I am quite proud to see that the first submissions of review articles are reaching publication stage. Four such articles are going to be published in the course of the next couple of m ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2015 - 12:17pm

CERN And LIP Openings For Graduate Students In Physics- Good $$$

Have you recently obtained a Masters degree in a scientific discipline? Are you fascinated by particle physics? Do you have an interest in Machine Learning developments, artificial intelligence, and all that? Or are you just well versed in Statistical Anal ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 30 2015 - 9:53am

The Graph Of The Week: Dijet Bump Hunt By ATLAS

This week's graph is a reminder that particle physicists are, deep in their bones, bump hunters. Sure, some of my colleagues could best be described as detector builders; others as software wizards; still others as statistical gurus. But what excites ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2015 - 8:18am