Physics
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As I am sure happens with many other human occupations, the job of a particle physicist proceeds in bursts of activity interspersed with periods of more relative calm. Deadlines must be met, and sometimes several of them overlap. The life of a physicist ca ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 10 2015 - 4:59am
- Challenging the Tensor Calculus Status Quo
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In this blog, I challenge the vaulted role that tensor calculus enjoys today. I will define a concrete example of what I consider to be a technical flaw in the tools of tensor calculus in all modern physics theories. The complaint is about completeness, th ...
Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jan 25 2016 - 10:52pm
- Place Your Bets: The Top 5 Candidates For 'Dark Matter'
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When we look out at the universe – even with the most powerful of telescopes – we can only see a fraction of the matter we know must be there. In fact, for every gram’s worth of atoms in the universe, there is at least five times more invisible material c ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 14 2015 - 8:56am
- The New Discoveries You Won't Hear About At Tomorrow's CERN Jamboree
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Tomorrow at 2PM t wo back-to-back talks by Jim Olsen and Marumi Kado at CERN will disclose the newest results of the CMS and ATLAS experiments, which will be based on the analysis of 2.5 to 4 inverse femtobarns of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions acquired b ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 14 2015 - 9:35am
- The Standard Model is crying for new basic flavor-geometric physics
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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Dec 20 2015 - 10:08pm
- Get Ready To Diphoton Mass Spectra For Today's CERN Jamboree!
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As most of you already know, today at 3PM two back-to-back talks by Jim Olsen (CMS) and Marumi Kado (ATLAS) at CERN will disclose the latest results of physics analyses performed on 13 TeV proton-proton collisions recorded this year by the two experiments ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 15 2015 - 8:50am
- New CMS Results From LHC Jamboree
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Jim Olsen is giving the CMS talk on 13 TeV results. CMS recorded 90% of the 4 inverse femtobarns delivered by the LHC, but only 2.8/fb were taken with the magnet at 3.8 Tesla (for the rest of the time the magnet was off due to a problem with the helium pur ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 15 2015 - 9:50am
- New ATLAS Results From The 13 TeV LHC Jamboree
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Marumi Kado started his talk by saying he will only present new results based on the full 2015 13 TeV pp collision dataset. For Run 2 there have been a large number of improvements to the detector. Also the trigger has been improved, with a new central tri ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 16 2015 - 5:25pm
- Knockin' On New Physics Door
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[The article below is courtesy Eilam Gross. Eilam is a physicist from the ATLAS experiment and has been convener of the Higgs group there. I am very happy to host a guest post from him on the exciting topic below...] ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 8 2016 - 9:01pm
- Holiday Card 2015
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Here is my holiday card for 2015, a tradition of mine going back to 1990. Enjoy. On the back... I also include a summary of the year. Here is the stuff on my research efforts: Hello: ...
Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 24 2015 - 1:07pm