Physics

The 750 GeV Diphoton Bump: What It Cannot Be

Two weeks have passed since the CERN Jamboree of December 15th, which will be always remembered for the spurious 750 GeV signal observed by ATLAS and CMS in their mass spectra of photon pairs. It is unfortunate, as dozens of very important new measurements ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 8 2016 - 10:41pm

Stan Brodsky Wins Pomeranchuk Prize

I was quite happy to hear today that  Stan Brodsky, a professor of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University, has received together with Victor Fadin the 2015 Pomeranchuk Prize  from the Russian Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Ph ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 8 2016 - 5:36pm

Can More Higgs Particles Be Found Studying Superfluid Helium?

The mass of the Higgs boson reported at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, 125 GeV, looked lighter than the expected energy scale, about 1 TeV, say researchers at Aalto University in Finland, who now propose that there is more than one Higgs boson, and the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2016 - 8:00am

The Brodsky Gulag

As a follow-up of yesterday's post on the very opportune Pomeranchuk prize given to Stan Brodsky, I would like to report here on a funny anecdote Stan related to me today. The anecdote is interesting to all of us who believe the world of physics resea ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 9 2016 - 12:46pm

Follow The Spacetime Rainbow To A Theoretical Pot Of Gold

When white light is passed through a prism, the rainbow on the other side reveals a rich palette of colors. Theoretical physicists, who have increasingly migrated toward making up stuff using math, now claim using such numbers that quantum theories of gra ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2016 - 12:01pm

Einstein’s God in physics

                  Einstein’s God in physics    In contrast to the known religious with human prayers as main attribute, Einstein’s God is a sincerely scientific one stimulating new research “I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details”. Its ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Jan 15 2016 - 2:23pm

A Hypothetical Recipe For Muon Pair Creation

A true-muonium only lives for two microseconds. These atoms are made up one positively and one negatively charged elementary particle, also known as muons. Although they have yet to be observed experimentally, a Japanese theoretical physicist has come up ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2016 - 11:23am

Status Of "Anomaly!"

I believe it is appropriate if I restart this column today, after a  two-month period of semi-inactivity, with a description of what has   been going on in my private- well, semi-private- life. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 2 2016 - 2:48am

Choose the next topic

Being back in blogging mood, I decided I would make a poll among the most affectionate readers of this column- those who will come here to read "blog" pieces and not only "articles which are sponsored on the relevant spots in the main web pa ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 2 2016 - 3:34pm

Top Secret: On Confidentiality On Scientific Issues, Across The Ring And Across The Bedroom

The following text, a short excerpt from the book "Anomaly!", recounts the time when the top quark was about to be discovered, in 1994-95. After the "evidence" paper that CDF had published in 1994, the CDF and DZERO experiments were bo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 5 2016 - 5:08pm