Physics

Giorgio Parisi Wins Onsager Prize

I am very happy to report that Professor Giorgio Parisi won another prize. Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist who is very well known for his decisive contribution to QCD, with the DGLAP equations (the P stands for his last name) that govern the dyn ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 15 2016 - 2:31pm

Euclidean 3-Space Geometry Organizes SM-Higgs Free Parameters

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   The main number of free parameters in the Standard Model comes from the Higgs sector. ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Mar 17 2016 - 4:36pm

Want To Bet 20:1 That The 750 GeV Resonance Is Real?

UPDATE: Tiziano tells me that he has been misquoted by the Guardian- he was quoting himself a colleague when he mentioned the 20:1 bet. Sorry to say this bet is not on, at least until the person who offered the bet in the first place will manifest him- or ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 22 2016 - 4:29am

Holographic Big Bang

Leonard: "The holographic principle suggests that what we all experience every day in three dimensions may really just be information on a surface located at the farthest reaches of our cosmos. So it's possible that our lives are really just act ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Mar 29 2016 - 8:14am

Some Diboson News

Technically it also creates a diboson final state- two photons- but no, here I am not going to talk about the tentative new particle of which ATLAS and CMS continue to see hints in their data, at a mass of 750 GeV and with characteristics that increasingl ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2016 - 7:31am

What LIGO Detection Means For Other Gravitational Wave Searches

By Gabriel Popkin, Inside Science-- When leaders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, announced in February the first-ever direct detection of a gravitational wave, astrophysicists Scott Ransom from the National Radio Astro ...

Article - Inside Science - Mar 28 2016 - 7:37am

The Top Quark Mass In 2016

Long-time readers of this blog know that one of the recurrent topics has always been the precision measurement of the top quark mass. The reason for this is at least three-fold.  One, I started my career in experimental HEP with searches and measurements o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2016 - 3:11pm

A Physicists' Free Time

It's been a while since the last time I talked about myself in this column. I think that a blog must contain personal information to be interesting- otherwise why sticking around, when there's tons of good (yes, also bad) information in the web? ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 3 2016 - 12:40pm

Anomaly!- Choosing The Book Cover

My book " Anomaly!- Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab " is in production at World Scientific, with an expected publication date somewhere in August or September. I have explained what this work is about in previous post ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 5 2016 - 10:42am

Anomaly! Is Online At The WS Site

Funny how the internet gives you access to information on your own stuff before you know it. The book I have written, "Anomaly!", is still in production (we have not yet even finalized the book cover), and yet you can even apparently buy a copy a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2016 - 9:27am