Physics

Open Data, Online Event Displays, And Other Resources For The Curious Bystander

Expectations are rising for the 2016 run of the Large Hadron Collider. The machine has restarted colliding protons in the cores of ATLAS and CMS, where finally the reality of the tantalizing 750 GeV diphoton bumps seen by the two experiments in their Run 1 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 25 2016 - 4:59am

New Physics In The Angular Distribution Of B Decays?

After decades of theoretical studies and experimental measurements, forty years ago particle physicists managed to construct a very successful theory, one which describes with great accuracy the dynamics of subnuclear particles. This theory is now universa ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2016 - 10:23am

Another Bet Won- With My Student!

Okay, this one was not about the umpteenth statistical fluctuation, hopelessly believed by somebody to be the start of a new era in particle physics. It's gotten too easy to place and win bets like that- the chance that the Standard Model breaks down ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2016 - 3:34pm

Zero Neutrino Mass Scale in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology

800x600 Zero Neutrino Mass Scale in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology       There are definite empirical hints on special kind of neutrino masses. 1) Ratio of neutrino masses to the lightest particle electron mass is very small m-nu/m-e = ~10-6. Hence it seems ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Apr 22 2016 - 5:33pm

Magic In Particle Reactions: Exclusive Photoproduction Of Upsilon Mesons

Exclusive production processes at hadron collider are something magical. You direct two trucks at 100 miles per hour one against the other head-on, and the two just gently push each other sideways, continuing their trip perfectly unaffected, but leave behi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 22 2016 - 6:08am

Unified Mathematical Field Theory Talk

I gave a 15 minute talk at a local Americal Physical Society Meeting.  Here is the title and abstract. Title: A Unified Mathematical Field Theory ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - May 15 2016 - 4:13pm

Matter Can Potentially Accelerate The Expansion Of The Universe

How well established are current cosmological dogmas? What do we really know about the fundamental origin and dynamics of our Universe, in spite of the remarkable work accomplished by COBE, WMAP, Planck and other collaborations? Actually, we know little o ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Apr 29 2016 - 2:40am

35% Off World Scientific Titles

I think this might be interesting to the few of you left out there who still read paper books (I do too). World Scientific offers, until April 29th, a 35% reduction in the cover price of its books, if you purchase two of them. This might be a good time to ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 27 2016 - 12:27pm

The Number Of My Publications Has Four Digits

While tediously compiling a list of scientific publications that chance to have my name in the authors list (I have to apply for a career advancement and apparently the committee will scrutinize the hundred-page-long lists of that kind that all candidates ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 28 2016 - 7:30am

Common Sense and Cosmology

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Apr 30 2016 - 12:00pm