Physics

A Statistics Session At A Particle Physics Conference?

The twelfth edition of “ Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum “, a particle physics conference specialized in QCD and Heavy Ion physics,  will be held in Thessaloniki this year, from ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 6 2016 - 4:51am

Scavenging LHC Data: The CMS Data Scouting Technique

With the Large Hadron Collider now finally up and running after the unfortunate weasel incident, physicists at CERN and around the world are eager to put their hands on the new 2016 collisions data. The #MoarCollisions hashtag keeps entertaining the tweeti ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 12 2016 - 5:01am

Dark Matter: Looking Beyond WIMPs

(Inside Science) – Physicists are on the hunt for elusive dark matter, the hypothesized but as yet unidentified stuff that makes up a large majority of the matter in the universe. They had long favored "weakly interacting massive particles," kno ...

Article - Inside Science - May 12 2016 - 9:46am

Catching The 750 GeV Boson With Roman Pots?!

I am told by a TOTEM manager that this is public news and so it can be blogged about- so here I would like to explain a rather cunning plan that the TOTEM and the CMS collaborations have put together to enhance the possibilities of a discovery, and a bette ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 13 2016 - 7:56am

Adapting As Nano Approaches Biological Complexity: Witnessing Human-AI Integration Critically

Today’s emergence of nano-micro hybrid structures with almost biological complexity is of fundamental interest. Our ability to adapt intelligently to the challenges has ramifications all the way from fundamentally changing research itself, over application ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 7 2016 - 11:27pm

New Physics Complete Neutrino Mass Specter from Oscillation Data

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - May 17 2016 - 9:56pm

Einstein Right Again: Rotational Motion Is Universal- And Relative

It has been one hundred years since the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity in May 1916. People are still trying to find ways to make him wrong, but mostly they just find new ways to show right, as in a recent  EPJ Plus article whi ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2016 - 12:26pm

Prescaled Jet Triggers: The Rationale Of Randomly Picking Events

In a chapter of the book I have written, "Anomaly!- Collider physics and the quest for new phenomena at Fermilab" (available from September this year), I made an effort to explain a rather counter-intuitive mechanism at the basis of data collecti ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 20 2016 - 9:57am

Complexity And Optimization: Lost In Design Space

The properties of nano-structures depend on sizes and shapes. The synthesis of tailored nano-structures is thus important already for researching properties, not to mention optimizations toward applications. The ability to control the size, shape, and dist ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 7 2016 - 11:31pm

Motivating Zero Neutrino Mass Scale

  Motivating Zero Neutrino Mass Scale New insight into the phenomenology of neutrino masses is suggested. Four ideas related to new neutrino physics considered: 1) Three absolute neutrino masses with zero smallest nu-mass are pointed out by geometric inte ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - May 25 2016 - 2:37pm