Physics

The Status Of HEP After ICHEP

So, by now we all know it- there is no 750 GeV resonance in LHC data. But will we ever learn the lesson? The facts Let me start this post by recalling the bare facts, and a quick-and-dirty introduction for anybody who has been on the Moon in the last eight ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 6 2016 - 7:57am

Some Highlights From ICHEP

The ICHEP conference in Chicago is drawing to a close, and although I did not have the pleasure to attend it (I was busy with real work, you know;-) I think I can post here some commentary of a few things I find interesting among the multitude of analyses ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 9 2016 - 10:39am

The Daily Physics Problem- 10, 11, 12

As explained in the first  installment of this series, these questions are a warm-up for my younger colleagues, who will in two months have to pass a tough exam to become INFN researchers. In fact, now that the application period has ended, I can say that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 10 2016 - 8:13am

New Physics from Regularities of the Many Standard Model Free Parameters

800x600 New Physics from Regularities of the Many Standard Model Free Parameters ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Aug 31 2016 - 10:48pm

The Daily Physics Problem- 13, 14

While I do not believe that this series of posts can be really useful to my younger colleagues, who will in a month have to participate in a tough selection for INFN researchers in Rome, I think there is some value in continuing what I have started last mo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 3 2016 - 4:57pm

Post-Doctoral Positions In Experimental Physics For Foreigners

The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics offers 20 post-doctoral positions in experimental physics to foreigners with a PhD obtained no earlier than November 2008.  So if have a PhD (in Physics, but I guess other disciplines are also valid as lon ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 22 2016 - 8:11am

Anomaly!: Book News And A Clip

The book " Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab " is going to press as we speak, and its distribution in bookstores is foreseen for the beginning of November. In the meantime, I am getting ready to present it in s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 24 2016 - 7:52am

Complementarity relation between CP-violating phase and neutrino mixing reactor angle

800x600 Complementarity relation between CP-violating phase and neutrino mixing reactor angle ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 2 2016 - 11:02pm

Farewell, Gino

Gino Bolla was an Italian scientist and the head of the Silicon Detector Facility at Fermilab. And he was a friend and a colleague. He died yesterday in a home accident. Below I remember him by recalling some good times together. Read at your own risk.  D ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2016 - 3:00pm

Statistics At A Physics Conference?!

Particle physics conferences are a place where you can listen to many different topics- not just news about the latest precision tests of the standard model or searches for new particles at the energy frontier. If we exclude the very small, workshop-like e ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 11 2016 - 8:44am