Physics

The Six-Month Cycle Of The Experimental Physicist

Every year, at about this time, the level of activity of physicists working in experimental collaborations at high-energy colliders and elsewhere increases dramatically. We are approaching the time of "winter conferences", so called in order to d ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 12 2017 - 11:42am

Two Physics Blogs You Should Not Miss

I would like to use this space to advertise a couple of blogs you might be interesting to know about. Many of you who erratically read this blog may probably have already bumped into those sites, but I figured that as the readership of a site varies contin ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 18 2017 - 8:29am

Anomaly! Now Available As E-Book

Today I would like to mention that my book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab" is now available for purchase as E-Book at its World Scientific site. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2017 - 5:47am

Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Expectations?

News concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI)  abounds again. The progress with Deep Learning techniques are quite remarkable with such demonstrations of self-driving cars, Watson on Jeopardy, and beating human Go players. This rate of progress has led s o ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Feb 24 2017 - 4:46pm

Decision Trees, Explained To Kids

Decision trees are one of the many players in the booming field of supervised machine learning. They can be used to classify elements into two or more classes, depending on their characteristics. Their interest in particle physics applications is large, as ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2017 - 10:11am

Censorship at the arXiv: endorsements, and even publication won’t matter.

T he arXiv.org (said as archive) is one of the oldest websites on the internet and serves as a curated collection of scholarly preprints submitted by recognized scientist.  I even have a paper there on massive star formation (arXiv:1311.3983).  I tried to ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 6 2017 - 5:33am

The Formidable Neutrino

Elementary particles are mysterious and unfathomable, and it takes giant accelerators and incredibly complex devices to study them. In the last 100 years we have made great strides in the investigations of the properties of quarks, leptons, and vector boso ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2017 - 6:36am

Posts On Neutrino Experiments, Day 1

The first day of the Neutrino Telescopes XVII conference in Venice is over, and I would like to point you to some short summaries that I published for the conference blog, at http://neutel11.wordpress.com.  Specifically:- a summary of the talk on Super-Kam ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2017 - 12:29pm

Neutrino Telescopes, Day 2

This is to mention several interesting articles summarizing the presentations given today at the Neutrino Telescopes conference in Venice:-  Gravitational Waves: a New Era in Astrophysics Has Begun- A Neutrino Platform- Overview of the DUNE Experiment- Pos ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 14 2017 - 1:10pm

Five New Charmed Baryons Discovered By LHCb!

While I was busy reporting the talks at the "Neutrino Telescope"  conference in Venice, LHCb released a startling new result, which I have not much time to describe in much detail this evening (it's Friday evening here in Italy and I'm ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 17 2017 - 3:09pm