Physics

Neutrinos: The Status, Circa 2017

The XVII edition of the “Neutrino Telescopes” conference closed its works yesterday after a lively debate on the future of the neutrino physics program in Europe. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 18 2017 - 6:21am

Winter 2017 LHC Results: The Higgs Is Still There, But...

Snow is melting in the Alps, and particle physicists, who have flocked to La Thuile for exciting ski conferences in the past weeks, are now back to their usual occupations. The pressure of the deadline is over: results have been finalized and approved, pre ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 4 2017 - 12:33pm

On Neutrino CP-Violation Idea

On Neutrino CP-Violation Idea Primarysuggestive qualitative ideas are especially important in basic frontierphysics. As examples, Einstein’s thought experiment on space-time connection inspecial relativity, equivalence principle in General relativity and ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Apr 8 2017 - 1:25pm

LHCb Measures Unity, Finds 0.6

With a slightly anti-climatic timing if we consider the just ended orgy of new results presented at winter conferences in particle physics (which I touched on here), the LHCb collaboration outed today the results of a measurement of unity, drawing attentio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 19 2017 - 6:39am

A Visit To GSI

GSI, the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, is a laboratory located near the town of Darmstadt, in central Germany, just a few miles away from the Frankfurt airport. The centre was founded in 1969, and has since then been a very active facility where ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 27 2017 - 9:18am

INSIGHTS: A New EU Network For Particle Physics And Statistics

Innovative training networks are a European Community concept funded by the Research Executive Agency, under the project called "Marie Curie Actions". The idea is that the EU helps build structures that provide interdisciplinary training to skill ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 3 2017 - 3:23am

Are Your Data Fluctuating As They Should?

A little while ago I encountered an interesting problem, which I had fun solving by myself. I think my solution is not original (it must have occurred to others a gazillion times in the past) but I do believe the implementation is nice, so I want to share ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 9 2017 - 11:08am

Flavor-Geometric Duality and Pseudo-Euclidean Symmetry of Neutrino Mixing in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology

800x600 Flavor-Geometric Duality and Pseudo-Euclidean Symmetry of Neutrino Mixing in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology   I. Suggested early by the author, main equation of neutrino mixing semi-empirical phenomenology is given by ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - May 8 2017 - 10:04am

A Little Big History of Cars

The field of Big History attempts to tie events from cosmology, life evolution, and history into narratives and common themes. ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - May 9 2017 - 1:21pm

Practical Tools Of The Improvised Speaker

Yesterday I visited the Liceo “Benedetti” of Venice, where 40 students are preparing their artwork for a project of communicating science with art that will culminate in an exhibit at the Palazzo del Casinò of the Lido of Venice, during the  week of the E ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 10 2017 - 6:54am