Physics

Fundamental Quantum Uncertainty And Stingy Guitar Tuning

There is a very simple high school homework exercise question that I have kept with me for 30 or so years because of its deep relevance for the understanding of fundamental physics. It teaches about the nature of quantum uncertainty, but sadly also about h ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 16 2017 - 10:42pm

EPS 2017: 1000 Physicists In Venice

The 2017 edition of the European Physical Society conference will take place in the Lido of Venice this week, from July 5th to 12th. For the first time in many years-30 as of now- a big international conference in HEP is organized in Italy, a datum I found ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2017 - 8:57am

LHCb Unearths New Doubly-Charmed Hadron Where Marek Karliner And Jonathan Rosner Ordered It

[UPDATE: see at the bottom for some additional commentary following a post on the matter by our friend Lubos Motl in his blog, where he quotes this piece and disagrees on the interest of finding the Xi mass in perfect agreement with an a priori calculation ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2017 - 12:17pm

600 Attend To Outreach Event In Venice

On Saturday, July 8th, the "Sala Perla" of the Palazzo del Casinò was crowded by 600 attendees, who filled all seats and then some. The event, titled "Universo: tempo zero- breve storia dell'inizio", was organized in conjunction wi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 12 2017 - 12:12pm

Muon G-2: The Anomaly That Could Change Physics, And A New Exciting Theoretical Development

Do you remember the infamous "g-2" measurement? The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon has been for over a decade in the agenda of HEP physicists, both as a puzzle and as a hope for good things to come.  Ever since the Brookhaven laboratories ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 16 2017 - 6:32am

Revenge Of The Slimeballs: When US Labs Competed For Leadership In HEP

The clip below, together with the following few which will be published every few days in the coming weeks, is extracted from the third chapter of my book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab". It recounts the p ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 17 2017 - 4:46am

Acknowledged

It is nice when somebody publishes an article and acknowledges your contribution, even when the input or help you gave was really minimal. I found out today that Marco Matone, a theoretical phyisicist and colleague from the University of Padova, published ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 18 2017 - 3:15pm

ALPIDE: The New CMOS Pixel Chip For ALICE And IMPACT

Last week-end Padova researchers tested the first calorimeter and tracker prototypes of the iMPACT project at the APSS/TIFPA Proton Therapy Facility in Trento (Italy). iMPACT (innovative Medical Proton Achromatic Calorimeter and Tracker) is a project led b ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 25 2017 - 4:06am

The Wikiversity Hilbert Book Model Project

Wikiversity Wikiversity is part of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is known by many people and is another part of the Wikimedia Foundation. ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Jul 25 2017 - 4:13am

Revenge Of The Slimeballs- Part 2

This is the second part of a section taken from Chapter 3 of the book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab".  The chapter recounts the pioneering measurement of the Z mass by the CDF detector, and the competitio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 26 2017 - 5:15am