Physics

Pattern recognition is an altisonant name to a rather common, if complex, activity we perform countless times in our daily lives. Our brain is capable of interpreting successions of sounds, written symbols, or images almost infallibly- so much so that peop ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 11 2025 - 12:24pm

KM3NeT: Most Energetic Neutrino In The Universe Detected

The Kilometre Cubic Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) collaboration has reported detection of a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 million billion electron volts) by its ARCA detector. The event, KM3-230213A, is the first evidence that neu ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2025 - 10:00am

The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown

Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly-something that is theoretically possible but only rarely a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 19 2025 - 11:44am

The Analogy: A Powerful Instrument For Physics Outreach

About a month ago I was contacted by a colleague who invited me to write a piece on the topic of science outreach for an electronic journal (Ithaca). I was happy to accept, but when I later pondered on what I would have liked to write, I could not help thi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 21 2025 - 9:46am

Interna

In the past few years my activities on this site- but I would say more in general, as the same pattern happened also on social media- have progressively shifted away from pure casual blogging and reporting of personal matters to a more focused discussion o ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 29 2025 - 5:09am

Toponium Found By CMS!

The highest-mass subnuclear particle ever observed used to the the top quark. Measured for the first time by the CDF experiment in 1994, and subsequently confirmed by CDF and D0 in 1995, the top quark is the heaviest elementary particle we know of, and it ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 10 2025 - 4:09pm

An Innovative Proposal

The other day I finally emerged from a very stressful push to submit two grant applications to the European Innovation Council. The call in question is for PATHFINDER_OPEN projects, that aim for proofs of principle of groundbreaking technological innovatio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 23 2025 - 8:45am

The Anomaly That Wasn't: An Example Of Shifting Consensus In Science

Time is a gentleman- it waits patiently. And in physics, as in all exact sciences, problems and mysteries eventually get resolved, if we give it enough time. That is how science works, after all: the consensus on our explanation of reality changes as we ac ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 4 2025 - 8:24am

Win A MSCA Post-Doctoral Fellowship!

Applications for MSCA Post-doctoral fellowships are on, and will be so until September 10 this year. What that means is that if you have less than 8 years of experience after your Ph.D., you can pair up with a research institute in Europe to present a rese ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 10 2025 - 2:28am

Highlights From MODE And EUCAIF

After a month of intense travel, which among other things included attendance to the MODE Workshop in Crete and the EUCAIF conference in Sardinia, I am back to northern Sweden. Besides significantly improving my well-being, given the horrible heat wave tha ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2025 - 11:05am