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Goodbye Peter Higgs, And Thanks For The Boson

Peter Higgs passed away yesterday, at the age of 94. The scottish physicist, a winner of the 2013...

Significance Of Counting Experiments With Background Uncertainty

In the course of Statistics for Data Analysis I give every spring to PhD students in Physics I...

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...

On The Utility Function Of Future Experiments

At a recent meeting of the board of editors of a journal I am an editor of, it was decided to produce...

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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO experiments. He is the president of the Read More »

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A New CMS Result On Quarkonium Suppression

A New CMS Result On Quarkonium Suppression

Jan 28 2012 | comment(s)

The CMS Collaboration has just released the results of a deep study of their sample of lead-lead collisions, produced at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon by the Large Hadron Collider.
Where was I ?

Where was I ?

Jan 28 2012 | comment(s)

The CHIPP 2012 winter school of particle physics is over, and so is the 50th winter meeting on nuclear physics. The two events had three things in common: they were both held in renowned locations for winter sports in the Alps (Engelberg, Switzerland, and Bormio, Italy); they both ran from January 22nd to 27th; and I attended both as a lecturer.
The Importance Of Statistics In Particle Physics

The Importance Of Statistics In Particle Physics

Jan 19 2012 | comment(s)

This week's edition of the CMS Times features a short piece by A.Rao,  where some points are made on the issue of correct statistical analysis of high-energy physics data.
People Who Believe In Upper Limits...

People Who Believe In Upper Limits...

Jan 16 2012 | comment(s)

...and people who like sausages, should not ask how they are made.

As a member of two large scientific collaborations (CDF and CMS), I enjoy the benefit of seeing lots of scientific publications that carry my name as an author being produced at weekly rates. This is however also a burden, since I at the very least must try to ensure that I like the way the results are produced. I.e., that I agree with the details of how these scientific measurements are made.
CiteAlert: a new form of Spam

CiteAlert: a new form of Spam

Jan 12 2012 | comment(s)

Elsevier is spamming my mailbox. You would not expect that from a large publishing company who makes money from publishing scientific papers, but that's what happens. I think I am not alone in receiving automated emails with your name on the subject (a typical sign that the message is junk by the way):

Dr. Dorigo, your work has been cited.

Dear Dr. T. Dorigo,

It is our pleasure to inform you that your publication has been cited in a journal published by Elsevier.
Help High School Kids Visit CERN!

Help High School Kids Visit CERN!

Jan 06 2012 | comment(s)

Through my colleague Marco Cirelli I got to know about the effort of 36 high-school student of Charlottesville (VA), who are fund-raising for a trip to CERN this spring. I thus visited their home page, and got favourably impressed with the organization of their campaign, which betrays their strong collective interest in the trip.