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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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New Tight SUSY Exclusion From ATLAS

New Tight SUSY Exclusion From ATLAS

Mar 03 2011 | comment(s)

The results of a new Supersymmetry search have been released a few days ago by the ATLAS collaboration. They come from an analysis of events with large missing transverse energy and jets -the most classical signature of SUSY at hadron colliders, as well as the most sensitive one in a wide range of the complicated space of SUSY parameters.
NEUTEL Has A Blog!

NEUTEL Has A Blog!

Mar 03 2011 | comment(s)

From March 15th to March 18th I will be following the NEUTEL 11 conference, which conveniently (for yours truly!) takes place in Venice, in the magnificent setting of Palazzo Franchetti (see picture below).

NEUTEL (first bulletin here) deals with results in particle physics and astrophysics produced by, or in connection to, neutrino telescope experiments; the most recent advances in the theory of neutrinos, astrophysics, and cosmology will also be discussed by eminent theorists.
On The Road To Discovery

On The Road To Discovery

Mar 01 2011 | comment(s)

Just appeared on Physics World online: the first of my two feature articles on LHC physics in 2011, which are being published in this month's issue.
Ben Allanach: Impact Of The CMS Supersymmetry Search On Global Supersymmetric Fits

Ben Allanach: Impact Of The CMS Supersymmetry Search On Global Supersymmetric Fits

Feb 23 2011 | comment(s)

Ben Allanach is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was a post-doc at LAPP (Annecy, France), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Cambridge (UK) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). I noticed a recent article of his in the arxiv, and asked him to report on it here, given the interest that the recent LHC results have stirred in the community. He graciously agreed.... So let us hear it from him! 

Blimey, I'm tired. I'm also elated and excited and grateful to my lovely girlfriend, who's not only putting up with my long hours, distracted head and general ensuing grumpiness, she's even looking after me.

LHC Excludes SUSY Theories, Theorists Clinch Hands

LHC Excludes SUSY Theories, Theorists Clinch Hands

Feb 22 2011 | comment(s)

Both the CMS and ATLAS collaborations have already started to exclude meaningful regions of the parameter space of Supersymmetric models with the data they collected in 2010. And Physics World is on the news today with a online article by Kathy Mc Alpine, the famous rapper physicist who wrote the lirics and interpreted one of the biggest Youtube hits in the category of science popularization. If you have not watched it yet, please rush to do so now. Six million people (and counting) have done so before you already.
A New World Record In Scientific Output ?

A New World Record In Scientific Output ?

Feb 20 2011 | comment(s)

A nice piece of news in my mailbox today: it appears that the CMS collaboration, the experiment I work for at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, has got four different scientific papers approved for publication in the course of the same week. What is more, the four articles will be published on three different international magazines of clear authority. A true success !