Acknowledged

It is nice when somebody publishes an article and acknowledges your contribution, even when the...

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...

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...

600 Attend To Outreach Event In Venice

On Saturday, July 8th, the "Sala Perla" of the Palazzo del Casinò was crowded by 600 attendees...

 Tommaso Dorigo Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. He coordinates the European network... Read More » Blogroll
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# Tevatron Higgs Limits Strengthened By A New Theoretical Study

May 24 2009 | 11 comment(s)

A new paper in the Arxiv attracted my attention this morning. It is titled "Perturbative QCD effects and the search for a $H \to WW \to l \nu l \nu$ signal at the Tevatron", and is authored by a set of quite distinguished theorists: C.Anastasiou, G.Dissertori, M.Grazzini, F.Stockli, and B.Webber.

# CDF Vs. DZERO: And The Winner Is...

May 21 2009 | 21 comment(s)

Last Tuesday CDF announced their own discovery of the Omega_b baryon, a measurement which creates a controversy with the competing experiment at the Tevatron collider, DZERO. That is because DZERO had already claimed discovery for that particle, almost one year ago, and because the two measurements disagree wildly with each other. Just browse through my past few posts in this column and you will find all the information you need (how lazy can one be with links?).

# The Say of the Week

May 21 2009 | 0 comment(s)

"I seldom enjoy competition in real life. I find it fun only when I am up against somebody who takes things more seriously than I do."

QDS

# Live streaming of Omega B Discovery by CDF NOW!

May 19 2009 | 0 comment(s)

In thirty minutes (4 PM Chicago time) a live streaming of the Omega_b discovery by CDF will be broadcast at this link: http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/VMS_Site_2/000Return/video/r_live.xsl

Please follow it if you are interested in particle physics - Pat Lukens, the main author of the analysis, and a very experienced and skilled physicist who has spent the better part of his life for the good of the CDF experiment, will be discussing this fantastic new analysis for all of us.

# The Real Discovery Of The Omega B Released By CDF Today!

May 19 2009 | 13 comment(s)

In the last few days I indulged in a rather technical description of the checks I made on DZERO's evaluation of the significance of their observation of Omega_b particles. In those occasions I did not discuss either what the Omega_b is, nor what is its relevance, nor the details of how DZERO collected a small but significant sample of events characterized by the production of that ephemeral particle.

# Austria will not leave CERN

May 19 2009 | 0 comment(s)

Good news today. Yesterday afternoon Werner Faymann, the Austrian Federal Chancellor, announced that Austria will not leave CERN, as previously suggested. An official confirmation of this decision will be received this afternoon by letter by the President of the CERN Council.

The decision of Austria does not surprise me - it would have been both crazy and self-destructive for Austrians to decide to leave the rich program of particle physics that they have contributed heavily to make a reality.