Physical Sciences

The Plot Of The Week- Trileptons From Internal Conversions

the system: so the three-lepton mass does peak at the Z, since all these leptons collectively ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2011 - 5:58am

The First Time I Met Paolo G.

I failed to convince him: that was his way to do physics. But I seemed to have an answer to all of his ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 3 2011 - 7:36am

Can't Buy a Gauge Symmetry

gauge:  Pick any of these gauges, and that will not change the EM Lagrangian at all. Picking a gauge does ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Nov 12 2011 - 9:41pm

Top Quark Production Studied In Detail

event, and we call it a "all-hadronic" decay of the top quark pair. Since the W to jet decay ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 11 2012 - 5:37am

Kink Instability, Magnetic Reconnection And The Origin Of Solar Flares?

although kink and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities may not drive magnetic reconnection in all cases, this ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2012 - 12:31pm

Cycling Around Z2

all the variation in space is constrained to one degree of space and one degree of time. There is ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 9 2012 - 11:38pm

Astronomers: Paparazzi With Brains

Neugent, P. Massey, and B. Skiff, all from Lowell Observatory. A second paper on M33, by M. Drout and P. ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2012 - 10:17am

It's A Higgs (We're Pretty Sure)

from these collisions is like trying to understand what all the inhabitants of the world are saying, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2012 - 2:35am

13 Billion Year Old Ghost Galaxies Are Fossils Of The Early Universe

smallest of these dwarfs suggests that there may be still thousands more with essentially no stars at all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2012 - 4:04pm

Photosynthesis and organic food

path of carbon in photosynthesis. Not all those working in his team got the Nobel, hence some people ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 6 2012 - 4:25pm