Physical Sciences

Mauna Kea Is Not DAPL. Build The Darn Telescope! TMT Will Connect The Mountain To The Heavens.

They claim that the top of that volcano, indeed all of their tops, are sacred.    The thing is, in real ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 11 2019 - 10:21am

A Few Fresh New Ideas In Fundamental Physics

distinction of DM interaction from all other backgrounds should be very easy to see, as inhomogeneous ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 20 2019 - 4:58am

Nobel In Physics: A Prize For Outstanding Discoveries Or Socio-Political Recognition?

the Prize with Major and Queloz. The reason why he was excluded is not at all clear: perhaps because ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Nov 14 2019 - 12:42pm

Machine Learning For Jets: A Workshop In New York

problem (the estimate of the fraction of signal in the data) and of all systematic uncertainties that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 16 2020 - 4:17pm

Playing With Radioactivity

the source. See, quantitative physics is hard! Despite all these caveats, it is fun to just get the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 20 2021 - 10:50am

Imaging The Human Body With Muons

emittances, intensities, repeat rate, shielding from backgrounds, and all sorts of other things.  At CERN this ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 13 2021 - 10:55am

CMS Measures Multiboson Production Processes

of cross section that the two phenomena have been found to have. After all, CMS found no needle in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 30 2021 - 9:53am

Old-School Statistical Learning Tools Challenge Neural Networks In Physics Problems

derivative of the difference with respect to all parameters, and modify parameters to improve its value.  ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 19 2022 - 12:01pm

Marek Karliner On Exotic Doubly-Heavy Hadrons

detected there is a clear answer, not for all. In September last year LHCb discovered the exotic narrow ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 10 2022 - 3:28am

Significance Of Counting Experiments With Background Uncertainty

B values. All that said, our piece of code modeling a log-normal uncertainty will probably be 15 lines long ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 6 2024 - 2:16am