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Enrico Stomeo - A Lifelong Passion For Meteor Studies

I was reached this evening by the news of the passing of a dear friend, Enrico Stomeo. Enrico was...

Surviving Queues: 1 - At The Airport

Nobody likes to wait in line. Whether you are sitting in your car waiting to reach the toll booths...

Choosing Your Bets: The Selection Bias

As some of the long-time readers of this blog know, in this column I have occasionally discussed...

Have A Master In Science, Want A Post-Doc Position Directly?

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Tommaso Dorigo

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 »

Eventually, The Tevatron Also Sees The Higgs!

Mar 27 2013 | comment(s)

I think I wrote a post about the "definitive results" of the CDF and DZERO experiments on the search for the Higgs boson at least a couple of times already in the past, but you know, these busy experimentalists continue to improve their analyses, adding previously incomplete information, combining results, tweaking and improving things here and there. It is only natural that on such an important topic as the observation of the Standard Model Higgs boson the Tevatron folks were not ready to give up just yet.

Are Physics Conferences A Waste ? An Ethical Issue

Mar 25 2013 | comment(s)

The number of conferences held every year around the world to present and discuss topics in frontier particle physics is surprisingly large: over a hundred per year. Just look at the following list of conferences scheduled in the last three weeks for a proof (and no, March is not very different from other months):

2/3 Moriond EWK
4/3 KEKPH 2013
4/3 DPG 2013
9/3 Moriond QCD
10/3 Aspen 2013
10/3 HiJetsUSC 2013
13/3 LHCC
17/3 LISHEP 2013
18/3 MITP 2013
21/3 HFMCW 2013
21/3 DPHEP7 2013

Planck Results Are Out!

Mar 21 2013 | comment(s)

The Planck collaboration has released today data from the first 16 months of operation of their space instrument (see left). There will be a live streaming of their announcements to the public in 1.5 hours at this link.

The Quote Of The Week - Zen Moment For a Dark Matter Seeker

Mar 21 2013 | comment(s)

"...spend one year one mile underground to stare at a bucket of xenon ... only to come out for your zen moment and profoundly declare "nothing happened" ... and then you spend twice as long wondering how you allowed yourself to be talked into doing that sort of nonsense ... one has to admit to being duped"

Deluded Experimentalist, circa 2013

The Boson Quandary

Mar 19 2013 | comment(s)

Here I vow to never "reblog", but exceptionally I will break that rule, translating from Italian a very nice article recently appeared on the Italian newspaper "Il Sole-24 Ore". The author is the INFN President, Fernando Ferroni. The reason why I break the rule is that the piece is quite clear and many of you may enjoy it. [The article transcript was taken from here]

Neutrino Physics: The Status And The Future Experiments

Mar 15 2013 | comment(s)

The presentations of the last few days at the Neutrino Telescopes conference in Venice allowed me to get to full speed with the developments, new ideas, and new experiments taking data or just in design phase in this fascinating, relatively young field of investigation at the crossroads of particle physics and astrophysics.

The talk slides are online in the conference site, but as usual by just flipping them one usually does not manage to get the most important points. So I am providing summaries of every talk, at the conference blog site.

Yesterday I posted several articles there. Here is a list with links:

- Status of Gerda