"CERN is a Lab of culinary splendor and architectural catastrophe and Fermilab is the other way around"

L. Lederman, "The God Particle"

If you love skateboarding and if you love Venice, and if you are curious to see how a skater can live there regardless of the cronic absence of sporting structures (no skate parks, no way), have a look at this short video, which shows a few skate tricks performed in the streets of downtown Venice.

You might wonder what does this have to do with particle physics and with my blog. Little, admittedly. But the tricks are in part made by my son Filippo, 12 years old. This is his first video on YouTube and he's getting excited by few tens of hits.... So I thought I'd give him a boost by pasting the link here.

The Upsilon suppression paper by CMS is now public, and you can find it here. I decided to put an entry here since several people asked me to access the information...

Note that this paper is a quite important publication, which not only deals with Y suppression, but more in general with a quantification of dimuon resonance yields. Happy reading!

While the LHC runs like a swiss train and collects dozens of inverse picobarns a day, there's a celebration going on on the other side of the Atlantic, as this picture testifies:



The folks pictured here at the Fermilab village have a reason to cheer up: the glorious Tevatron has just delivered 11 inverse femtobarns of proton-antiproton collisions to CDF and DZERO. What a huge achievement that has been!