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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...

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Choosing Your Bets: The Selection Bias

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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 »

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That's My Plot, Damnit - Reprise

That's My Plot, Damnit - Reprise

Aug 31 2009 | comment(s)

My most visible contribution to particle physics after my death might well one sad day turn out to be the sketching of W and Z boson identification diagrams I made in 1999 for a talk I was to attend at Moriond QCD. I must have been on a bright day when I set out to make those graphs, because everywhere I turn I see somebody using them -without paying any recognition to me of course. I noticed the trend two years ago, and I get reminded of it periodically.
Poster 1: Higgs Searches With CMS

Poster 1: Higgs Searches With CMS

Aug 29 2009 | comment(s)

Today I wish to offer you the preview of a poster which I am going to show on September 1st in Kobe, Japan, at a session of the 29th edition of the Physics in Collisions conference.
Two posters on Higgs searches with CMS coming

Two posters on Higgs searches with CMS coming

Aug 28 2009 | comment(s)

In thirty minutes I will jump on a flight to Frankfurt and from there to Kobe, Japan, where I am attending the twenty-ninth edition of the Physics in Collisions conference. No big talk in store for me this time; no Westminster central hall kind of thing, nor spotlights or interviews. I will just be presenting a poster. Well, two.
Plot Of The Week: Single Top Production Is

Plot Of The Week: Single Top Production Is "By The Book"

Aug 27 2009 | comment(s)

Today I wish to offer you the figure attached at the bottom of this article, which shows a combination of recent determinations of the rate at which the Tevatron proton-antiproton collisions produce single top quarks.
The Say of the Week

The Say of the Week

Aug 26 2009 | comment(s)

"It is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes"
(From a sentence attributed to Josef Stalin)

With a thought to Middle Eastern elections...
The Higgs Mass ? 120 GeV, SUSY Says

The Higgs Mass ? 120 GeV, SUSY Says

Aug 24 2009 | comment(s)

Today, although fully submerged by an anomalous wave of errands which had been patiently waiting for my return at work, I heroically managed to dig out of the ArXiv a paper worth a close look.