Physics

A Colloquium At Northwestern

and Ian. In all cases we had very interesting conversations about their research and selected topics ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2016 - 4:05pm

Physics World's Review Of "Anomaly!"

Without Pauli’s principle all electrons would settle in the lowest-energy orbit around atomic nuclei; that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2017 - 7:27am

Revenge Of The Slimeballs Part 5: When US Labs Competed For Leadership In HEP

electron energy scale, muon momentum scale, and all the other small nuisances that one has to worry about ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 23 2017 - 9:57am

What Is Statistical Significance?

to be random processes, and each observed outcome should be independent of all others, then the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 1 2017 - 9:16am

Machine Learning For Jet Physics: New, Or Just Cool, Ideas

of each jet, with perfect resolution and all- would be unable to provide a very strong discrimination ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2018 - 3:52pm

The Plot Of The Week: New Limits On Higgs Decays To Electrons

* S The parameters k and f describe all possible partitions. Now, with some simple algebra, we can derive ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 26 2019 - 7:27am

The Hunt For A Cool Rare Decay Of W Bosons

elementary particles, that behaves a lot like macroscopic spin, and makes all the difference: particles of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 23 2020 - 11:52am

Articles In Preparation: Anomaly Detection, Differentiable Programming, Nearest Neighbours On Steroids

Collaboration is publishing, at a pace of about 100 per year. I cannot claim that I contribute to all those ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 5 2021 - 8:27am

The Monte Carlo Method

a gazillion times, we can "sample" the huge space of possible histories of all the particles the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 17 2023 - 9:15am

Opposer At A PhD Defense

Estimating the trials factor by brute force calculation is possible. All you need is to model the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2024 - 11:47am