Physics

Leonard: "The holographic principle suggests that what we all experience every day in three dimensions may really just be information on a surface located at the farthest reaches of our cosmos. So it's possible that our lives are really just act ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Mar 29 2016 - 8:14am

Some Diboson News

Technically it also creates a diboson final state- two photons- but no, here I am not going to talk about the tentative new particle of which ATLAS and CMS continue to see hints in their data, at a mass of 750 GeV and with characteristics that increasingl ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2016 - 7:31am

What LIGO Detection Means For Other Gravitational Wave Searches

By Gabriel Popkin, Inside Science-- When leaders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, announced in February the first-ever direct detection of a gravitational wave, astrophysicists Scott Ransom from the National Radio Astro ...

Article - Inside Science - Mar 28 2016 - 7:37am

The Top Quark Mass In 2016

Long-time readers of this blog know that one of the recurrent topics has always been the precision measurement of the top quark mass. The reason for this is at least three-fold. One, I started my career in experimental HEP with searches and measurements o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2016 - 3:11pm

A Physicists' Free Time

It's been a while since the last time I talked about myself in this column. I think that a blog must contain personal information to be interesting- otherwise why sticking around, when there's tons of good (yes, also bad) information in the web? ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 3 2016 - 12:40pm

Anomaly!- Choosing The Book Cover

My book " Anomaly!- Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab " is in production at World Scientific, with an expected publication date somewhere in August or September. I have explained what this work is about in previous post ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 5 2016 - 10:42am

Anomaly! Is Online At The WS Site

Funny how the internet gives you access to information on your own stuff before you know it. The book I have written, "Anomaly!", is still in production (we have not yet even finalized the book cover), and yet you can even apparently buy a copy a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2016 - 9:27am

Open Data, Online Event Displays, And Other Resources For The Curious Bystander

Expectations are rising for the 2016 run of the Large Hadron Collider. The machine has restarted colliding protons in the cores of ATLAS and CMS, where finally the reality of the tantalizing 750 GeV diphoton bumps seen by the two experiments in their Run 1 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 25 2016 - 4:59am

New Physics In The Angular Distribution Of B Decays?

After decades of theoretical studies and experimental measurements, forty years ago particle physicists managed to construct a very successful theory, one which describes with great accuracy the dynamics of subnuclear particles. This theory is now universa ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2016 - 10:23am

Another Bet Won- With My Student!

Okay, this one was not about the umpteenth statistical fluctuation, hopelessly believed by somebody to be the start of a new era in particle physics. It's gotten too easy to place and win bets like that- the chance that the Standard Model breaks down ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2016 - 3:34pm