Physics

Testing QCD With Heavy Flavour- Part 1

Today I spoke at a conference on "QCD advances" which is being held in Les Houches, an amiable small town near Chamonix, on the french slopes of Mont Blanc. The content of my talk is accessible from the conference web site, but I guess that I sho ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 18 2011 - 5:26am

The Gravity Of Free Will

Some subjects I try to avoid in this blog. But this one seems to become increasingly difficult to escape. Since my interview at Philosophy-To-Go, I regularly get questions about the physics of free will. These questions range from "Does free will exis ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Feb 20 2011 - 12:11am

A New World Record In Scientific Output?

A nice piece of news in my mailbox today: it appears that the CMS collaboration, the experiment I work for at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, has got four different scientific papers approved for publication in the course of the same week. What is more, th ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 20 2011 - 4:00pm

LHC Excludes SUSY Theories, Theorists Clinch Hands

Both the CMS and ATLAS collaborations have already started to exclude meaningful regions of the parameter space of Supersymmetric models with the data they collected in 2010. And Physics World is on the news today with a online article by Kathy Mc Alpine, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 22 2011 - 2:35pm

Ben Allanach: Impact Of The CMS Supersymmetry Search On Global Supersymmetric Fits

Ben Allanach is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was a post-doc at LAPP (Annecy, France), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Cambridge (UK) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). I noticed a recent article o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 23 2011 - 8:38pm

Light- The Ultimate Measure That Isn’t

Quantum physics and Einstein’s relativity theory, in theory as well as experiment, are extremely concerned with light and its photons. Why should fundamental science be obsessed with something so feeble? Well, it could not be any other way! Science is abo ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 24 2011 - 7:46pm

MOND Theory Of Gravity Gets Some Support, Say Researchers

Modern cosmology believes that for the universe to behave as it does, the mass-energy of the universe must be dominated by dark matter and dark energy, though there is no direct evidence for the existence of these invisible components.    Alternate, though ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2011 - 12:29pm

On The Road To Discovery

Just appeared on Physics World online: the first of my two feature articles on LHC physics in 2011, which are being published in this month's issue. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 1 2011 - 7:38am

Still No Schrödinger Cat Jumps The Diosi-Penrose Criterion

Every once in a while we are told that  Schrödinger’s cat  is now proven. One incarnation of the ‘Finally Proven!!!’ of macroscopic quantum superposition was hailed as one of the 10 breakthroughs,  the breakthrough of the year 2010. By Science about an ar ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 2 2013 - 1:24am

NEUTEL Has A Blog!

From March 15th to March 18th I will be following the NEUTEL 11 conference, which conveniently (for yours truly!) takes place in Venice, in the magnificent setting of Palazzo Franchetti (see picture below). NEUTEL (first bulletin here) deals with results i ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2011 - 4:00pm