Physics

The Quote Of The Week- Detecting Cosmic Rays With Pee

Nel 1929 Bruno Rossi, ricercatore presso l’istituto di fisica sperimentale dell’Università di Firenze [...] intuì quella che sarebbe stata la sua ragione di vita: indagare sulla natura di questi corpuscoli ionizzanti provenienti dall’alto. Doveva realizza ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 7 2013 - 9:24am

Dear Mr. Dollo: You Were Both Right and Wrong

I read with interest the recent disclosure that several biologists suggest they have proven Dollo's Law (that biological evolution is irreversible, a 1-way path through genetic change and time) is at the very least not perfect and perhaps may simply b ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Aug 26 2013 - 10:23am

Higgs Status: Two Crucial Questions Still Lingering On

Now that the first of the Moriond conferences is over, and just as the second one starts, it is time to have a detached view at the Higgs boson results presented there this far by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations, to summarize where we stand and what new i ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 11 2013 - 11:05am

Rare Bc Decay Observed by LHCb

The LHCb collaboration published on the Cornell Arxiv yesterday a preprint describing the observation of a rare decay of the B_c meson. In this landscape of failed SUSY searches,  no-shows of new resonances in dilepton mass spectra, flat dijet mass histogr ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 12 2013 - 3:18am

Neutel 2013 Reports

A short note to mention that starting today, and until Friday, I will be blogging from the "Neutrino Telescopes" conference in Venice. This is a conference dedicated to the study of neutrinos, and will feature many interesting talks on high-energ ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 12 2013 - 3:49am

Muonic Higgs Factory: My Question To Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia discussed the prospects of constructing a muon collider to produce large amounts of Higgs bosons and study their properties in detail, crucially measuring the natural width of the particle, and testing couplings to a precision that LHC can ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 25 2013 - 7:10am

Higgs Discovery Animation By CMS

For the series "ideas worth spreading", CMS has copied the nice idea of ATLAS of producing an animated gif with increasing data leading to the Higgs boson discovery. This is the mass distribution of Higgs boson candidates, detected by collecting ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 14 2013 - 10:21am

Neutel Day 1 Reports

Am following the Neutrino Telescope conference in Venice, which started yesterday in the beautiful setting of Palazzo Franchetti. For once I am quite happy to walk to work-different from the usual hour-and-something commute to Padova, where I have my offic ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2013 - 5:32am

Neutel Day 2 Reports

Here is a list of the reports of talks given yesterday at the Neutrino Telescope conference in Venice. You should give these a look if you are interested in sterile neutrinos, in the mass hierarchy of neutrinos, or in the phenomenology of neutrinos in gene ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 14 2013 - 4:47am

Neutrino Physics: The Status And The Future Experiments

The presentations of the last few days at the Neutrino Telescopes conference in Venice allowed me to get to full speed with the developments, new ideas, and new experiments taking data or just in design phase in this fascinating, relatively young field of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 15 2013 - 4:31am