Physics

What May Be Missing From Quantum Computing- A Quantum Middle Man

Quantum computing is well into its second decade of hype with little progress being made. Computer chip companies have continued to optimize available physics and have left the quantum kind to the academic sandbox. It's not stable long enough to make ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2015 - 6:16am

Radiation Detectors Click By Design

The most popular form of radiation detector used is probably the Geiger-Mueller (GM) detector.   A GM detector is typically the device seen being used on TV shows and movies when measuring radiation.   The GM detector is the device which is making clickin ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Jul 5 2015 - 4:57am

AMVA4NewPhysics Logo

Apologizing for a hiatus due to vacations, I am posting today a tentative logo of the Marie-Curie network I am coordinating, AMVA4NewPhysics. A brief explanation of the symbols at the basis of the logo is given below, in order for you to propose changes or ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2015 - 3:41pm

Parton Distribution Functions For Run 2 At The LHC

When you create an energetic collision between two protons, as the Large Hadron Collider does at large rates and very high energy, the question is what is the chance that a rare process is generated. In the quantum world, everything that is possible is als ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2015 - 3:10pm

The Ins And Outs Of QCD

Quarks and antiquarks are the teeny, tiny building blocks with which all matter is built, binding together to form protons and neutrons in a process explained by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). According to QCD, quarks possess one of three charges that allo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2015 - 9:00am

How To Search For Higgs Boson Pairs? A Phenomenological Paper From Yours Truly

Working as an experimental particle physicist in a large scientific collaboration, such as the 3000-strong CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, is a (not too uncommon) privilege, for several reasons.  One of those reasons is of purely numerical kind: the number ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2015 - 6:55am

Pentaquarks Claimed By LHCb

The CERN Director General Rolf Heuer issued the following statement today, reporting the discovery of exotic pentaquark states by the LHCb collaboration: Geneva, 14 July 2015. Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the disc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 14 2015 - 9:01am

Marek Karliner: Not A Pentaquark, But A Molecule- As He And Rosner Predicted

The reported observation of a resonant state of a J/psi meson and a proton in the decay of the Lambda_b baryon by the LHCb collaboration, broadcast by CERN today, is a very intriguing new piece of the puzzle of hadron spectroscopy- a topic on which many br ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 14 2015 - 3:37pm

Out of time, too much time, what is time? Ask Emmy or Albert

    If you like star trek or similar science fiction, you have probably heard of the term, "space-time continuum". Well it is a real thing, as is time, and yes the definition of time still works for all of our day to day scheduling of events and ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Jul 15 2015 - 8:51pm

Generalization of Newton's inertia principle in flavor phenomenology

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   Generalization of Newton ’s inertia principle in flavor phenomenology ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 12 2015 - 1:03pm