Physics

Well, as some of you may have heard, the restart of the LHC has not been as smooth as we had hoped. In a machine as complex as this the chance that something gets in the way of a well-followed schedule is quite significant. So there have been slight delays ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 27 2015 - 6:08pm

(Well)-Paid PhD Position In Physics Offered In Padova, Italy

Are you a post-lauream student in Physics, interested in pursuing a career in particle physics, and maybe with interest in advanced machine learning applications, with an eye to a great job after your PhD? Then this posting is for you. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 30 2015 - 9:22am

Suggestion: The EM Drive Is Getting The Appropriate Level Of Attention From The Science Community

There have been many news stories saying that the EM Drive will solve almost all problems in interplanetary travel, permit low cost flying cars and who knows what else. Other stories say that it is flat out impossible and we shouldn't spend a single ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 6:00pm

Bang! Meet The Highest-Energy Hadron Collision Ever Imaged!

The 13 TeV data from LHC collisions taken this summer is quickly going through analysis programs and being used for new physics results, and everybody is wondering whether there are surprises in store... Of course that will require some more time to be asc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 31 2015 - 3:46pm

Stardust For Sale

Meteorites- stones that fall on Earth from space- are quite rare, but not so much as to make their possession impossible. In fact I know a few collectors of these strange bits of matter; and I find the very strange-looking stones quite fascinating. I mysel ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 4 2015 - 7:02am

How To Produce Exotic Baryons

Exotic baryons, what are they? But first of all, what is a baryon? Well, it depends whom you ask the question to. In the context of the static quark model, a baryon is a particle composed of a triplet of quarks, as opposed to a meson, which is a particle c ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2015 - 6:17am

Fermilab Sees Oscillating Neutrinos Change Over 500 Miles

Scientists on the NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) experiment saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, confirming that the extraordinary detector built for the project not only functions as planned but is also making great progr ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 3:49pm

Science: It's Just Our Job Five Days A Week

On these hot days of August one is led to remember the lyrics of Elton John's 1972 hit "Rocket Man": "and all that science I don't understand... It's just my job five days a week". Indeed, being a scientist should not be ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2015 - 6:47am

Flavor-Inertia Hierarchy Hypothesis Relates 3 Generations Of SM to 3 Euclidean Space Dimensions

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Aug 11 2015 - 10:00pm

The Plot Of The Week- Higgs Decays To Converted Photons

One of the nice things about the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson is that the particle has been found at a very special spot- that is, with a very special mass. At 125 GeV, the Higgs boson has a significant probability to decay into a multitude of differe ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 17 2015 - 11:35am