Physics

Recurrently, uninformed journalists re-discover the h-index and decide to create their own list of the "top scientists" in their country. The most zealous also draw some summary statistics from the list, and then venture to speculate wildly about ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 30 2015 - 6:00am

The real science behind astrology

Is there a battle between astrology and science? The law of gravity is readily recognized and easily tested. The force that gave rise to the expression, "whatever goes up must come down" has indeed undergone extensive scientific testing and is ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Oct 31 2015 - 3:57pm

An Online Database Of Nuclear Electromagnetic Moments

If you are into Nuclear Physics there is very good chance you know about nuclear electromagnetic moments. Actually, nuclear electromagnetic moments has been the field of my specialty from the beginning of my scientific career. This is also why my blog in s ...

Article - Theo Mertzimekis - Nov 2 2015 - 6:27pm

A Brief History Of Femtoscopy

This week I am in Warsaw, where I attend the XI workshop on particle correlations and femtoscopy. I am actually here to give a seminar on statistical methods in particle physics next Thursday, but of course I am also going to try and deepen my understandin ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 3 2015 - 6:25am

Calculating Invervals Between Events

In my last blog, I wrote in detail about zero, one, real numbers, complex numbers and quaternions (or as I now prefer to call them, space-time numbers although I use them interchangeably). For each sort of number, there were rules for addition, rules for ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 30 2015 - 8:34pm

New Idea of Quantum Medium

The WF-Collapse (WF-C) is in general a nonlocal phenomenon. ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Nov 22 2015 - 8:50pm

The Graph Of The Week: Polarization In Single Top Production

Top quarks, the heaviest known elementary particles, were discovered in 1995 by the CDF and DZERO collaborations, when the two Fermilab experiments spotted the decay of top-antitop pairs produced by strong interactions in the proton-antiproton collisions ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 9 2015 - 5:49am

Dark Matter And Particle Acceleration, Soon In Space Near You

The heart of darkness is a metaphor but it is quite literal when it comes to space. Not only is matter as we know it just a fraction of what is out there, it is only a few percent. That means the rest of the universe is truly unknown. Physicists have give ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2015 - 6:35am

The Long And Short Of Plasma Turbulence

For more than 60 years, fusion scientists have tried to use "magnetic bottles" of various shapes and sizes to confine extremely hot plasmas, with the goal of producing practical fusion energy. But turbulence in the plasma has, so far, confounded ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 9:02am

The Mysterious Z Boson Width Measurement- CDF 1989

As I am revising the book I am writing on the history of the CDF experiment, I have bits and pieces of text that I decided to remove, but which retain some interest for some reason. Below I offer a clip which discusses the measurement of the natural width ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2015 - 10:29am