Physics

100 Years of Einstein’s General Relativity

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Nov 19 2015 - 8:56pm

Anomaly!- A Different Particle Physics Book

I was very happy today to sign a contract with an international publisher that will publish a book I have written. The book, titled " Anomaly!- Scientific Discoveries and the Quest for the Unknown ", focuses on the CDF experiment, a particle dete ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2015 - 9:02am

Supersymmetry Is About To Be Discovered, Kane Says

While in the process of fact-checking information that is contained in the book I am finalizing, I had the pleasure to have a short discussion with Gordon Kane during the weekend. A Victor Weisskopf distinguished professor at the University of Michigan as ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 25 2015 - 3:24pm

LHC Collides Heavy Nuclei At New Record High Energy

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been colliding protons at record high energy since the summer, but now the time has now come to collide large nuclei (nuclei of lead, Pb, consist of 208 neutrons and protons). ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 8:00am

Single Top Production At The LHC

As an editor of the new Elsevier journal "Reviews in Physics" I am quite proud to see that the first submissions of review articles are reaching publication stage. Four such articles are going to be published in the course of the next couple of m ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2015 - 12:17pm

CERN And LIP Openings For Graduate Students In Physics- Good $$$

Have you recently obtained a Masters degree in a scientific discipline? Are you fascinated by particle physics? Do you have an interest in Machine Learning developments, artificial intelligence, and all that? Or are you just well versed in Statistical Anal ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 30 2015 - 9:53am

The Graph Of The Week: Dijet Bump Hunt By ATLAS

This week's graph is a reminder that particle physicists are, deep in their bones, bump hunters. Sure, some of my colleagues could best be described as detector builders; others as software wizards; still others as statistical gurus. But what excites ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2015 - 8:18am

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As I am sure happens with many other human occupations, the job of a particle physicist proceeds in bursts of activity interspersed with periods of more relative calm. Deadlines must be met, and sometimes several of them overlap. The life of a physicist ca ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 10 2015 - 4:59am

Challenging the Tensor Calculus Status Quo

In this blog, I challenge the vaulted role that tensor calculus enjoys today. I will define a concrete example of what I consider to be a technical flaw in the tools of tensor calculus in all modern physics theories. The complaint is about completeness, th ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jan 25 2016 - 10:52pm

Place Your Bets: The Top 5 Candidates For 'Dark Matter'

When we look out at the universe – even with the most powerful of telescopes – we can only see a fraction of the matter we know must be there. In fact, for every gram’s worth of atoms in the universe, there is at least five times more invisible material c ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 14 2015 - 8:56am