Physics

New Exotic Hadrons Discovered By LHCb!

Despite the foul weather that has sieged central Europe in the past few days, with floods, destruction, even deaths, and the occasional evacuation of the auditorium where physicists discussed their recent results, the 28th edition of the " Rencontres ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 3 2016 - 2:36pm

The Large Hadron Collider Piles Up More Data

With CERN's Large Hadron Collider slowly but steadily cranking up its instantaneous luminosity, expectations are rising on the results that CMS and ATLAS will present at the 2016 summer conferences, in particular ICHEP (which will take place in Chicag ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2016 - 1:23pm

The Call To Outreach

I have recently put a bit of order into my records of activities as a science communicator, for an application to an outreach prize. In doing so, I have been able to take a critical look at those activities, something which I would otherwise not have spent ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2016 - 6:11am

Top Evidence At The Altarelli Memorial Symposium

I am spending some time today at the Altarelli Memorial Symposium, which is taking place at the main auditorium at CERN. The recently deceased Guido Altarelli was one of the leading theorists who brought us to the height of our understanding of the Standar ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 12 2016 - 7:22am

Publication censorship of new physics ideas – a sort of pseudo-science

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Jun 17 2016 - 11:33am

Program Of The Statistics Session At QCHS 2016

I am happy to announce here that a session on "Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXI Century" will take place at the " Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum " conference, which will be held in Thessaloniki on August 28 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 20 2016 - 5:09am

Mechanisms that keep reality coherent

==This is an early document. The insights of the author have refined. See the Wikiversity Hilbert Book Model Project for a more recent interpretation== Quantum physics applies Hilbert spaces as the realm in which quantum physical research is done. However ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Aug 5 2017 - 4:22am

Merging Mathematical Technologies by Applying the Reverse bra-ket Method

Current quantum physical models treat Hilbert spaces, function theory and differential calculus and integral calculus as separate entities. In the past nothing existed that directly relates these ingredients, which together constitute the quantum physical ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Jun 22 2016 - 10:41am

Finding All-Hadronic Top- Again

The top quark is the heaviest known subatomic particle we may call "elementary", i.e. one we describe as a point-like object; it weighs a full 66% more than the Higgs boson itself! Top was discovered in 1995 by the CDF and DZERO collaborations at ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 25 2016 - 11:58am

Adventures Of A Physicist On Vacation

As my blogging here has been erratic in the last couple of weeks, I feel I need to explain to my 23 readers (what citation is this BTW?) what I have been up to. So this post does not contain any physics, and is rather about how a physicist fights for some ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 2 2016 - 7:33am