Physics

Today, while Americans set up their barbecues and prepare to celebrate their Independence, particle physicists around the world have a different reason to celebrate. Four years ago today is when the Higgs boson got officially declared a confirmed new part ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2016 - 7:00am

ATLAS And CMS Publish Articles Confirming Tantalizing Hints Of New 750 GeV Boson

Final results of searches for particles decaying to photon pairs in 2015 data keep hopes alive for imminent ground-breaking discovery On December 15 th last year, as the physics coordinators of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations showcased the results of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2016 - 4:00am

Thou shalt construct in a modular way

Diving deep into the foundations of physical reality requires a deep dive into advanced mathematics. Usually this goes together with formulas or other descriptions that are incomprehensible to most people. ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Jul 10 2016 - 5:09am

Poster Session At ICNFP 2016

I am spending a week in Kolimbari, a nice seaside place in western Crete. Here the fifth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics is being held in the Orthodox Academy of Crete. The conference gathers together high-energy experimentalists and t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 10 2016 - 3:43pm

Space From Hilbert Space: A Popular Overview.

T he concept origin of space-time itself as a emergent property of a collection of fundamentally quantum systems without a notion of space-time is not new. When this is done usually certain presuppositions are made about the nature of the underlying quant ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 10 2016 - 7:38pm

Can An Unstable Vacuum Drive The Expansion Of The Universe?

Is the expansion of the Universe a natural effect due to the internal dynamical properties of the physical vacuum? Can one rule out the possibility that the vacuum is unstable (or metastable) and naturally expands emitting conventional matter and energy s ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Aug 11 2016 - 2:35am

How Much Light Does A Proton Contain?

Gavin Salam's talk at the "Altarelli Memorial" session of the ICNFP 2016 conference, which is presently taking place in Kolimbari (Crete), was very interesting and I wish to report here about it. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 16 2016 - 4:20am

Quantum Mechanics Started with Semi-Empirical Phenomenology – Important Lesson

800x600 Quantum Mechanics Started with Semi-Empirical Phenomenology – Important Lesson ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Jul 15 2016 - 9:43pm

LUX Dark Matter Experiment Ends With No WIMPs Found

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its search for the missing matter of the universe yielding no tr ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2016 - 9:47am

Book News And A Clip

My book " Anomaly!- Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab " is slowly getting its finishing touches, as the second round of proofreading draws to a close. The book is scheduled to appear in bookstores on November 5th, and i ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 21 2016 - 7:58am