Physics

INFN Selections- A Last Batch Of Advices

Next Monday, the Italian city of Rome will swarm with about 700 young physicists. They will be there to participate to a selection of 58 INFN research scientists. In previous articles (see e.g. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2016 - 9:49am

Dirac CP-violating phase from deviotion neutrino mixing off geometric bimaximal approximation

800x600 Dirac CP-violating phase from deviation of neutrino mixing from geometric bimaximal approximation   ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 15 2016 - 4:53pm

Nano Bubbles Unexplained Mysteries And One Big Mystery

The physics of nanometer sized bubbles is mysterious and controversial. Gas bubbles in liquids are unstable.[2] Also large air bubbles in water are not stable. Even if we keep them somehow from rising to the surface and popping, the surface tension of the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 19 2016 - 2:45am

Are There Two Higgses? No, And I Won Another Bet!

The 2012 measurements of the Higgs boson, performed by ATLAS and CMS on 7- and 8-TeV datasets collected during Run 1 of the LHC, were a giant triumph of fundamental physics, which conclusively showed the correctness of the theoretical explanation of electr ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 19 2016 - 7:16am

A Book By Guido Tonelli

Yesterday I read with interest and curiosity some pages of a book on the search and discovery of the Higgs boson, which was published  last March  by Rizzoli (in Italian only, at least for the time being). The book, authored by physics professor and ex CMS ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 24 2016 - 11:38am

Neutrino Mixing CP-violating Phenomenology with only Two Free Parameters

800x600 Neutrino Mixing CP-violating Phenomenology with only Two Free Parameters The flavor-geometric semi-empirical phenomenology appears a powerful source of new basic ideas in the Standard Model Flavor Sector. Most recent new idea is CP-nonconservation ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 26 2016 - 6:03pm

How To Become A Researcher

The INFN exam for nuclear and subnuclear physicists, to select 58 new researchers, took place on September 19th (first test) and 20th (second test) in Rome. Two different locations for the two tests were set up as the number of candidates who enrolled in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 1 2016 - 11:46am

Anomaly! Book News

The first few copies of my new book, “Anomaly! – Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab” arrived this morning from Singapore. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 3 2016 - 6:26am

Horse Dung In The Detector, And Other Stories

The text below is part of a chapter of "Anomaly!" which I eventually removed from the book, mainly due to the strict page limit set by my publisher. It is a chapter that discusses the preparations for Run 2 of the Fermilab Tevatron, which starte ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 8 2016 - 8:15am

Another Stone On The Diphotonium Grave

Last December, when the ATLAS and CMS experiments gave two bacl-to-back talks at the end-of-the-year LHC "physics jamboree" in the CERN main auditorium, the whole world of particle physics was confronted with a new question nobody had seen coming ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 14 2016 - 7:28am