Physics

Metaphors in Quantum Mechanics

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Oct 22 2016 - 2:44pm

Is Dark Matter A Very Light Boson? Witten Says It Might

The mystery of what clumps galaxy clusters together, and provides for a quarter of the matter-energy budget of the universe, really looks like_the_ most important scientific question we face today. There is nowadays compelling evidence of the correctness o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 2 2016 - 9:29pm

Seminars And Colloquia In The US

As the 23 faithful readers of this blog already know, I recently wrote a book that describes the searches for new physics undertaken by a glorious particle physics experiment, CDF, during the eighties and nineties. The book, titled "Anomaly! Collider ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 8 2016 - 2:30pm

A Colloquium At Northwestern

Back to my office in Padova, I am looking back at last week's travel around the US and the two talks I delivered at SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and Northwestern University. The event at SLAC was an experimental seminar. Due to a cla ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2016 - 4:05pm

Vector Boson Scattering: ATLAS Tests SM Unitarity

A new paper by the ATLAS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider produces results in good agreement with standard model predictions: the unitarity of the cross section of the vector-boson scattering process, one of the original reasons for invoking ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 17 2016 - 10:21am

Anomaly! Book Presentation At CERN On November 29

The book " Anomaly! Collider physics and the quest for new phenomena at Fermilab " is about to be published, after a somewhat long and anti-climatic wait. And the first presentation events are being scheduled here and there. If you are at CERN I ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 21 2016 - 7:50am

Crazy Enough to be True?

800x600 Crazy Enough to Be True? According Einstein and in agreement with recent approach of S. Weinberg, it must be ‘something’ in the outer space that parallels the quantum wave function Psi(x, y, z) in places where it is not zero. In terms of class ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Nov 23 2016 - 6:38pm

The Five Stages Of A Dying Theory

I am told that when a patient is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he or she will likely go through a well-defined sequence of stages. The first stage is Denial: the patient will convince him- or herself that there is a mistake in the diagnosis, that som ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2016 - 11:47am

Is The X(5568) A True Resonance?

The DZERO collaboration published earlier this year a search for resonances decaying to pairs in its Run-2 dataset of 2-TeV proton-antiproton collisions, produced by the now defunct Tevatron collider in the first 10 years of this century. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 6 2016 - 4:01pm

From Data:-- Neutrinos are Related to Geometry Unique Particles