Physics

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

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Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Dec 9 2016 - 1:52pm

Obscure Tools Of The Practical Experimental Physicist: The Brazil Band

As I am traveling around Europe this week, giving seminars in several places (Hamburg yesterday, Berlin today, and Clermont-Ferrand on Friday) my connectivity is erratic and my capability to follow the development of data analysis and new publications is s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 14 2016 - 12:07pm

Wishing For New Physics In Next Years' Results

In any physicists' new-year wish list there is a mandatory item: the finding of some unexpected, bolt-from-the-blue new physics result- possibly leading to highly-cited publications, press interviews and invitations, and ultimately career advancements ...

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

Holiday Physics Card, 2016

Just put them in the mail on December 24... It was a fun year of thinking, whether the idea is right or wrong. Since the core idea fits on a Christmas card, it is worth continuing to think about in the new year. Peace to all, and to all a good night. ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 25 2016 - 11:55am

Pileup: A Nasty Background To Higgs Plus Top Pairs?

Today while I was having a shower I happened to think at how cool it is that we can actually measure the rate of production, in single hadron-hadron collisions, of multiple elementary particles. A graph like the one below, now routinely produced by ATLAS a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 26 2016 - 11:16am

Three More Chances To Meet

During the past few months I have been giving seminars and colloquia in several institutes around Europe and the US. The topic was more or less always the same, i.e. the discovery criterion used in fundamental physics to decide whether to claim for the obs ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 27 2016 - 2:59pm

INFN Gives 73 Permanent Positions To Young Researchers In Physics

Today I am actually quite proud of my research institute, the "Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN, which leads Italian research in fundamental physics. In fact a selection to hire 73 new researchers with permanent positions has reached its su ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 29 2016 - 10:45am

A Visit To Israel

I am spending a week in Israel to visit three physics institutes for colloquia and seminars: the Tel Aviv University (where I gave a colloquium yesterday), the Haifa Technion (where I am giving a seminar today), and the Weizmann institute in Rehovot (where ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 3 2017 - 4:17am