Physics

Physics-Inspired Artwork In Venice 1: Sub-Lime

This is the first of a series of posts that will publish the results of artistic work by high-school students of three schools in Venice, who participate in a contest and exposition connected to the initiative " Art and Science across Italy ", a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 23 2017 - 8:01am

Physics-Inspired Artwork In Venice 2: Symmetries

As I explained in the previous post of this series, students in high schools of the Venice area have been asked to produce artistic works inspired by LHC physics research, and in particular the Higgs boson. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 26 2017 - 5:39am

Boosted H--> bb Decays Seen By CMS!

The CMS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has pulled off an extremely neat new measurement of the Higgs boson production rate- one which, for some reasons, is extraordinary in its own right. Despite being the decay mode with the highest proba ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 29 2017 - 7:57am

Authoring a Paper in Public, the Next Level in Open Science Communication, Oh and a Theory of Everything.

Open science communication is not a new idea but the idea of doing the composition of a paper on a cloud based, search indexed, public platform where anyone can see how the sausage is made is.   Authorea is just such a platform and I am using it to put the ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 29 2017 - 9:58pm

Meeting Matts Roos

Today I gave a seminar at the Physics Department of the University of Helsinki, to talk of " Controversial Phenomena in Collider Data and the 5-Sigma Criterion in HEP ", invited by Juska Pekkanen and Mikko Voutilanen, two CMS colleagues.  The sem ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 31 2017 - 4:52am

Physics-Inspired Artwork In Venice: The Works By The Foscarini School Students

This article continues the series of postings in this blog on the results of artistic work by high-school students of three schools in Venice (out of five who took part initially) that participate in a contest and exposition connected to the initiative &q ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2017 - 9:08am

Physics World's Review Of "Anomaly!"

A new review of my book, " Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab ", has appeared on the June issue of "Physics World". It is authored by Gavin Hesketh, a lecturer at University College London, and you can ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2017 - 7:27am

Fundamental Quantum Uncertainty And Stingy Guitar Tuning

There is a very simple high school homework exercise question that I have kept with me for 30 or so years because of its deep relevance for the understanding of fundamental physics. It teaches about the nature of quantum uncertainty, but sadly also about h ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 16 2017 - 10:42pm

EPS 2017: 1000 Physicists In Venice

The 2017 edition of the European Physical Society conference will take place in the Lido of Venice this week, from July 5th to 12th. For the first time in many years-30 as of now- a big international conference in HEP is organized in Italy, a datum I found ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2017 - 8:57am

LHCb Unearths New Doubly-Charmed Hadron Where Marek Karliner And Jonathan Rosner Ordered It

[UPDATE: see at the bottom for some additional commentary following a post on the matter by our friend Lubos Motl in his blog, where he quotes this piece and disagrees on the interest of finding the Xi mass in perfect agreement with an a priori calculation ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2017 - 12:17pm