Physics

Revenge Of The Slimeballs- Part 4

This is the fourth part of Chapter 3 of the book  "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab".  The chapter recounts the pioneering measurement of the Z mass by the CDF detector, and the competition with SLAC during t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 18 2017 - 4:37am

Basic quantum field theory

Abstract In the eighteenth century, scientists discovered the ingredients of basic quantum field theory. ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Aug 21 2017 - 2:34pm

Revenge Of The Slimeballs Part 5: When US Labs Competed For Leadership In HEP

This is the fifth and final part of Chapter 3 of the book  "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab".  (the beginning of the chapter was omitted since it described a different story). The chapter recounts the pionee ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 23 2017 - 9:57am

A Narrow Escape From The Cumbre Rucu Volcano

If I am alive, I probably owe it to my current very good physical shape. That does not mean I narrowly escaped a certain death; rather, it means that if I had been slower there are good chances I would have got hit by lightning, under arduous conditions, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 26 2017 - 4:10am

Solar Eclipse Hold the Corona: Testing Einstein, and the Theories of Everything.

A rthur Eddington and others tried numerous times to test Einstein's general theory of relativity by photographing the stars which appear in the sky next to the eclipsed sun.   Einstein's theory predicted a particular change in their apparent po ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 26 2017 - 2:55pm

CMS Reports Evidence For Higgs Decays To B-Quark Pairs

Another chapter in the saga of the search for the elusive, but dominant, decay mode of the Higgs boson has been reported by the CMS collaboration last month. This is one of those specific sub-fields of research where a hard competition arises on the answer ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2017 - 9:59am

Rediscovered Dark Quanta

Abstract Two and a half centuries ago, scientist discovered solutions of the wave equation that represent dark quanta. ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Sep 13 2017 - 5:20am

Physical Simplicity

Abstract Physical reality must be simple. ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Sep 17 2017 - 3:32pm

Top Quarks Observed In Proton-Nucleus Collisions For The First Time

The top quark is the heaviest known matter corpuscle we consider elementary. Elementary is an overloaded word in English, so I need to explain what it means in the context of subatomic particles. If we grab a dictionary we get several possibilities, like e ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 1 2017 - 9:21am

Are clamps miniature gravitational waves?

Clamps are miniature equivalents to the gravitational shock fronts caused by colliding black holes that currently reach the press because very sensitive measuring equipment such as LIGO can detect these fronts when they pass the sensor. During travel, the ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Sep 28 2017 - 4:08pm