Physics

Guest Post: Tony Smith: One Or Three Higgs Bosons?

Frank D. Smith (Tony Smith for his friends) has been following this blog since the beginning. He is an independent researcher who is very interested in phenomena connected with the top quark and the Higgs boson. He has a theory of his own and he has been ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 30 2018 - 9:50am

Stephen Hawking's Final Theory On Many Worlds

Like sex, Stephen Hawking was and is mainly a cheap way to obtain publicity. They still publish posthumously now to keep it going. The media feast on the occasion of his parting was not enough, sadly also here at Science2.0 by the usual suspects. I refuse ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 10 2018 - 1:58am

Is Dark Matter Lurking In Anomalous Neutron Decays?

A paper by B. Fornal and B. Grinstein published last week in Physical Review Letters is drawing a lot of interest to one of the most well-known pieces of subnuclear physics since the days of Enrico Fermi: beta decay. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 13 2018 - 9:53am

Piero Martin At TedX: An Eulogy Of The Error

Living in Padova has its merits. I moved here since January 1st and am enjoying every bit of it. I used to live in Venice, my home town, and commute with Padova during weekdays, but a number of factors led me to decide on this move (not last the fact that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 19 2018 - 10:28am

MiniBoone Confirms Neutrino Anomaly

Neutrinos, the most mysterious and fascinating of all elementary particles, continue to puzzle physicists. 20 years after the experimental verification of a long-debated effect whereby the three neutrino species can "oscillate", changing their na ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 1 2018 - 9:54am

Modeling Issues Or New Physics? Surprises From Top Quark Kinematics Study

Simulation, noun: 1. Imitation or enactment 2. The act or process of pretending; feigning. 3. An assumption or imitation of a particular appearance or form; counterfeit; sham. Well, high-energy physics is all about simulations.  We have a theoretical mode ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 10 2018 - 6:18am

Chasing The Higgs Self Coupling: New CMS Results

Happy Birthday Higgs boson! The discovery of the last fundamental particle of the Standard Model was announced exactly 6 years ago at CERN (well, plus one day, since I decided to postpone to July 5 the publication of this post...). In the Standard Model, t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 9 2018 - 10:20am

ICHEP And Me

The ICHEP conference opened today in Seoul. This is the most well-attended conference in particle physics around, with usually over 1000 participants.  The week-long event dictates the deadline of particle physics and astrophysics experiments around, as ev ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2018 - 12:05pm

A Beautiful New Spectroscopy Measurement

What is spectroscopy?  (A) the observation of ghosts by infrared visors or other optical devices (B) the study of excited states of matter through observation of energy emissions If you answered (A), you are probably using a lousy internet search engine; a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 16 2018 - 4:30am

New Type Of Dibaryon Predicted- But Is It Real?

If you want to know how to do time travel, ask a mathematician. If you want to show how math is not science, but is instead the language of science, hand those equations to a physicist.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 4:40pm