Physics

Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis Methods For New Physics Searches At The LHC

The title of this post coincides with the one of a scientific report which was submitted for publication in Reviews in Physics last Sunday; and it is also the meaning of the acronym "AMVA4NewPhysics", the name of an European Union-funded Innovati ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 20 2021 - 10:26am

Validating The Quantum Statistical Model Of Reactions

When one thinks about chemistry, one doesn't usually consider quantum mechanics to play a part. Yet it does. When it boils down to it, all matter is a combination of a handful of subatomic particles and the forces holding them together. Chemistry, is ...

Article - Mark Pierce - May 24 2021 - 1:14pm

CMS Measures Multiboson Production Processes

The CMS Collaboration submitted for publication last week a nice new result, where proton-proton collisions data collected by the experiment during the past run of the Large Hadron Collider were scanned in search of very peculiar events featuring a weak bo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 30 2021 - 9:53am

Articles In Preparation: Anomaly Detection, Differentiable Programming, Nearest Neighbours On Steroids

Usually, when we talk about our research we discuss things we have recently published, highlighting the importance or novelty of their contribution to the advancement of human understanding or knowledge of the specific field of Science we work on.  So it i ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 5 2021 - 8:27am

Unsupervised Rounding Up Of Anomalous Densities With RanBox

In the previous post I mentioned a research project that I was about to conclude, centered on the detection of anomalies in multidimensional data. Here I would like to give some more detail of that research, as the article I wrote on the subject is now pub ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 14 2021 - 10:23am

Was Einstein Wrong? No, His Theories Are Simply Incomplete.

A nyone writing that Einstein was fundamentally wrong has not understood General Relativity.  There are really two different things which are General Relativity.  There are the principles that define General Relativity in particular the Einstein Equivalen ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 14 2021 - 11:02pm

Fitting Lines Through Points With Simple Math

One of the reasons why I love my job as a researcher in experimental physics is that every day brings along a new problem to solve, and through decades of practice I have become quick at solving them, so I typically enjoy doing it. And it does not matter w ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 25 2021 - 6:02pm

Black Hole Neutron Star Mergers Observed With Certainty, Why Not In Our Galaxy?

T hrough two observations that match theoretical expectations for a Black Hole neutron star merger humanity can now place limits on how often these occur.  About once per month within a one billion light year radius of the Earth Black Holes and Neutron St ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 29 2021 - 11:33am

Two Good Opportunities For In-Person Discussions On Machine Learning For Physics

After over one year of forced confinement, due to the still ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, academics around the world seem to have settled down on the idea that after all, we can still do our job via videoconferencing. We had to adapt to the situation as every ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 2 2021 - 3:19am

RanBox Goes Semi-Supervised

Following my strong belief that science dissemination, and open borders science, is too important to pursue as a goal to constrain it by fears of being stripped of good ideas and scooped by fast competitors, I am offering here some ideas on a reserch plan ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 14 2021 - 8:08am