Physics

After 3 Years Of Maintenance, The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Back Into Collision Shape

The world’s largest particle accelerator is back in business. Today, two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider’s 27-kilometer ring at their injection energy of 450 billion electronvolts (450 GeV), marking the c ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2022 - 1:06pm

Learning To Discover

The "Learning to Discover" workshops and "AI and Physics" conference are taking place at Institut Pascal, a centre set on the top of a hill surrounded by woods near Orsay, France. The event focuses on new artificial intelligence techniq ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 25 2022 - 6:36am

Veritasium Is Still Wrong About How Electricity Actually Works, By His Own Standards, And Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics.

V eritasium is still wrong by his own standards because he did not give the full real explaination which is rooted in the real theory of electricity and magnetism.  Quantum Electro Dynamics.  In fact with that theory in hand the way this works out is more ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 2 2022 - 1:02pm

A Joint Discussion Forum For Physicists Of Particles, Nuclei, Neutrinos, And The Cosmos

As I write these few lines, I am sitting in the nice auditorium at CSIC in Madrid, where I came for a congress that is a bit different to many others that take place around the world at all times. Truth be told, covid-19 took a big hit on the organization ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 4 2022 - 4:55am

Two Points On The Future Of Detector Design

My attendance to the JENAS symposium in Madrid this week provided me with the opportunity to meet some of the senior colleagues who will influence the future development of technologies for fundamental research in the coming decade and more. Over coffee-br ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 6 2022 - 10:51am

The Event Horizon Telescope Image of Sagittarius A* And It's Likely Effect On General Relativity Research. UPDATE

A s a test of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity the Event Horizon Telescope image shows us an extreme example of light being bent by the mass of a black hole. General Relativity (GR) predicts that solar mass objects will do this to some degree which ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 12 2022 - 12:16pm

How Inconsistent Really Are The W Mass Measurements

The recent precise measurement of the W boson mass produced by the non-dead CDF collaboration last month continues to be at the focus of attention by the scientific community, for a good reason- if correct, the CDF measurement in and of itself would be the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 16 2022 - 6:07am

A Tale Of Two Two-Sigma Signals

Two recent analyses by the CMS experiments stand out, in my opinion, for their suggestive results. They both produce evidence at the two-three sigmaish level of the signals they were after: this means that the probability of the observed data under the no- ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 24 2022 - 4:47am

Giorgio The Unstoppable

I was happy to meet Giorgio Bellettini at the Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors this week, and I thought I would write here a note about him. At 89 years of age Giorgio still has all his wits around him, and he is still as compelling and unstoppable as an ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 27 2022 - 3:41am

Experiments Find That The W Boson Is Heavier Than Expected, Challenging The Standard Model

Despite shutting down its operations in 2011, data from an old experiment at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) has pushed scientists to further rethink the Standard Model. ...

Article - Mark Pierce - May 31 2022 - 5:51pm