Physics

The Cleverest Experiment Of Twentieth Century

At about this time of the year I find myself teaching my students about the construction of V-A theory, which is a milestone in the construction of the Standard Model of particle physics. And in so doing I rejoice about having a chance to tell them the de ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 4 2022 - 6:01am

Toward Artificial Intelligence Assisted Design Of Experiments

That's the title of a short article I just published (it is online here, but beware- for now you need to access from an institution that can access the journal contents), on Nuclear Instruments and Methods- a renowned journal for particle physics and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 26 2022 - 7:03pm

ATLAS Awesome Flavour Tagging Algorithms

The title of this post is not of my making- it is something you may read in a list of recent ATLAS results, in one of the otherwise dry and business-like web pages of the experiment: Don't get me wrong, I am all for a bit of personality in such web ou ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 6 2022 - 9:46am

Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion, And With It, One Of The Biggest Scientific Achievements In History

This week, scientists from the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Dec 15 2022 - 9:45am

Breakthrough: First Direct Measurement Of The Donnan Potential

The Donnan electric potential arises from an imbalance of charges at the interface of a charged membrane and a liquid but detecting it directly has not been possible. Until now. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2022 - 10:47am

Eight Tips For Young Researchers

A long while ago (my gosh, 13 years!!) I wrote on this site a two- post piece titled " Five Tips for Particle Physics Ph.D. Wannabes ". At 43 years of age, I felt confident that I could look back to some experience gathered while being a Ph.D. my ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 21 2022 - 9:33am

Scientific Wish List For 2023

Another year just started, and this is as good a time as any to line up a few wishes. Not a bucket list, nor a "will do" set of destined-to-fail propositions. It is painful to have to reckon with the failure of our strength of will, so I'd s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 3 2023 - 7:43pm

Collaborative Science In Times Of War

I just finished reading a very nice piece on the Guardian, written by my friend and ex colleague Eleni Petrakou, who collaborated with me in the CMS experiment at CERN and is now a scientific writer. The topic is the disruptive effect that the war in Ukrai ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 17 2023 - 2:24pm

The Interest Of High-School Students For Hard Sciences

Yesterday I visited a high school in Venice to deliver a lecture on particle physics, and to invite the participating students to take part in an art and science contest. This is part of the INFN "Art and Science across Italy" project, which has ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 24 2023 - 8:58am

Are Black Holes The Source of Dark Energy? Possibly, Just Possibly.

R ecent research has proposed that some black holes are the astrophysical origin of dark energy.  Is this true and what exactly does this mean?  What is dark energy in the first place?  These are all complex questions, and this short report is just a thin ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 24 2023 - 12:57pm