Physics

A Quadrillion Collisions

Americans, but in general scientists, and science-lovers of any country, should be proud of the achievements of the Tevatron collider, the 2-TeV proton-antiproton collider build over a quarter of a century ago under the prairie of Batavia (IL), and which i ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 15 2009 - 5:46pm

Supernatural Coincidences And The Look-Elsewhere Effect

Have you ever caught yourself wondering, upon observing a seemingly utterly unlikely coincidence, whether there was anything supernatural at work that made it happen? I would guess that all of us, even the most rational thinkers, have caressed that thought ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 23 2009 - 9:28am

Ghost Writer Found, Paper Submitted!

Just a note, awaiting for my submission to the arxiv, to mention that my request here for a ghost writer to help me put together a proceedings paper for the PIC 2009 conference has been successful. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 18 2009 - 4:20am

Higgs boson searches with CMS

As I mentioned yesterday, I was able to put together a proceedings paper on the "Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the CMS Detector" with the help of a collaborator, Eleni Petrakou. The article will be available on the ArXiv preprint ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 19 2009 - 10:31am

Expendable Technicians

A friend told me this funny anecdote about the construction of a part of the inner tracker of the CDF detector called "ISL", the so-called "intermediate silicon layers" which were constructed in Italy and then sent to Fermilab for insta ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 22 2009 - 5:05am

Another Would-Be Z' Signal Awaiting Us At 600 GeV

Ready for another turn into National-Enquirer mode of particle physics reporting? I have a figure to discuss. It is a result now a few months old, but one which received little attention-less than it should have, perhaps. I myself got to see it only a few ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 22 2009 - 5:39pm

Balloon Boy: Richard Heene's "crackpot" "pseudo scientific" idea. EM's influence on cyclones. Updated.

You read right his "mad" idea is simply that electromagnetic fields effect the formation and evolution of cyclones.  What they proposed and measured in the paper, " ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 31 2009 - 6:58pm

Plot Of The Week- The Upsilon Puzzle

My statistics page depressingly shows that a large fraction of readers who visit this site do so for an average of 30 seconds. Maybe they were looking for something different, or maybe they do not like the content offered here. In any case, I have decided ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2009 - 11:04am

Fermi Telescope Peers At Space-Time

NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has captured more than one thousand discrete sources of gamma rays in its first year, including a measurement that provided experimental evidence about the very structure of space and time, unified as space-time ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2009 - 2:18pm

A Week's Worth Of Science: Four Papers To Browse

A Sunday morning browsing through preprints recently posted in the Cornell Arxiv revealed interesting reading material. If you have a couple of hours to kill next week, why not having a look at the following papers? It will definitely hurt you less than sp ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 1 2009 - 8:29am