Physics

The Carnival of Physics is an event organized by Gravità Zero and Gravedad Cero, two sites of scientific outreach in Italy and Spain. I participate with three recent articles which are published on their site. Most other contributions are in Italian and Sp ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 30 2009 - 8:17am

Plot Of The Week- Top Quarks Aplenty

I do not know about you, but top quarks fascinate me. Since my early years as a student in particle physics I participated in the top search, and then the top discovery, with the CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider; and I then worked for many more year ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 4 2009 - 7:53pm

Amanda Knox: Guilty

The verdict is out: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito killed Meredith Kercher. The murder of the young British student in Perugia two years ago was a highly disputed case, and the proof of guilt of the two young lovers-a US citizen studying in Perugia and ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 4 2009 - 6:33pm

Thinking Multidimensional

One of the cool things I have learned to do, through years of experience in data analysis at particle colliders, is to visualize the complex kinematics of a signal process in a multi-dimensional space, and imagine ways to separate it from backgrounds by se ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 6 2009 - 1:03pm

News From Inside

Well, as you know I cannot say anything about internal matters of the CMS experiment at the LHC, but I know that other sites will have information pretty soon on the matter. So my advice for tonight is to browse the web, and possibly the site of less discr ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 8 2009 - 5:35pm

News From Inside II: 2.36 TeV Collisions!

Ok, now it is public, so I can also broadcast it: LHC last night got the two proton beams to collide at 2.36 TeV total center of mass energy. You can see a few event displays here: http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/public/EVTDISPLAY/events.html (from ATLAS), ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 9 2009 - 2:57am

Science In The Making

Tomorrow I will be packing up and leaving CERN to fly back home, after a quite eventful, productive, extenuating, exhilarating week. The reason for my coming to Geneva was the CMS week, an event that takes place four times a year, and where a good fraction ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 12 2009 - 6:27pm

Holographic Hot Horizons

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Article - Johannes Koelman - Jan 2 2010 - 8:58pm

Missing Energy Kicks New Physics Models Off The Board

The signature of large missing energy and jets is arguably one of the most important avenues for the study of potential new physics signatures at today's hadron colliders. The above concept marks an interesting turn of events: the years of the glorifi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 16 2009 - 7:04pm

Holographic Horizons Get Hotter

Three days ago I wrote a blog about a new theory that seems to lead to the conclusion that gravity is an effect emerging from quantum mechanical principles. ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 17 2009 - 11:47pm