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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO experiments. He is the president of the Read More »

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I Will Vote

I Will Vote

Jun 06 2011 | comment(s)

Democracy should never be given for granted. So if you are given a chance to cast a vote, you should not overlook the fact that voting is both your duty toward your country, and a right you need to exercise if you don't want to lose it.

In Italy on June 12th and 13th citizens are called to vote directly to abolish a couple of laws that the current government insisted on forcing upon us. I will not spend a word on the laws themselves, since that is not the point of this short post. Rather, I want to explain the importance of going to vote, and why I hope that Italian readers of this blog will do it.
The Point On Higgs Searches

The Point On Higgs Searches

Jun 01 2011 | comment(s)

Summer conferences are just around the corner, and the LHC experiments are putting together O(1 fb) samples as we speak (in another post I will report on the progress of data collection at CMS, which has already collected over 650 inverse picobarns of useful data). It seems that this is a good time to make the point of where we stand with Higgs boson searches.

I am speaking, of course, of the Standard Model (C) Higgs boson, the only one which exists (maybe). Fancier concoctions, predicting five, eleven, or exp(pi) new scalars will be reviewed another day when I am under drugs.

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This Really Surprises Me

This Really Surprises Me

May 31 2011 | comment(s)

WTF. A pleasant, unexpected surprise awaited me in the CMS Times, the online periodical which reports on the status of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the research activities, the people participating in the experiment.
CDF W JJ Resonance Closer To 5 Sigma Now

CDF W JJ Resonance Closer To 5 Sigma Now

May 31 2011 | comment(s)

The fact that I am swamped by the too many activities I am involved in these days can be gauged by things like the following: I get to know about important new physics results coming from an experiment I am part of by... private communications from amateurs! Knowledgeable and informed ones, of course -but that's not the point.
The Say Of The Week

The Say Of The Week

May 28 2011 | comment(s)

"CERN is a Lab of culinary splendor and architectural catastrophe and Fermilab is the other way around"

L. Lederman, "The God Particle"
Skateboard Acrobats

Skateboard Acrobats

May 27 2011 | comment(s)

If you love skateboarding and if you love Venice, and if you are curious to see how a skater can live there regardless of the cronic absence of sporting structures (no skate parks, no way), have a look at this short video, which shows a few skate tricks performed in the streets of downtown Venice.

You might wonder what does this have to do with particle physics and with my blog. Little, admittedly. But the tricks are in part made by my son Filippo, 12 years old. This is his first video on YouTube and he's getting excited by few tens of hits.... So I thought I'd give him a boost by pasting the link here.