Physical Sciences

Buy New Textbooks Again? Pluto May Go Back To Planet Status

the solar system; they may contain, together, the most total surface area of all the solid-surfaced ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 26 2015 - 10:30am

Guest Post: Daniel Hoak, Gravitational Waves: How We Did It

calculated using only the SNR, and the background rate for that SNR is marginalized over all of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2016 - 5:37am

Guess The B Fraction!

statistic. This can be computed once Pablo will have spun all the QCD Monte Carlo, obtaining the true values ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 22 2016 - 10:22am

Odds of Intelligent life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets: NOT Great.

all.   It’s not as if we have sent a probe to look at that solar system up close.   So, anyone who says ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 21 2016 - 4:23pm

A Colloquium At Northwestern

and Ian. In all cases we had very interesting conversations about their research and selected topics ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2016 - 4:05pm

Physics World's Review Of "Anomaly!"

Without Pauli’s principle all electrons would settle in the lowest-energy orbit around atomic nuclei; that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2017 - 7:27am

Revenge Of The Slimeballs Part 5: When US Labs Competed For Leadership In HEP

electron energy scale, muon momentum scale, and all the other small nuisances that one has to worry about ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 23 2017 - 9:57am

What Is Statistical Significance?

to be random processes, and each observed outcome should be independent of all others, then the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 1 2017 - 9:16am

Machine Learning For Jet Physics: New, Or Just Cool, Ideas

of each jet, with perfect resolution and all- would be unable to provide a very strong discrimination ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2018 - 3:52pm

The Plot Of The Week: New Limits On Higgs Decays To Electrons

* S The parameters k and f describe all possible partitions. Now, with some simple algebra, we can derive ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 26 2019 - 7:27am