Physics
- Tevatron: Evidence Of The Higgs In B-Bbar Final States
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The Tevatron experiments have jointly published on the arxiv two days ago a paper which is titled " Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in the search for the Higgs boson at th ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 31 2012 - 9:57am
- ATLAS: 5.9 Sigma For A 126 GeV Higgs!
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ATLAS has just released a note which summarizes the searches for the standard model Higgs boson in 7-TeV and 8-TeV data. Since July 4th the main improvement is the addition of the WW channel, which had not been shown back then. With it, the combined local ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 31 2012 - 1:16pm
- Four Ferraris And A New Challenge
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Don't be surprised when you spot four Ferraris at 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton. Four brand new racing machines nicely parked next to each other and next to the entrance of the Institute for Advanced Study. ...
Blog Post - Johannes Koelman - Aug 1 2012 - 1:27pm
- Two Events At FestivaLetteratura 2012
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I am very happy to have been invited, by Matteo Polettini, to two events that will take place at Festivaletteratura (literature festival), an important cultural event that takes place in Mantova, a beautiful town in northern Italy, from the 5th to the 9th ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 2 2012 - 10:03am
- Discovering How Hot Nuclear Matter Permeated The Early Universe
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Collisions between heavy ions at machines like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and more recently the LHC, may help enlighten our understanding of the hot nuclear matter that permeated the early universe and mak ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2012 - 5:47pm
- The Secret Ancient History Of The Higgs Search
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When CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson on July 4th this year--the result of years of running of the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest, most expensive, most po ...
Article - Amir D. Aczel - Aug 6 2012 - 10:51am
- The Memristor: Another Science Scandal
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In 2008, “ The missing memristor found ” [1] was published in the respected science journal Nature, and this claimed discovery was announced on the front pages of most major newspapers. This “discovery” is simply a misinterpretation of devices that had be ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 27 2017 - 11:00pm
- Lots Of Dark Matter Near The Sun, Says Computer Model
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Dark matter, up to 25 percent of the universe, hasn't actually been found. It is a hypothesis, though not an unreasonable one, given that something must create a gravitational force. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2012 - 2:27pm
- 2012 CMS Luminosity: 10/fb And Counting!
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The Large Hadron Collider is delivering as expected a large amount of integrated luminosity of proton-proton collisions to CMS and ATLAS, running at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The total collected in 2012 by CMS has just now crossed the mark of 10 in ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 10 2012 - 10:06am
- The Quote of the Week: Ask Questions!
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The way to get people to know you, attach your name to your face, and realize you are knowledgeable is, maybe suprisingly, to ask questions at meetings, as often as possible. You do not understand something about a plot your colleague is showing during hi ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 11 2012 - 7:29am
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