Physics

Marek Karliner: The Fascinating Doubly Heavy Baryons

Last week I met Marek Karliner at the ICNFP 2013 conference in Crete, where we both enjoyed a nice friendly atmosphere, great food, and a wonderful peaceful location. Professor Marek Karliner is the chair of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of Tel Avi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2013 - 2:03am

Quantum Randi Challenge Peer Review Endorsement

Very good news for the Quantum Randi Challenge, the most engaging bit of science outreach that already helped tripping up a notorious crackpot, and which now starts to gain momentum toward its main aim, which is helping a wide audience to understand the e ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 13 2013 - 7:49pm

Radiation, Quantum Electrodynamics And Information Technology

Moore's Law, originating in 1965 [1], is an observation of transistor density on a single CPU core increasing exponentially with time. Futurists such as Ray Kurzweil [2] extend this to the claim that CPU-core computation rate (operations per second) ...

Article - Nightvid Cole - Sep 12 2013 - 7:30pm

Highlights From The CMS Experiment

Three weeks ago I gave a plenary talk at the 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, which was held in Kolymbari, in the greek island of Crete. The talk focused on some of the most interesting new results by the CMS Collaboration, but bei ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 19 2013 - 9:51am

First Experimental Determination Of Proton Weak Charge Determined

Researchers are reporting the first experimental determination of the weak charge of the proton, one of the four fundamental forces in our universe, along with gravity, electromagnetism and the strong force. Although the weak force acts only on the sub-at ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2013 - 7:50pm

A Privileged Space Direction? Spinorial Space-time, WMAP, Planck (II)

How to present in a simple way the spinorial space-time and the privileged space direction it generates? What is the fundamental difference between space-time spinors and the conventional description of space and time? What is the relevance for the analysi ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Sep 19 2013 - 5:04pm

ATLAS Limits On Dark Matter

The ATLAS Collaboration published last week the results of a search for dark matter particles produced in association with a W or Z boson by the 8-TeV proton-proton collisions collected during the 2012 run of the Large Hadron Collider. The search uses tech ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 23 2013 - 7:27am

DZERO Confirms The Y(4140) And Its Excitation!

I have reported about the studies of resonances in the decays of the B+ meson by CDF, CMS, and LHCb a few times in the recent past. The situation, in a nutshell, was the following until yesterday: CDF found a new particle, the Y(4140), as a resonant (J/ψ φ ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 26 2013 - 12:44pm

Confidence In New Physics And SUSY Dropping Like A Stone

UPDATE: Just found out that Peter Woit anticipated me on this- see his blog entry.--- Just five years ago, on the eve of the start of the Large Hadron Collider, most particle physicists- experimentalists and theorists alike- would have been willing to bet ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 27 2013 - 12:55pm

What You Think Of New Physics At The TeV Scale

A few days ago I posted the results of a poll ran on 50 or so participants to a workshop on the Higgs boson in Madrid. The poll consisted of six questions on the expectations one had on the possibility of new discoveries by present-day accelerators, as wel ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2013 - 3:33am