Physics

The Higgs Mass? 120 GeV, SUSY Says

Today, although fully submerged by an anomalous wave of errands which had been patiently waiting for my return at work, I heroically managed to dig out of the ArXiv a paper worth a close look. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 25 2009 - 4:44pm

The Bayesian Approach To Entropy

To start the process, I'm copying a post from my original blog.  I might post some of those entries here. Especially the ones which have  had a decent response. The purpose of joining this community is to have a blog dedicated to popular scientific w ...

Blog Post - Purushottam Dixit - Aug 25 2009 - 5:11am

Plot Of The Week: Single Top Production Is "By The Book"

Today I wish to offer you the figure attached at the bottom of this article, which shows a combination of recent determinations of the rate at which the Tevatron proton-antiproton collisions produce single top quarks. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 27 2009 - 9:38pm

Two posters on Higgs searches with CMS coming

In thirty minutes I will jump on a flight to Frankfurt and from there to Kobe, Japan, where I am attending the twenty-ninth edition of the Physics in Collisions conference. No big talk in store for me this time; no Westminster central hall kind of thing, n ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 28 2009 - 2:49am

Poster 1: Higgs Searches With CMS

Today I wish to offer you the preview of a poster which I am going to show on September 1st in Kobe, Japan, at a session of the 29th edition of the Physics in Collisions conference. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 29 2009 - 12:15pm

That's My Plot, Damnit- Reprise

My most visible contribution to particle physics after my death might well one sad day turn out to be the sketching of W and Z boson identification diagrams I made in 1999 for a talk I was to attend at Moriond QCD. I must have been on a bright day when I s ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 30 2009 - 9:29pm

Electroweak Physics At PIC 2009

This morning I attended the first session of the Physics in Collisions conference in Kobe, which dealt with Electroweak Physics. The four talks I could listen to were all of very good quality, and I am not ashamed to say that I did learn a thing or two, de ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 31 2009 - 2:18pm

Booting-Up The Universe: Divine Feat Or Random Act?

Was an almighty God required to boot up the universe, or would a blindfolded monkey have sufficed? What a silly question. Isn't it obvious that truly divine powers were needed to create our amazing universe capable of evolving systems of supreme compl ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 4 2009 - 9:59am

An overaged student and his two posters

The Physics in Collisions conference in Kobe is over, and I am packing up. Tomorrow morning I will leave from KIX to FRA, and later FRA to VCE, hopefully making it home for dinner. I learned a few interesting things on physics at the conference, and I hope ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 4 2009 - 4:23am

The Worst Nightmare Scenario For CERN? A 150 GeV Higgs.

A few days ago I produced a summary of a poster I presented at Physics in Collisions this week, which dealt with the searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson that CMS will undertake, and the results it can obtain in a scenario when a certain amount of d ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2009 - 7:50am