Physics

Three Papers On The Muon Anomaly

A weekly visit to the Cornell Arxiv is more than enough for a physicist like me, since my daily work is not affected too much by whatever happens to be published there. Oftentimes, when I browse the contents of hep-ph (the folder containing preprints on pa ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 25 2010 - 2:14pm

The Say Of The Week

" On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics." (Richard Feynman) ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 25 2010 - 11:23am

Note to self: get in touch with old friends

I have many friends around the world. Some of them are far away, some live close by; but it is not the spatial separation what determines how often we meet, talk, or spend time together: it is rather a combination of chance, will, and expendiency. There ar ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 27 2010 - 7:31am

What's Going On Around

I have been lagging behind lately with my usual browsing of other physics blogs. So let me catch up here and suggest a few posts which should be interesting to read. Peter Woit is always an extremely well-informed source of information. In a post titled &q ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 27 2010 - 9:12am

The Fascinating Search For Rare W Decays

W bosons are amazingly interesting objects. Almost thirty years after their discovery-by Carlo Rubbia and his collaborators of the UA1 experiment at CERN- they continue to provide critical information on the theory of electroweak interactions. The front of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 31 2010 - 1:15am

Exotic Hadrons: There Is The Rub!

Last Friday I was in Pisa, at the Scuola Normale Superiore (see picture), where italian members of the CMS Collaboration gathered for two days to discuss the status of their studies, exchange ideas, and try to coalesce common analysis efforts. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 1 2010 - 3:07pm

The Say of the Week: Veltman on the Standard Model Higgs

"Why three families? Why the particular symmetry structure? [...] If the Higgs particle turns out to exist as conventionally described, with a reasonably low mass (say less than 200 GeV) then that closes the Standard Model from a mathematical point o ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 2 2010 - 11:57am

Tevatron Higgs Searches: Past And Future

To see the future, you must know the past: these nine words nicely summarize a syllogism which knows few exceptions. Turning to known data to check the power of one's extrapolations is a quite well-founded scientific approach. So if we are to try and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 8 2010 - 11:45am

2000 Years Ago Cicero Knew It, Do You?

" Quidquid oritur, qualecumque est, causam habet a natura. Cum autem res nova et admirabilis fieri videtur, causam invetigato, si poteris, ratione confisus. Si nullam causam reperis, illud tamen certum habeto, nihil fieri potuisse sine causa naturali. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 5 2010 - 5:46pm

When Amateurs Get Published

This just in: Carl Brannen (here his blog) got a paper on gravitation published in a scientific magazine. Carl, who is the typical amateur who many "established scientists" in the blogosphere have labeled a crackpot in the last few years, does no ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 7 2010 - 3:47am