Physics

Zeeya Merali on The Large Human Collider

I just read a very nice article by Nature's Zeeya Merali, and I thought I would link it from this blog. It discusses in detail several aspects of the sociology of the very large communities of particle physics experiments taking place at CERN. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 2 2010 - 5:23pm

Stuff Worth Giving A Look

A lot has been going on recently in blogs I sporadically visit (I am not a big reader myself). I thus thought I'd put together a list of valuable links here. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 6 2010 - 2:26am

Physicists Create Superheavy Element 117

Russian and US physicists have created a superheavy element made of atoms containing 117 protons that is roughly 40% heavier than lead.  The achievement fills in the final gap on the list of observed elements up to element 118. The team produced the elusiv ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

Approved!

I was on a plane to Valencia yesterday at the time when Paolo spoke in the Main Auditorium at CERN, and got approved our very first physics result with CMS collider data. Okay-with a small group we had already produced an approved plot of phi-->KK decay ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2010 - 2:47am

Robbie Maddison: Kinematics And Guts

A video on youtube documents a remarkable feat-the Australian motorbyker Robbie Maddison jumping the Korynth channel in Greece. A 85-meter jump! ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 10 2010 - 11:41pm

A Thought On Scientific Output Of Experimentalists In Large Collaborations

While answering a comment in another recent post, I was struck by a thought I have had other times, but which I tend to remove. This is about the fact that it is surprisingly hard to produce a paper in a large experimental collaboration in high-energy phys ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2010 - 5:49pm

2012: The Higgs Is Found, Or Ruled Out

In two years the Higgs boson will be close to discovery, and its mass already known, or the particle will be already in the trash bin. That is the single line which best summarizes the scenarios I depicted yesterday, in the concluding slides of a seminar ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 10 2010 - 11:41pm

Google Searches I Top

Today I am attending a conference on the communication of Physics, at Frascati. They invited me there to present this blog, and discuss my experience with it. I spent last night trying to put together something meaningful, and I am now approximately satisf ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 12 2010 - 7:40am

Moderated moderators

Lesson of the day: if the moderator falls asleep, the loquacious speaker will take advantage of it and will not stop talking. Net result: the coffee break remains a chimeric dream. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 13 2010 - 3:08am

My Poster For CF 2010

I was invited to give a talk and participate in a round table, at a conference on Physics communication in Frascati, a small town near Rome where the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics has its headquarters. The conference also has a poster session, so I ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 14 2010 - 3:56pm