Physics

Charge coupled Device (CCD)

Physics and Technology of CCD ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Jul 1 2010 - 4:53am

Can Bosons Play By Fermion Rules?

Theories of physics rest on fundamental assumptions and those assumptions are based on how the real world works, and often produce amazingly precise predictions.  The most comprehensive theory of elementary particles to-date, Quantum Field Theory, explains ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2010 - 10:56am

Garrett Lisi's New E8 Paper

Social networks are a great help for this kind of news: a new paper by a FB friend does not go unnoticed (at least by me) as it once would. I learned today that Garrett Lisi (picture below), the surfer and theoretical physicist, has deposited another paper ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 28 2010 - 10:33am

X-ray in Characterization Techniques

X-ray in characterization techniques ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Jun 30 2010 - 3:05am

First Prize For The Least Appropriate Program Name

Through a casual browsing of the Arxiv's hep-ph section, I got to read the following title: " CAMORRA: A C++ Library for Recursive Computation of Particle Scattering Amplitudes " Authors are R.Kleiss and G. van den Oord. None of which appear ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 30 2010 - 4:55am

Z' Bosons: The Dream Moves Away

Z' Bosons: The Dream Moves Away The long-distance competition between CERN and Fermilab- between Europe and the US, if you like- for supremacy in the field of fundamental physics is made of direct challenges, like the search for the Higgs boson, as mu ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2010 - 9:55am

Hollow Atoms: LCL Pulses Make Electrons Strip

Researchers have shown a new ability to control the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one, and in some cases creating 'hollow atoms'. The results describe how the Linac Coherent Lig ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2010 - 7:02am

Metric Vs Imperial: End Of An Epic Battle?

Which country does not belong in the following list: Burma, Liberia, Somalia, United States? OK, that was not too difficult. As astute Scientific Blogging reader you got that right. Somalia has made the step to metric (SI) units already half a century ago, ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jul 6 2010 - 1:59pm

Rumors About A Light Higgs

UPDATE: if you came here to learn more details about the rumored Higgs signal, which media around the world are discussing and which Fermilab Today just dismiss-tweeted, please visit this other more recent post for more details. Below is the original post ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 25 2012 - 9:28am

Muon Tomography: Who Is Leading The Research?

Sometimes my sympathy for science magazines (in print and online), which try to keep intelligent readers informed on the progress in basic science, gets dampened by observing how they end up providing a narrow-sighted look at things. What is at stake is us ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 10 2010 - 4:31am