Physics

No Flavour Changing Neutral Currents Seen By DZERO

It has been a while since I last wrote about results from the DZERO collaboration, and I am happy to be given a chance to do so by my casual Monday morning browsing of the most recent Arxiv preprints. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 28 2011 - 4:53pm

Time In Bed With Space

WARNING: This blog contains both ADULT language AND THERMODYNAMICS. If you are under 18 or do not like any laws that involve chaos, please leave by clicking on an ad to support this site. Time and space are joined at the hip. I mean this in a completely na ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Apr 5 2011 - 9:06pm

What A Difference An Editor Makes

On today's online version of the highest-diffusion newspaper in Italy, Il Corriere Della Sera (a bit too right-winged for me, but still an important source) stands a piece signed by none less than Carlo Rubbia, Physics Nobel prize in 1984 for the disc ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 29 2011 - 4:19am

Farewell- I Quit Blogging

This is my last post of my blog. I have decided to totally quit my blogging activities after the last incident. My participation in the scientific collaborations CDF and CMS has always been a problem, since whenever I discussed a topic here even mildly rel ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 25 2015 - 11:46am

8 Great Scientist Pranksters

Scientists are often portrayed as serious yet quirky, but many hide a prankish interior.  Here's a butcher's dozen of famous pranks by-- or at-- scientists. The best lecture never heard. ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 1 2011 - 3:44pm

Thoughts On The Hyperball Algorithm

I have recently dusted off an algorithm I had invented eight years ago, one I dubbed "Hyperball algorithm". It might come handy for predicting the b-tagging rate in CMS events with jets, for an analysis I am thinking of doing. Since saying more w ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 4 2011 - 4:30pm

Relativistic Rocket Science for Astrophysics

Rocket science deserves its reputation as a difficult subject to approach. Relativistic rocket science is scarier still. If one tries to take this difficult, scary subject, and apply it to the way the biggest masses in all the Universe move, wouldn’t that ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 11 2011 - 11:20pm

No Mysterious Symmetry In Ultracold Helium Nanodroplet Science

Mysterious Symmetry between Destruction and Growth asked “How on earth does blowing stuff up violently constrain unrelated growth mechanisms? This is the mystery.” ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 25 2012 - 5:40am

Is That A New Massive Particle? Is That Some Kind Of Higgs?

UPDATE (4/7): I posted a link to a nice animated GIF which shows the (approximate) effect of scaling up the MC/data jet energy scale factor on the CDF new particle signal. See here. UPDATE (4/7): I added some considerations on the tentative CDF signal in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 7 2011 - 4:04pm

More Thoughts On The New CDF Signal

Given the wide interest (about 20k readers in a day) that the new article by the CDF collaboration has attracted (see my original post here), I think I should collect in a separate post some auxiliary information, concerning past searches which might have ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 7 2011 - 12:13pm