Physics

The Jet Energy Scale As An Explanation Of The CDF Signal

In my post about the new CDF signal of a mysterious new resonance decaying to jet pairs, there is an active comments thread. I posted there a graph crafted by Tommaso Tabarelli de Fatis, a CMS collaborator, who picked the CDF data and simulation and scaled ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 7 2011 - 4:02pm

A Short Story Of Dijet Resonances

In the comments thread of one of the posts I wrote recently, where I discussed the new tentative signal of a new jet-decaying particle discovered by the CDF collaboration in their data, a reader asked me if hadronic signals of single vector bosons had been ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 28 2011 - 8:08am

Snarky Puzzle Answers

For the unpopular cutting edge, there is no book with the answers at the back. This post will need to suffice for the snarky puzzles at the end of my previous posts. I am a playful snark, not a caustic one. I used to teach retarded citizens how to add. [cl ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 13 2011 - 11:06am

White Dwarfs, Neutrons And Neutrinos

White Dwarfs Fancy a trip to Sirius?  This is what you might see as you are approaching your destination. ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Apr 13 2011 - 2:09pm

Natalie Heracleous on CMS Times

A short post today, to mention the latest issue of the CMS Times, a online publication with news from the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The CMS Times is always informative and a good resource, but I usually forget to check it due to ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 14 2011 - 12:40am

Neutrinos (for Brits only)

This morning this programme (45 minutes) was on BBC Radio 4. In Our Time: the Neutrino   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0106tjc0 Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the neutrino.       with:       Frank Close, Professor of Physics at Exeter College at t ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Apr 14 2011 - 7:27am

Suicide: Life Ends Six Meters Above The Ground

The greatest hurdle before committing suicide is the fear of dying and death as well as the fear of hurting people we care about. In order to assist suicide, Suicidal Philosophy alleviates these fears rather than stoking them like traditional Philosophy o ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 14 2013 - 6:53pm

The New XENON 100 Results On Dark Matter

The Xenon 100 collaboration has finally released the results of their data analysis, and the results are saying that there is no Dark Matter in sight so far. Since we live in an age where time is precious, I think many of you are only interested in the bot ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2011 - 12:19am

Theorists' Feeding Frenzy On CDF Resonance Continues

A casual look at the Arxiv hep-ph listings this morning was enough to confirm that the feeding frenzy of theoreticians around the latest bait thrown in the waters by CDF is not showing any sign of slowing down. The paper in question is 1104.2893, and it di ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 16 2011 - 11:29am

Higgs? We ain't got no Higgs

The title is a playful variation on a line from a Bogart movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  That was an adaptation from a novel of the same title: "All right," Curtin shouted back. "If you are the [LHC] police, where are your [Higgs]? ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 20 2011 - 9:00am