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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO experiments. He is the president of the Read More »

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Two Papers By DZERO On Jet Physics

Two Papers By DZERO On Jet Physics

Dec 31 2013 | comment(s)

The DZERO experiment is one of the two multi-purpose detectors that have collected 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider until two years ago, when the machine was decommissioned.

Experiments of this kind out-live the demise of the hardware, since the extraction of precise physics measurements from the large datasets accumulated may take several years to complete. And in fact, it is not a surprise to see two new preprints in the Arxiv (here and here) which describe in detail the experimental techniques that the collaboration uses to extract jet physics results from the data.
Highlights From A Chess Tournament

Highlights From A Chess Tournament

Dec 24 2013 | comment(s)

The XVIth international chess tournament "Citta' di Padova" ended last Sunday with the victory of GM Kiril Georgiev, who got 7 points out of 9 games. The tournament saw the participation of 63 players from 13 countries, with a total of 11 grandmasters and 13 international masters, plus nine other Fide titled players.

I participated in the event and scored a good 4.5/9, winning four games and losing four. Below I am showing some salient points from a few of my games.
George Zweig, a Renaissance Man

George Zweig, a Renaissance Man

Dec 23 2013 | comment(s)

I met George Zweig at a conference in Crete last Summer. He impressed me with the multidisciplinarity of his interests and his quite entertaining career. He has a degree in mathematics, and did quite a bit of experimental physics work before finally turning to theoretical physics; but he did not stay there for long...

But I do not want to summarize more of the interesting life of Zweig, since there is now an interview with George on the online newsletter of the physics department of CERN, which is quite detailed and fascinating, and deserves a read. Enjoy!
The Quote Of The Week - Physics Analysis Organization

The Quote Of The Week - Physics Analysis Organization

Dec 19 2013 | comment(s)

"The senior signs the paper, the post-doc thinks, and the grad student executes"

F.S., explaining how the typical nucleus of analysis group in HEP works.

3 MeV ? You Must Be Kidding Me ?!

3 MeV ? You Must Be Kidding Me ?!

Dec 15 2013 | comment(s)

In 1989 the CDF experiment was sitting on its first precious bounty of proton-antiproton collisions, delivered by the Tevatron collider at the unprecedented energy of 1.8 TeV. One of the first measurements that was produced was the measurement of the mass of the Z boson, which was at the time known with scarce precision by the analysis of a handful of candidates produced by the CERN SppS collider, at a third of the Tevatron energy. 
Top Partners Wanted

Top Partners Wanted

Dec 10 2013 | comment(s)

No, this is not an article about top models. Rather, the subject of discussion are models that predict the existence of heavy partners of the top quark.