Let me write here a short note -just for the record- to mention a proceedings paper I wrote for the ICFP 2012 conference. I spoke in Crete last June about the latest results of the CMS experiment, but in the meantime a lot happened -the Higgs boson discovery, just to mention one thing. So this writeup includes the new measurements of Higgs boson cross section, mass, and properties that the CMS experiment has produced since last July, as well as selected results in top and electroweak physics, searches for rare B decays, and new physics searches.

"The problem of averaging data containing discrepant values is nicely discussed in Ref. x [...] It is difficult to develop a procedure that handles simultaneously in a reasonable way two basic types of situations: (a) data that lie apart from the main body of the data are incorrect (contain unreported errors); and (b) the opposite -itis the main body of data that is incorrect. Unfortunately, as Ref. x shows, case (b) is not infrequent [...] the choice of procedure is less significant than the initial choice of data to include or exclude."

The Review of Particle Properties 2004, p.16.

One of the results of the conference "ComunicareFisica 2012" I attended last week (and about which I wrote extensively in the past few posts) was, for me, getting convinced that Twitter cannot really be ignored. I have subscribed long ago and never really used it much, but now I am going to be more careful with that medium. I intend to tweet there news on HEP as well as other things I find interesting. I promise it will be a high signal-to-noise channel.

So this post is just to say that you are all welcome to follow me on twitter at @dorigo. See you there!