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The highest-mass subnuclear particle ever observed used to the the top quark. Measured for the...

The Problem With Peer Review

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The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown

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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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Plot Of The Week: Improved Projections On ATLAS Higgs Reach

Plot Of The Week: Improved Projections On ATLAS Higgs Reach

Nov 04 2010 | comment(s)

The ATLAS collaboration has just released an important study of the sensitivity to a standard model Higgs boson. For the first time precise predictions are made for LHC running at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV (but also 8 and 9 TeV are considered, given the possibility that next year the energy is bumped up a bit), and for most of the sensitive channels together.

The public document is long and detailed, and I have no time to discuss its intricacies with you here, nor do I believe that you would actually want me to. But I do want to discuss one of the most significant figures in the note. It is shown below.
Scientology ad still there

Scientology ad still there

Nov 01 2010 | comment(s)

The Scientology ad is still there (see below, right), a few days after I complained about it. I understand that it is quite hard to get rid of a single ad in a bundle, and I understand that it would cost money to give google back the whole bundle with the third finger pointed upwards. But that not-too-little glowing blue box on the right seriously impairs my belief that by writing for this site I am doing something positive for the diffusion and popularization of science.
Over 40 Inverse Picobarns Delivered By LHC!

Over 40 Inverse Picobarns Delivered By LHC!

Oct 30 2010 | comment(s)

News from the LHC: the integrated proton-proton luminosity at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy has generously passed the mark of 40 inverse picobarns yesterday. The CMS experiment alone has integrated over 42 inverse picobarns, as shown in the graph below (the blue curve shows the data collected by CMS, the red one the data produced by the LHC).


The Say Of The Week

The Say Of The Week

Oct 30 2010 | comment(s)

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.

Henry Blaha

Scientology Ad ????

Scientology Ad ????

Oct 26 2010 | comment(s)

Let it be clear on this publically, to show I am not kidding: there is a scientology ad on the right column today. If that is not gone by tomorrow from here, I will.

A Dinosaur In The Church

A Dinosaur In The Church

Oct 26 2010 | comment(s)

The priest of Vigevano's Duomo must have been startled to realize that by far the most faithful presence at mass, ever since the altar was built, is not nonna Pina but a real dinosaur -a glaring testimony of the falsity of catholic-diffused pseudoscience and of the true origin of life on Earth. The red circle in the picture on the right shows the location of the marble slab in the altar.