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CMS And ATLAS: Higgs To Tau Pairs!

... by CMS and ATLAS on the searches for the Higgs decay into tau-lepton pairs. The reason for the interest comes from the fact that last ... with some expectation that the results of LHC searches for tau-lepton pair decay modes must have been met at the Hadron Collider Physics ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 15 2012 - 8:09pm - 0 attachments

The Tau Of Alzheimer's

... may be just that. He believes that a protein called tau, which forms twisted fibers known as tangles inside the brain cells of ... and Elan Corp.  Wischik sees this as tau's big moment.  An Outcast Among Peers Gains Traction on ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Nov 12 2012 - 3:31pm - 0 attachments

The Plot Of The Week - New SUSY Limits From ATLAS

... more fancy heavier copies of the electron, called muon and tau; plus three versions of the neutrino, an elusive, very light and almost ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 1 2012 - 11:33am - 0 attachments

The Secret Ancient History Of The Higgs Search

... the same for the muon and the muon neutrino, and tau with the tau neutrino (and similarly SU(3) also mixes the higher-order quarks of the ...

Article - Amir D. Aczel - Aug 6 2012 - 10:51am - 0 attachments

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

... four charged leptons (electrons or muons, that is, since tau leptons are much harder to collect due to their frequent decay into ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 7 2011 - 4:04pm - 0 attachments

Smore Snarky Puzzle Answers

... the three exponential: Divide by the factor of tau: Proceed as before. Discussion I constructed this link to ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jun 18 2012 - 10:36pm - 0 attachments

What's Wrong With The Second Law?

Use your browser's back button and stop reading when you can't handle speculations out of a hammock. Still reading? Ok, I have warned you. Brace yourself. I am going to argue against what many believe to be the most fundamental law of physics. A sa ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Aug 20 2011 - 10:14am - 0 attachments

My Two Pieces On The Higgs

Yesterday the Italian newspaper "Il Manifesto" featured two pieces written by yours truly on the discovery of the Higgs boson. I was delighted to have a chance to write for that newspaper, which has an illustrious history and is totally independent (and o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2012 - 4:40am - 0 attachments

The Quote of the Week: Harrison Prosper, Why We Want To Be Sure

" Given that the search for the Higgs took some 45 years, tens of thousands of scientists and engineers, billions of dollars, not to mention numerous divorces, huge amounts of sleep deprivation, tens of thousands of bad airline meals, etc., etc., we want ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 13 2012 - 6:26pm - 0 attachments

Higgs Discovery Exciting? We Could Have Found It First!

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was not too big to fail. Although it was a massive opportunity for the United States to maintain its primacy in high-energy physics and basic research, the SSC was not sufficiently big on the federal funding list ...

Article - Michael Gamble - Jul 5 2012 - 3:46pm - 0 attachments