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Science Journalism: Not Buying The Higgs Hype

... the negative result of low-mass-resolution channel H->tau tau" and that Atlas did not.  He wasn't not calling it a discovery, he ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 7 2013 - 1:29am - 0 attachments

Seeing Muons!

My physics department in Padova is not a huge place, and yet I usually fail to be aware of what goes on around, since I spend all of my time buried inside my office. This morning, though, I had to pass by a meeting room on my way in, and I thus learned of ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 1 2013 - 11:29am - 0 attachments

The Privacy Risks Of DNA Sequencing

... an individual's privacy, says Prof. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Department of Molecular ... who worked on the project with PhD student David Golan of TAU's Department of Statistics and Operations Research and Dr. Yaniv Ehrlich of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2013 - 12:19pm - 0 attachments

The Plot Of The Week - SUSY After The Higgs Discovery

... copious decay of photon pairs, or the dearth of decays to tau lepton pairs or b-quark pairs - note: all are mostly back to what the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 15 2013 - 10:51am - 0 attachments

Beam Me The Farthest, Scotty!

What is the farthest we can theoretically go? Would we ever be able to visit the galaxies shown in Hubble's Extreme Deep Field ? Could we even travel beyond these and reach the edge of the observable universe? Suppose you are a goo ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 27 2012 - 1:36pm - 0 attachments

Tau Ceti - Closest Star Like Our Sun May Have 5 Planets

Tau Ceti, one of the closest stars most like our Sun, may have five planets.  Tau Ceti is just 11.9 light years away and visible to our eyes in the evening ... of searches for small planets and suggests that Tau Ceti is not a lone star but has a planetary system.  Tau Ceti was ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2012 - 11:33am - 0 attachments

Mu2E: Exploring Lepton Flavour Violation At Fermilab

... that charged leptons (the electron, the muon, and the tau) also turn one into another: flavour violation could well be a mechanism ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 3 2012 - 5:52pm - 0 attachments

Opera's Final Word On Opera's Superluminal Neutrinos

... for other purposes -most notably the measurement of tau neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam ) and interesting. Its ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2012 - 7:29pm - 0 attachments

Top Pair Resonances Search, Full CDF Statistics

The top quark is the heaviest of the six known hadron constituents, discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in 1995.  Because of its quite large mass -over forty times more than the second-heaviest bottom quark- and because of a few additional i ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2012 - 6:51am - 0 attachments

Higgs: New ATLAS And CMS Results

Today new results of Higgs searches have first been shown in Kyoto, at the Hadron Collider Physics conference . Let us see the CMS and ATLAS updates of their measurements in the ZZ-> 4 leptons final state, which constitutes the best signal-to-noise ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2012 - 3:53am - 0 attachments