Physics

Finally, the Bose-Einstein Correlations article by CMS to which I have personally contributed during the last few months is now an arxiv entry, and has been sent to Physical Review Letters. This is a…

If you follow the blogosphere as a source of information on cutting-edge high-energy-physics results, you certainly by now know that the DZERO collaboration has produced a new exciting result. They…

While around the world particle physicists are working frantically to produce important new results to be shown at ICHEP 2010 -the International Conference on High-Energy Physics, which is held every…

Academics pay a lot of attention to the quality of their writings. It is generally a point of pride to publish flawless documents, and this is felt in scientific disciplines just as much as in…

This is going to be a short post where I confess my recent troubles with keeping everything going on at full speed in my life, while the workload constantly grows. I believe it is a temporary problem…

"Why didn't these people follow their true vocation ending in a white-collar office, rather than breaking the balls to whom does Physics ?" (Anonymous physics researcher from unnamed experiment, upon…

What Is A Tipping Point ? The term 'tipping point' is in widespread use in English, but what does it mean? Imagine a child's seesaw with an empty bucket on each end.  The seesaw is initially at…

Every two years particle physicists meet at a conference which is just a bit more important, more well-attended, and more prestigious than all the others that pester our agendas every other week.…

Courtesy gizmodo: The typo we had been all waiting for. And there is already who fantasizes about the need for a Large Hardon Condom, to play it safe... Sorry for the reblogging, but this time I…

Two years ago I discussed the results of a very interesting search performed by the CDF experiment in its dataset of 2-TeV proton-antiproton collisions, provided by the Tevatron accelerator at…