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ILC Newsline

10 May 2012

If the particles won't come to the detector...
The two detector concepts for the ILC
The Higgs Boson - A Tales from the Road Comic

CERN Bulletin

14 May 2012

Life after discovery: a look at the SPS of 2012
How are we behaving?
LHC Report: Rocky re-start
Computing power on the move

DESY inForm

May 2012

The future is tiny
Neutrino surprise at the South Pole
"Good Vibrations" for Cutting-Edge Science
FLASH passes the ILC performance test

CERN Courier

May 2012

Neutrino production moves to an industrial scale
Electrons for the LHC
How to build a p(art)icle collider
Light work with heavy ions

symmetry magazine

May 2012

One degree of separation: the Vietnam connection
Particle physics and your ride
The electron's dance

IN2P3

25 avril 2012

La lettre électronique de l'IN2P3

A Week of Interactions

6 - 12 May 2012

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Quantum Diaries

CHARM of Hawaii

May 14, 2012

I’m blogging from the site of CHARM-2012 conference, which has just started in Honolulu, Hawaii. This is a fantastic conference at a fantastic place! The conference will have four full-packed days filled with many aspects of physics related to charmed quark. As I reported earlier, many exciting recent results are associated with charm quark. Why [...]

Happy birthday, Richard Feynman!

May 11, 2012

Richard Feynman was one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century. Not only did he revolutionize quantum theory with his development of quantum electrodynamics, but he also revolutionized the way we think about physics and physicists. He spoke to people from all kinds of backgrounds about physics, from lecturing students destined to change [...]

Science and Engineering: vive la Différence

May 11, 2012

This essay was motivated by a question from an engineering colleague. It would be presumptuous to say “friend,” as scientist and engineers are in a state of “friendly” rivalry, however, not to the extent as with arts. I once saw a sign in an engineering department hallway that read: Friends do not let friends study [...]

Needle in a haystack

May 10, 2012

We are back to discussing B physics today, with the observation of the rare decay: \(B^- \rightarrow \pi^- \mu^+ \mu^-\). So what is this decay? It’s a \(B^-\) meson (made of a b and an anti-u quark) decaying into a \(\pi^-\) meson (made of a d and an anti-u quark) and two muons. And why [...]

A sigma here, a sigma there…

May 9, 2012

Whenever we come across a new result one of the first things we ask is “How many sigma is it?!” It’s a strange question, and one that deserves a good answer. What is a sigma? How do sigmas get (mis)used? How many sigmas is enough? The name “sigma” refers to the symbol for the standard [...]

And So It Begins: Pheno 2012

May 7, 2012

Hi All! Today marks the beginning of the Phenomenology 2012 Symposium, Pheno for short, or #Pheno2012 if you are into hashtags, here at the University of Pittsburgh. It will definitely be an exciting three days because this conference is dedicated solely to promoting the partnership and collaboration between experimentalists and theorists. For experimentalists, [...]

May 6, 2012

I wrote this while I was working on my thesis, and never got a chance to polish and post it. Since then, I’ve survived my interviews, defended my thesis, accepted a postdoc, and started working on two new exciting experiments. I got to travel to China for one of them! This week I’m finishing my [...]

May 6, 2012

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In Defense of Jargon

May 4, 2012

Jargon, even the name has a harsh ring to it. Can anyone but an author love a title like[1]: Walking near a Conformal Fixed Point: the 2-d O(3) Model at theta near pi as a Test Case? “How can anyone take science seriously when it uses so much jargon?” said the teamster[2] as he told [...]

Le transfert des connaissances, dans la mission du CERN

May 4, 2012

Si vous pouvez lire ce texte, c’est grâce au World Wide Web, un produit de la recherche fondamentale effectuée au CERN. La toile fut inventé au CERN afin d’offrir un moyen de communication aux physiciens et physiciennes des hautes énergies disséminés sur différents continents. Son impact sur la société ne fait aucun doute, changeant pour [...]

Knowledge transfer, part of CERN’s mission

May 4, 2012

If you can read this right now, it is thanks to the World Wide Web, a product of basic research done at CERN. The web was invented at CERN to provide a communication tool for high-energy physicists working on different continents. Its impact on society has been tremendous, changing forever the way we communicate and [...]

We’ll deal with that later…

April 30, 2012

In my last post, I described the different LHC collision setup at LHCb this year. Today, I thought I would describe the different LHCb trigger setup. Now what is the LHCb trigger, I hear you all ask? I actually wrote a post on the topic last year, which I invite you all to read for [...]

What Is The Large Hadron Collider?

April 30, 2012

Most of all, the LHC is a machine with the purpose of breaking the known laws of the Universe. Hi All, Us QD folks appreciate all the questions and comments we get about the Large Hadron Collider, what we do there, and how we do it. Being head-deep in physics, though, I sometimes get the [...]

Domestic science

April 28, 2012

We physicists are a very international crowd, and proud of it! The opening slide of conference talks typically has a list of institutions and their home countries, frequently pinned on a Google map. This kind of international collaboration is imperative to advancing science. I can’t think of any scientist who would have it any other [...]

The LHC sneaks along

April 28, 2012

Have you been paying attention to the LHC? Sure, you’ve been thinking about the scientific results being derived from last year’s data. And you are looking a few months down the road to the upcoming major conferences, now only a little more than two months away, when we might get some interesting news. But right [...]