• Focus: DNA Flexibility at the Atomic Scale

    Updated: 2012-11-30 15:00:00
    The flexibility of a DNA strand affects its activities in cells and depends on its length. Atomic-scale computer simulations begin to explain why the length matters. Published Fri Nov 30, 2012

  • Synopsis: Cooling Neutral Atoms in Optical Tweezers

    Updated: 2012-11-29 15:00:00
    Individual neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers have been cooled to their quantum ground state, raising hopes that they can be used to process quantum information. Published Thu Nov 29, 2012

  • Synopsis: Testing the (Heavier) Waters

    Updated: 2012-11-29 15:00:00
    Surface-sensitive spectroscopy reveals the microscopic structure of the water-vapor interface and its dependence on nuclear quantum effects. Published Thu Nov 29, 2012

  • Physics beyond the Standard Model Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

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    , Physics beyond the Standard Model From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from New Physics Jump to : navigation search Beyond the Standard Model Simulated Large Hadron Collider CMS particle detector data depicting a Higgs boson produced by colliding protons decaying into hadron jets and electrons Standard Model Evidence Hierarchy problem Dark matter Cosmological constant problem Strong CP problem Neutrino oscillation Theories Technicolor Kaluza–Klein theory Grand Unified Theory Theory of everything String theory Superfluid vacuum theory Supersymmetry MSSM Superstring theory Supergravity Quantum gravity String theory Loop quantum gravity Causal dynamical triangulation Canonical quantum gravity Superfluid vacuum theory Experiments Gran Sasso INO LHC SNO Super-K Tevatron v

  • Large Hadron Collider Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

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  • The BaBar Homepage

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    Personnel Glossary Sitemap Search Hypernews LTDA Guide Organization Detector Computing Physics Documentation BaBar Wiki This home page is intended for our collaborators . The BaBar detector was built at SLAC to study the millions of B mesons produced by the PEP-II storage ring . The BaBar Collaboration consists of approximately 600 physicists and engineers from 72 institutions in 12 countries . BaBar Public Information Visitor Pages : Safety Safety Compliance Reference Cyber : Security Required Cybertraining Cyber Security Awareness Refresher Quick : Links Joining BaBar Offline Users Workbook CM2 Intro SLUO : Employment Employment Opportunities in High Energy Physics Employment Opportunities at SLAC External : links Databases HFAG PDG HEP preprints Stanford Guest House at SLAC Reservations

  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Home Page

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  • BELLE HOME PAGE

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    Belle is an experiment at the KEK B-factory Its goal is to study the origin of CP . violation 一般向 日本語 Introduction English Belle members only KEK English KEKB SuperKEKB Belle II Recent Physics Results New Measurement of B shown at ICHEP 2012 arXiv:1208.4678 New Results on Z b Evidence of Z b 0 and Z b B B decays shown at ICHEP 2012 arXiv:1207.4345 Z b 0 arXiv:1209.6450 B B Evidence of b 2S Observation of h b 1P 2P b 1S arXiv:1205.6351 submitted to PRL 0 transition form factor arXiv:1205.3249 submitted to PRD Improved D s l measurement shown at CHARM 2012 World's most precise measurement of sin2 1 PRL 108, 171802 2012 arXiv:1201.4643 Observation of two charged bottomonium-like resonances PRL 108, 122001 arXiv:1110.2251 Press release Japanese English First observation of h b 1P and h b 2P

  • The Cabibbo-Lab

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    Skip to content Skip to main navigation Skip to 1st column Skip to 2nd column sbuser Home Science Introduction to SuperB SuperB Physics Possible scenarios Link with LHC physics Project History of the project Cabibbo-Lab Site Beyond the Cabibbo-Lab Local impact The role of the southern Italy regions International impact Laboratory The name Agenda Contact us Documents Instruments Overview Collider Detector Computing The light source Spin-offs Press Media Press releases News Press review Newsletter FAQ Jobs at Cabibbo-Lab Applications Eligibility Lists SuperB Collaboration The Cabibbo Laboratory The Cabibbo-Lab , created in October 2011 as a joint venture by Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN and University of Rome Tor Vergata is a major international research centre for fundamental

  • LHCb reports observation of CP-violation in charm Welcome New Physics Or not Symmetry factor

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    . Symmetry factor Life in physics and nearby Home Who am I jump to navigation LHCb reports observation of CP-violation in charm . Welcome New Physics Or not November 14, 2011 Posted by apetrov in Particle Physics Physics Science trackback One of CERN collaborations , the LHCb has reported observation of direct CP-violation in the decays of charmed mesons at the Hadronic Collider Physics Symposium 2011 HCP 2011 in Paris today . This is a fantastic news While I am not at HCP 2011, kind folks at LHCb let me know about this fantastic measurement since charm physics is my . specialty So , what are we talking about here First things first . CP or Charge Parity is a set of discrete transformations performed on a theory’s Lagrangian a function that describes what particles we have in a theory and

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    CERN Human Resources Department english français HR Home Contact us CERN Home All CERN HR Department General Information Recruitment Training Staff Career Services CERN Official Documents Welcome Page Register Login Intranet Search Vacancies Full Search Skills always in demand Recently Published By Reference Compensation and Benefits Information for IC Applicants Staff Fellows Graduate Engineer Training Associates Students Marie Curie Actions Special Programs Apprentices FAQ Contact us Technical Doctoral Administrative Students Homepage News : Doctoral Student Assembly on May 9 The following links will give you General Information related to your stay at CERN . Leaflet for Doctoral Students Leaflet for Technical Students Leaflet for A dministrative Students Useful Information upon Arrival

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    HR Home Contact us CERN Home Vacancies All CERN Welcome Page Register Login Search Vacancies Advanced Job Search Spontaneous applications Recently Published By Reference Compensation and Benefits Living and Working in Geneva Information for IC Applicants Staff Fellows Graduate Engineer Training Associates Students Marie Curie Actions Special Programs Apprentices Contact us Blog FAQ Technical Information Text Size A A A The CERN Summer Student Program The CERN Summer Student Program offers undergraduate students of physics , computing and engineering a unique opportunity to join in the day-to-day work of research teams participating in experiments at CERN in Geneva , Switzerland . Beyond the outstanding first-class scientific value of their stay , the selected students will find working in

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    Home Contact us CERN Home this site All CERN CERN Education Teacher Programmes Teaching Resources Visit CERN High School Teacher Programme Teacher Programmes Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in particle physics and related areas , and experience a dynamic , international research environment . CERN offers you the possibility to participate in special programmes for teachers and meet with teaching colleagues from your country or from all over . Europe The High School Teacher Programme is a comprehensive international course held in English , aimed at teachers who would like to spend the first three weeks of July at CERN . The next session will take place from 30 June to 20 July 2013. The National Teacher Programmes are held in the mother tongue language of the participants from

  • CERN Users' pages

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  • CERN Spotlight The Globe of Science and Innovation

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    : Home Sitemap Contact us this site all CERN CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research Spotlight on . what's making the news at CERN About us Science Research The LHC People Spotlight on CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing The Grid : separating fact from fiction The last pieces of the puzzle Connecting up the LHC A journey into space via CERN CERN , the coolest place in the Universe Bigger is better if you're searching for smaller The Wonders of the Modern World LHC milestone triple jump A journey from particle physics to outer space Journey 100 metres towards the centre of the Earth Powering up ATLAS's mega magnet CERN experiment looks at cosmic rays , clouds and climate Grid : More bytes for science Neutrinos , get set , go A cosmic challenge for the LHC

  • CERN in a nutshell

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    Home Sitemap Contact us this site all CERN CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research About us About us Science Research The LHC People CERN's mission CERN's structure The name CERN A global endeavour History highlights Nobel Prizes Why fundamental science Basic science in a competitive world The use of basic science Physics for health Where the web was born How the web began How the web works The first website : info.cern.ch CERN in a nutshell CERN , the European Organization for Nuclear Research is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research . Its business is fundamental physics , finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works . At CERN , the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents

  • Visit CERN

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    Home Sitemap Contact us this site CERN en Français CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research Outreach Visit CERN Globe Exhibitions Guided Tours Travelling exhibitions Events Archives Contacts Home Guided tours for groups Guided tours for individuals Practical information Frequently asked questions Visit CERN CERN welcomes the general public to visit and tour its exhibitions , experimental areas and other facilities . The admission is free . The permanent exhibition Universe of particles and the Microcosm exhibition can be visited from Monday to Saturdays from 10h00-17h00, with no reservation needed . Visitor groups who book in advance can also enjoy a guided tour of some of the surface installations of CERN's experimental areas and learn about the fundamental research done at the

  • Visiter le CERN

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    Accueil Plan du site Nous contacter dans ce site CERN in English CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research Outreach Visiter le CERN Globe Expositions Visites guidées Expositions itinérantes Evénements Archives Contacts Accueil Visites guidées pour les groupes Visites guidées individuelles Informations pratiques Questions fréquentes Visiter le CERN Le CERN accueille le grand public pour lui faire visiter ses expositions , ses installations en surface et les autres points d'intérêt . Les visites du CERN sont gratuites et ouvertes à tous . L'exposition permanente Univers de particules ou l'exposition Microcosm peut être visitées du lundi au samedi entre 10h00 et 18h00, sans réservation . Pour les groupes ayant réservé , un tour guidé permet d'explorer des sites expérimentaux en surface

  • Supersymmetry: what happens if you wish death to others

    Updated: 2012-11-27 20:04:00
    : : Physics Satire About the Theory of Everything Satire about the search for a unfied theory in physics , sometimes about the strand-spaghetti . model 27 November 2012 Supersymmetry : what happens if you wish death to others If you read this blog , you know that Lubos Motl has written offensive comments and wished my death in the comment section of this blog . If you known him , you also know that he wished death to most people who oppose his views , such as all those who say in accordance with experiment that supersymmetry is wrong . Like so many violent religious people , he sends death threats to everybody who tells the . truth What happened then Lubos Motl might have gotten a deadly disease as he writes in his blog . We can learn from his story that sending death threats to others

  • Thanksgiving in the Main Control Room

    Updated: 2012-11-27 15:27:14
    Particle colliders do not keep normal working hours. They must be tended to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, holidays included. Few people know this as well as the family of Robert “Obie” Oberholtzer, a talented engineer whom crews at Fermilab would call—any day, any time—when something went wrong with the accelerator complex for the laboratory’s particle collider, the Tevatron.

  • Contributing to an LHC experiment, no transatlantic travel required

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:10:30
    Physicist Sam Hewamanage woke up, got ready and made his usual 15-minute drive to work. He parked his car, walked inside and sat at his workstation before digging into his primary task for the day: monitoring a particle detector located 100 meters underground on the border of Switzerland and France. Hewamanage (pictured below) doesn’t live in Europe. He lives in Batavia, Ill., just outside of Chicago. But he can work on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider as if he were on the CERN campus, thanks to the Remote Operations Center at Fermilab.

  • Viewpoint: Modeling Quantum Field Theory

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:00:00
    An analog of the dynamical Casimir effect has been achieved, where phonons replace photons and thermal fluctuations replace vacuum fluctuations. Published Mon Nov 26, 2012

  • Today on New Scientist: 23 November 2012

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  • Synopsis: Laser Suppression of Noise

    Updated: 2012-11-21 15:00:00
    In laser metrology, adding additional laser pulses, separated in time from the first, suppresses energy line shifts and allows for even more precision. Published Wed Nov 21, 2012

  • Synopsis: The Blueprint for DNA Origami

    Updated: 2012-11-21 15:00:00
    A new model of DNA is able to reproduce the observed features of self-organizing nanostructures in DNA origami. Published Wed Nov 21, 2012

  • Fermilab's first physics slam a smash hit

    Updated: 2012-11-21 13:58:48
    On Friday night, Nov. 16, about 1000 people came out to Fermilab to see five physicists duke it out... with science. The occasion was the laboratory's first ever physics slam. A physics slam is kind of like a poetry slam—the five contestants were given 12 minutes each to explain a complex particle physics concept to an auditorium filled with laymen. And they had to do it in the most entertaining way they could, because audience applause determined the winner.

  • Scrutinizing the Cosmological Constant Problem

    Updated: 2012-11-21 01:42:20
    Normally I do my best to ignore claims to have figured out the vacuum energy problem. There’s an endless number of them, mostly looking pretty dubious, and the world is full of people much more expert on the subject than … Continue reading →

  • Twitter sethzenz The ParticleOfTheDay is the

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  • Latest from Arkani-Hamed, Ellis and Gross

    Updated: 2012-11-20 18:14:31
    Three of the leading figures in HEP theory have today or recently spoken about their current view of SUSY in light of the negative LHC results, here’s a report: At the IAS recently, Nima Arkani-Hamed spoke on The Inevitability of … Continue reading →

  • A bouquet of options: Higgs factory ideas bloom

    Updated: 2012-11-20 16:38:20
    If you hurl two oranges together at close to the speed of light, there’s going to be a lot of pulp. But, somewhere in the gooey mess will be the rare splinters left over from two seeds colliding. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN works in a similar way. Protons, each made of quarks and gluons, collide and produce other particles. Roughly once every 5 billion proton collisions, everything aligns and a Higgs-like boson pops out.

  • Synopsis: Finding Quantum Keys in Noisy Fibers

    Updated: 2012-11-20 15:00:00
    “Quantum keys” can be sent long distances on high-traffic optical fibers. Published Tue Nov 20, 2012

  • A first paper on square root of a Brownian motion and quantum mechanics gets published!

    Updated: 2012-11-20 10:34:57
    Following my series of posts on the link between the square root of a stochastic process and quantum mechanics (see here, here, here, here, here), that I proved to exist both theoretically and experimentally, I am pleased to let you know that the first paper of my collaboration with Alfonso Farina and Matteo Sedehi was [...]

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  • Arrow of time prefers to point forward

    Updated: 2012-11-19 18:00:00
    Time ceaselessly speeds onward in our everyday experience, never taking so much as half a step backward. Now, thanks to experimental results from the BaBar collaboration, researchers can be sure that the same is also true for single, isolated particles. Time is indeed asymmetric, even on exceedingly small scales.

  • Home TRIUMF Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics

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    TRIUMF Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics Laboratoire national canadien pour la recherche en physique nucléaire et en physique des particules Home About TRIUMF Research Administration Login Directory Visiting TRIUMF Tours of TRIUMF TRIUMF House Parking Information For Students Teachers For Visiting Researchers Upcoming Events Upcoming Seminars Lectures Upcoming Conferences Global Photowalk 2012 Multimedia Videos Reports Newsletter Library Publications Office Style Guide Press Room News Releases Medical Isotopes Fact Sheets Media Contact Speakers Bureau Careers at TRIUMF TRIUMF House Contact Us Our Future Vision The ARIEL Facility Innovation Partner Connect Owned and Operated as a joint venture by

  • Viewpoint: Chiral Quantum Textures

    Updated: 2012-11-19 15:00:00
    Coherent quantum states of different chirality have been formed and identified in the A phase of superfluid helium-3, confirming previous theoretical predictions. Published Mon Nov 19, 2012

  • Viewpoint: Particle Decays Point to an Arrow of Time

    Updated: 2012-11-19 15:00:00
    An experiment studying B meson decays makes a direct observation of time-reversal violation without relying on assumed relationships with other fundamental symmetries. Published Mon Nov 19, 2012

  • Scandal at CERN - no Higgs confirmation

    Updated: 2012-11-17 15:19:00
    : Physics Satire About the Theory of Everything Satire about the search for a unfied theory in physics , sometimes about the strand-spaghetti . model 17 November 2012 Scandal at CERN no Higgs confirmation Tout pour la gloire . All for glory . This is what CERN did in July of this year , when it announced the Higgs discovery . But now that the confirmation was expected at the HCP conference , they did not provide . it The data on the gamma-gamma channel is contradictory , it is rumored . Even though CERN has twice as much data at its disposal as in July , the corresponding results were not . shown The problem with glory is that it must be based on facts . CERN has now let the whole world know that for them facts do not count , just the glory counts . CERN was unable to confirm the existence

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-16 20:15:17
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

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    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-16 20:15:13
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Focus: Fractal Structures Do More with Less

    Updated: 2012-11-16 15:00:00
    Calculations show that the weight of large support structures can be dramatically reduced if their design consists of patterns that are the same at large scales as at the tiniest scales. Published Fri Nov 16, 2012

  • Physics never sleeps

    Updated: 2012-11-16 00:00:00
    ATLAS Control Room, Meyrin, Switzerland   11:30 p.m., Nov. 4 It is half an hour into the night shift at the control room for the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector, and there is nothing to do. The LHC is not running. “We can’t do anything. We just have to wait,” says shift supervisor Adrian Vogel.

  • New particle-like structure confirmed at the LHC

    Updated: 2012-11-15 19:46:22
    Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed this week the existence of a particle-like structure first observed at the LHC’s predecessor, the Tevatron. Members of the CMS collaboration announced on Nov. 14 that they had spotted a curious object, dubbed Y(4140), that the CDF experiment had detected in March 2009. “We don’t know what it is,” says Vincenzo Chiochia, co-convener of the B physics group for CMS. “We observe a structure consistent with previous observations from the Tevatron.”

  • Synopsis: Identification by Bonds

    Updated: 2012-11-15 15:00:00
    Electron microscopy reveals the bond configurations of individual silicon impurities adsorbed on graphene. Published Thu Nov 15, 2012

  • Synopsis: Optical Boomerangs

    Updated: 2012-11-15 15:00:00
    New kinds of self-accelerating optical beams emerge from the laboratory. Published Thu Nov 15, 2012

  • Synopsis: No Free Lunch, or Measurements

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  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:48
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:47
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:47
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:46
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:45
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:44
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:43
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:43
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:41
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:41
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:40
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • hep-ex 0703036 Evidence for D^0 bar{D 0$ Mixing

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:39
    Cornell University Library We gratefully acknowledge supporting institutions arXiv.org hep-ex arXiv:hep-ex 0703036 Search or Article-id Help Advanced search All papers Titles Authors Abstracts Full text Help pages Full-text : links : Download PDF PostScript Other formats Current browse : context hep-ex next new recent 0703 References Citations INSPIRE HEP refers to cited by NASA ADS 1 blog link what is this Bookmark what is this High Energy Physics Experiment : Title Evidence for D^0 bar{D 0$ Mixing : Authors Belle Collaboration M . Staric et al Submitted on 23 Mar 2007 v1 last revised 1 Apr 2007 this version , v2 : Abstract We observe evidence for D^0 bar{D 0$ mixing by measuring the difference in apparent lifetime when a D^0$ meson decays to the CP eigenstates K^+K^-$ and pi^+ pi^-$ ,

  • hep-ex 0703020 Evidence for D0-anti-D0 Mixing

    Updated: 2012-11-15 12:07:39
    Cornell University Library We gratefully acknowledge supporting institutions arXiv.org hep-ex arXiv:hep-ex 0703020 Search or Article-id Help Advanced search All papers Titles Authors Abstracts Full text Help pages Full-text : links : Download PDF PostScript Other formats Current browse : context hep-ex next new recent 0703 References Citations INSPIRE HEP refers to cited by NASA ADS 2 blog links what is this Bookmark what is this High Energy Physics Experiment : Title Evidence for D0-anti-D0 Mixing : Authors The BABAR Collaboration B . Aubert et al Submitted on 12 Mar 2007 : Abstract We present evidence for D0-anti-D0 mixing in D0 K+pi- decays from 384 fb^{-1 of e+e- colliding-beam data recorded near sqrt(s 10.6 GeV with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage rings at SLAC . We find the

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-14 14:33:27
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-14 14:33:26
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • CERN Dark secrets of the Universe

    Updated: 2012-11-14 14:33:26
    Home Sitemap Contact us this site all CERN CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research Science About us Science Research The LHC People NASA , ESA and R . Massey Caltech Recipe for a Universe The standard package Towards a superforce Missing Higgs Antimatter detectives Clues to the early Universe Dark secrets of the Universe Loose ends Secret dimensions Glossary Dark secrets of the Universe It's perhaps natural that we don't know much about how the Universe was created after all , we were never there ourselves . But it's surprising to realise that when it comes to the Universe today , we don't necessarily have a much better knowledge of what is out there . In fact , astronomers and physicists have found that all we see in the Universe planets , stars , galaxies accounts for only a tiny

  • LHCb Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment

    Updated: 2012-11-14 14:33:25
    Home Sitemap Contact us this site all CERN LHCb Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment LHCb staff pages Physics Detector Data collection Collaboration Installation Welcome to the LHCb experiment LHCb is an experiment set up to explore what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and build the Universe we inhabit today Fourteen billion years ago , the Universe began with a bang . Crammed within an infinitely small space , energy coalesced to form equal quantities of matter and antimatter . But as the Universe cooled and expanded , its composition changed . Just one second after the Big Bang , antimatter had all but disappeared , leaving matter to form everything that we see around us from the stars and galaxies , to the Earth and all life that it . supports LHCb

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-14 14:33:24
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-14 14:33:24
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Unbreakable

    Updated: 2012-11-14 10:58:44
    Today, at HCP2012, new results on Higgs boson search were made available by CMS and ATLAS. Of course, well aligned with preceding rumors, all in all these appear rather disappointing. Maybe, beyond the increasing agreement with Standard Model expectations, the most delusional result is that the particle announced on July 4th appears to be completely [...]

  • New Higgs Results

    Updated: 2012-11-13 16:15:27
    New results about the Higgs should appear over the next day or so, perhaps first here and here. First to appear is the CMS tau-tau result which is a signal strength of .72 +/- .52 the SM value. Will update … Continue reading →

  • How to make a neutrino beam

    Updated: 2012-11-13 15:30:33
    <div class="field-item even"Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the universe, but they rarely interact with matter. Some of today’s outstanding scientific mysteries, such as why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe, could be solved by studying neutrinos and detecting their interactions with matter. Billions of neutrinos from natural sources, including the Sun, zip through every square centimeter of the Earth each second. Yet scientists cannot easily determine their initial type or exactly how far they traveled before reaching a detector.

  • SUSY in the Hospital?

    Updated: 2012-11-13 06:31:23
    HCP2012 Higgs results will be announced Wednesday (I’m hearing that CMS tau-tau signal is .7 +/- .5 x the SM value), but interest may focus much more on the strong SUSY exclusions being announced there. So far the LHCb result … Continue reading →

  • BOSS collaboration measures expansion of the universe 11 billion years ago

    Updated: 2012-11-13 00:00:00
    The universe is expanding, with every galaxy speeding away from all others at an ever-increasing rate. But it hasn’t always been that way. Eleven billion years ago, the speed of that expansion was beginning to slow as gravity pulled galaxies in toward one another. That was before dark energy came into play.

  • Passing along LHC know-how to future generations

    Updated: 2012-11-12 18:00:00
    The Large Hadron Collider is the product of generations of work. As time presses on, many LHC collaborators involved from the beginning have moved on to other projects, and memories of the decade of construction that produced the largest collider yet, along with its associated detectors, have begun to dim. This has implications for the LHC experiments, which are meant to run for years to come. The importance of passing along knowledge to newer collaboration members is already apparent with a major work period planned to take place during the long shutdown next year.

  • Viewpoint: Endoscopy Slims Down

    Updated: 2012-11-12 15:00:00
    Advances in extracting an image from a multimode optical fiber will make thinner endoscopes possible. Published Mon Nov 12, 2012

  • Kyoto, arXiv and all that

    Updated: 2012-11-12 10:29:49
    Today, Kyoto conference HCP2012 has started. There is already an important news from LHCb that proves for the first time the existence of the decay . They find close agreement with the Standard Model (see here). Another point scored by this model and waiting for new physics yet. You can find the program with all [...]

  • Focus: Storing an X-ray Photon

    Updated: 2012-11-09 15:00:00
    A theoretical proposal offers a technique for storing an x-ray photon and releasing it with its quantum properties fully intact. Published Fri Nov 09, 2012

  • Lead-proton collisions yield surprising effect in CMS experiment

    Updated: 2012-11-08 20:51:16
    <div class="field-item even"CMS physicists observed an unusual trend in the data they collected in September when they collided protons with lead ions instead of other protons. Particles produced in collisions tend to travel in opposite directions, but in one in roughly every 2 million collisions, the physicists saw particles travel in a common direction. Seemingly unrelated particles located apart from one another in the detector also had a tendency to travel in a common direction.

  • Synopsis: Heat from Beats

    Updated: 2012-11-08 15:00:00
    Simulations show that controlled beating of multiple laser frequencies optimizes energy delivery to inertial fusion targets. Published Thu Nov 08, 2012

  • Synopsis: Particle Physics with Ferroelectrics

    Updated: 2012-11-08 15:00:00
    Measurements of a possible electron electric dipole moment in ferroelectric materials are becoming increasingly sensitive. Published Thu Nov 08, 2012

  • Social scientists: Far-flung physicists meet face-to-face

    Updated: 2012-11-07 18:00:00
    More than 300 scientists who study the sky in the high-powered light of gamma rays came together last week for five days of presentations, meetings and the chance to compare notes at the Fourth International Fermi Symposium. Acronyms flew thick and fast: SNR (supernova remnant), TGF (terrestrial gamma-ray flashes) and AGN (active galactic nucleus) were only a few of the TLAs (three-letter acronyms) to be heard.

  • Breaking of a symmetry: A paper

    Updated: 2012-11-07 08:57:58
    I have uploaded a paper on arXiv (see here), following my preceding post,  where I show that supersymmetry has inside itself the seeds for the breaking. I consider a Wess-Zumino model without masses (chiral) and I prove that, at lower momenta, it boils down to a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model so, breaking supersymmetry through a gap equation [...]

  • Voyage to SNOLAB

    Updated: 2012-11-06 00:00:00
    In September, postdoc Hugh Lippincott prepared for a roadtrip that would take him and physicist Erik Ramberg northeast from their starting point near Chicago through Michigan and across the Canadian border. He stocked a cargo van they rented for the occasion with granola bars, apples and an iPod heavy on Pearl Jam. But this was no joyride. This was a practice run.

  • Synopsis: Carbon Rings Allow Brief Electron Hook Ups

    Updated: 2012-11-05 15:00:00
    Ionization experiments with benzene and similar organic molecules show evidence for short-lived electronic couplings, which resemble the Cooper pairs that carry current in superconductors. Published Mon Nov 05, 2012

  • Viewpoint: 0 + 0 &gt; 0

    Updated: 2012-11-05 15:00:00
    The combination of several quantum states that are local can yield a nonlocal state. Published Mon Nov 05, 2012

  • Viewpoint: Disorder Makes a Robust Matter-Wave Interferometer

    Updated: 2012-11-05 15:00:00
    Ultracold atoms can coherently scatter backwards from a disordered potential in a way similar to classical waves. Published Mon Nov 05, 2012

  • Breaking of a symmetry

    Updated: 2012-11-05 10:10:18
    This week-end has been somewhat longer in Italy due to November 1st holiday and I have had the opportunity to read a very fine book by Ian Aitchison: Supersymmetry in Particle Physics – An Elementary Introduction. This book gives a very clear introduction to SUSY with all the computations clearly stated and going into the [...]

  • 6 billion dollars of R&D - more than for the iPhone

    Updated: 2012-11-04 06:52:00
    : Physics Satire About the Theory of Everything Satire about the search for a unfied theory in physics , sometimes about the strand-spaghetti . model 4 November 2012 6 billion dollars of R more than for the iPhone Look at http : arxiv.org year hep-th 11 and similar pages for other years . Then look at http : arxiv.org year hep-ph 11 and similar pages . There are now 8000 preprints on high energy particle physics per . year My friend , a businesswoman working in a technology company , told me that a paper can be taken to mean 1 3 of a person year of effort , on average . Which makes a total of 2700 person-years . Let me correct this downwards to 2000 and multiply by 30. That makes 60 000 person-years of effort in the past 30 years . 60 000 person-years of effort and no result at all on

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