Electron Neutrinos From Muon Neutrinos!

Electron Neutrinos From Muon Neutrinos!

New results from the T2K collaboration have been presented at a KEK Physics Seminar today, and they are really interesting stuff. In a nutshell, six electron neutrino events have been seen by their…
LHC About to Reach The 1/fb Goal

LHC About to Reach The 1/fb Goal

The LHC has been running very well in the last few weeks, and I can announce, with some anticipation, that the 1-inverse-femtobarn line will be crossed in the next few days. Check it out in the…
The Plot Of The Week - A Black Hole Candidate

The Plot Of The Week - A Black Hole Candidate

CMS has recently produced an updated search for black hole production in the 7 TeV proton-proton collisions delivered by the LHC. The data sample now consists of 190 inverse picobarns of collisions…
Gamma Gamma Girl Graphs

Gamma Gamma Girl Graphs

I got counter snarked. At the end of my blogs, I include what I call a snarky puzzle. If you can follow along with the technical parts of my blogs, a snarky puzzle is  suppose to be a playful…
Entropic Gravity Snatches Spinoza Prize

Entropic Gravity Snatches Spinoza Prize

The British have their Copley medals, the French the CNRS Gold medals, the Germans have Leibniz awards, and the Dutch... they have their Spinoza prizes. Each year three to four Spinoza laureates…
DZERO Refutes New CDF Dijet Resonance!

DZERO Refutes New CDF Dijet Resonance!

And here they come. Much awaited (and anticipated), today the DZERO collaboration presents their findings in the search of the same dijet resonance which made it to the New York Times as well as to…