Anomaly! Now Available As E-Book

Anomaly! Now Available As E-Book

Today I would like to mention that my book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab" is now available for purchase as E-Book at its World Scientific site.For the…
Two Physics Blogs You Should Not Miss

Two Physics Blogs You Should Not Miss

I would like to use this space to advertise a couple of blogs you might be interesting to know about. Many of you who erratically read this blog may probably have already bumped into those sites, but…
The Six-Month Cycle Of The Experimental Physicist

The Six-Month Cycle Of The Experimental Physicist

Every year, at about this time, the level of activity of physicists working in experimental collaborations at high-energy colliders and elsewhere increases dramatically. We are approaching the time…
LHCb Finds Suppressed Lambda_B Decay

LHCb Finds Suppressed Lambda_B Decay

The so-called Lambda_b baryon is a well-studied particle nowadays, with several experiments having measured its main production properties and decay modes in the course of the past two decades. It is…
A Slow-Motion Particle Collision In Anomaly!

A Slow-Motion Particle Collision In Anomaly!

Lubos Motl published the other day in his crazily active blog a very nice new review of "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab". The review is authored by Tristan du…
Zee's Nutshell Trilogy

Zee's Nutshell Trilogy

Today I took delivery of my copy of Tony Zee’s third contribution to the Princeton University Press In a Nutshell series: “Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists”. With this book Tony…
Verlinde's Dark Universe

Verlinde's Dark Universe

Lots of people have asked me for my views on Erik Verlinde’s latest paper “Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe“. This fifty-one pages long preprint has attracted a fair bit of media attention.…
Art And Science: Outreach In Venice

Art And Science: Outreach In Venice

In a few days, students from five high schools in Venice will be lectured on particle physics, the Higgs boson, the giant detectors of today's colliders, and will be treated with pictures and graphs…
How To Stomach A Black Hole

How To Stomach A Black Hole

--- repost due to previous version not surviving server maintenance --- Black holes are hot. Well, thermodynamically these suckers are freaking cold, but they do attract more attention than hot…