The Higgs Boson Is 4 Years Old

The Higgs Boson Is 4 Years Old

Today, while Americans set up their barbecues and prepare to celebrate their Independence, particle physicists around the world have a different reason to celebrate. Four years ago today is when the…
Adventures Of A Physicist On Vacation

Adventures Of A Physicist On Vacation

As my blogging here has been erratic in the last couple of weeks, I feel I need to explain to my 23 readers (what citation is this BTW?) what I have been up to. So this post does not contain any…
Finding All-Hadronic Top - Again

Finding All-Hadronic Top - Again

The top quark is the heaviest known subatomic particle we may call "elementary", i.e. one we describe as a point-like object; it weighs a full 66% more than the Higgs boson itself! Top was discovered…
Mechanisms that keep reality coherent

Mechanisms that keep reality coherent

==This is an early document. The insights of the author have refined. See the Wikiversity Hilbert Book Model Project for a more recent interpretation== Quantum physics applies Hilbert spaces as the…
Program Of The Statistics Session At QCHS 2016

Program Of The Statistics Session At QCHS 2016

I am happy to announce here that a session on "Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXI Century" will take place at the "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" conference, which…
Top Evidence At The Altarelli Memorial Symposium

Top Evidence At The Altarelli Memorial Symposium

I am spending some time today at the Altarelli Memorial Symposium, which is taking place at the main auditorium at CERN. The recently deceased Guido Altarelli was one of the leading theorists who…
The Call To Outreach

The Call To Outreach

I have recently put a bit of order into my records of activities as a science communicator, for an application to an outreach prize. In doing so, I have been able to take a critical look at those…