Death Of The Dijet Anomaly

Death Of The Dijet Anomaly

Do you remember the CDF Dijet bump at 145 GeV? In 2010, CDF published a paper that showed how the same data sample of W + jet events where they had previously isolated the "single-lepton" WW+WZ…
20 Year Long Top Quark Puzzle Completed

20 Year Long Top Quark Puzzle Completed

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is still getting important particle work done, years after the closure of the Tevatron was announced. Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments have…
LUX Confirms It Has Not Found Dark Matter

LUX Confirms It Has Not Found Dark Matter

In the 'sometimes what you don't find can be important too' department, a new high-accuracy calibration of the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) dark matter detector's sensitivity to ultra-low…
Strangelet Fear-Mongering And Death By Review

Strangelet Fear-Mongering And Death By Review

I believe I am not alone in being fascinated by the ongoing debates about this or that physics experiment being on the verge of destroying the Earth. Microscopic black holes produced by mistake in…
Higgs Decays To Z-Gamma Pairs: The Next Challenge

Higgs Decays To Z-Gamma Pairs: The Next Challenge

The ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN's 8-TeV proton-proton collider now being recommissioned to run at the close-to-design energy of 13 TeV in 2015, has published a few days ago…