On The CMS Higgs Video, Bias And Variance

On The CMS Higgs Video, Bias And Variance

Nowadays whenever I set out to write about CMS I turn on a self-censorship co-processor in the back of my mind, one which is instructed to check that all the sentences I write are completely free…
Tevatron Higgs Sensitivity: Did We Lie In 1999?

Tevatron Higgs Sensitivity: Did We Lie In 1999?

Today the arxiv features the paper describing the final word by the CDF experiment on its searches for the standard model Higgs boson. This paper supersedes previous ones describing searches…
Guess the Plot 11

Guess the Plot 11

It has been a while since the last time I posted the last riddle of this series. It was fun though, so upon seeing the graph below I immediately decided I would use it here, to let you guess what it…
Weighted Averages "A' La PDG"

Weighted Averages "A' La PDG"

The new PDG - a full-size copy of the glorious "Review of Particle Properties"- is on my desk since its arrival a few weeks ago, but only today did I get some time to browse it. It is always awesome…