Maybe Small Experiments Are The Way To Go

Maybe Small Experiments Are The Way To Go

What's next after the success of the Large Hadron Collider and its success in finding the Higgs boson, the so-called God Particle? America begged off the LHC because of a failure to keep the…
Einstein’s God in physics

Einstein’s God in physics

                  Einstein’s God in physics    In contrast to the known religious with human prayers as…
The Brodsky Gulag

The Brodsky Gulag

As a follow-up of yesterday's post on the very opportune Pomeranchuk prize given to Stan Brodsky, I would like to report here on a funny anecdote Stan related to me today. The anecdote is interesting…
Stan Brodsky Wins Pomeranchuk Prize

Stan Brodsky Wins Pomeranchuk Prize

I was quite happy to hear today that Stan Brodsky, a professor of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University, has received together with Victor Fadin the 2015 Pomeranchuk Prize…
The 750 GeV Diphoton Bump: What It Cannot Be

The 750 GeV Diphoton Bump: What It Cannot Be

Two weeks have passed since the CERN Jamboree of December 15th, which will be always remembered for the spurious 750 GeV signal observed by ATLAS and CMS in their mass spectra of photon pairs. It is…
Holiday Card 2015

Holiday Card 2015

Here is my holiday card for 2015, a tradition of mine going back to 1990.  Enjoy. On the back... I also include a summary of the year.  Here is the stuff on my research efforts: Hello:It…
Knockin' On New Physics Door

Knockin' On New Physics Door

[The article below is courtesy  Eilam Gross. Eilam is a physicist from the ATLAS experiment and has been convener of the Higgs group there. I am very happy to host a guest post from him on the…
New ATLAS Results From The 13 TeV LHC Jamboree

New ATLAS Results From The 13 TeV LHC Jamboree

Marumi Kado started his talk by saying he will only present new results based on the full 2015 13 TeV pp collision dataset.For Run 2 there have been a large number of improvements to the detector.…