The elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and still in operation. The other is SNOLAB, a large underground particle physics laboratory, the grand opening of which will take place today.
Tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Breakthrough Office Hours, use the hashtag #labchat.
: , Physics Without Ideology Bite by Bite The search for a theory of everything : satire about bad candidates and gentle fun about good candidates , such as the strand-spaghetti . model 16 May 2012 Supersymmetry , epicycles and Santa Claus 1. Experiments show that there is no supersymmetry in nature . For most humans , this argument is sufficient . For the rest , here are a few more . arguments 2. The standard model has around 20 unexplained parameters . Supersymmetry introduces another 100 or so , even less unexplained ones , to explain the twenty . This means : supersymmetry has zero explanatory power . Nobody would believe that intelligent people reason like this . Supersymmetry is the epicycle theory of modern physics . No , epicycles needed fewer additional parameters , and epicycles
Researchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water.
We are back to discussing B physics today, with the observation of the rare decay: \(B^- \rightarrow \pi^- \mu^+ \mu^-\). So what is this decay? It’s a \(B^-\) meson (made of a b and an anti-u quark) decaying into a \(\pi^-\) meson (made of a d and an anti-u quark) and two muons. And why [...]
Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers announced in a press release today that they have completed a machine tailor-made to examine an approach to fusion power.
With their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide Project X, the accelerator project that will power Fermilab's future experiments, into phases in order to lessen the initial costs.
Hi All! Today marks the beginning of the Phenomenology 2012 Symposium, Pheno for short, or #Pheno2012 if you are into hashtags, here at the University of Pittsburgh. It will definitely be an exciting three days because this conference is dedicated solely to promoting the partnership and collaboration between experimentalists and theorists. For experimentalists, [...]
Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.04.30 We’ll deal with that later 2012.04.28 The LHC sneaks along 2012.04.24 Tetrahedral Carbon Lattice Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe 2011.10.22 The CLIC Physics and Detectors CDR Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.04.17 Name these brands plants Name these particles 2012.04.11
On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.
We’ve done it again. The May issue of symmetry is now available online.
TweetWe have shown throughout the Imagineer’s Chronicles there would be many theoretical advantages to defining the universe in terms four *spatial* dimensions instead of four dimensions space-time. One is that it would allow one to derive a common mechanism responsible for all the forces found in nature by extrapolating observations made in a three-dimensional environment [...]
After months of installation and commissioning efforts, FACET, the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday.
In my last post, I described the different LHC collision setup at LHCb this year. Today, I thought I would describe the different LHCb trigger setup. Now what is the LHCb trigger, I hear you all ask? I actually wrote a post on the topic last year, which I invite you all to read for [...]
Most of all, the LHC is a machine with the purpose of breaking the known laws of the Universe. Hi All, Us QD folks appreciate all the questions and comments we get about the Large Hadron Collider, what we do there, and how we do it. Being head-deep in physics, though, I sometimes get the [...]
Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.
A project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.
: Physics Without Ideology Bite by Bite The search for a theory of everything : satire about bad candidates and gentle fun about good candidates , such as the strand-spaghetti . model 26 April 2012 Siegel has given up Warren Siegel is a physicist famous for his aggressive comments and his small stature . As a woman , I do not like nasty bearded dwarfs , so I admit being partial . Siegel works on strings and supersymmetry . His aggressive behavior against other people searching for a final theory is well-known . Besides , Siegel probably is the only person in the world claiming in writing that supersymmetry is predicted by experiment . Despite his religious devotion to supersymmetry , since many years , his papers lack any physical idea , any notable advance and any relation to experiment .