Wednesday, May 30, marked the official opening of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 4,850 feet down in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota. 
: , 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 30 May 2012 Please Peter , do not give up Peter Woit is one of my heroes . One of the few men who tell clearly what is right and what is wrong . He is one of those people who are an example of what a man should be . If all people were honest and straight like he is , the world would be a better . place In his new post he writes about a German mathematician . And he writes that this guy clarified the math of the standard model . But all the work of this mathematician concerns continuous space and continuous time both described by real number coordinates . But neither time nor space are continuous We can
This month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technology for the Muon g-2 experiment with a total of $2.5 million over five years.
1985: First Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP) conference is held in Amsterdam. 1991 or 1992: I encounter the World Wide Web for the first time. There is no graphical browser for it yet, so I am underwhelmed and not sure what it would ever be good for. 1998: CHEP to be held in Chicago. [...]
Christer Fuglesang, a former physicist who worked at CERN and now an European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut brought back to CERN a neutralino he had taken along on his mission to the Internal Space Station in 2009. Yesterday, Christer Fuglesang (right) former physicist from CERN and now astronaut with the European Space Agency, brought back [...]
Christer Fuglesang, un physicien ayant travaillé au CERN avant de devenir astronaute pour l’Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), a ramené hier au CERN un neutralino qu’il avait emporté avec lui lors de sa mission vers la Station Spatiale Internationale (ISS). Christer Fuglesang (à droite), astronaute de l’agence aérospatiale européenne (ESA) remettant à Sergio Bertolucci (à gauche), [...]
The next generation of the iconic SPIRES particle-physics database, called INSPIRE, is now online and operational, ready to serve scientists around the globe. 
The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.
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