Author Archives: woit

Disappearing gammas

Posted on March 14, 2013 by woit

The CMS data on the Higgs in the gamma-gamma channel has been released this morning, see slides from a talk at Moriond. Basically the excess over the SM prediction seen in this channel in earlier data is gone, with CMS … Continue reading →

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More about Nothing

Posted on March 13, 2013 by woit

It seems that last year’s philosopher-physicist fight over nothingness (if you missed this, you can read about it starting here) is flaring up again. Recall that it all started with a David Albert New York Times review of Lawrence Krauss’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Multiverse Mania | 25 Comments

Things to Follow This Week

Posted on March 12, 2013 by woit

If you want to keep up on the latest in HEP news, here’s what you should be following this week: Neutrino Telescopes is happening in Venice this year, and I noticed that there’s a very active blog for the conference, … Continue reading →

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The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

Posted on March 8, 2013 by woit

Fresh off its great long article about the Higgs, the New York Times is devoting a similar amount of space to the other big mind-blowing high energy physics story of the past year or two, Paul Frampton and his adventures … Continue reading →

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American Journal of Modern Physics

Posted on March 7, 2013 by woit

This morning an e-mail came in from the “Science Publishing Group”, a call for “Editorial Board Members, Reviewers and Paper” for their open access journals, advertised as Full peer review: All manuscripts submitted to our journals undergo double blind peer … Continue reading →

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Higgs Update

Posted on March 6, 2013 by woit

Updated results about the Higgs are being reported at Moriond today, slides available here. The organizers have given the talks titles with “BEH Boson” replacing the usual “Higgs Boson” (to promote Englert’s shot at a Nobel), but the speakers have … Continue reading →

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Quick Links

Posted on March 3, 2013 by woit

This should be a month with quite a bit of experimental news, including Latest Higgs news from the LHC experiments here on Wednesday. Release of data from AMS-02 was advertised as “two to three weeks away” back on February 17. … Continue reading →

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The State of SUSY

Posted on February 27, 2013 by woit

Results putting new limits on SUSY based on the entire first run of the LHC are starting to emerge (see for example this from CMS) with more likely at Moriond next week. Since one is dealing with a theory with … Continue reading →

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Higgs News

Posted on February 21, 2013 by woit

Official announcements won’t come out until the Moriond conference first week of March, but reliable rumors are starting to trickle out about what the Higgs news will be. ATLAS will report (based on about 21 fb-1 of 8 TeV data … Continue reading →

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SUSY and Quantum Mechanics

Posted on February 19, 2013 by woit

You may have read somewhere today that Columbia professor strips down to underwear in bizarre lesson to help baffled students learn quantum mechanics (first-hand sources here and here). That wasn’t me, but I have been talking to my class for … Continue reading →

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