• Compute potential differnce between two points due to constant electrostatic field?

    Updated: 2012-03-31 21:45:38
    1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data[/b] Problem - Compute the potential difference between the points (4,6,3) and (8,1,6) due to a constant electrostatic field given by E =...

  • Mechanics statics couple moment problem

    Updated: 2012-03-31 21:44:21
    *1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data* Find the force 'p' and angle 'alpha'. *2. Relevant equations* m=rXf *3. The attempt at a solution* I calculated the couple...

  • Calculating Force (magnitude and direction) on a proton

    Updated: 2012-03-31 21:21:28
    *1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data* Diagram shows the separations of a proton, electron, and α particle (charge +2e). What is the force (magnitude and direction) on the...

  • Radiative Cooling Rate

    Updated: 2012-03-31 21:05:28
    *1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data* The first part of this question deals with interstellar gas collisions at a certain velocity, and the resultant temperature of the...

  • Deep Space GPS from Pulsars

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:12:53
    This semester I’m teaching General Relativity, and as part of discussing gravitational waves, this week I briefly discussed pulsars. It was quite timely therefore when I learned of a new proposal that pulsars may ultimately provide a perfect navigation system for spacecraft far from Earth. Here on Earth, the Global Positioning System (GPS) gives us [...]

  • 3 Year Warranty

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:11:41
    Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.,is pleased to introduce its new three-year warranty for its entire portfolio of probe stations, systems, instruments, and sensors.

  • Keithley Model 2657A High Power System SourceMeter® instrument

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:11:27
    Keithley Introduces High Voltage System SourceMeter® Instrument Optimized for High Power Semiconductor Test

  • Keithley Model 2657A High Power System SourceMeter® instrument

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:11:19
    Keithley Introduces High Voltage System SourceMeter® Instrument Optimized for High Power Semiconductor Test

  • www anfiber.com

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:11:07
    www.anfiber.com,Anfiber company is one of the largest manufacturers of Passive Optical Components and Active optoelectronic components products in the world,as a professional optical device manufacturer.

  • Lake Shore Cryotronics

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:11:01
    Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc., manufacturers of scientific sensors, instruments, and systems for precise measurement and control.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:31:57
    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 2012.03.29 The great vacuum in the sky 2012.03.28 Not all things are created equally 2012.03.27 Not just B physics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi

  • Adrienne Rich

    Updated: 2012-03-29 17:13:22
    Adrienne Rich, one of the leading American poets of the 20th century, died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Anything you read about her will emphasize her identity as a feminist and a lesbian, which is perfectly appropriate, but don’t let it get in the way of the fact that she was an amazingly [...]

  • Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter

    Updated: 2012-03-29 16:32:30
    An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-29 13:52:35
    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 2012.03.28 Not all things are created equally 2012.03.27 Not just B physics 2012.03.27 Ramping up 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-29 13:52:09
    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 2012.03.28 Not all things are created equally 2012.03.27 Not just B physics 2012.03.27 Ramping up 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • The time of our lives

    Updated: 2012-03-29 11:00:00
    Dan Falk reviews Adam Frank's About Time: From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives

  • Implications of LHC Results

    Updated: 2012-03-29 02:34:35
    The winter conferences are now come and gone, with any dramatic new LHC results now likely to wait until more data is on hand. First attempt to collide beams at 4 TeV/beam is now scheduled for Friday morning, with stable … Continue reading →

  • The Carbon Map and Data Visualization

    Updated: 2012-03-29 01:36:18
    How best to represent data is a question that physicists spend a lot of time thinking about. While theorists like myself are not the primary examples of this, I do find it striking when I stumble upon an example of data visualization that gets the pertinent facts across in a significantly clearer way than I’ve [...]

  • Moving day for experiment examining whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles

    Updated: 2012-03-28 18:23:23
    The Majorana Demonstrator collaboration began moving their experiment into the Davis Campus on the 4850 Level this week.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-28 01:50:13
    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 2012.03.27 Not just B physics 2012.03.27 Ramping up 2012.03.25 Startup 2012 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-28 01:50:12
    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 2012.03.27 Not just B physics 2012.03.27 Ramping up 2012.03.25 Startup 2012 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard

  • Baths and Quarks

    Updated: 2012-03-26 19:20:39
    David Tong, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge, is excited about solitons. And he wants to share that excitement with you, and he’s willing to climb in a bathtub to do it. It’s a fun video, produced by the Institute of Physics. David’s interest is really in the issue of quark confinement in QCD, one of [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-26 06:12:18
    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 2012.03.25 Startup 2012 2012.03.20 Turtles all the way down 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives

  • ATLAS Peeped

    Updated: 2012-03-26 01:19:07
    Not wanting to let Sean get away with the only marshmallow-related post this year, I’d like to bring to your attention that, for the fifth year running, the Washington Post recently held its Peeps Diorama Contest. This would be a pretty strange topic to cover on this blog were it not for the fact that [...]

  • Science/Religion Debate Live-Streaming Today

    Updated: 2012-03-25 17:57:39
    [Update added below. Further update: here's the video.] I’m participating this afternoon in an intriguing event here at Caltech: The Great Debate: “Has Science Refuted Religion?” Affirming the proposition will be Skeptics Society president Michael Shermer and myself, while negating it will be conservative author Dinesh D’Souza and MIT nuclear engineer Ian Hutchinson. We’ll go [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-25 03:01:56
    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 2012.03.20 Turtles all the way down 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-23 17:58:07
    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 2012.03.20 Turtles all the way down 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives

  • Digital artist creates new kind of experiment at CERN

    Updated: 2012-03-22 14:58:56
    If attendees at the welcome reception for CERN’s first artist-in-residence learned one thing last night, it was that Julius von Bismarck is not afraid to disrupt others with his art.

  • The Flame Challenge

    Updated: 2012-03-22 02:44:02
    Last week I was reading Science and I came across a touching editorial by Alan Alda – the actor. His concern is a basic one that nearly all of us share: how do we connect in a fundamentally human way to non-scientists, especially children, about science? If a child asks you: What is a candle [...]

  • Technological Applications of the Higgs Boson

    Updated: 2012-03-20 17:52:28
    Can you think of any? Here’s what I mean. When we set about justifying basic research in fundamental science, we tend to offer multiple rationales. One (the easy and most obviously legitimate one) is that we’re simply curious about how the world works, and discovery is its own reward. But often we trot out another [...]

  • More physics for your funding

    Updated: 2012-03-20 13:54:22
    The decommissioning of the Tevatron represented the end of an era, but it also is ushering in the next generation of physics by providing valuable equipment to other experiments.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-20 11:53:44
    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 2012.03.20 Turtles all the way down 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:37
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:29
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:20
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:13
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:12
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:07
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:02
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:16:00
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-19 19:15:59
    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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.16 Under review 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 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 2012.03.19 Dissecting the Penguin 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private

  • ICARUS refutes OPERA

    Updated: 2012-03-16 20:50:41
    (Somehow there is a good pun lurking there, but at the tail end of a bout with the flu, I’m not finding it…) Anyway, this plot says it all: I’ve taken this image from a new paper posted by the ICARUS Collaboration (arXiv:1203.3433). The ICARUS experiment sees the same neutrino beam that OPERA sees, and [...]

  • New neutrino measurement finds particles obeying speed limit

    Updated: 2012-03-16 14:32:09
    Scientists on the ICARUS experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced today that they had found no evidence of superluminal neutrinos in a cross-check of earlier analysis from the OPERA experiment, also located at Gran Sasso.

  • Superluminal Neutrinos are so 2011

    Updated: 2012-03-16 14:30:39
    We all knew that when the OPERA experiment announced preliminary evidence that neutrinos were traveling faster than the speed of light, the result was so hard to swallow that independent confirmation from other experiments would be necessary before too many people jumped on the bandwagon. In the meantime, a number of theoretical papers pointed out [...]

  • CERN spin-off: More efficient solar panels

    Updated: 2012-03-16 00:35:03
    Retired CERN physicist Cristoforo Benvenuti learned a thing or two about building a better solar panel through his work on particle accelerators. The Geneva International Airport recently ordered 300.

  • Scientists send encoded message through rock via neutrino beam

    Updated: 2012-03-14 21:00:32
    Scientists recently proved possible a way to converse when radio waves won’t do. For the first time, physicists have successfully transmitted a message using neutrinos.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-13 22:22:41
    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 2012.03.13 A Grumpy Note on Statistics 2012.03.08 There’s competition 2012.03.06 Cleaning the world’s biggest machine 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 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the

  • Time and Marshmallows

    Updated: 2012-03-12 00:42:51
    “Perhaps no one comprehends the roots of depravity and cruelty better than Philip Zimbardo.” At least, that’s what it says here. They’re referring to the fact that Zimbardo — a psychologist who long ago supervised the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment (chilling video here) — is an expert on the psychology of “evil” behavior. But he’s [...]

  • Scientists continue to see puzzling behavior in top quarks, reaffirm strength of Tevatron experiments

    Updated: 2012-03-09 21:46:17
    The Tevatron may be shut down for good, but – as evidenced by the catalogue of results presented at this week’s Rencontres de Moriond conference – the collider’s experiments still have plenty to say. In some areas, the Fermilab experiments still hold the advantage over those at the higher-powered Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

  • A sM*A*S*Hing CERN visit

    Updated: 2012-03-09 15:34:32
    On March 7, Alan Alda, the actor best known for playing medic Hawkeye Pierce on yesteryear’s TV series M*A*S*H, visited the home of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-09 03:59:11
    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 2012.03.08 There’s competition 2012.03.06 Cleaning the world’s biggest machine 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard Model particles summary 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

  • Daya Bay experiment makes key measurement, paves way for future discoveries

    Updated: 2012-03-08 22:32:38
    An international collaboration of physicists working on a neutrino experiment in southern China announced today they have made a difficult measurement scientists have been chasing for more than a decade. The results of the Daya Bay neutrino experiment open an important window into understanding the behavior of neutrinos, and now the race is on to determine the implications. Two American experiments, one proposed and one under construction, seem well positioned to take the next steps.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-08 18:54:09
    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 2012.03.08 There’s competition 2012.03.06 Cleaning the world’s biggest machine 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard Model particles summary 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-08 01:32:02
    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 2012.03.06 Cleaning the world’s biggest machine 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard Model particles summary 2012.02.28 Greetings , from Thesis Limbo 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-08 01:31:57
    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 2012.03.06 Cleaning the world’s biggest machine 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard Model particles summary 2012.02.28 Greetings , from Thesis Limbo 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

  • Tevatron Higgs Results

    Updated: 2012-03-06 02:14:38
    The combined D0 + CDF Tevatron results on the Higgs are scheduled to be announced Wednesday, but it looks like this web-page may have jumped the gun a bit, listing the new results (based on “up to 10 inverse fb”) … Continue reading →

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-06 01:01:39
    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 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard Model particles summary 2012.02.28 Greetings , from Thesis Limbo 2012.02.24 But what if they are faster than light 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-03-05 16:22:12
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.04 Particle Paparazzi : the private lives of the Standard Model particles summary 2012.02.28 Greetings , from Thesis Limbo 2012.02.24 But what if they are faster than light 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 2012.03.04

  • Journey to the Exoplanets

    Updated: 2012-03-05 15:31:45
    My first contribution to Download the Universe, our collaborative site that reviews ebooks on science, is now up. It’s a review of Journey to the Exoplanets, a snazzy and fun iPad app from Scientific American. Teaser: When I was your age, we didn’t have any of these fancy hand-held portable ebook readers. We didn’t have [...]

  • Moriond 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-04 17:46:54
    The LHC will next week enter a Machine Checkout phase for the 2012 run at 4 TeV/beam, with beam commissioning scheduled to start March 14, the physics run April 7. Meanwhile, the LHC experiments have been for months targeting the … Continue reading →

  • Robot Helicopter Electrik Band

    Updated: 2012-02-29 20:23:03
    Sometimes a label conveys it all: “Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme.” This video was shown today at the TED conference by Vijay Kumar of Penn. (H/t Al Seckel.) Note that the little helicopters are pre-programmed; they’re not being remotely controlled by any human beings.

  • What the World Is Made Of

    Updated: 2012-02-26 20:17:28
    I know you’re all following the Minute Physics videos (that we talked about here), but just in case my knowledge is somehow fallible you really should start following them. After taking care of why stones are round, and why there is no pink light, Henry Reich is now explaining the fundamental nature of our everyday [...]

  • Friday Piano Solo

    Updated: 2012-02-24 18:34:50
    Keith Emerson has been doing some interesting work on wave mechanics, Fourier transforms, and temporal structure. Here are some of his findings. Not exactly what you see at the Grammy’s these days. (Not that it was back in 1974, either.)

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-02-23 21:51:51
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.02.23 New Information on FTL Neutrinos” 2012.02.20 Analyzing New Data : Never the Same Twice 2012.02.19 Chamonix 2012 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 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson Part II : Unitarization of

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-02-21 21:12:26
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.02.20 Analyzing New Data : Never the Same Twice 2012.02.19 Chamonix 2012 2012.02.16 Releasing LHCb results 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 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson Part II : Unitarization of Vector Boson

  • Books Made From Electrons!

    Updated: 2012-02-21 16:47:08
    [Updated to provide a better link for DtU overlord Carl Zimmer.] The conventional presentation of a book — words and images printed on sheets, bound together in a folio — is a perfected technology. It hasn’t changed much in centuries, and likely will be with us for centuries to come. But that doesn’t mean that [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-02-20 00:01:46
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.02.19 Chamonix 2012 2012.02.16 Releasing LHCb results 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson Part II : Unitarization of Vector Boson Scattering 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 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-02-19 15:22:07
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.02.16 Releasing LHCb results 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson Part II : Unitarization of Vector Boson Scattering 2012.02.10 Physicists Eat 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 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-02-14 22:11:56
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.02.14 Why do we expect a Higgs boson Part II : Unitarization of Vector Boson Scattering 2012.02.10 Physicists Eat 2012.02.03 Preparation for YETS another physics run 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 2012.02.14 Why do we

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-02-03 20:36:58
    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 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result 2011.09.22 Physics GRE Bootcamp USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.02.03 Preparation for YETS another physics run 2012.02.03 Can the LHC Run Too Well 2012.01.28 Broadcast your data 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 2011.12.12 The Night Before Higgsmas” 2011.12.01 Dispatch from the intensity

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