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ICHEP Day 2: Higgs at Tevatron, Higgs at LHC, Higgs on the BBC

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Fridayafternoon I sat again in a relatively packed room for the Higgs session. The effect of the rumor seems to fade away, but there is still quite a buzz around the Tevatron Higgs searches, especially because our friends are professionally distilling their results at a tantalizing pace, and - in case you missed that - […]

Gadgets!

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Theremust be some secret competition among the organizers of different conferences, aiming to to invent the most fancy gadget to offer the participants. While probably the organizers sincerely put some effort in this conference gadget business, reality is that the average participant rarely uses them, and often tosses them to dust in a remote angle […]

ICHEP Day 1: ATLAS and CMS electrons and photons, and some Tevatron Higgs searches

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Imostly kept my program.Mostly, because I arrived slightly late at the Palais des Congres for the afternoon session (the French waitress at the creperie just in front of the Saint Paul church was so slow...): Salle 252B was already so packed I was not able to enter, and I decided to head […]

Social program(ming)

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Ever attended a physics conference before? Then you should know that the most important moments are neither the plenary nor the parallel sessions, but... coffee breaks! Presentations at plenary sessions are often funny and entertaining; talks at parallel sessions is where one can really learn the details of any remote analysis. But for the […]

What should we expect from LHC?

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(Primo post scritto per Blogging ICHEP 2010. Appena ho un minuto lo traduco, promesso, ma pare che a qualcuno possa interessare già così. Fare le pulci al mio inglese è severamente proibito).June is coming, summer conferences are approaching, LHC physicists are feverishly working to produce results to show.In the next few […]