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Il libro pop-up di ATLAS, per chi trova cosa disse il fisico misterioso

Avetecertamente un'idea di che cosa sia un libro pop-up? Sono sicuro di si. Si tratta di quei libri dalle cui pagine, quasi per magia, saltano fuori delle ingegnose strutture tridimensionali in cartone, a metà tra l'origami e il modellismo. Della mia infanzia ho ben stampata in mente l'immagine di quello legato al film "The […]

ICHEP: random collection of final impressions, and a tentative balance

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ICHEPis over. After the last plenary session the few remaining braves stormed out of the auditorium, strained with conference fatigue, and headed back home. I must confess, I found a week-long conference, with six full days packed with presentations, pretty long and tiring. I'm not completely surprised that in the last days not many questions […]

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 […]