ICHEP is 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 … [Continua a leggere] infoICHEP: random collection of final impressions, and a tentative balance
If you have lived in France (but not in Paris) at least for a little while, you have certainly learned the hard way that there's no France outside Paris. Or, like the inhabitants of the City of Light prefer to put it, Paris est la France, et la … [Continua a leggere] infoParis est la France, et la France est Paris
Now we know, the Higgs boson did not show up at Tevatron. Yet. But we also know that, if it exists, we would not find it in the 158-175 GeV mass range. The finally came to an end, certainly matching the expectation, at least for what concerns the … [Continua a leggere] infoICHEP Day 4: the Higgs is not there. Yet.
Featuring Steve Myers and the status of LHC, the Spokespersons of the LHC experiments and their highlights, physicists queuing for the Presidential speech, Nicolas Sarkozy at ICHEP, the new Tevatron Higgs combination. Have fun. … [Continua a leggere] infoICHEP: snapshots from Monday plenary session
The Fermi Sky Not everyone is visiting Paris (but still...) A supernova exploding in Salle Maillot Lonely poster session The trouble with Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Preparing for the President... … [Continua a leggere] infoICHEP: snapshots from Saturday sessions
Saturday sessions were not really well attended. if we exclude the one on CP violation, CKM and Rare Decays that succeed in packing a lot of people in one of the smaller rooms. Maybe the average ICHEP participant decided to make the grasse matinee, … [Continua a leggere] infoICHEP Day 3: jets!
Friday afternoon 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 … [Continua a leggere] infoICHEP Day 2: Higgs at Tevatron, Higgs at LHC, Higgs on the BBC
È ufficiale: lunedì a mezzogiorno il Presidente della Repubblica Francese Sarkozy ci delizierà con la sua presenza qui a ICHEP, e arringherà la folla di fisici (in francese, bien sur, ma con traduzione simultanea in inglese ) con un bel discorsetto … [Continua a leggere] infoAuch, ci tocca pure Sarkozy
There must 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, … [Continua a leggere] infoGadgets!
I contenuti di Borborigmi di un fisico renitente sono rilasciati sotto licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non Commerciale-Non opere derivate. Fatene buon uso.
