Ho paura che sia scomparso l’ultimo grande difensore degli ideali nella repubblica italiana… Continue reading →

No, this post is not about some exotic new physics model predicting dark photons or other useless concoctions which physicists sometimes entertain with, in their frustration for the lack of guidance from experimental data of what really is it  tha... Continue reading →

L’ultimo giorno della mia prima conferenza sulla Dark Matter Direzionale ci hanno portato in visita al Laboratorio Underground JCPL (China Jinping Underground Laboratory) che attualmente è il più profondo laboratorio per la fisica astroparticellare al mondo e fra poco diventerà anche … Continua a leggere → Continue reading →

Una bottiglia d’acqua EVIAN che ha percorso oltre 20.000 km avanti e indietro fra le alpi francesi e la Cina. Dopo nove ore di pulman da Xichang all’aeroporto internazionale di Chengdu in Cina,  e tre ore di attesa in aereoporto, avevo … Continua a leggere → Continue reading →

The "Art&Science" project is coming to the final phase as far as the activities in Venice are concerned. About 100 15 to 17-year-old students from high schools in Venice have assisted to lessons on particle physics and the Higgs boson in the past months, and have been challenged to produce, alone or in groups of up to three, artistic compositions inspired by what they had learned. This resulted in 38 artworks, many of which are really interesting. The 17 best works will be exposed at the Palazzo del Casinò of the Lido of Venice, the site of the international EPS conference, next July 5-12, and the three best among them will receive prizes during a public event on July 8th, in presence of the CERN director general Fabiola Gianotti. <!-- -->

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A new review of my book, "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab", has appeared on the June issue of "Physics World". It is authored by Gavin Hesketh, a lecturer at University College London, and you can read it here. re... Continue reading →