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Christmas rumor: \(105\GeV\) dimuon excess at 5 sigma
Update: The best physicist on the territory of Argentina right now, Paul Frampton, wrote me that the signal could perhaps be a sign of a dilepton fr…
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CMS: 2.5-sigma hint of R-parity-violating SUSY
The suggested model could be consistent with a sub-GeV or perhaps 5-10 GeV gravitino dark matter candidate! Yesterday I discussed a CMS paper on mult…
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Stueckelberg Z prime at the LHC
In the last two days, some intelligent media have paid attention to the paper by Daniel Feldman, Zuowei Liu, Pran Nath about the possible detection …
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HERA excluded R-parity violating squarks up to 275-290 GeV
There are many experimental particle physics preprints on the arXiv today. The CMS experiment at the LHC studies die photon Bremsstrahlung which may…
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LHC on schedule
2005, the international year of physics, has so far been a flawless year for the LHC. 1000 out of 1232 magnets are already at CERN; 200 magnets have …
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Monte Carlo fails at leptonic top pair production
The LHC collaborations have produced hundreds of papers that mostly say "everything agrees with the Standard Model, nothing new to be seen here&…
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Earth's gravity correction removes muon's \(g-2\) anomaly: wrong papers
Hours later, I got suspicious that the claimed effect is proportional to the gravitational potential, therefore violates the equivalence principle, a…
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Barry Barish deserves a LIGO Nobel prize, too
It's not certain at all that next Tuesday, the Nobel prize in physics will be given to the people associated with LIGO, the (double) L-shaped exp…
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LHC will be launched on September 10th
The New York Times inform about the date. By the way, all sectors are now at 1.9 K or so except for 81 that warmed up to 3 K in average again... Ori…
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Seeing D-branes at the Tevatron and the LHC
As of 2011, no sane person seriously doubts that string theory is the right framework that describes the Universe around us. However, there remain un…
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Bussard's IEC fusion for dummies: video
Two minutes of video by Foger Rox explaining Robert Bussard's reactor . See also emc2fusion.org . If you ask me how does the geometry from the vi…
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Chinese communist bosses may poison, abuse, or cancel the Mao collider
Some questions must be asked because the freedom-loving Western scientists could soon be sorry As Etudiant pointed out, Asia Society 's ChinaFile…
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AMANDA, neutrinos, and new physics
David Goss has pointed out a press release about AMANDA (press release) AMANDA (report by LinuxElectrons) A system of neutrino detectors immersed d…
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ATLAS: an amusing 2.1-sigma gluino-muon-multijet island excess
ATLAS released an interesting preprint Search for gluinos in events with an isolated lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum at \(\sqrt{s} = 13\…
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Joe Polchinski on failure of all Lorentz-breaking theories
In June 2011, Joe Polchinski , the main father of D-branes and other things, clarified some confusion in another June 2011 paper. (Yes, I took this W…
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