Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Gran Sasso and Fermilab

Posted on November 1, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Gran Sasso *** deconstruction: soudan mural The Soudan mural is next to the 6000-ton MINOS detector. Mural artists: Joseph Giannetti, Leila Giannetti, Mick Pulsifer. Funded by a grant from the University of Minnesota. (Credit: Fermilab Visual Media Services) *** Fermilab … Continue reading →

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TRIUMF Dragon

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

ISAC and DRAGON, the Detector of Recoils And Gammas Of Nuclear reactions TRIUMF has long been addressing big questions about the origins of matter in our universe by studying the interactions among elementary particles or essential nuclei.  The DRAGON experiment … Continue reading →

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ICECUBE Neutrinos

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Another Big thank you to ICECUBE Blog. The IceCube project at the South Pole needed a new server cluster to reconstruct raw data, so it selected Dell PowerEdge servers for the HPC solution. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has just completed … Continue reading →

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XKCD Significant-Speed of Light Issue?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

You got to love it when correlations can be made, and a thank you to the ICECUBE Blog If the histograms and data are exactly right, the paper quotes a one-in-ten-thousand (0.0001) chance that this bump is a fluke. That’s … Continue reading →

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ICECUBE Blogging Research Material and more

Posted on October 27, 2011 by PlatoHagel

In regards to Cherenkov Light Thinking outside the box See: A physicist inthe cancer lab Ackerman became interested in physics in middle school, reading popular science books about quantum mechanics and string theory. As an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute … Continue reading →

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State of Fear Revisited

Posted on October 24, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Cooling the Warming Debate See: The State of Fear See Also:  ICARUS Proves Neutrinos At Least 10 Times Faster Than Light Getting Science Through: Misunderstood Terms In Science Communication Dialogos of Eide

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The Eternally Existing, Self-Reproducing, Frequently Puzzling Inflationary Universe

Posted on October 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

The Eternally Existing, Self-Reproducing, Frequently Puzzling Inflationary Universe Since I cannot comment at Sean’s Blog either,  I might as well comment here too:) 27.   Moshe Says: October 23rd, 2011 at 5:00 am Igor, I am not sure I understand. We … Continue reading →

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CMS Physics Results

Posted on October 22, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Link on Title. All CMS public results can be found in CDS , and are categorized by subject (group) in this page. Publications and preprints on collision data, ordered by time, are available at this link. Publications on cosmic-ray data … Continue reading →

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What is a Higgs Boson? Lepton fizz?

Posted on October 21, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the nature of the Higgs boson. Several large experimental groups are hot on the trail of this elusive subatomic particle which is thought to explain the origins of particle mass See:Why does anything have substance? … Continue reading →

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Aaron O’Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

Posted on October 19, 2011 by PlatoHagel

And so that’s what we did. We turned off the lights, and then we put it in a vacuum and sucked out all the air, and then we cooled it down to just a fraction of a degree above absolute … Continue reading →

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