Fields of knowledge: Physics

12 Dec 2012 - INFN

It is called SuperB factory, it should have been able to produce a large quantity of elementary particles, named heavy B mesons, in a circular accelerator, with a circumference of 1.3 kilometers...

Pietro Greco | | 204 visits

16 Nov 2012 - Physics

The solo flight of Hess (Victor that is)

Those amongst us, who, in the last year of secondary school, studied the Second World War, probably remember a rather dark and extremely controversial event: the flight of Hess (Rudolf Hess), in...

Tommaso Maccacaro | Science history | 440 visits

15 Oct 2012 - CERN

Open access to particle physics

Beginning from January 2014, 90% of scientific publications within the field of high energy physics will be freely available to anybody able to access the Internet.

Rita Giuffredi | Communication, Physics | 483 visits

10 Oct 2012 - The limits of science

Possible? Impossible? Better "never say never"

Never. Impossible. Words we are learning to use with extreme caution in the language of science. As time goes by we become increasingly aware that much of what is impossible today is probably due to...

Tommaso Maccacaro | Physics | 561 visits

24 Jul 2012 - CERN

Italian testimony in boson research

It 's hard to describe my emotions during this 4 July 2012 when the discovery of the Higgs boson is being announced. For people like me who has been pursuing this goal for over 20 years, during these...

Guido Emilio Tonelli | INFN | 1.433 visits

23 Jul 2012 - Physics

What if the particle is not the Higgs boson?

The discovery of the Higgs boson is an extraordinary success for modern science and the technology associated with it. It confirms, in particular, the validity of scientific research in theoretical...

Guido Martinelli | Physics | 1.092 visits

19 Jul 2012 - Higgs boson

A success for the international scientific community

The results presented today by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN are a step forward of extraordinary importance for our understanding of the Universe. The discovery of the Higgs boson is the...

Fernando Ferroni | Physics | 1.905 visits

05 Jul 2012 - CERN

Gossip around the Boson

Geneva, 4 July 2012

Rita Giuffredi | Physics | 1.385 visits

16 Feb 2012 - Phisics

Some notes on Nicola Cabibbo

1. Universal Weak Interactions

Luciano Maiani | Science history, Physics | 3.478 visits

26 Sep 2011 - Neutrino

Neutrino OPERA experiments

After 3 years of data taking in the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN with the OPERA detector at LNGS, and several months of analysis and checks, a really unexpected result has come out last week: the...

Antonio Ereditato | Dark matter, Physics | 2.282 visits

09 Apr 2011 - Physics

History of a "mutant" neutrino

The international collaboration of OPERA experiment located at the Gran Sasso national laboratories -National Institute of Nuclear Physics-, in a seminar held yesterday at the laboratory, announced...

Antonio Ereditato | | 2.080 visits

31 Jan 2011 - History of science

Regnault, the patient physicist in pursuit of objectivity

In these hurried times the adverb coming up in the writings of Henry-Victor Regnault, renowned chemist and physicist born in Aix-la Chapelle (France) now Aachen,(Germany) on 21 July 1810, may seem...

Marco Taddia | Science history, Physics

| 3.763 visits

10 Dec 2010 - Space

Big Bang as the beginning of time: science or myth?

Was there ever really a beginning of everything? Including time? One can hardly imagine a more existential question in the spirit of each human being. Philosophies and religions have approached...

Gabriele Veneziano | Astronomy, Physics | 1.476 visits

06 Oct 2010 - Cosmology

Dark energy, physical reality or illusion?

The standard model of cosmology, as opposed to the standard model of elementary particles, does not enjoy great generality: it is based on the simplest class of solutions among the solutions of...

Francesco Sylos Labini | Astronomy, Physics

| 2.660 visits

30 Mar 2009 - Cosmology

Science time, God's time

George Coyne | Astronomy | 1.313 visits