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 show part. Well, as for the scientific part, […]English posts
ICHEP: snapshots from Monday plenary session
ICHEP: snapshots from Saturday sessions
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... […]ICHEP Day 3: jets!
Saturdaysessions 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, or simply to be a tourist in the City of Light […]
ICHEP Day 2: Higgs at Tevatron, Higgs at LHC, Higgs on the BBC
Fridayafternoon 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 distilling their results at a tantalizing pace, and - in case you missed that - […]
Gadgets!
Theremust 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, reality is that the average participant rarely uses them, and often tosses them to dust in a remote angle […]
ICHEP Day 1: ATLAS and CMS electrons and photons, and some Tevatron Higgs searches
Imostly kept my program.Mostly, because I arrived slightly late at the Palais des Congres for the afternoon session (the French waitress at the creperie just in front of the Saint Paul church was so slow...): Salle 252B was already so packed I was not able to enter, and I decided to head […]
Parallel sessions
ICHEP is a huge conference, and with huge I mean there will more than a thousand participants, and a loooot of presentations. The standard way to pack a lot of contributions in a huge conference is to hold parallel sessions: talks belonging to different "tracks" (read: with an affine subject) are grouped together, and […]Luminosity is not the whole story
Onemonth and a half ago I was playing the fortune-teller, and trying to guess what ATLAS and CMS will be showing at ICHEP as a function of the integrated luminosity they would have collected. ICHEP will start in a few days: today in principle we should be able to revisit that list, and to […]









