ICHEP 2010

ICHEP: random collection of final impressions, and a tentative balance

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ICHEPis over. After the last plenary session the few remaining braves stormed out of the auditorium, strained with conference fatigue, and headed back home. I must confess, I found a week-long conference, with six full days packed with presentations, pretty long and tiring. I'm not completely surprised that in the last days not many questions […]

ICHEP Day 4: the Higgs is not there. Yet.

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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, […]

ICHEP Day 2: Higgs at Tevatron, Higgs at LHC, Higgs on the BBC

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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 - […]

Auch, ci tocca pure Sarkozy

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È ufficiale: lunedì a mezzogiorno il Presidente della Repubblica Francese Sarkozy ci delizierà con la sua presenza qui a ICHEP, e arringherà la folla di fisici (in francese, bien sur, ma con traduzione simultanea in inglese ) con un bel discorsetto di incoraggiamento. Evviva, che bello, qui siamo tutti entusiasti :-)La venuta del caro […]

Gadgets!

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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 […]