It was with great pleasure that I found yesterday, in the public page of the DZERO analyses, a report on their new search for Higgs boson decays to photon pairs. On that quite rare decay process -along with another not trivial decay, the reaction- the LHC experiments base their hopes to see the Higg...

Two years ago I used the combined Higgs search limits produced by the D0 experiment to evaluate how well the Tevatron was doing if compared with the predictions that had been put together by the 1999 SUSY-HIGGS working group, and later by the 2003 Higgs Sensitivity Working Group (HSWG), two endeavou...

To start 2009 with a tidy desk, I wish to put some order in the posts about particle physics I wrote in 2008. By collecting a few links here, I save from oblivion the most meaningful of them -or at least I make them just a bit more accessible. In due time, I will update the “physics made easy&...

The regulars here will have already noticed by now that my posting rate has fallen this week. I have been busy with three different physics analyses, trying to make some progress in each. The first project is the calibration of the momentum scale in CMS. I have discussed the issue elsewhere a couple...

A week ago I discussed here the recently approved analysis by which CDF shows a small hint of WW/WZ signal in their Run II data, with one W boson decaying to a lepton-neutrino pair, and the other boson (either a W or a Z) producing a pair of hadronic jets. Such a process is very hard to put in evide...

Massimo Passera is an esteemed colleague in Padova. Our Physics department is not very big, but if one is immersed in one’s own work, the activities going on around are easy to overlook. In fact, I only became aware of Massimo’s recent study by checking the ArXiV for recent phenomenologi...