Researchers on the collider’s separate ATLAS and CMS detectors have been “blinded” – or cut off from findings from the rival team and even from different groups inside their own. CERN spokesman James Gillies said the centre would want to make any important announcement, once there was something to say, in Geneva.” (…)”Blinding” is used in science to ensure that different groups working on identical experiments but with different if similar equipment do not influence the outcome of each other’s research.If they then come to the same conclusion, they can safely be seen to have independently validated each other’s results, clearing the way to actually claiming a discovery.

Según el experto, Japón se postula como el candidato con más posibilidades de albergar el ILC, ya que estaría dispuesto a contribuir con la mitad de la suma necesaria para financiar el proyecto, que contará con la participación de los grandes laboratorios mundiales. Richard se mostró esperanzado en que no haya disputa por la futura ubicación del acelerador, evitando así lo que sucedió con el ITER

CERN physicists, take out your smartphones! Two new particle physics applications for Android phones have been developed by a physicist from the University of Bern: “Particle Properties” and “Particle Physics Booklet 2010”.

“This is the first time that velocity was measured with that level of accuracy,” Autiero says. But all of that was a sidebar to the experiment’s real goal: catching shape-shifting neutrinos in the act.

本県への国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）誘致を目指す県国際リニアコライダー推進協議会（会長・元持勝利県商工会議所連合会長）主催の講演会は７日、盛岡市上田３丁目の盛岡一高（高橋和雄校長、生徒８８４人）で開かれ、東京大素粒子物理国際研究センターの山下了准教授が講演した。(Scientist gave an ILC lecture at Morioka Daiichi high school with a view to realise the ILC in Tohoku area)

本県の北上山地（北上高地）への誘致を目指す国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）について、県と東北大が実施した地質調査の結果がまとまった。(Iwate prefecture and Tohoku University released the report of preliminary site investigation in Tohoku area, and the official says Kitakami mountain has a good geology for ILC construction.)

The OPERA collaboration has announced yesterday at the Neutrino 2012 conference in Japan, the observation of their second neutrino tau interaction, after the first observation made in 2010.