Quantum Diaries » Adam Davis

There has been a lot of press about the recent DØ result on the possible (B_s pi) state. This was also covered on Ricky Nathvani’s blog. At Moriond QCD, Jeroen Van Tilburg showed a few plots ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2016/03/21/live-blogging-of-the-lhcb-bs-pi-result/

Sometimes when you’re looking for something else, you happen across an even more exciting result. That’s what’s happened at LHCb, illustrated in the paper “Observation of (J/psi p) resona...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/07/15/finding-a-five-leafed-clover/

I don’t usually get to spill the beans on a big discovery like this, but this time, I DO! CERN Had Dark Energy All Along!! That’s right. That mysterious energy making up ~68% of the universe ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/03/31/cern-had-dark-energy-all-along-uses-it-to-fuel-researchers/

With 2015 a few weeks old, it seems like a fine time to review what happened in 2014 and to look forward to the new year and the restart of data taking. Along with many interesting physics result...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/01/27/looking-forward-to-2015-analysis-techniques/

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything, but I wanted to write a bit about some of the testbeam efforts at CERN right now. In the middle of July this year, the Proton Synchrotron...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/10/15/let-there-be-beam/

I know that the majority of the posts I’ve written have focused on physics issues and results, specifically those related to LHCb. I’d like to take this opportunity, however, to focus on the ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/05/20/snowmass-p5-hepap-hep-and-what-it-all-means-to-you/

While flavor physics often offers a multitude of witty jokes (read as bad puns), I think I’ll skip one just this time and let the analysis speak for itself. Just recently, at the Lake Louise Wi...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2014/02/28/b-decays-get-more-interesting/

In case you hadn’t heard, the past few days have been big days for B physics, i.e. particle physics involving a b quark. On the 18th and 19th, there were three results released in particular, t...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/07/23/oh-what-a-beautiful-day/

I know in my life at least, there are periods when all I want to do is talk to the public about physics, and then periods where all I would like to do is focus on my work and not talk to anyone. ...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2013/03/04/back-from-hibernation-and-a-puzzling-asymmetry/

One of the other results presented at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium this week was the result of a search for ( D^{0}–bar{D}^{0}) mixing at LHCb. Neutral meson mixing is predicted for an...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/11/14/mixing-it-up/

Perhaps in your wanderings of physics papers, you’ve seen plots which look like this: While yes, you may think that Easter has come early, this is actually an honest-to-goodness physics analysi...

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/11/02/a-dalitz-what-now/