Information, facts and figures on the LHC can be found in CERN FAQ – LHC the guide.

Was given today to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.” A Nobel Prize in particle physics.

This morning there was a major problem in sector 3-4 of LHC

Official announcement of the School.

PAMELA is a satellite experiment who measures the cosmic flux of anti-particles. There are rumours that PAMELA has discovered dark matter. Last month, the PAMELA team gave a few selected physicists a sneak preview of their results at a conference in Stockholm. Slides from there were used in this articles, citing this one that stablishes: "the data points shown in our figure have been graphically extracted from a photo of a slide shown by M. Boezio at the IDM08 conference, Stochkolm, 20/08/2008"

CERN has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. The first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008

In this series of six lectures, Professor M. E. Peskin (SLAC) addresses various aspects of the physics of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking. The most important theoretical ideas are analyzed, with special emphasis to the distinctive signatures detectable at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Auditorio 6-435, Martes y Jueves , h. 12.00

UNESP Announces the Largest Computational Cluster in Latin America

R$ 3.1 million project will include seven university campuses with 368
servers, capable for 33.3 trillion calculations per second

New: INSPIRE (alpha)

Based on these results, the managements of the labs seized the opportunity to build INSPIRE, a community-based and user-driven next-generation information system, fully exploiting a new technological environment. INSPIRE is being built by combining the successful SPIRES database, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC, with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN. INSPIRE will offer the functionalities and quality of service which the HEP user community has grown to expect from SPIRES, an indispensable tool in their daily research workflow. It will develop long-sought features, providing access to the entire corpus of the HEP literature with full-text Google-like search capabilities and enabling innovative text- and data-mining applications.