Monthly Archives: October 2008

An unexpected bump has the particle physics world busy tonight; (we’re too sedate to be “aflame”). The bump was discovered at Fermilab by the CDF collaboration: Study of multi-muon events produced in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV”, hep-ex/0810.5357. In short, … Continue reading →

Things are flying in the physics world and there’s amazing things going on economically. And I owe some posts on these subjects. But right now, more important for the brotherhood of blogs, is one of our own; Boudicca needs us. … Continue reading →

Given my final success in writing the CKM matrix as the sum of a real 1-circulant matrix and an imaginary 2-circulant matrix, the next step is to write down the parameterization that allows any 3×3 unitary matrix to be written … Continue reading →

The MNS matrix (in tribimaximal form, which is compatible with all experimental measurements) can be written in elegant form as a unitary matrix which is the sum of a real 1-circulant matrix and an imaginary 2-circulant matrix. See Doubly Magic … Continue reading →

It seems much longer but it was only two months ago that I wrote a post giving the CKM matrix in magic unitary form. With half the Nobel prize in physics going to Kobayashi and Maskawa, the K and M … Continue reading →

New mesons! Let’s begin with a picture (from encarta) showing how new particles (states) were discovered back in the good old days: Work on the big meson paper is continuing. I’m almost done with the isoscalar mesons. So in addition … Continue reading →