TheBoringQuark

Unpopular opinions in particle physics.

[TheBoringQuark @BoringQuark]

@WKCosmo It's all about magnets! If there were a magical way to safely produce and operate magnets at (say) 100T, the reachable energy scale even with the LHC tunnel would increase drastically

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@WKCosmo hep-ex people seem to take this as a hard constraint and blame material scientists for it, instead of trying to put extra effort into this R&D

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@PKoppenburg This peak is not significant, is it?

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Checking for energy conservation is now optional before submitting to arXiv? https://t.co/BmE3RenIuc

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@PKoppenburg or a trick to bypass the work permit system for foreigners?

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Could we PLEASE stop hyping every 1.5 sigma excess as "a hint of new physics"? This is seriously damaging the reputation of the field once all these excesses go away.

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@WKCosmo Back in my days, the undergrad particle physics course said "top is too short-lived to form bound states". It's like finding a stamp from Czechoslovakia emitted in 2024. Rewriting the textbooks should feel cool.

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@PKoppenburg so it's similar to the relative rate of Higgs production compared to the total pp cross-section at the LHC?

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@PKoppenburg @getindico

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@DavidMarzocca @will_pietrak @FCC_study They will eventually rename it to Flagship Cern Collider and get away with that

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@PKoppenburg @WKCosmo interestingly, this comment also applies for the CMD3 measurement of the HVP

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@DrAndreDavid every seven hours there is a PhD student submitting their thesis with this citation in the first chapter :)

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@GregorKasieczka @PKoppenburg @cajohare 🦆🦦🐸

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@PKoppenburg @MRiwu_u this one is only 3He while they also see a different state with 4He?

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when you cannot decide whether to oversell your fluctuation

https://t.co/ACBbyhmWB5

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@JimBaggott Why did i read it as "Quantum Obama" at the first look

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@SebViret @PKoppenburg @Tristan_duPree This is not even a "publication": not even submitted to arXiv

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@DrAndreDavid @CERN @Fermilab @kek_en a somewhat popular narrative among Chinese scientists is that the sustainability discourse is imposed by Europeans in order to limit Chinese economical/scientific growth

[Pietro Vischia @pietrovischia]

This thing of private list of participants or no online list of participants should end here. Come on, conferences exist with the purpose of talking with colleagues, if you don't know who'll be there how the hell are you supposed to know if you are interested in being there?