Michael Schmitt

Particle Physics at Northwestern: CMS, Mu2e, etc.
Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy

[Fermilab @Fermilab]

Seven students have received the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award to conduct their research at Fermilab. Congratulations!
https://t.co/gtLk9IN8o4

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Read this very clear and simple explanation of why we already know that antimatter falls downward.

[Matt Strassler @MattStrassler]

No, #antimatter doesn't fall up, and no theoretical #physicist is the slightest bit surprised... because it wouldn't make sense based on other things we already know. https://t.co/eNDuquEnpV

[Freya Blekman @freyablekman]

Greetings from the @CMSExperiment control room where I’m presently on shift. We have permanent video connections to other remote control rooms, tonight (or should I say this afternoon 😇) Jingli is connecting from @Fermilab to do the data quality monitoring!

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Doing a revision? It's not commonly taught but an effective way to structure the point-by-point response to reviewers is to distinguish for each point the 'Response' and the 'Action'. Things proceed smoother when it's easy for reviewers to know how each 'Concern' was addressed.

[Alex Klotz @AlexanderRKlotz]

Fun facts about three dimensions:
-the only dimensionality in which knots can exist
-the only one where Newtonian gravity gives a closed stable orbit
-the only one where the Ising model doesn't have a known solution
-the last one where polymers bumping into themselves matters

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 011803 (2023) - Probing Heavy Majorana Neutrinos and the Weinberg Operator through Vector Boson Fusion Processes in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ https://t.co/8vyotb5qUV

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

An interesting blog post, especially the comment from Geordie Williamson.

[Not Even Wrong @notevenwrong]

New post: A Mathematics AI Factory? https://t.co/590Uu6qdS1

[Freya Blekman @freyablekman]

@celestelabedz Journal Club! And go to seminars. After that, reserve one hour a week reading papers that you learned about in the first two events and thought were interesting

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Our paper making neural networks more modular, sparse and interpretable by penalizing neuron length is now on arXiv. Less is more! @ZimingLiu11 https://t.co/D4SYe2GCjX

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Happy to see this petition and to sign it! I hope many people do.

[Zahra Tabrizi @tabrizi_zahra]

I support restoring public access to Fermilab, as someone whose life and job has been directly affected by this. Calling all #FriendsOfFermilab to sign the petition to #ReopenFermilab

@RepBillFoster
@LaurenUnderwood
@TammyDuckworth
@SenatorDurbin
https://t.co/UOb8CuB3xX

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

@ZhongboK @UMDPhysics @PhysRevLett Congratulations! Sounds interesting.

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Wow, one can even read the logbooks! Cool!!

[Victoria Martin @MamaPhysikerin]

Now: gravitational waves from Tessa Baker 💫 🌊#IOPHEPP #IOPAPPHEPP2023. Top tip: we can monitor what’s happening with the interferometers at: https://t.co/sBVUVQtnDQ.

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Fantastic colloquium at Northwestern yesterday by Jesse Thaler - machine learning applied to QCD itself! + great conversation about the future of particles physics (P5) and the crucial role played by young researchers with interdisciplinary training!

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Looks like an extremely useful review.

[Gino Isidori @Gino06004284]

It took us some time, but “The SMEFT at work” is finally out! A review on the SMEFT written by one of its founding fathers, Daniel Wyler, in collaboration with some "younger" (😀) colleagues from Zurich https://t.co/hyplmcmJ6A @UZH_Science

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

This looks like a really great course!

[Javier M. Duarte @jmgduarte]

My first #MachineLearning in #Physics course at @UCSDPhysics is now complete! All materials are available here: https://t.co/fgKn1GQ3W8

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

Important work done by HFLAV combining quark-flavor-related measurements from several experiments.

Physics - Heavy-Flavor Properties Get an Update https://t.co/KIxmLVa8uP

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

@freyablekman Thanks very much for your live reporting. I think it is highly worthwhile and I looked forward to your posts!

[Michael Schmitt @MichaelHSchmitt]

@chrisquigg @CERN Cool!

[ATLAS Experiment @ATLASexperiment]

If new particles exist, the W-boson mass should deviate slightly from the Standard Model. However it is extremely difficult to measure with high precision!

To be sensitive to new physics, mass measurements need to have tiny uncertainties – around 0.01%. https://t.co/jT1VraZImQ

[Oz Amram @OzAmram]

I wrote a new @ParticleBites on why the Higgs self-coupling is both very cool and very important to measure!

Many consider it the most important part of the LHC's long term research program and potential future colliders

https://t.co/0wmH7V1VBN