Chris Quigg

Slides from my July 28, 2025 talk, "Colliders: Evolution and Promise," at the GGI Workshop, Exploring the Energy Frontier with Muon Beams agenda.infn.it/event/47981/...

Mary Gaillard, Who Broke a Ceiling in Subatomic Research, Dies at 86

Fine obituary for my friend and colleague, Mary K Gaillard, who contributed greatly to the search for charmed particles and other key aspects of the standard model of particle physics: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

Worn steps on the Tower of Pisa

In the footsteps of Galileo’s graduate students

As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course or enrichment.

When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it

I foresee the next Carl Hiaasen deconstruction of Floridian high culture.

Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

For me: No evidence for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents

A question to open the day: For you, what is the most surprising result from the LHC?

Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions A thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics

Ebook versions of Gauge Theories on sale at 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature Buy Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Recommended (by me!) for your summer reading, now at a favorable discount for both print and ebook. www.amazon.com/Grace-All-Si...

YouTube video by umsymphonyband UMich Symphony Band - Charles Ives - Variations on "America" (1892)

Music for Independence Day, by American composer Charles Ives (originally for organ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yh...

Large Hadron Couture Collider Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick

@cmsexperiment.bsky.social in popular culture:
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Informal portrait of John Peoples as Fermilab Director

RIP John Peoples, Fermilab's third director (1989–1999), a decisive scientific leader.

Collisions From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who became the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century., Collisions,...

Newly published and worth your attention: Alec Nevala-Lee's riveting account of the life and work of Luis Alvarez (Nobel Prize 1968), bubble-chamber impresario, forensic analyst of dinosaur extinction, and much more. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

This week, Fermilab celebrates its 58th anniversary. My Fiftieth birthday tribute, "Fermilab's Greatest Hits"
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The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

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Destroyer of Worlds The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story—"kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable" (Patchen Barss)—of the physicists that deciphered the atom...

Publication day wishes to Frank Close for his fine Destroyer of Worlds www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/frank...

CQ & KKQ at Oeschinensee

(Modest) altitude training in Kandersteg (Bernese Oberland CH) with my daughter Carter

For a primer before the Muon g–2 Collaboration presents its new measurement on Tuesday, June 3, at 10 am CT t.co/lkqoGzj4IN, see my Notes on Lepton Gyromagnetic Ratios, arxiv.org/abs/2105.07866 and a recent update of the standard-model expectation arxiv.org/abs/2505.21476

Professor Bortoletto recognised by European Physical Society Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 recognising her work in revolutionising silicon detector technology and in supporting women ...

Warm congratulations to Daniela Bortoletto (Oxford), recipient of the European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction! www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

Congratulations to @lhcb.bsky.social for first observation of 2P → 1S E1 transitions in the B_c system, indico.cern.ch/event/155051....

They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering?

Competition for the world Xenon supply— www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...

RIP Mary K. Gaillard, inspiring pioneer of the standard model of particle physics —
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Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions A thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physics

Until May 31: hard cover and electronic editions of Gauge Theories are on sale at 50% off, along with other @princetonupress.bsky.social titles: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Amplifications and a few corrections at chrisquigg.com/gauge-theori...

RIP Jonathan Rosner, superb scientist, wonderful teacher, treasured colleague. Here he is with Hank Thacker on the summit of Mount Fuji in 1978, at sunrise, with a shrine we made to the b-quark.

Slides from my March 15 Munich Lecture, "From the 'Nuclear Mill' to the Large Hadron Collider … and Beyond," doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

RIP Richard Garwin, www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/s..., brilliant polymath and observer (with Lederman and Weinrich) of parity and charge conjugation nonconservation in the π-μ-e decay chain journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/..., setting the stage for precise measurements of the muon magnetic moment.

Deadline extended to 23 May!