News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle. Parent comment

Re:CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle by Agentlien on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:50AM (#23780900)
That was a very strange sentence to read. Is that really how little they assume the reader knows? I almost took it as a comment on the expected quality of the peer review.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle by milliams on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:23AM (#23781241)
It's also worth noting that for a paper from the collaboration to have to got to the preprint stage it will have gone through a very strict internal review process with several layers.

Source: I working in the LHCb collaboration for several years.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle by The_rationalist on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:18AM (#23781185)
I'm pretty sure the average american does not know what peer review means.
[ Parent | on HN ]