Worcester's blog – polls hopelessly out of date: a myth?

The blogs are at it again, even letter writers to newspapers. A headline in the Standard the other day caught my eye. “Election polling is too uncertain.” It would, wouldn’t it

Observation of electron antineutrino disappearance by the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

This presentation describes a measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter, sin^2(2theta_13), from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. Disappearance of electron antineutrinos at a distance of ~2 km from a set of six reactors, where the reactor flux is constrained by near detectors, has been clearly observed. The result, based on the ratio of observed to expected rate of antineutrinos, using 139 days of data taken between December 24, 2011 and May 11, 2012, is sin^2(2theta_13) = 0.089 +/- 0.010(stat.) +/- 0.005(syst.). Improvements in sensitivity from inclusion of additional data, spectral analysis, and improved calibration are expected in the future.Comment: Presentation at the DPF 2013 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Santa Cruz, California, August 13-17, 2013, 6 pages, 2 figure

ORKA: The Golden Kaon Experiment

ORKA is a proposed experiment to measure the K+ -> pi+ nu nubar branching ratio with 5% precision using the Fermilab Main Injector high intensity proton source. The detector design is based on the BNL E787/E949 experiments, which detected seven candidate events. Two orders of magnitude improvement in sensitivity relative to the BNL experiments comes from enhancements to the beam line and the detector acceptance. Precise measurement of the K+ -> pi+ nu nubar branching ratio with the same level of uncertainty as the well-understood Standard Model prediction allows for sensitivity to new physics at and beyond the LHC mass scale.Comment: 6 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings of BEACH 2012, July 23-28, 2012 in Wichita, K

The Final Measurement of Epsilon'/Epsilon from KTeV

We present precise measurements of CP and CPT symmetry based on the full dataset of K to 2pi decays collected by the KTeV experiment at FNAL. We measure the direct CP violation parameter Re(epsilon'/epsilon) = (19.2 pm 2.1)x10-4. We also report the KL-KS mass difference, the KS lifetime, the phase of epsilon, and the phase difference (phi00)-(phi+-). These results are consistent with other experimental results and with CPT symmetry.Comment: 10 pages, 19 figures. To be published in the proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, July 2009, eConf C09072

The Liberal Democrat eruption is not finished yet

Sir Robert Worcester is a Visiting Professor of Government at LSE and an Honorary Fellow. He founded MORI in 1969. The following post first appeared in the Observer on 25 April. When the earth’s plates move, earthquakes and volcanoes follow. This seems to be happening in the wake of the decision to hold, 50 years after their invention in the United States, debates between party leaders

A study of the adjustment in foster homes of sixteen rejected children placed by the Worcester Children's Friend Society from January, 1947 - July, 1950.

Thesis (M. S.)--Boston Universit