Why a Lightweight Higgs is a Sensitive Creature — Part 2
[Note added: It is official --- as expected, at this year's Chamonix workshop, where the Large Hadron Collider's [LHC's] future is planned out each year, it was decided that the LHC’s energy will be...
View ArticleNews from La Thuile, with Much More to Come
At various conferences in the late fall, the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] experiments ATLAS and CMS showed us many measurements that they made using data they took in spring and summer of 2011. But...
View ArticleTaking Stock: Where is the Higgs Search Now?
Today, we got new information at the Moriond conference on the search for the Higgs particle (in particular, Phase 1 of the search, which involves the search for the simplest possible Higgs particle,...
View ArticleProfessor Peskin’s Four Slogans: Advice for the 2012 LHC
On Monday, during the concluding session of the SEARCH Workshop on Large Hadron Collider [LHC] physics (see also here for a second post), and at the start of the panel discussion involving a group of...
View ArticleIs Supersymmetry Ruled Out Yet?
[A Heads Up: I'm giving a public lecture about the LHC on Saturday, April 28th, 1 p.m. New York time/10 a.m. Pacific, through the MICA Popular Talks series, held online at the Large Auditorium on...
View ArticleA Real Workshop
In the field of particle physics, the word “workshop” has a rather broad usage; some workshops are just conferences with a little bit of time for discussion or some other additional feature. But some...
View ArticleLHC as Juggernaut and Behemoth
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the Third Indian-Israeli International Meeting on String Theory, held at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. The subject of the meeting is “Holography and...
View ArticleOff to CERN
After a couple of months of hard work on grant writing, career plans and scientific research, I’ve made it back to my blogging keyboard. I’m on my way to Switzerland for a couple of weeks in Europe,...
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