Category Archives: Experimental HEP News

Robert Aymar, the Director General of CERN, has announced that the LHC will operate when it starts up this year at an energy of 5 TeV per beam (10 TeV total center of mass energy), rather than the design energy … Continue reading →

In perhaps the most important development for the future of HEP in the US in quite a while, yesterday Bill Foster, an HEP experimentalist who worked on CDF and the Recycler at Fermilab, won a race to fill the congressional … Continue reading →

This week is a “CMS week” at CERN, and talks are available here. The plenary talk discussing the LHC status has: If all goes well the machine should be cold by 1 June, and protons could be injected by mid-June. … Continue reading →

I’m a bit confused about the situation with the LHC start-up schedule, maybe someone well-informed can help. Here’s what I’ve seen recently: At the AAAS meeting last Friday, there was a session on “Big Science”, which included discussion of the … Continue reading →

Today and yesterday at Fermilab there is an HEPAP meeting designed to gather information necessary to prioritize decisions on how to spend the US HEP budget over the next few years. Many of the talks there are on-line and give … Continue reading →

The disastrous US HEP budget cuts that were announced just before Christmas, a quarter of the way into the fiscal year, have been getting a lot more attention from bloggers now that the holiday season is over, and their implications … Continue reading →

The White House and the Congress, several months into the 2008 fiscal year, finally seem to have come to agreement on a budget, one that fully funds the Iraq war, but has a huge cut in the budget for DOE … Continue reading →

Barry Barish, the director of the ILC project, has a statement here about the recent UK decision to stop funding R and D work on the ILC. He writes that “losing the UK’s contributions to the ILC will have a … Continue reading →