Category Archives: Experimental HEP News

The Status of SUSY

Posted on October 22, 2011 by woit

You may have seen by now claims from various sources about evidence for SUSY coming from CMS, for instance Hints of New Physics Crop Up at LHC, A Lifeline for Supersymmetry?, and CMS sees SUSY-like trilepton excesses. This nonsense is … Continue reading →

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News From Europe

Posted on October 7, 2011 by woit

A few items with a European flavor: The news from Dublin is that Witten will be in town soon to give the Hamilton Lecture, with the Irish Times reporting that Witten’s Hamilton Lecture will abandon string theory, however, in favour … Continue reading →

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No News

Posted on September 15, 2011 by woit

I’ve been hearing no interesting news from the LHC recently, about all I’ve learned is that CMS/ATLAS haven’t even decided whether it’s worth combining their latest public data (probably not, what is much more interesting is the large amount of … Continue reading →

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Sunday Night Higgs?

Posted on August 18, 2011 by woit

Lepton-Photon 2011 begins Monday morning, the schedule is here. It should start off with a bang, with the latest Higgs search results from ATLAS and CMS presented starting at 11:20am local time, the middle of Sunday night here. There will … Continue reading →

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Results from EPS-HEP 2011

Posted on July 21, 2011 by woit

Results from the EPS-HEP 2011 conference that began today are starting to appear. These include the first results making use of most of the 2011 LHC run data. This is a factor of 30 or so more data than that … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Leak

Posted on July 12, 2011 by woit

Everyone in the HEP community is breathlessly awaiting the release of results from the 2011 LHC run, expected to come at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference in Grenoble starting July 21. A public press conference has been announced for July 25. … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Rumor

Posted on June 8, 2011 by woit

A couple months ago CDF made the New York Times by releasing results claiming to see a resonance in the invariant mass spectrum of two jets produced together with a W. Last week they released a new analysis with twice … Continue reading →

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Quick Links

Posted on June 1, 2011 by woit

The big news of the past couple days has been the release of more data by CDF which continues to show a bump in the invariant mass of two jets produced with a W. Resonaances gives an excellent description of … Continue reading →

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Not a Leak

Posted on May 8, 2011 by woit

ATLAS this weekend has finally released their latest analysis of the gamma-gamma invariant mass spectrum, carried out in response to claims from within their collaboration that a 4 sigma Higgs signal had been observed in this channel. The result? Nada: … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Leak

Posted on May 4, 2011 by woit

Recently there was a bit of a kerfuffle triggered by someone leaking here the abstract of an internal ATLAS document claiming to have found a Higgs signal as a bump in the gamma-gamma invariant mass distribution. After some initial discussion … Continue reading →

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