Category Archives: Experimental HEP News

Physicists Finally Find a Way to Test Superstring Theory

Posted on December 15, 2010 by woit

More than ten years ago, the New York Times ran a story explaining that Physicists Finally Find a Way to Test Superstring Theory. At the time, the test was scheduled to start in 2005-6: In fact, it might be possible … Continue reading →

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Assorted News

Posted on November 18, 2010 by woit

HEPAP is meeting in Washington today, presentations available here. The idea of this regular meeting is for the US HEP community and the funding agencies to meet and plan for the future, something that’s not easily done in an environment … Continue reading →

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This and That

Posted on November 9, 2010 by woit

There’s a new preprint here explaining the scientific case for running the Tevatron past 2011. A couple weeks ago the P5 subpanel came out with its report on the subject, generating news stories “Momentum builds for Tevatron extension” and “Panel … Continue reading →

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LHC Update

Posted on September 24, 2010 by woit

There’s been great progress made recently at the LHC, with successful commissioning of “trains” of bunches, allowing significantly higher collision rates. Last night’s fill produced an integrated luminosity of .684 inverse picobarns (or 684 inverse nanobarns), which can be compared … Continue reading →

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Tevatron Funding

Posted on September 21, 2010 by woit

The Fermilab web-site today has a message from Director Oddone about prospects for funding an extension of the Tevatron run after FY2011, as recommended by the Physics Advisory Committee. He has asked the DOE for additional funding of $35 million/year … Continue reading →

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Short Items

Posted on September 17, 2010 by woit

The Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee recently recommended that the Tevatron be kept running for an additional three years (until 2014). By the end of that time it should be able to accumulate a total of 20 fb-1 of data, which … Continue reading →

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New Higgs Results From the Tevatron

Posted on July 26, 2010 by woit

Just got back from vacation this morning. Luckily I managed to be away for the blogosphere-fueled Higgs rumors, returned just in time to catch the released results which appeared in a Fermilab press release minutes ago. The ICHEP talk in … Continue reading →

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LHC vs. Tevatron Update

Posted on June 28, 2010 by woit

Over the weekend the LHC had a first successful physics run with nominal intensity beams, in 3 bunches. A peak luminosity of about 5 x 1029cm-2s-1 was achieved, and the total integrated luminosity per experiment is now around 30 nb-1. … Continue reading →

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God Particles Breeding Like Bosons

Posted on June 15, 2010 by woit

Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons, The ‘God Particle’ may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider’s rival project finds, US experiment … Continue reading →

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LHC Update

Posted on June 11, 2010 by woit

See here for a new status report on the state of beam commissioning at the LHC. About two weeks ago a peak luminosity of about 2 x 1029cm-2s-1 was reached, using beams with 13 bunches, but each bunch relatively low … Continue reading →

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