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Lepton Photon 2009: An LHC in every home

In The Field - Blog Posts -- So what's next for high-energy physics? The LHC won’t be the end. Physicists will want to go to higher energies. The question is, how? The International Linear Collider -- a planned linac that will do for positrons and electrons what the LHC did for protons -- is what the community wants right now, but it won't go to any higher energies. It might be too expensive to build just to match the LHC's c...     08-21
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Lepton Photon 2009: Hint of a Higgs?

In The Field - Blog Posts -- So nearly all of the talks at this conference have been reviews -- not surprising, given the paucity of fresh data in the field. But there is one machine still chugging along -- the Tevatron -- and new results were presented by each of the main experiments, CDF and DZero. The new Higgs search results weren't all that surprising, just incremental advances on the last big rollout of results in the s...     08-21
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Lepton Photon 2009: Shining a light through a wall

In The Field - Blog Posts -- While most of the talks here at Lepton Photon have focused on blowing up the Standard Model at high energies -- i.e., firing up the LHC -- Joerg Jaeckel of the University of Durham in the UK gave an interesting talk on how you can look for new physics at energies of just an electron-volt or so. The LHC might miss particles that only rarely interact with normal matter. And so Jaeckel extolled the v...     08-20
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Lepton Photon 2009: The malaise

In The Field - Blog Posts -- Here are the several hundred physicists that made their way to Hamburg for the conference. It's a relatively small conference, and since there is only one plenary session at a time, with invite-only talks given, there is none of the helter-skelter feeling of something like an APS meeting. But several people complained to me that there are only about half as many people as usual -- and that that re...     08-19
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Lepton Photon 2009: Clamping down

In The Field - Blog Posts -- So in all of the discussions of the status of the LHC, there has been little change to the new plan that emerged a few weeks ago: the machine will run at half-energy through most of 2010. The two general purpose experiments, Atlas and CMS, will just have to be patient. But at the end of an LHC status talk, the Atlas team's Mel Shochet, of the University of Chicago, had a question: how will the LHC...     08-19
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