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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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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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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