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Europhys HEP opening address (poll)
Last year at the ICHEP conference President Sorkozy surprised everyone by turning up to deliver the opening address. ICHEP runs every two years but the Europhys HEP Conference in Grenoble follows the...
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Higgs 2012
2011 lived up to all expectations and hopes for news about the Higgs Boson, but 2012 promises to be it’s crunch year and the excitement is about to begin LHC startup The Large Hadron Collider is...
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LHC Update
During the last two weeks while I have been away the LHC has made a rapid start to its 2012 run. Peak luminosities are already around 4.5/nb/s in CMS although it is hard to be sure how accurate this is...
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LHC Update May
The Large Hadron Collider crawled out of a scheduled technical stop two weeks ago and passed through a rocky patch. There was a series of cryogenic failures that slowed the build up back to normal...
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ICHEP Preparations
In just three weeks time ICHEP 2012 will be underway with the biggest expected news to come from Higgs Searches presented on 9th July in Melbourne. Meanwhile closer to home a much more low-key meeting...
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Yet another LHC Update
The Large Hadron Collider has now entered a Machine-Development/Technical-Stop phase that will last eleven day. That means they have collected all they can for the ICHEP conference in July. The amount...
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Lots of Higgs webcasts coming up
We are used to looking at the slides from conferences and seminars around the world but we miss what the speaker actually says and the all important questions. So it is good to know that many of the...
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What’s the deal with H → WW ?
In a few days we will get the next big update from CERN on the Higgs boson and it is likely that the main question they are investigating will switch from “Is there a Higgs Boson?” to “Is it the...
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Are unofficial Higgs Combinations “Valid” ?
The Unofficial Higgs Combination Tool has now been updated with all the new Higgs plots released in the last few days, including the Tevatron updates and the new 8 TeV data from the LHC. There will...
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Post-Higgs LHC Update
Just because the Higgs has been discovered does not mean there is any rest the the physcists at the LHC. They are now a few days out of the technical stop and have already returned to running with...
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