{"id":3414,"date":"2011-01-28T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2011-01-29T07:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T12:14:20","slug":"new-from-chamonix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3414","title":{"rendered":"News From Chamonix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people responsible for the LHC are meeting in Chamonix this week to make plans for the upcoming run, slides of many talks are available <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&#038;confId=103957\">here<\/a>.  The results of discussions there are:<\/p>\n<li>The recommendation will be to run at 3.5 TeV\/beam, not increasing to 4 TeV\/beam as widely expected.<\/li>\n<li>The long shutdown to fix splices and allow going to 7 TeV\/beam will be delayed until 2013, with 2012 devoted to a physics run.  The 2013 shutdown will likely last more than a year.<\/li>\n<li>Officially, the integrated luminosity goal for 2011 remains at 1 inverse femtobarn.  However, unofficially, they expect to be able to do at least twice this, ending up with 2-3 inverse femtobarns by the end of the year<\/li>\n<p>For a discussion of the possible physics that can be done with these parameters, see <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/getFile.py\/access?contribId=57&#038;sessionId=3&#038;resId=2&#038;materialId=slides&#038;confId=103957\">here<\/a>.  By the end of 2011 the LHC should be able to do better than the Tevatron on the Higgs search over most of the possible mass range, except for the low end of the range, where higher energy isn&#8217;t much help, and the Tevatron&#8217;s more than 10 inverse femtobarns and longer experience with the data analysis may give them an edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people responsible for the LHC are meeting in Chamonix this week to make plans for the upcoming run, slides of many talks are available here. The results of discussions there are: The recommendation will be to run at 3.5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3414\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}