The winter conferences are now come and gone, with any dramatic new LHC results now likely to wait until more data is on hand. First attempt to collide beams at 4 TeV\/beam is now scheduled for Friday morning, with stable beams for physics a week or so later. Results from the 2012 data should first start to arrive at the summer conferences.<\/p>\n
This week at CERN there’s a workshop on Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics<\/a>. Lots of detailed information in the slides about the latest LHC bounds on non-SM physics. For a summary of the situation with the Higgs, SUSY and what it all means, you could do worse than take a look at the slides of Alessandro Strumia<\/a>, which include the sobering:<\/p>\n Implications for European Strategy for Particle Physics: The Higgs could be the last particle. Carpe diem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He describes the SUSY situation as “the naturalness motivation for weak scale SUSY is mostly gone”, with the one loophole not yet ruled out a stop particle at accessible energies. This scenario has now been dubbed “natural SUSY” and will be a major focus of searches going forward.<\/p>\n There was a similar workshop organized last week at the University of Maryland, slides are here<\/a>. Matt Strassler reports here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Evidently there was a final panel discussion for which video may appear at some point.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: One more thing on the same topic, a very recent review of the implications of LHC results for SUSY phenomenology is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The winter conferences are now come and gone, with any dramatic new LHC results now likely to wait until more data is on hand. First attempt to collide beams at 4 TeV\/beam is now scheduled for Friday morning, with stable … Continue reading