{"id":5053,"date":"2012-08-17T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:55:43","slug":"lhc-and-susy-betting-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"LHC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LHC is operating well, hitting record peak luminosities, with integrated luminosity for the year over 11 fb<sup>-1<\/sup>.  By the end of the year there may be 25 fb<sup>-1<\/sup> per experiment or so.   Current plan seems to be to update the results on the Higgs in December, much like last year, so there may not be much news until then.  <\/p>\n<p>This week the LHC Machine Advisory Committee was meeting, slides <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=198003\">here<\/a>.  The current schedule has this proton run ending mid-December.  After a heavy-ion run early next year, the machine will go into a long shutdown starting in March, with main goal to fix the magnet interconnections and commission the machine to run at nearly design energy, 6.5 TeV\/beam.  First beams at this energy will not be until April 2015, with maybe 20-25 fb<sup>-1<\/sup> of integrated luminosity in the first year&#8217;s run.<\/p>\n<p>With no sign of SUSY so far, and little reason to believe it will show up in the rest of the 2012 data since nothing has shown up already, the rallying cry of SUSY enthusiasts is now &#8220;Wait Until 2015&#8221;, or, maybe more like 2016, since early 2016 may be when analyses of a significant amount of 6.5 TeV data start to appear.  I&#8217;d been wondering whether David Gross has been getting discouraged at the prospect of having to pay off on his SUSY bets.  Someone asked him this recently, with the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=beGAv_GNAhU\">here on YouTube<\/a>.  He says he&#8217;s still willing to take 50\/50 bets on SUSY, but &#8220;with the right conditions&#8221;, which are 50 fb<sup>-1<\/sup> of analyzed data\/experiment (he says this will be &#8220;years from now I think&#8221;, roughly 2017 maybe if all goes well), and he adds &#8220;then we need a judge, because it won&#8217;t be so obvious I think&#8221;.  So, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be quite a while before we get to see Gross pay up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LHC is operating well, hitting record peak luminosities, with integrated luminosity for the year over 11 fb-1. By the end of the year there may be 25 fb-1 per experiment or so. Current plan seems to be to update &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5053\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","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\/5053","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=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}