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The New York Times has an article<\/a> this morning by Dennis Overbye in its Science Times section about the hunt for the Higgs and the various rumors that were circulating earlier this year. It does a good job of accurately summarizing and reviewing the situation (although of course the blogs were and remain the place to go for breaking news, up-to-date and accurate information…). Steven Weinberg recalls the time back in 1977 when he quickly wrote up a paper with Ben Lee<\/a> about a model concocted to explain rumored “trimuon” events (which turned out not to be there). There are quotes from bloggers Tommaso Dorigo<\/a>, Gordon Watts<\/a> and John Conway<\/a>, and, in a new posting<\/a> on his blog, Gordon is now trying to deny that he uses the term “Dude” in actual conversation. Unfortunately, anyone at D0 who knows anything seems to have clammed up, no more rumors that I’m aware of about whether they’re seeing anything exciting.<\/p>\n

The 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics<\/a> is going on in Manchester, England, and many of the talks are already on-line<\/a>. This is a conference more aimed at experimentalists than theorists, so there doesn’t seem to be much new in the theory talks. There are so many experimental talks that I think I’ll have to wait for the summary talk to appear to figure out what to pay attention to.<\/p>\n

There’s a long list of things I was going to write about, but Sabine and Stefan at Backreaction got there first (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

  • Nature has a special section<\/a> on the LHC. Very good and much more in depth than most of the huge amount of press coverage of this story. Especially interesting is the article<\/a> by Chris Llewellyn Smith telling the history of how the LHC came to be.<\/li>\n
  • The LHC Theory Initiative<\/a>, a now NSF-funded project that will provide some graduate fellowships and post-docs for people working in phenomenology relevant to the LHC, is being promoted with a University of Buffalo press release<\/a>. It claims that currently Europeans dominate the field of LHC phenomenology, so the NSF funding is needed to stop this “outsourcing” of crucial high-tech employment to foreigners. HEP in the US is quite an amazing industry, the only one I know of that outsources technical work to countries where the labor costs more than it does in the US….<\/li>\n
  • This year’s award for most ludicrous hep-ph paper is likely to be won in a walk by this one<\/a>. Tommaso<\/a> is even better than Sabine on the topic.<\/li>\n

    There’s a new chapter<\/a> out of the particle physics novel The Newtonian Legacy<\/a> (blogged about here<\/a>) by Nick Evans. Not often that the Cern Courier carries material about Higgsless models and lingerie in its pages…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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