{"id":7768,"date":"2015-06-02T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2015-06-29T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:29:36","slug":"lhc-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7768","title":{"rendered":"LHC Run 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Run 2 of the LHC is about to start with first stable beams scheduled for Wednesday morning, Geneva time).  If you&#8217;re up (I&#8217;ll be asleep) you can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/397618\/\">a live webcast<\/a>, or watch what is going on <a href=\"https:\/\/op-webtools.web.cern.ch\/op-webtools\/vistar\/vistars.php\">here<\/a>.  The current plan is 3 bunches\/beam Wednesday, 13 bunches\/beam Friday, and 48 bunches\/beam over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will also be an <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/389857\/\">LHCC meeting<\/a>, which you can also watch live. It will include reports from the experiments, and a status report about the machine which should give the latest details about the planned schedule for ramping up the intensity over the next couple months.<\/p>\n<p>For the best advice about what to look for in coming months, see Jester&#8217;s summary <a href=\"http:\/\/resonaances.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/how-long-until-its-interesting.html\">here<\/a>.  First new results may well be about gluinos.<\/p>\n<p>This week there&#8217;s a workshop going on at Nordita.  On Thursday Gordon Kane will explain how <a href=\"http:\/\/agenda.albanova.se\/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=278&#038;confId=4682\">string theory predicts that the LHC will see superpartners soon<\/a>. I gather his claim is that gluinos are at 1.5 TeV, just above the Run I limits of around 1.4 TeV, so a sure thing for Run II.  Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aip\/magazine\/physicstoday\/article\/50\/2\/10.1063\/1.881680\">back in 1997<\/a> he was claiming they were at around 250 GeV, just above Run I limits, a sure thing for Run II (but that was the Tevatron&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Kane has very specific <a href=\"http:\/\/agenda.albanova.se\/getFile.py\/access?contribId=278&amp;resId=250&amp;materialId=slides&amp;confId=4682\">string theory predictions for Run 2<\/a>: gluinos at 1.5 TeV, winos at 620 GeV (+\/- 10%).   So, I guess string theory is going to finally be tested by the LHC over the next year or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run 2 of the LHC is about to start with first stable beams scheduled for Wednesday morning, Geneva time). 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