{"id":9187,"date":"2017-03-22T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:37:00","slug":"new-lhc-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9187","title":{"rendered":"New LHC Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week results are being presented by the LHC experiments at the Moriond<\/a> (twitter here<\/a>) and Aspen<\/a> conferences. While these so far have not been getting much publicity from CERN or in the media, they are quite significant, as first results from an analysis of the full dataset from the 2015+2016 run at 13 TeV, This is nearly the design energy (14 TeV) and a significant amount of data (36 inverse fb\/experiment). The target for this year’s run (physics to start in June) is another 45 inverse fb and we’ll not start to hear about results from that until a year or so from now. For 14 TeV and significantly larger amounts of data, the wait will be until 2021 or so.<\/p>\n

The results on searches for supersymmetry reported this week have all been negative, further pushing up the limits on possible masses of conjectured superparticles. Typical limits on gluino masses are now about 2.0 TeV (see here<\/a> for the latest), up from about 1.8 TeV last summer (see here<\/a>). ATLAS results are being posted here<\/a>, and I believe CMS results will appear here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is now enough data near the design energy that some of the bets SUSY enthusiasts made years ago will now have to be paid off, in particular Lubos Motl’s bet with Adam Falkowski, and David Gross’s with Ken Lane (see here<\/a>). A major question now facing those who have spent decades promoting SUSY extensions of the Standard Model is whether they will accept the verdict of experiment or choose a path of denialism, something that I think will be very damaging for the field. The situation last summer (see here<\/a>) was not encouraging, maybe we’ll soon see if more conclusive data has any effect. <\/p>\n

If the negative news from the LHC is getting you down, for something rather different and maybe more promising, I recommend the coverage of the latest developments in neutrino physics here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Lubos has paid off his bet with Jester<\/a>. Losing the bet hasn’t dimmed his enthusiasm for SUSY. No news on whether David Gross has conceded his bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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