12 April – ILC NewsLine

Announcements

Linear Collider Town Hall Meeting – 16 May, Paris, France

CERN Council will agree on a European strategy for particle physics in a special meeting held in 2013 in Brussels. An international committee has been established to prepare input from the linear collider community. The committee is requested to review the physics case for a linear electron-positron collider in a draft report, the final version of which will be delivered to the European Strategy Group. On 16 May, a town hall meeting will take place in Paris for the whole particle physics community to express its view to the committee: the discussions at this meeting, that aims to gather the community at large, will be timely in view of preparations for the European Strategy Update.

The committee is looking forward to wide participation of the particle physics community.

Registration and further information.

Preprints

arxiv preprints

1204.1951

Renormalization of the Higgs sector in the triplet model
1204.1834

Higgs boson production at Linear Colliders from a generic 2HDM: the role of triple Higgs self-interactions
1204.0845

Top quark pair production via (un)polarized photon collisions in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity at the ILC

12 April

Leah Hesla | 12 April 2012

from Black Hills Pioneer

10 April 2012

DOE calls for even larger dark matter experiment

Sanford Underground Research Facility head Dr. Kevin Lesko said his team is working with collaborations that are responding to a Department of Energy call for proposals for a “next-generation” dark matter experiment.
from symmetry breaking

9 April 2012

Tevatron experiment confirms LHC discovery of Chi-b (P3) particle

In December, scientists on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC announced that they had unearthed in their data a never-before-seen particle composed of two bottom quarks, called Chi-b (P3). The DZero collaboration now has made public in a paper submitted to Physical Review D that they also see the Chi-b (P3) particle.
from BBC News

5 April 2012

LHC is back with big energy boost

Early on Thursday, opposing stable beams of protons were smashed into each other at four observation positions. The total collision energy in these bunches of sub-atomic particles was eight trillion electron volts (8TeV) – a world record.