The Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society held a major conference for the field at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 9-13 August. A very interesting feature of the meeting was a celebration of the Tevatron, in anticipation of its being turned off later this month. The CERN Large […]
From symmetry breaking: Do particle theorists have a blind spot?
In a provocative section of a talk at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, DC, yesterday, theorist Matthew Strassler from Rutgers University challenged particle theorists to not be too simple in their analyses. Most people would probably not claim that theoretical particle physics is too simple, but Strassler argued that nature is likely to be […]