The Global Design Effort (GDE) has promised to submit the ILC Technical Design Report by the end of 2012. To accompany this document, the physics and detector community is preparing the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). That report will discuss the physics measurements to be carried out at the ILC, present the detailed technical designs […]
Articulating the physics case for the ILC
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Michael Peskin, convener of the Physics Common Task Group and of the group preparing the physics chapter of the Detailed Baseline Design report.
Is the Higgs enough?
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is running extremely well and its two general-purpose detectors ATLAS and CMS are collecting data at a much faster pace than expected. The LHC successfully concluded its 2011 proton run an the end of last month. The ILC physics community is preparing for the results expected to emerge from […]
From SLAC Today: Will the Real Higgs Boson Please Stand Up?
From symmetry breaking: Higgs buzz at summer physics conference
From CERN Bulletin: Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider – How are discoveries made?
With the LHC up and running, some might imagine physicists just waiting for a Higgs boson to pop up in one of the four experiments, before publishing a paper and moving on to solve science’s next Big Mystery. However this picture is very far from the reality of experimental particle physics today, where results are […]
From Fermilab: Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson
Batavia, Ill.—New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results today (July 26) at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule […]