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The 750 GeV Diphoton Bump: What It Cannot Be

The 750 GeV Diphoton Bump: What It Cannot Be

Two weeks have passed since the CERN Jamboree of December 15th, which will be always remembered for the spurious 750 GeV signal observed by ATLAS and CMS in their mass spectra of photon pairs. It is…
Holiday Card 2015

Holiday Card 2015

Here is my holiday card for 2015, a tradition of mine going back to 1990.  Enjoy. On the back... I also include a summary of the year.  Here is the stuff on my research efforts: Hello:It…
Knockin' On New Physics Door

Knockin' On New Physics Door

[The article below is courtesy  Eilam Gross. Eilam is a physicist from the ATLAS experiment and has been convener of the Higgs group there. I am very happy to host a guest post from him on the…
New ATLAS Results From The 13 TeV LHC Jamboree

New ATLAS Results From The 13 TeV LHC Jamboree

Marumi Kado started his talk by saying he will only present new results based on the full 2015 13 TeV pp collision dataset.For Run 2 there have been a large number of improvements to the detector.…
New CMS Results From LHC Jamboree

New CMS Results From LHC Jamboree

Jim Olsen is giving the CMS talk on 13 TeV results. CMS recorded 90% of the 4 inverse femtobarns delivered by the LHC, but only 2.8/fb were taken with the magnet at 3.8 Tesla (for the rest of the…