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Posts tagged ‘LHC’
10:00am local time, Sept. 10th, 2008
As the first light from Fermi or GLAST, LHC First Beam is also a big moment for particle physicists. Find more from http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/Welcome.html. Continue reading ‘LHC First Beam’ »
With the LHC coming on line anon, it is appropriate to highlight the Banff Challenge, which was designed as a way to figure out how to place bounds on the mass of the Higgs boson. The equations that were to be solved are quite general, and are in fact the first attempt that I know of where calibration data are directly and explicitly included in the analysis. Continue reading ‘The Banff Challenge [Eqn]’ »