Readers might have noticed that this blog has slowed down lately. The reason is that I am in a transition period at the moment, wherein I hope to: see to completion three collaborative projects, attend two conferences in Europe (Warsaw Workshop on Non-Standard Dark Matter, and The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting), make it back in time for SUSY2016 in Melbourne, complete my PhD thesis (by August 1), move into a new position juggling research with industry work, and also go on a belated honeymoon... hence the blog will have to go on the backburner for now. In order to keep this format up I need to be in a stable routine, which was the case for the last year or so, but currently is not. Updates might still be made in the coming months, though certainly not in this same format. Until then...!
- LHC had its first proton beam on 25th March, and today had first stable 13 TeV collisions!
- Belle has released a preliminary measurement of an angular observable in $B\to K^*\mu\mu$ which LHCb has consistently been seeing a discrepancy with. Belle see the same thing:
- Four 750 GeV diphoton papers were published in Physical Review Letters this week.
- April Fools came and went; see CERN's effort here, Fermilab, arXiv here, and return of supersplit supersymmetry, this time (of course) linked to the 750 GeV diphoton excess.
- CMS publicly released 2.5/fb of 7 TeV proton-proton collision data.
- Dark Matter at the LHC Workshop ran from 30 March to 1 April (indico). LHCski: A first discussion of 13 TeV results, ran from 10-15 April (indico).
- Links without thinks:
- Matthew Buckley via Boston Review: The Search for New Physics at CERN, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to Quantum Field Theory.
- CERN: In Theory: Which came first…?
- Backreaction: Why is Lorentz-invariance in conflict with discreteness?
- Quanta: Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles.
- Quanta: Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory.
- In audio/video media:
- In Particular shorts: Graviton. [7:14]
- Art McDonald via Perimeter Institute: A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2 km Underground. [1:16:53]
- Jernej Kamenik via Laitn American Webinars: Update on the LHC diphoton excess. [1:11:58]
- Nima Arkani-Hamed via IAS Princeton: The Future of Particle Physics. [1:43:42]
- David Kaplan via Quanta: Is That 'Bump' a New Particle? [2:25]
- Don Lincoln via Fermilab: Theoretical physics: insider's tricks. [8:31]
- Perimeter Institute: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Explains Quantum Computing. [1:08]
- Vsauce: How To Count Past Infinity. [23:45]
