One of the things that was abundantly clear in the high energy physics sessions at Physics@FOM is that everyone is very excited. The LHC is ready to roll later this winter, the Tevatron is putting out data like… well, a machine, and there is just so much stuff waiting around the corner. It almost feels as if you’re among kids that are about to be given the keys to a candy store.
I only attended three talks in this session: an update on the ATLAS detector at the LHC, preliminary results from the Tevatron’s search for the Higgs boson, and a talk introducing a new way to go from a theoretician’s idea to experimental data. Individually, these talks are fairly unimportant, but together they are pretty exciting.
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