So, there's a new issue of Physics World magazine out, with a bunch of feature stories on the Large Hadron Collider. Three of these are available free online:
- Life at the high-energy frontier, a sort of overview of the accelerator and the people involved.
- Expedition to inner space, a discussion of what they hope to discover at the LHC.
- How the US sees the LHC, which is obvious.
I'm particularly interested in one of the articles that isn't free online, though: "Beyond the Higgs" discussing what would happen if the LHC fails to find the Higgs boson. My interest stems from the fact that the author emailed me a few questions based on an old blog post. I doubt very much that I'm quoted, or anything like that, but I'm very interested to hear what the article has to say.
If anyone has access to the full text, and can let me know what it says, I'd appreciate it. I'll post what I wrote in response to those questions later on.
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Chad - I work for PW, so I'll mention to Edwin that you'd like to see a copy of his article. I think it was probably me that pointed out your blog post to him actually :)
Thanks for these links - they look like keepers for my "Quantum Physics for Poets" class in th Spring. It's depressing though... it's been so long since I've done any real particle physics, I found myself reading one of the articles thinking... "Hmmm... is that what the hierarchy problem is? I thought the hierarchy problem was something else."