A break from funding crises… We are in the last physics run of the Large Hadron Collider before we go into a long shutdown to upgrade the beam intensity.

Courtesy of ATLAS, the experiment I work on, you can see the status of the accelerator here: Event Counter Info.

And we have an Event Counter running, telling you how many high-energy proton collisions have happen, and roughly how many Higgs bosons will have been produced in those collisions.

More collisions, and more Higgs bosons, are important because, quantum mechnics being essentially random, the more data we get, the smaller the uncertainties will be on the multitude of things we measure. We have also produced summary of some recent results, that we sent to the Moriond 2026 conference.

That’s the point of the upgrade – more collisions. And improved detectors, so we can learn more from them.