The next particle collider to be built, not counting the planned upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, seems likely to be the “Electron-Ion Collider” (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in the US. This will not be a machine probing the frontiers of high energy, but it will bring some exciting new capabilities, and it will indirectly help us understand the energy frontier.
I’m half way through the second week of my stay at the Aspen Center for Physics, where we have been discussing “Tightening the Gap Between Scattering Amplitudes and Events at the LHC at Higher Orders“.
What that somewhat wordy title means is that a mix of people, ranging from quite formal mathematical physicists through to experimentalists like me have been exchanging ideas about how we can more effectively make precise predictions from the Standard Model of particle physics, and confront them with data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The people who made some of the calculations we compared to in my previous post are here, for example.
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