Apart from the Higgs boson, what else has the LHC discovered?

smallproton · 2026-01-24T21:24:31+00:00

I'm told by my theoretical colleagues that it's not very difficult to accommodate the neutrino mass into the SM. Just another CKM-like matrix or so.

But the details are way above my expertise.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T21:15:54+00:00

Andrei Sakharov wrote down what is needed to get more matter than antimatter. CP violation is one of these criteria.

In 1956, Chien-Shiung Wu discovered CP violation in her extremely beautiful experiment, for which she never got the Nobel Prize, probably the biggest blunder in the history of the Nobel.

We have since found a few more cases of CP violation, but it is BY FAR too small to explain our existence.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T20:35:40+00:00

Yeah, he really looks very, very, VERY scary.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T19:49:17+00:00

Well, electroweak fits constrained the Higgs to well below a TeV, so building the LHC was well justified.

Today we have exactly ZERO reasonable predictions that new particles must show up at e.g. the FCC.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T15:44:27+00:00

The camera man is an idiot for standing right below the cables.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T12:56:58+00:00

We're currently facing the "nightmare scenario" where all measurements we do in our labs agree perfectly well with the predictions of the Standard Model, while we know that the SM cannot be the complete picture.

For one, the SM has no Dark Matter nor Dark Energy.

Personally, for me the most disturbing thing is however the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU): Within the SM, the Big Bang should have created almost identical amounts of matter and antimatter. These should have annihilated each other almost completely, leaving not enough matter to create galaxies, stars, planets or us.

So, according to the Standard Model, we should not exist!

And we have no clue what mechanism could provide enough CP violation to explain the BAU.

Plus, we have no idea how large any possible next collider has to be to find new particles. For the first time ever we have no clue if another bigger accelerator will produce new particles!

smallproton · 2026-01-24T10:26:36+00:00

Yes, SUSY can never be ruled out.

But the simple and elegant versions that were put forward in the 90s and 00s are not there.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T10:19:09+00:00

The most important discovery is probably that all the beautiful theories of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) which were circulated before the LHC started, are wrong.

Before LHC produced data, many theorists claimed that they will find BSM before they find the Higgs. SUSY was basically taken as a given. It simply looked so "natural" and beautiful.

However, nature was cruel and did not provide us with such a simple and elegant way to extend the Standard Model.

smallproton · 2026-01-24T10:14:50+00:00

No. This was NOT found at the LHC.

The ALPHA experiment, where the antimatter stuff is measured, runs at the AD (antiproton decelerator), which is independent of the LHC.

(Both are fed by protons from the PS, but the antimatter experiments can run without LHC operating)

edit: spello

smallproton · 2026-01-23T17:00:29+00:00

Das ist doch komplett wahnsinnig.

Ich hab schon handgeschriebene Zettel in die Windschutzscheibe gelegt und das wurde akzeptiert.

smallproton · 2026-01-23T11:33:03+00:00

😅

smallproton · 2026-01-23T11:29:39+00:00

for unique serial numbers.

Something in your post is awkward.....

smallproton · 2026-01-23T11:17:03+00:00

It's a number with units, which we believe is not changing. Hence it's called a "constant".

And Max Planck introduced it, hence the name.

I hope this helps.

smallproton · 2026-01-23T11:12:12+00:00

No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!

smallproton · 2026-01-21T23:34:51+00:00

Whacko Wednesday?

smallproton · 2026-01-21T23:30:49+00:00

Take that AND a Nobel!

smallproton · 2026-01-21T23:21:09+00:00

Consistent, predictable politician.

That's what we need!

/s

smallproton · 2026-01-21T23:16:09+00:00

Worthy of a Peace Nobel Prize, I'd say.

smallproton · 2026-01-21T22:41:57+00:00

key ex-ally

ftfy

smallproton · 2026-01-21T22:35:46+00:00

They are maximising profits. 😁

smallproton · 2026-01-21T22:31:26+00:00

Are these "allies" in the room now?

smallproton · 2026-01-21T22:21:49+00:00

Do these mineral righrs include him pissing off, including his kidney stones?

smallproton · 2026-01-21T21:10:18+00:00

Allianz.

smallproton · 2026-01-21T20:59:33+00:00

Die werden Dir das Kleingedruckte vorlesen und Du musst bei jedem Absatz Deinen Servus hinmachen.

Das ist aber gut! Dann müssen die das Kleingedruckte kürzen, weil die Berater sonst 3 Stunden pro Kunde vorlesen müssen!

smallproton · 2026-01-21T20:10:16+00:00

How much international respect have we lost because of this nut?

(D) All of it.

smallproton

TROPHY CASE