For the details of what is going on, there’s a news story here, and discussion at an HEPAP meeting here. This year the process has involved a highly peculiar situation with the budget for US LHC contributions (prospects for large cuts, assumed to get fixed mysteriously in the last minute process). From the latest news, the US might have a budget any day now, and then a bit later we’ll find out what the HEP budget will be. This however does not lead to actual budget numbers, which only emerge at the last minute, made in some way understandable to no one I’ve ever asked about this. The formal US budgeting process involves a long process including an executive branch budget proposal and congressional committee hearings and debate. As usual in the US for many years, no one knows what the Federal HEP physics budget for the current fiscal year is, although we’re a couple months into it.Due to discovery of a buckled RF finger, the LHC start-up (at 6.8 TeV/beam) has been delayed from end of next February to end of March or beginning of April.For some examples of such news that might be of interest: I haven’t been posting here for a while, partly due to a lot of traveling, partly due to some personal time-consuming commitments, and largely due to a lack of much in the way of news that seemed worth much attention.
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