The forum discussion centers on the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) regarding the diphoton excess initially observed in 2015. The CMS collaboration has reported no significant findings in the mass range of the previous bump, which was noted at 750 GeV, and has removed certain photon events from their analysis. The ATLAS collaboration is expected to release their results shortly, but preliminary indications suggest they will mirror CMS's findings. The significance of the original bump was 3.9 sigma for ATLAS and 2.6 sigma for CMS, but the lack of an increase in significance with new data casts doubt on the bump's validity, suggesting it was likely a statistical anomaly.
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I think the aim is at Moriond (not before)?mfb said:. We should get new results in the near future, the latest at Moriond
Yes... LHC will undergo some short shutdown for half the 2017 and then continue taking data.almost for the whole time till the end of 2018 when LS2 is scheduled. I think before LS2 the plan is to reach above 100/fb of data.arivero said:Is there other physics run next year?