🚀 go-pugleaf

About 1400 high-energy physicists are here in Dallas for the bi-annual
International Conference on High-Energy Physics (this is the XXVI'th).  A
few results of note:  The 17 keV neutrino and the tau decay puzzle seem to
have gone away.  However, the solar neutrino problem has become more acute;
results from 3 detectors (GALLEX, SAGE, Kamiokande) appear to be mutually
inconsistent, as well as inconsistent with the Standard Solar Model,
without MSW.  The Dimopoulos-Hall-Raby fermion mass ansatz with neutrinos
is consistent with the required MSW parameters [delta-m^2, sin^2(2 theta)].
There's no evidence for monopoles or WIMP's.

There's much more, it's like drinking from a firehose, but those were the
things that interested me.

We had a brief tour of the SSC site today.  There's a Magnet Development
Lab, another building where they put several magnets and other components
together as a "string test", and a Really Big Hole in the Ground where the
tunnel-boring machine will be lowered.  Plus a few people very happy with
the recent Senate vote.

Maybe more later...

--
"Between 20 and 30 percent of the gross  |  -- David Brahm
national product of the United States    |  (brahm@cco.caltech.edu)
comes from high-energy physics."         |---------------------------
  --Sen. Gramm, quoted in What's New     | "Then I want a raise" --me