I am currently in Montpellier to attend QCD17 http://www.lupm.univ-montp2.fr/users/qcd/qcd17/Welcome.html. There have been several talks by CERN people and someone claimed that perturbative QCD fails at some stage others just said that all works fine. Of course, it is the case to say that "the report of my death was an exaggeration". I have no doubt that all this will be promptly fixed. On my side, tomorrow I will give a talk about my (stunning) computations of the Yang-Mills spectrum (https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07647 and https://link.springer.com/…/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-017-482…). I would like to point out a reflection: All the bosonic theories we know in nature are trivial, it is when one adds fermions that magic happens.

Ferrara and Sagnotti on 40 years of supergravity. The paper is freely readable for one month https://www.sif.it/riviste/ncr/econtents/2017/040/06

This could be the future to assess good science in a fairer way.

Getting the Yang-Mills mass gap exactly with respect to lattice computations https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07647

The agreement from the theoretical ground state and the one computed on the lattice is well below 1% for Yang-Mills theory in three dimensions https://marcofrasca.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/well-below-1/

John Ellis, Where is Particle Physics Going? Look at the conclusions! https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02821

Here is two beautiful pictures from Moriond 2017. No SUSY whatsoever but ATLAS can grant agreement just at 2 sigmas for the strength signal of the decay Z->4l, while CMS shows a promising picture of possible excited states at higher mass for the Higgs a little beyond 2 sigmas. As stated in my paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02299 this would not be BSM physics.

https://marcofrasca.wordpress.com/…/03/09/quote-of-the-day…/

Exact solutions to non-trivial quantum field theories exist!

https://marcofrasca.wordpress.com/…/yang-mills-theory-pape…/

Tobby's star and deviations from the alien hypothesis. This star could be near criticality and non-equilibrium processes could be running like in a ferromagnet near its Curie point. It is not guessed what kind of processes are effectively going on but we are coming back down to earth. Even if something to be explained remains yet. http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/150

Signal strengths could be the way! http://resonaances.blogspot.it/2016/09/next-stop-tth.html

ATLAS Experiment at CERN and CMS nuked our illusions at ICHEP 2016. https://marcofrasca.wordpress.com/…/in-the-aftermath-of-ic…/

ICHEP 2016 will start in a few days . As I have also heard from CERN's people at QCD 16 in Montpellier, the bump at 750 GeV in the diphoton channel is going away. What I suggest to look at is the signal strength in the WW and ZZ channel (number of events seen). I do not expect to see something for chasing the ambulance yet but really interesting to consider even so. No press conference is expected and so no hype. Stay tuned anyway. http://indico.cern.ch/event/432527/timetable/#20160803

QCD 16 Conference started today in Montpellier (France) http://www.lupm.univ-montp2.fr/users/qcd/qcd16/Welcome.html. Several people from CERN are present. Today, ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment, ATLAS Experiment at CERN and CMS people showed how QCD works fine at high energies. Friday, talks will be given about Higgs sector. Your humble correspondent will talk on Thursday. I have tweeted some of the presented results today.