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Is the Large Hadron Collider living up to expectations in terms of findings?

Or is it disappointing?
gpt
Both the accelerator and the detectors work wonderfully compared to previous such establishments. Measurements in heavy ion collisions - which generally need much less events to see something interesting than in p+p - are more precise and detailed than most people expected, surprisingly consistent among the experiments, and already killed several outstanding models. Now LHC is about to do proton + nucleus collisions, much earlier than originally expected. 

Concerning Higgs search and other p+p program goals - LHC already excluded Higgs in the easy regions where most people thought it is unlikely to find one. It also eliminated some other beyond-standard-model theories, at least in some of their simpler forms. To find something interesting in p+p collisions takes a lot of interactions (~hundreds of billions), which translates into running time of many years. LHC is operating rather smoothly, and the current energy (7TeV) will be doubled to the full design energy of 14TeV in two years or so. The higher the collision energy the more likely it is to find something new. 


TL;DR: LHC works great, new scientific results are pouring out of it. Media scientific reporting is generally shit.