Rumours abound of Higgs...maybe as a Christmas present?
Posted on December 2, 2011 by woit
Some more detail on Higgs rumors I’ve been hearing recently. Evidently the latest ATLAS data shows an excess in the gamma-gamma channel around 126 GeV, of the size expected if the Higgs is there, and CMS is also seeing an excess (2 sigma?) around 125 GeV in the same channel.
The rumours tell us that next week ATLAS and CMS will announce a
strong but inconclusive signal for the Higgs boson at about 125 GeV.
This may be wrong and even if it is right there may be other candidate
signals to think about, and it will take much more data to verify that
the signal is indeed correct for the Higgs, but if it is right, what
then are the implications of the Higgs at this mass?
Rumours abound that Cern scientists have finally glimpsed the long-sought Higgs boson. We asked physicists to share their thoughts on the elusive entity
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