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From: nuny on 2 Aug 2010 05:40
On Jul 27, 8:42 am, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 3:57 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > New data suggest a lighter Higgshttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61449/title/New_data_sugge...
>
> > Fermilab results heat up race for an elusive particle
> > By Ron Cowen
>
> > "Combined data from two experiments at the Fermilab's Tevatron particle
> > accelerator indicate that the elusive Higgs boson — known as the God
> > particle — does not have a mass between 158 and 175 GeV. Fermilab
> > The God particle has fewer places to hide".
>
> > "Studies from the Large Electron-Positron Collider, which shut down in
> > 2000 at the European research organization CERN, along with indirect
> > constraints from both theory and experiments, had indicated that the
> > Higgs could have a mass anywhere between 114 and 185 GeV. In late 2009,
> > the two Tevatron experiments, known as CDF and DZero, excluded the range
> > between 162 GeV and 166 GeV. With the new constraints, CDF and DZero
> > have now ruled out nearly 25 percent of the mass range for the Higgs
> > allowed prior to 2009, before the two experiments began weighing in on
> > the proposed particle".
>
> > See:http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61449/title/New_data_sugge...
>
> The LHC is better tuned to finding it if it's higher mass, and FNAL is
> better tuned to finding it if it's lower mass, so on the face of it,
> FNAL still has a slight advantage in plumbing the remaining space.
> However, really all this does is to focus attention on two different
> sets of decay channels, one set dominating at low mass and the other
> set dominating at higher mass. So tweaking the reconstruction
> algorithms to be more efficient with the targeted decay channels will
> accelerate discovery.
>
> The really interesting event will be if no Higgs is found at all.

At either facility. That'd generate one of the most exciting phrases
in all of science:

"Hmm... that's unexpected."


Mark L. Fergerson
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