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Standard model appears to be flawed
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RE: Standard model appears to be flawed
I know that in the hadronic top quark decay t -> W+b -> jets, the invariant mass of the b-jet with one light jet peaks at around 150GeV, and given that the CDF simulations don't even describe the W/Z peak particularly well, I'd be quite worried at this stage that they're just not properly accounting for SM backgrounds.
I'd quite like to see what this would look like with single-top backgrounds subtracted using data instead of Monte-Carlo, and what the D0 data looks like following the same CDF analysis procedure.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
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Standard model appears to be flawed - by popeyespappy - May 31, 2011 at 8:26 pm
RE: Standard model appears to be flawed - by lilphil1989 - June 1, 2011 at 11:34 am



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