The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
September 10, 2011 at 7:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2011 at 7:22 am by little_monkey.)
From: Revealed: The Best Higgs Plots.
"Everything is excluded at 95% confidence in the mass range from 145 GeV to 460 GeV, but there are small excesses over the range from 115 GeV to 145 GeV. A good thing to notice about this plot is that the expected CLs line is below the 95% confidence limit all the way up to 500 GeV. If there were no Higgs boson in that range they would expect to have excluded it, but they haven’t."
There is a bump at 140GeV, but only with 2-sigma significance. Are physicists grasping at straws? And what are the ramifications, should the Higgs boson be ruled out at those energies?
Thoughts.
"Everything is excluded at 95% confidence in the mass range from 145 GeV to 460 GeV, but there are small excesses over the range from 115 GeV to 145 GeV. A good thing to notice about this plot is that the expected CLs line is below the 95% confidence limit all the way up to 500 GeV. If there were no Higgs boson in that range they would expect to have excluded it, but they haven’t."
There is a bump at 140GeV, but only with 2-sigma significance. Are physicists grasping at straws? And what are the ramifications, should the Higgs boson be ruled out at those energies?
Thoughts.
