RE: The Higgs Boson at 125 GeV, or much ado about nothing
December 16, 2011 at 8:36 am
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 8:42 am by little_monkey.)
(December 16, 2011 at 3:12 am)houseofcantor Wrote: You cats familiar with Lubos Motl? The last happy string theorist? Check this quote:
However, the exciting question that remains is whether or not the LHC will see something else beyond the 125 GeV Higgs. The very likely mass near 125 GeV makes both possibilities – yes and no – approximately equally likely. Stay tuned.
The link to the whole post is under his name, above; for myself, if I had the scratch, I'd be organizing a party.
(What I'm seeing, if it isn't apparent, is a prominent supporter of stringiness guessimating a 50% chance the patient did not survive "black monday." I just don't like string theory.)
A lot of this fuss about the 125 Gev Higgs boson comes from a paper by Mikhail Shaposhnikov and Christof Wetterich ( two names which will soon become famous in the physics community). Several years ago, they argued that if one assumes no new particles or forces beyond the Standard Model (BSM), they calculated that the minimum mass of the Higgs boson would be 126 GeV. Since the finding at CERN indicates that the Higgs boson would be around the 125GeV, this has given hope to the SuSy, Technicolor, and others, that BSM is not ruled out.
Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0208
