They say the data point to five Higgs bosons with similar masses but different electric charges.
Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.
Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.
I suppose this makes a certain amount of sense. I would imagine the two charged h would couple to the Weak and EM, while the remaining three would have colour charge and couple to the Strong.
IIRC, the Tevatron is just on the boundary of being able to detect some of the possible Higgs producing interactions, so I'd treat this with a pinch of salt until things become a bit clearer in the coming years as the LHC pushes further into its range. I also get the feeling that everyone at the Tevatron is very anxious to beat the LHC to discovering the Higgs!
Either way, my lecturer works at the Tevatron, so I'm sure he's very smug right now!
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US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'
15/06/2010 04:04:14 AM
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I minored in modern physics, which means, I have enough knowledge to be.....
15/06/2010 04:45:35 AM
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this has always bothered me about particle physicists....
15/06/2010 05:32:26 AM
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Yeah, always been my problem, too.
15/06/2010 05:44:30 AM
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Lederman wanted to call it "the goddamn particle," but the publisher wouldn't let him.
15/06/2010 06:26:56 AM
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Well, we've been pretty bad at name stuff
15/06/2010 08:52:09 AM
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"Giant radiating dyke swarms"?!!!
15/06/2010 05:57:11 PM
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It's more than a few right answers.
15/06/2010 06:26:35 AM
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did you go to school in wisconsin? cause you sound just like that guy
15/06/2010 07:07:49 AM
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Yet, when determining the measure for what a planet is, Pluto vanished from the list!
15/06/2010 07:14:28 AM
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right, but it's still out there in the same orbit with the same momentum and positioning
15/06/2010 08:45:43 AM
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It had to lose its status or you'd have to memorize several more planets
15/06/2010 08:57:20 AM
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y'all are screwing up my "uncertainty principle" joke dammit! *NM*
15/06/2010 09:19:11 AM
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I was disappointed they didn't make all the dwarf planets into planet planets.
16/06/2010 01:00:51 PM
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As a physicist, I find this quite interesting.
16/06/2010 09:08:15 PM
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Not quite.
16/06/2010 09:57:18 PM
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Re: Not quite.
16/06/2010 10:22:14 PM
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