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As a physicist, I find this quite interesting. jiggy Send a noteboard - 16/06/2010 09:08:15 PM
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.

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! :P

Either way, my lecturer works at the Tevatron, so I'm sure he's very smug right now! :|
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As a physicist, I find this quite interesting. jiggy - 16/06/2010 09:08:15 PM 651 Views
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