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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! :|


The EM and strong forces have no Higgs couplings, as their carrier particles (photons and gluons) are massless. There's no proposal of any Higgs with a color charge as far as I'm aware, and definitely not in a SUSY model.

One Higgs doublet is actually four particles, three of which get "eaten" by the W+, W-, and Z bosons to generate their masses. (In technical terms, they're Goldstone bosons which provide the longitudinal polarization component; compare with the photon, which is massless and has no longitudinal polarization.) The fourth is what we generally think of as the actual "Higgs boson." If there were two doublets, that pattern would be repeated, so in addition to h, we'd have H+, H-, H, and A. (The A is a bit confusing given that A is usually used for photons in electroweak unification, but that's the convention.)

I'm at Fermilab this summer (working on CMS, though) and there is definitely a sense of rivalry. The Tevatron can no longer claim the highest energy, but this has just shifted everyone's bragging to focus on luminosity, where it still dominates.
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