Higgs Boson News to be announced Dec 13th

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  1. Pincho Paxton

    Pincho Paxton Banned Banned

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    I wanted to make a thread ready for the upcoming news of the Higgs Boson. A sort of countdown thread. I am very interested in this subject, so this is here ready for as many links as the members can post.

    Countdown... 24 hours...
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 12, 2011
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  5. Pincho Paxton

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    I'm watching it live on a twitter type blog. From what I can gather ATLAS has found nothing, but a promising development at 126 GEV. Which is interesting, I like the way 126 divides.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  7. Pincho Paxton

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    Bottom line from ATLAS: hint of #Higgs at 126 GeV with 2.3 sigma significance Not enough to claim discovery, more in 2012
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  8. Pincho Paxton

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    CMS now talking about their data.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  9. Asguard

    Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    how disappointing, I already knew about that
     
    Asguard, Dec 13, 2011
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  10. Pincho Paxton

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    No high mass Higgs found.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  12. prometheus

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    How do you like the way \(2.25 \times 10^{-25}\)kg divides?
     
    prometheus, Dec 13, 2011
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  13. Pincho Paxton

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    Well that doesn't involve my theory.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  14. prometheus

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    It is 126 GeV in kg. The point here is that the numerical value of a dimensionful quantity can be rescaled at will, so numerology is pointless.
     
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  15. Pincho Paxton

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    Don't they use an electron as a base scale?
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  16. prometheus

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    There's nothing special about the electronvolt (and in many ways it's quite a contrived unit). If I so decided I could do all my calculations in Jupiters and the answer would be just as right.
     
    prometheus, Dec 13, 2011
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  17. Pincho Paxton

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    Nothing found at CMS.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  18. Pincho Paxton

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    So fitting 12 electron pulses into 126 GEV is pointless then? Too bad, that would have been neat.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  19. prometheus

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    Could you elaborate on what you mean by this please?
     
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  20. Pincho Paxton

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    I'm working on the kissing problem in particles, and my mass is divided into 12's (Newton's Kissing Problem). So to find a result that divides nicely by 12 I figured was good, but maybe it doesn't matter. However I don't use GEV, I just use a simulator, so I don't know much about GEV.
     
    Pincho Paxton, Dec 13, 2011
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  21. prometheus

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    In addition to my remark about units above:

    1) 126 isn't exactly divisible by 12
    2) Why would the mass being divisible by 12 have anything to do with the kissing problem, which is to do with spherical close packing in n dimensions.
     
    prometheus, Dec 13, 2011
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  22. Captain Kremmen

    Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Are we discussing this collision by collision?
     
    Captain Kremmen, Dec 13, 2011
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  23. Captain Kremmen

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    How common are these Higgs Bosons thought to be.
    Is there one for every other particle? Or do they float around at random?
    How many would be in a cubic inch?
     
    Captain Kremmen, Dec 13, 2011
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