But since a fermi-phobic Higgs would not have an Htt loop, it's still possible that H->gamma gamma would be the dominant decay mode for a low mass Higgs. That entire channel is a shot in the dark anyway, but maybe they can find it.
I did forget about the top loop problem.
But would the W loop work for Higgs Mass ~ 120? At that point isn't the offshell H->WW really disadvantageous?
Just answering one question, since I'm hardly qualified to answer all of them.
In this case "decay channels" generally just means the way in which the particle decays. For instance, a particle that decays into either electrons or muons would be said to have two channels (or possibly one - in...
I'm not a real particle physicist yet either, but I will say that I've heard that the nucleus may be more complicated than that. Quarks may not stay well-confined inside nucleons in the nucleus-and if that's true (something I'm not sure about), then you could have quite a chance of individual...
Out of curiosity, why? If we could drop the real cost of solar cells by a factor of two with research investment, it might be possible to deal with the energy crisis once and for all. If I did my calculations correctly, a moderate clime gets on the order of 4 kWHrs/day/square meter. That's...
I haven't had a chance to read the paper yet, but it may not a huge bearing on our current problem, there theory seems to involve the anti-baryon being held inside the nucleus. A real proton doesn't seem to be able to "hold" a real anti-baryon in the same way, because that would make the single...
Why couldn't the antimatter just develop from a virtual particle interaction or a decay of a virtual particle in a high-energy environment? Once you start making real particles out of kaons and other peculiar beasts you can probably get the components for a whole host of anti-protons.
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True. I purposefully did not count the airplanes aboard the carrier, because actually factoring airpower into the calculations makes them a lot harder. I also admit that being surprised by China's missile boats at once is unlikely. But notice that I also did not account for Chinese decoy...
I think the point is that a majority of the people in the military aren't staying long enough to enjoy these benefits, which is a good thing for the military. Think of it like this. The Army alone claims to have 1,041,000 people in their total strength (that's Army HR's 2004 Army Profile). In...
Oh, I admit it's a hell of a lot. The US Navy builds their ships well, and they've been preparing for just such an assault for years. But as the components for guided missiles become cheaper and more common, they might no longer have the advantage.
For instance, the US Navy describes a...
I'm not actually sure if that would work. I thought that a laser-guided warhead was guided by the backscatter off the impact point of the laser. That means that the missile has to be approaching the same surface that the laser beam is scattering off of. In order to minimize approach profile...
Townsend,
Hmm...hard to debate. Especially since nobody's ever tested this before.
I was thinking of the likely scenario where the Chinese track a local Carrier Battle Group from shore-based installations and then hit it with an IRBM when it's close by. That would give the US five-ten...
It will be interesting to watch China deal with the problems of lack of arable land, rural poverty and corruption in the next twenty or thirty years. Hopefully they will come up with a nice, peaceful transition to a system that functions better. Otherwise things in that part of the world could...
All I have to say is that on my scale of one to Genocide, Bill Gates doesn't even ping my evil detector. When he slaughters a couple hundred innocent villagers somewhere using his Microsoft DeathRay application, then he might be eligible for the "evil" label.
Edit: An interesting question...