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tom.stoer
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Has anybody checked the latest arxiv papers regarding technipions, SUSY-based explanation, Z' and string theory?
tom.stoer said:Has anybody checked the latest arxiv papers regarding technipions, SUSY-based explanation, Z' and string theory?
daschaich said:PS. I wrote the above before seeing your list. You might want to add http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5814 to it. I haven't looked at it closely, but the abstract makes it sound like it was written with some anticipation of this result.
Haelfix said:CDF has just released an update on the 150 GEV anomaly, and have found that it has increased in significance to 4.8 sigma, which is nearly a discovery:
http://blois.in2p3.fr/2011/transparencies/punzi.pdf
Incredibly, it has been now determined that this cannot be due to top quark background estimation errors (at least not simple ones). And of course, as has been known for some time, it turned out that the jet energy scaling argument floating around the internet was unlikely (the anomaly persists at ~3 sigma even if you ramp it up 7%).
Anyway, this is quite a bombshell! It will need to be confirmed by D0 or the LHC, but something is either very wrong with CDF, there is a very serious error in our theoretical understanding of the standard model, or there is new physics!
daschaich said:There are rumors of a DZero release on this sometime next week, although they've been very good so far about concealing exactly what they're going to say.
zaybu said:At the same time, doesn't it also rule out the Higgs Boson?