The Higgs Boson . The “ God Particle . ”We found it . It ’s “ real scientific discipline . ” tale ’s over right ? Not on the button . An anomaly in the datakinda - sorta makes it look like there might have been two .
https://gizmodo.com/did-scientists-finally-discover-the-higgs-boson-a-k-a-5922738
When scientists primitively found ol’ higgy , there was a bit of a unusual radar target that ’s still perplexing : the speck was decaying into two photons more often than it should . Now researchers at the Atlas experimentation have clear up the findings some , but the result is still puzzle . There are two peaks in the data which seem to indicate two different boson at two statistically different pot .
Scientific American‘explains ’ ( to what extent anyone can ):
Certain extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics call for the existence of multiple Higgs boson , [ but ] none of them would predict that two Higgs molecule would have such similar masses . They also do n’t foreshadow why one should preferentially disintegrate into two zed particles ( the 123.5 GeV bump comes from decays of the Higgs into Zs ) , while the other would decay into photons .
It ’s certainly weird , but physicists out there are betting — one of them literally — that it ’s just a fluke or systemic trouble , and it ’ll go out with more data . The matter is that it has n’t so far . We ’ll just have to wait until the next scheduled data release in March to find out , or maybe to continue being confused . [ Scientific AmericanviaThe Register ]
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