Awaiting Fairies
We all await the new constraints on the SM Higgs mass, which will follow from the new measurement of W mass. Tommaso has already given away that the first four digits are 8040 which can only mean $m_W$ = 80.40 GeV. Meanwhile, the no Higgs vote has stabilised at just above 50%. Will all CDF worker family members please refrain from feeding the CDF worker too much food over the next couple of weeks. They have a lot of work to do.
Update: It's now official ...
$m_W = 80.413 \pm 0.048$ GeV
Update: It's now official ...
$m_W = 80.413 \pm 0.048$ GeV
posted by Kea | 2:10 PM
6 Comments:
If, as the poll suggests there is no Higgs, then the physics establishment will look very bad.
Hi Louise
Unfortunately, we will probably have to wait a few more years until the observational situation is clear.
Hi Kea,
yes, I apologize... Yesterday night I was quite drank, and I gave away a zero while a 1 should have been there.
Cheers,
T.
Hee, hee, Tommaso. Good to know you're enjoying yourself. A 1 sounds better to me! Unfortunately, the Higgs is still going to come in with an upper bound above 114 GeV, heh?
heee heee... Yes the higgs is not dead yet. Oh, and drank --> drunk (maybe there was some alcohol still in my body as I wrote the last comment).
Anyway. The W mass is blessed, but not public yet!!! I removed it from my blog, but of course you need not do the same - you are not a member of CDF!
And besides, I am not even dreaming of asking you to do it :)
Cheers,
T.
I got my category theory textbook, and will begin reading it. Also, I've started a thread at Physics Forums.
The book looks very very readable.
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