Monday, April 11, 2011
No Higgs bosons ? But new fifth force may have been discovered
The announcement that the CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron collider has seen evidence for the production of a new particle has created a great deal of interest. There's some cynicism about the result, coming as it does at a time when the Tevatron is about to be shut down and the future of US high energy physics is rather uncertain - but despite the politics, this really would be a revolutionary result if it's confirmed.
Kenneth Lane (Boston U), Eichten and Fermilab physicist Adam Martin suggest that a technipion with a mass of about 160 GeV could be the mysterious particle producing the two jets. "If this is real, I think people will give up on the idea of looking for the Higgs and begin exploring this rich world of new particles," Lane says.
IMO: Early technicolor physics was based on Chromodynamics. But this newish Technicolor physics proposes a new 5th force, something like the strong force and it is able to give particles their mass. Obviously, this could also greatly affect cosmology also.
Kenneth Lane (Boston U), Eichten and Fermilab physicist Adam Martin suggest that a technipion with a mass of about 160 GeV could be the mysterious particle producing the two jets. "If this is real, I think people will give up on the idea of looking for the Higgs and begin exploring this rich world of new particles," Lane says.
IMO: Early technicolor physics was based on Chromodynamics. But this newish Technicolor physics proposes a new 5th force, something like the strong force and it is able to give particles their mass. Obviously, this could also greatly affect cosmology also.
# posted by uv : 2:19 PM
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