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Re: Something goes bump in the data

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On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 6:16:14 PM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Something goes bump in the data
> The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC see something mysterious, but 
> it's too soon to pop the Champagne.
> > http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2015/something-goes-bump-in-the-data
> 
> > An unexpected bump in data gathered during the first run of the Large
> > Hadron Collider is stirring the curiosity of scientists on the two
> > general-purpose LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS.
> 
> > CMS first reported the bump in July 2014. But because it was small
> > and insignificant, they dismissed it as a statistical fluke. Recently
> > ATLAS confirmed that they also see a bump in roughly the same place,
> > and this time it's bigger and stronger.
> 
> > "Both ATLAS and CMS are developing new search techniques that are
> > greatly improving our ability to search for new particles," says
> > Ayana Arce, an assistant professor of physics at Duke University. "We
> > can look for new physics in ways we couldn't before."
> 
> > Unlike the pronounced peak that recently led to the discovery of
> > pentaquarks, these two studies are in their nascent stages. And
> > scientists aren't quite sure what they're seeing yet... or if they're
> > seeing anything at all.
> 
> > If this bump matures into a sharp peak during the second run of the
> > LHC, it could indicate the existence of a new heavy particle with
> > 2000 times the mass of a proton. The discovery of a new and
> > unpredicted particle would revolutionize our understanding of the
> > laws of nature. But first, scientists have to rule out false leads.
> 
> > "It's like trying to pick up a radio station," says theoretical
> > physicist Bogdan Dobrescu of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
> > who co-authored a paper on the bump in CMS and ATLAS data. "As you
> > tune the dial, you think you're beginning to hear voices through the
> > static, but you can't understand what they're saying, so you keep
> > tuning until you hear a clear voice."
> 
> > On the heels of the Higgs boson discovery in the first run of the
> > LHC, scientists must navigate a tricky environment where people are
> > hungry for new results while relying on data that is slow to gather
> > and laborious to interpret.
> 
> > The data physicists are analyzing are particle decay patterns around
> > 2 TeV, or 2000 GeV.
> 
> > "We can't see short-lived particles directly, but we can reconstruct
> > their mass based on what they transform into during their decay,"
> > says Jim Olsen, a professor of physics at Princeton University. "For
> > instance, we found the Higgs boson because we saw more pairs of W
> > bosons, Z bosons and photons at 125 GeV than our background models
> > predicted."
> 
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SAm I think alien life is trying to get a message through to the Swiss LHC. TreBert

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Re: Something goes bump in the data "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 13:37 -0700
  Re: Something goes bump in the data Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 14:41 -0600
  Re: Something goes bump in the data "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-07-18 14:28 -0700

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