Fermilab Experiment Hints At Multiple Higgs Particles

krou writes "Recent results from the Dzero experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator suggest that those looking for a single Higgs boson particle should be looking for five particles, and the data gathered may point to new laws beyond the Standard Model. 'The DZero results showed much more significant "asymmetry" of matter and anti-matter — beyond what could be explained by the Standard Model. Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick J Fox from Fermilab say this large asymmetry effect can be accounted for by the existence of multiple Higgs bosons. They say the data point to five Higgs bosons with similar masses but different electric charges. Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.'" There's more detail in this writeup from Symmetry Magazine, a joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab. Here's the paper on the arXiv.

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Re:That's awesome.

[timmarhy]

my reading comprehension is just fine thanks.

an issue like this is going to be completely polarized. either LHC is worth doing or it isn't. you can't do it cheaper or on a smaller scale so there's never going to be a middle ground.

negative results will still infer a great deal of information that the brains behind the operation will dumb down to layman's terms for the non uber nerds, so they will stay interested anyway.

the brain dead idiots who think LHC is a waste of money will as you said, never change their minds.