Saturday, December 31, 2011

Is this a Higgs?

This is plot derived from the accelerator experiments, Sean Carroll filling us in. The energy band around 125 GeV, Giga Electron volts.  The spike around 126 is, I presume, a Higgs symptom  appearing for the briefest moment.  Reading the article we get a decomposition of Higgs nto photons or into the more exotic. So they work a probability problem, finding all possible sources of the photons taken two at a tie, I guess, and see which combinations match what hypothesis.


In terms of optimal flow we might say the Higgs is the smallest cargo nature can carry. We cannot see it directly because we cannot get Nyquist rate. We see instead the aliasing effect of undersampling an event in nature.

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