Sunday, November 25, 2012

Fit for a purpose

“CMS and ATLAS have taken all their Higgs data and performed a fit …”

Oh dear! I misread that at first to mean ‘had a fit’ as in “A mortal crisis; a bodily state (whether painful or not) that betokens death” or “A paroxysm, or one of the recurrent attacks, of a periodic or constitutional ailment”.

The strain of searching for Higgs Boson, of trying to decide if there are enough sigmas in the results, must finally have become too much, I thought.

But no it is just another episode in the story from the Collider blog - Higgs couplings to fermions and massive vector bosons

I understand next to nothing of this stuff, but I still love reading it.

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