FG: MAFIA 31: Nobel Laureates of Doom

[-Jrabbit]

Predicting Particles...

An important ingredient in the theory Veltman and I developed is an as-yet-undemonstrated particle called the Higgs boson. In the same way as other particles have been predicted by theoretical arguments and later demonstrated experimentally, we are now awaiting direct observation of the Higgs particle.

Using calculations similar to those of the mass of the top quark, there is a chance that one of the existing accelerators can be persuaded to produce some Higgs particles.

But the only accelerator powerful enough for more detailed study of the new particle is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which is under construction and may not come online until 2007.

[-Jrabbit]

But Wait...!

A scientist says one of the most sought after particles in physics - the Higgs boson - may have been found, but the evidence is still relatively weak. Peter Renton, of the University of Oxford, says the particle may have been detected by researchers at an atom-smashing facility in Switzerland.

The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass and is fundamental to a complete understanding of matter.

"There's certainly evidence for something, whether it's the Higgs boson is questionable," Dr Renton, a particle physicist at Oxford, told BBC News Online. "It's compatible with the Higgs boson certainly, but only a direct observation would show that."

If correct, Dr Renton's assessment would place the elusive particle's mass at about 115 gigaelectronvolts.

This comes from a signal obtained at the large electron positron collider (LEP) in Geneva, Switzerland, which has now been dismantled to make way for its replacement - the large hadron collider (LHC).

However, there is a 9% probability that the signal could be background "noise".

[-Jrabbit]

Matter's fundamental particles are six leptons and six quarks.

In the standard model of particle physics the forces between them are described by quantum field theories. The electro-weak force (whose mathematical description got me the Nobel) is mediated by four exchange particles. These are the mass-less photon (gamma) and the three field particles W(+), W(-) and Z(0). The strong force is conveyed by eight mass-less gluons (g).

Apart from these twelve exchange particles, the theory predicts a very heavy particle, the Higgs particle H(0). The field of the Higgs particle generates all particle masses.

[-Jrabbit]

Only Jon Miller can stop this onslaught of physics-related posts!!!

[Adrian Hon]

What's this? A physics joke? No!...

One day an atom walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I don't suppose you've seen an electron here? I lost it last time I was around."

The bartender replies, "Are you sure you lost it here?"

"I'm positive!"

[Jon Miller]

sorry, I overslept (was going to do it this morning before I went into school, 5 hours ago)

will update tonight

Jon Miller

[Sparrowhawk]

/me notes that the update is long overdue, that Jon Miller has been online several times since the vote was conclusive, and that the most likely "suspect" Ben Kenobi, finally posted his vote (and sent his kill in to Jon) and shortly afterwards Jon Miller appears and says he will update (probably thinking...."Finally I can update now that I have a kill to process").



Battling a hot water tank...just what I would say if I were mafia. .....well, maybe not exactly what I would say........but.....

[Ben Kenobi]

This is why I do kill queues when I'm mafia.

[Nikolai]

Do finish the Mafia, or Albert "Rocky" Einstein will come and get you!

[Tassadar500]

How scary.

[-Jrabbit]

Nikolai

where'd you find that site?

[Jon Miller]

"No, No, I didn't do it," Exclaimed Hulse . "The evidence all seems to point to you," said Bednorz. So decided the physicists pushed Hulse out the window. The police, after questioning the physicists marked it down as an accident.

Satisfied as to their safety the physicists went to bed.

The next morning found......

Jon Miller
(in otherwords, can I get a kill email?)

[Jon Miller]

(the only kill that has not been acted upon is Tuberiski's, but I decided that having a ghost do a kill isn't a precident I want to set)

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
But Wait...!

A scientist says one of the most sought after particles in physics - the Higgs boson - may have been found, but the evidence is still relatively weak. Peter Renton, of the University of Oxford, says the particle may have been detected by researchers at an atom-smashing facility in Switzerland.

The Higgs boson explains why all other particles have mass and is fundamental to a complete understanding of matter.

"There's certainly evidence for something, whether it's the Higgs boson is questionable," Dr Renton, a particle physicist at Oxford, told BBC News Online. "It's compatible with the Higgs boson certainly, but only a direct observation would show that."

If correct, Dr Renton's assessment would place the elusive particle's mass at about 115 gigaelectronvolts.

This comes from a signal obtained at the large electron positron collider (LEP) in Geneva, Switzerland, which has now been dismantled to make way for its replacement - the large hadron collider (LHC).

However, there is a 9% probability that the signal could be background "noise".

If we don't find it in the next collider, it will mean a shaking of particle physics to the ground

the discussions I have seen make me think that it is heavier than 115 GeV

Jon Miller

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Nikolai

where'd you find that site?

Google.