Showing posts with label fermila. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fermila. Show all posts

A circle around Higgs boson

After the post about D0 abstracts, I return to write about Higgs boson after the last Fermilab's press release about the mass limit of Higgs boson. Combinig data from D0 and CDF, Tevatron's limits are 114-137 GeV/c2. The results was presented last week in Grenoble at the EPS High-Energy Physics conference, that it will finish on the 27th July.
During the same conference also LHC's experiments presented their first results, analyzed in about one month! And the conclusion seems un-huppy for Tevatron: the Fermilab's particle accelerator has only one chance to find Higgs boson before LHC. Why? We can simply see the following plots presented by ATLAS and CMS (via Résonaances, Tommaso Dorigo):

The two european experiments presented only a little region around 115 GeV/c2, the Tevatron's region, to 140 GeV/c2. The data from this region are probably analized and published before the end of the year, so we must wait only some months to know if Tevatron could found Higgs or not(1).
Tomasso examined in details some CMS preprint in which they are studied a lot of Higgs production channels, and also Philip Gibbs write a great summary about LHC presentations, who realize a great conclusion plot: