Particle Physics is a topic which many people would like to touch only with a barge pole.
But, then, science is by the people and for the people. Common people do have an interest in such exotic things. And in the era of consumer and civil rights many people have started taking it as their right to know as tax payers as to what is being done with their money. We kid you not.
So we had done a series of posts on a recent experimental observation at Tevatron. A group called CDF observed a bump in some of their data. This is an unexpected bump and thus it has created some excitement in Particle Physics and news circles. Our posts in that context are:
(1) How Much is 1 TeV of Energy?
(2) Why is it Called High Energy?
(3) Higgs or No Higgs?
(4) The (Non-) Higgs Stampede
Since we missed some links their let us include them here.
Famous Physics blog Quantum Diaries has a (belated) entry here.
The results were already present in a thesis publicly available. Here is that thesis.
There was already a paper that tried to explain the new findings. Paper was submitted on March 30, 2011. Here is that.
On the blogosphere physicist Gordon Watts perhaps had the earliest entry called Jumping the Gun on April 4, 2011. He and few other were very cautious that they should not divulge the results before an official public presentation. Understandable but funny because the thesis was already in public domain.
But, then, science is by the people and for the people. Common people do have an interest in such exotic things. And in the era of consumer and civil rights many people have started taking it as their right to know as tax payers as to what is being done with their money. We kid you not.
So we had done a series of posts on a recent experimental observation at Tevatron. A group called CDF observed a bump in some of their data. This is an unexpected bump and thus it has created some excitement in Particle Physics and news circles. Our posts in that context are:
(1) How Much is 1 TeV of Energy?
(2) Why is it Called High Energy?
(3) Higgs or No Higgs?
(4) The (Non-) Higgs Stampede
Since we missed some links their let us include them here.
Famous Physics blog Quantum Diaries has a (belated) entry here.
The results were already present in a thesis publicly available. Here is that thesis.
There was already a paper that tried to explain the new findings. Paper was submitted on March 30, 2011. Here is that.
On the blogosphere physicist Gordon Watts perhaps had the earliest entry called Jumping the Gun on April 4, 2011. He and few other were very cautious that they should not divulge the results before an official public presentation. Understandable but funny because the thesis was already in public domain.