Bump in large hadron collider data has physicists electrified date. Gang li and colleagues from peking university in china propose a particle similar to the higgs boson, which was itself discovered via a 125 gev. Using generic software tools in this context can help address. Search for a w boson in the topquark decay channel anne fabricant advisor. Combined search for electroweak production of charginos.
He also at the end of the book talks a little about the discoveries that he hopes will show the way to whatever lies beyond the standard model. The 750 gev diphoton excess at the lhc and dark matter constraints. Large hadron collider set to reveal the secrets of the. New results on the higgs boson and the building blocks of matter presented at ichep.
The 750 gev diphoton excess in particle physics was an anomaly in data collected at the large. Request pdf interpreting the 750 gev digamma excess. Since the simplest extensions of the standard model cannot accommodate the observation, many alternatives have been considered to. The measurements saw photons with a combined energy of 750 gev, about six times heavier than the higgs boson, something that has not been predicted by the current theory describing particle. Hcal calorimeter contributions and gflash simulations, pixel cooling and controls cms. Discussion in thuban cosmology in quantum relativity started by admin, dec 27, 2014.
Assuming a light higgs boson of mass 120 gev, four mass values for the d quark have been taken as examples. Chances are high that the standard model will be killed in 2016. Sadly the book finds itself overtaken by recent events the book ends with a discussion of the 2015 announcement of the 750 gev diphoton excess found at the lhc. Searches for new physics at the compact muon solenoid. The discovery of the higgs boson has been a crucial chapter in our understanding of the electroweak breaking sector. If you just cant get enough of the new 750 gev particle. Chris murphy senior data scientist wayfair linkedin. Electroweak vacuum stability and diphoton excess at 750 gev. In several events, the two photons seem to come from the decay of a particle having a mass around 750 gev, that is, 750 times heavier than a proton or 6 times the mass of a higgs boson. Upgrade path to accelerate leptons to 750 gev in the tevatron tunnel for use in the proposed mucool, neutrino factory and muon collider experiments.
We specialize in it training and certification preparation, developing netsim network simulator, practice exams and courseware to help you achieve success. Precision tools and models to narrow in on the 750 gev. Precision measurements of the higgs boson triumph of the standard model sm. An electron edm comparable to the present bound can be achieved through a mixing between the 750 gev resonance and the standard model higgs boson, if the mixing angle itself for an approximately pseudoscalar resonance, or the mixing angle times the cpviolating angle for an approximately scalar resonance, is of o103. Faculty members and graduate students were there when the higgs boson was discovered in 2012 and they are there four years later on the brink of another major discovery in particle physics. Can i sell a proprietary software with an lgpl library bundled along with it. Three papers are centered around some new 750 gev boson. A search is presented for pairs of light pseudoscalar bosons, in the mass range from 4 to 15 gev, produced from decays of the 125 gev higgs boson. Theorizing about the lhcs 750 gev bump physics world. More interestingly, he tells me that the 750 gev bump data seemed to be a similar signal to the early higgstogammagamma data the lhc physicists saw in 2011, when they were still chasing the particle. On the other hand, since no strong evidences of sparticles are found, the susybreaking. For example, the primary decay of the higgs boson is to b quark pairs, even though the diphoton channel is easier to see. Asymmetric dark matter models and the lhc diphoton excess.
A great success of lhc run 1 is the discovery of the 125 gev higgs boson in the standard model sm. Atlas and cms presented today a summary of the first lhc results obtained from proton collisions with tev center. At around 750 gev, scientists observed only a few dozen photon pairs, and a handful more than predicted. Maverick branches, a proof that everetts theory is totally wrong. Thats the question one hears in all the bars and on all the street corners and on every twitter feed and in the whispering of the wind. From the 750 gev diphoton resonance to multilepton. Department of energys office of scientific and technical information.
Signal samples are generated with pole masses between 300 and gev for the higgs boson and between 500 and gev for the bulk rs graviton, in 100 gev steps. Diphoton bump at lhc leads to generation of hundreds of. Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of higgs bosons. Supersymmetry signals of supercritical string cosmology at the large hadron collider. Despite the superficial similarities of a spin0 750 gev particle to a higgs boson, the resonance is very unhiggs like.
Models of compositeness can successfully address the origin of the higgs boson, as a pseudonambugoldstone boson pngb of a spontaneously broken global symmetry, and f. Higgslike boson at 750 gev and genesis of baryonsjournal. The authors of three of the four papers show how the bump could be caused by a boson with a mass of 750 gev the integer spin of a boson being needed to generate two spin 1 photons. The measurements saw photons with a combined energy of 750 gev, making the potential particle six times heavier than the higgs boson.
The story of the 750 gev bump gives an interesting example of how new data can completely shift the focus of the scientific community. The story is actually much more complicated than one can believe, with a still unclear sequence of changes in the software indicating that others, possibly a foreign government, took advantage of the nsa backdoor to. The anomaly was absent in data collected in 2016, suggesting that the diphoton excess was a statistical fluctuation. Here, we propose that the diphoton excess at 750 gev reported by atlas and cms is due to the decay of an exohiggs scalar. The higgs boson cosmogenesis library of akbar ra in. And, pairs of b quarks with 371 gev of momentum plus 4 gev or so of rest mass would be hard to miss. Search for heavy higgs bosons decaying to a top quark pair in. The analysis of the initial data collected at tev in 2015 and data from run 1 showed evidence for an excess in the highmass diphoton search near 750 gev arxiv. Gang li and colleagues from peking university in china propose a particle similar to the higgs boson, which was itself discovered via a 125 gev peak in the. Credible evidence of a beyond the standard model 750 gev. New results on the higgs boson and the building blocks of. If susy is indeed the new physics beyond the sm, it should also explain the recently reported 750 gev diphoton excess.
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 gev with the cms experiment at the lhc. The ku physicist said his concept depends upon a sequential cascade decay of a heavier particle into photons that can fake the resonance signal at 750 gev. The triplet vacuum expectation value is taken to be gevsuch that only the decays are. While the flurry of theoretical speculations on the 750 gev bump spotted by atlas and cms in their tev diphoton data continues over 300 papers written to interpret it, in little more than 3 months, the question on whether it is a fluctuation or something else remains on the table, and keeps all of us wondering. Vector leptoquarks and the 750 gev diphoton resonance at the lhc. Precision tools and models to narrow in on the 750 gev diphoton. Physicist offers leading theory about mysterious large. New fermions, exoquarks and exoleptons, get tevscale masses through yukawa couplings with. A statistical combination of several searches for the electroweak production of charginos and neutralinos is presented. Credible evidence of a beyond the standard model 750 gev mass boson the resonance signal and its significance the atlas experiment at the large hadron collider lhc has seen a signal at 3. Bump in large hadron collider data has physicists electrified. It was built by the european organization for nuclear research cern between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries. Possible, but i dont see the motivation to assume some weird mass coincidence here.
The searches were performed using two benchmark signal models, the lightest kaluzaklein 3 spin2 graviton excitation g of a randallsundrum rs 4 model or a spin0 resonance x such as those. The 750 gev signal was a diphoton excess, meaning two photons with an energy of around 750 gev total were produced more frequently than expected. The large hadron collider lhc is the worlds largest and highestenergy particle collider and the largest machine in the world. Their independent analyses both revealed a mild excess of events above background around a mass of 750 gev, for which one of the simple explanations was a new spin0 or spin2 particle decaying into two photons. Unfortunately, there was not enough data in 2015 to get a clear answer. Spray, diphoton excess at 750 gev from a radion in the bulkhiggs scenario, 1512. Varying both the mass and the decay width, the most significant deviation from the backgroundonly hypothesis is observed at a diphoton invariant. The 750 gev resonances would decay into a top antitop quark pair. The 750 gev diphoton excess in particle physics was an anomaly in data collected at the large hadron collider lhc in 2015, which could have been an indication of a new particle or resonance. Tobioka, a higgslike boson that couples to new kinds of fermions g. In this thesis, we present several searches for beyond the standard model physics in protonproton collisions recorded by the compact muon solenoid experiment at centerofmass energy of 8 and \tev. University of california claim to have found particle to. We interpret the 750gev diphoton excess recently found in the tev lhc data as a singlet scalar in an extra dimensional model, where one extra dimension is introduced. A search for a new resonance decaying to a w or z boson and a higgs boson in the final states is performed using 20.
Pioneered the use of regularized regression for truly modelindependent studies of the higgs boson. Search for a new resonance decaying to a w or z boson and. However, the existence of massive resonances decaying to higgs boson. Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into samesign.
Would you like us to contact you regarding 750 feeder management relay. Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from. Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from decays of. With a higher collision energy of tev, lhc run 2 is. The 2higgsdoublet model with soft cpviolation confronting. The observation of a 125 gev higgs boson at the lhc run1 1, 2 is a great triumph of the standard model sm. Both cms and atlas found small excesses when selecting events containing two photons. In addition, a 750 gev narrowwidth higgs boson sample is produced. The lhc had a slow restart last year following two years of major improvements to raise its energy reach. Purdue physics professor leads research efforts at cern. So is it possible that this bump at around 750 gev is this lepton i have been waiting for, or can it be ruled out. The higgs boson plays a particularly important role in the sm 6, as it is responsible for the spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking of su3c. This is followed by a softwarebased trigger with a sustained average accepted. This small excess could be the first hint of a new massive particle.
In much the same way, more data were obtained and the higgs bump went on to be an official discovery. If it is digital and run by software, the software may contain a virus or a prank. I feel fairly convinced that this is possible but i still want you to offer me 10to1 odds if you want to become a standard model advocate. More specifically, the lhc saw unexpected, excess pairs of photons, each carrying 750 gigaelectronvolts gev of energy, as the. More data were necessary to confirm or reject an excess. Singlets in composite higgs models in light of the lhc 750. The hints for a new resonance at 750 gev from atlas and cms have triggered a significant amount of attention. The e6 inspired isosinglet quark and the higgs boson. My group is working on a measurement of the spin correlations of top quarks and by looking at the invariant mass spectrum of the top antitop quark pair we can isolate the mass region of 750 gev where cms and atlas currently see hints for a new particle.
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