Comments on: Bump Hunting (Part 1)

By: Bump Hunting (Part 3??) | Cosmic Variance

Bump Hunting (Part 3??) | Cosmic Variance — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:48:06 +0000

[...] I guess I never would have expected that the story of our little bump in the mass spectrum in our search for the Higgs could have taken on such a life of its own. After my initial presentation in Aspen in January, within our tightly-knit field of experimental particle physics there was certainly a wave of interest, which crested and then subsided in February. But by then, after my accounts here in CV, the mainstream media wheels began to turn and we have had coverage last week in New Scientist and now a sort of unattributed blurb in this week’s Economist. [...]

By: Eduardo Valencia

Eduardo Valencia — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:55:12 +0000

John,
Congratulations on your findings.
The Higgs boson is to be found at exactly 246.0814 GeV
details on paper sent to Physica Scripta
best regards
Eduardo

By: mike

mike — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:19:38 +0000

Tenterhooks? Why not ion storage rings?

By: Goodwill Jester

Goodwill Jester — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:09:56 +0000

I’ve recently started buying New Scientist (more widely available in my neck of the woods than Scientific American) and I was interested to read this blog. I am from a completely unscientific background and paid no attention whatsoever in Physics when I was at school, so I was expecting this to be all Greek to me. All I can say now is your ability to explain this very arcane subject evidently matches your abilities as a physicist. Thanks very much indeed. Interesting and informative. I will read the second instalment when my brain has recovered.

By: Another Higgs bump? Not so fast… | Cosmic Variance

Another Higgs bump? Not so fast… | Cosmic Variance — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:17:20 +0000

[...] The New Scientist has picked up my story of the Bump Hunt in their issue this week. The author, Anil Anathaswamy, interviewed me for an hour a couple weeks ago on the phone, wrote a draft, let me look it over for fact-checking. By and large he got the story correct, I’d say. It’s an odd feeling, though, I have to say, to se it out there like that. [...]

By: appletree » Blog Archive » Carnivalia

appletree » Blog Archive » Carnivalia — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:42:05 +0000

[...] The seventh installment of Philosophia Naturalis, the quadriweekly carnival of physics and technology, is up on Geek Counterpoint; the highlight is John Conway’s two-part series about the search for the Higgs boson. The next carnival will be posted on March 29th; the carnival webpage is here. Note that although the host is not yet publicly posted on the carnival webpage, the next available hosting opportunity is on 5/24. [...]

By: Carnivalia « Abstract Nonsense

Carnivalia « Abstract Nonsense — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:40:42 +0000

[...] Carnivalia The seventh installment of Philosophia Naturalis, the quadriweekly carnival of physics and technology, is up on Geek Counterpoint; the highlight is John Conway’s two-part series about the search for the Higgs boson. The next carnival will be posted on March 29th; the carnival webpage is here. Note that although the host is not yet publicly posted on the carnival webpage, the next available hosting opportunity is on 5/24. [...]

By: david rickel

david rickel — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:55:18 +0000

Completely beside the point (which should be Great Post!), but are you sure about the meaning of “Aleph”? There’s a monster with 100 eyes in Greek mythology called Argos (and I seem to remember a detector named after it), but it looks as if Aleph might have more to do with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

By: Hunting » Blog Archives » ICP - Chicken Hunting

Hunting » Blog Archives » ICP - Chicken Hunting — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:00:50 +0000

[...] I ve been looking for the Higgs boson for almost 20 years. So there I was, on a Saturday morning in December, at CERN as it so happened, when I saw the graph we d been working towards all year. At first I thought it was some mistake … – More – [...]

By: Dark Matter » Rumors of Higgs Boson!

Dark Matter » Rumors of Higgs Boson! — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:29:43 +0000

[...] The rumors of Higgs boson have been rampant since last week, John’s bump hunting and Tommaso’s notes at 2.1 Sigma excess at 140 to 160 Gev. [...]