Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Bump Goes Away

Now D0 tells us there is no CDF bump! Wow. A disappearing $4$ sigma bump. What is a poor theorist supposed to do? I was so trusting of the CDF result, that I spent a good week thinking about the damned bump and deciding it was probably real. Perhaps we should just forget about the HEP experiments, except for a little cheer when they finally exclude all the fairy fields. Plenty of new physics in the sky and in smaller laboratories ...

3 comments:

  1. Well, we should still be cheering on LHCb, of course.

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  2. Experimenters are just desperate to justify their funding and discover something, anything.

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  3. Perhaps, but I find it hard to believe these collaborations could be in any way incompetent, even if some fraction of their members are. Let's see ...

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