{"id":3602,"date":"2011-04-06T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2011-04-06T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T00:13:07","slug":"suspicious-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1104.0699\">new preprint<\/a> from CDF appeared at the arXiv, discussing a signal observed in their data, at about 3 sigma significance, that could in principle correspond to a new particle not seen or predicted before.   This morning&#8217;s New York Times has an article about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/06\/science\/06particle.html\">here<\/a>.  The Times does a pretty good job of getting quotes from relevant experts and explaining the situation, which is basically &#8220;if it&#8217;s real that&#8217;s very exciting, but it probably isn&#8217;t&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I went to check Tommaso Dorigo&#8217;s blog only to find that he had a short posting up explaining that a more detailed one was embargoed until the public talk this afternoon at Fermilab (live stream at 1600 CDT <a href=\"http:\/\/vms-db-srv.fnal.gov\/fmi\/xsl\/VMS_Site_2\/000Return\/video\/r_embed_flash2.xsl?&#038;-recid=573&#038;-find=\">here<\/a>).  This seemed rather odd since the Times had clearly been given the story a few days ago, embargoed only until last midnight.   He now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/new_massive_particle_some_kind_higgs-77857\">full posting<\/a> up, and you should go there for a detailed and authoritative look at what this all means (most likely not much, modeling the huge background you have to subtract is hard).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  For other blog postings about this well worth reading, try <a href=\"http:\/\/muon.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/06\/a-discovery-at-the-tevatron-maybe\/\">Michael Schmitt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/resonaances.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/another-3-sigma-from-cdf.html\">Resonaances<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gordonwatts.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/04\/jumping-the-gun\/\">Gordon Watts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uslhc.us\/a-hint-of-something-new-in-wdijets-at-cdf\">Flip Tanedo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  Took about 21 minutes from the time of release of this data to submission of <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1104.0976\">a paper explaining it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a new preprint from CDF appeared at the arXiv, discussing a signal observed in their data, at about 3 sigma significance, that could in principle correspond to a new particle not seen or predicted before. 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