{"id":4212,"date":"2011-12-02T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2018-02-04T15:42:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:42:01","slug":"a-125-126-gev-higgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4212","title":{"rendered":"A 125-126 GeV Higgs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more detail on Higgs rumors I&#8217;ve been hearing recently.  Evidently the latest ATLAS data shows an excess in the gamma-gamma channel around 126 GeV, of the size expected if the Higgs is there, and CMS is also seeing an excess (2 sigma?) around 125 GeV in the same channel. I haven&#8217;t heard anything about confirmation of this in other channels.  Independently, someone has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vixra.org\/2011\/12\/01\/seminar-watch-higgs-special\/#comment-13575\">similar rumor at viXra log<\/a>, and Philip Gibbs is writing about it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vixra.org\/2011\/12\/02\/higgs-rumour-anaylsis-points-to-125-gev\/\">here<\/a>.  This looks to be still not a conclusive Higgs signal, but the closest thing yet. More details may or may not emerge before the public talks on December 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Latest rumor is that the significance of the ATLAS gamma gamma bump is almost 3 sigma.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  This morning&#8217;s rumors are a 3.5 sigma 126 GeV excess at ATLAS in the ATLAS-only combination, and 2.5 sigma at 124 GeV for CMS.  Heuer&#8217;s message to all CERN personnel says the December 13 announcements will be &#8220;significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs.&#8221;  Presumably they&#8217;re waiting for 5 sigma before claiming conclusive proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more detail on Higgs rumors I&#8217;ve been hearing recently. Evidently the latest ATLAS data shows an excess in the gamma-gamma channel around 126 GeV, of the size expected if the Higgs is there, and CMS is also seeing an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news","category-favorite-old-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10042,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}