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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 10:12:21 -0500
- From: Steven Timm <st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted?
- In-Reply-To: <1e4ef2INNl2m@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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- The coupling strengths of the higgs are proportional to the mass of the
- particles it couples to. So one reason people think that these events
- are _not_ Higgs is that a Higgs should also couple to quarks. Ting
- reported that an extensive search was made for events which included
- quarks (jets) in the final state with diphoton masses of this type,
- and came up empty. A Higgs decay to two photons (and two photons only)
- is not impossible but rather unlikely. Nevertheless, SSC detectors
- all have plans on how they will see that mode because it is one of the
- unique signatures.
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- Another poster made some comment about the Z width. The Z partial
- width has been shown to be the same for e+e-, mu+ mu- and tau+tau-.
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- Steve Timm
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