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- From: mcirvin@scws1.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.160502.17467@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:05:01 GMT
- References: <MATT.92Nov14111225@physics.berkeley.edu> <1e4ef2INNl2m@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <15NOV199206450358@utahep.uta.edu>
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- In article <15NOV199206450358@utahep.uta.edu> sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer) writes:
- >Any bump in the two photon invariant mass
- >spectrum is most likely some sort of technipion. And as a friend of mine
- >whispered to me during a talk on technicolor theory,"If this is how
- >God made the universe, I want out !"
-
- Forgive me if this sounds idiotic, but isn't it the basic idea behind
- technicolor that there *aren't* any technipions? Or are we talking about
- a situation in which not all of the spontaneously broken degrees of
- freedom are gauged, so that some of the Goldstone bosons survive the
- Higgs mechanism?
- --
- Matt McIrvin
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