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- From: sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer)
- Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted?
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:32:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.160502.17467@husc3.harvard.edu>, mcirvin@scws1.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes...
- >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
-
- OK I am stepping way out of my expertise, but I think that, at least
- in extended technicolor theories, there are "pseudoGoldstone" bosons
- left - the technipions. The number depends on the guage group used,
- and in my opinion is a muddle. I just happen to be reading
- _The Higgs Hunters' Guide_ (I kid you not) by Gunion, Haber,
- Kane, and Dawson. A very good intro to this stuff.
-
- Actually a theorist followed one of the Delphi talks on this
- alleged bump with a talk on some sort of \eta_6 walking techni
- thingamabob, which apparently would not couple to the quarks
- or neutrinos. I missed that talk, maybe someone else could
- summarize...
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- Lee Sawyer
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- Dept of Physics
- Univ. of Texas
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