Dinner with Gordie Kane
Yesterday evening the conference banquet of PPC 2008 was held at Yanni’s, a nice restaurant on Central Avenue in Albuquerque. I was lucky to sit at a table together with quite interesting company of...
View ArticleAn update on the 2.1-sigma MSSM Higgs signal
By doing some cleanup, I discovered this afternoon a forgotten text I had written seven months ago and put in stand-by, awaiting the proper time to post it. The reason for the delay -which is an order...
View ArticleEvents with photons, b-jets, and missing Et
A recent analysis by CDF, based on 2 inverse femtobarns of data (approximately 160 trillion proton-antiproton collisions) has searched for events featuring a rare mixture of striking objects:...
View ArticleGuest post: Ben Allanach, “Predictions for SUSY Particle Masses”
Ben Allanach is a reader in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was a post-doc at LAPP (Annecy, France), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Cambridge (UK) and the Rutherford...
View ArticleZooming in on the Higgs
Yesterday Sven Heinemeyer kindly provided me with an updated version of a plot which best describes the experimental constraints on the Higgs boson mass, coming from electroweak observables measured at...
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