{"id":11849,"date":"2010-06-18T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2580"},"modified":"2010-06-18T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:31:35","slug":"science-media-and-hype-god-particles-breeding-like-bosons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/science-media-and-hype-god-particles-breeding-like-bosons\/","title":{"rendered":"Science, Media and Hype: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Not Even Wrong<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tScience news in the media today is full of stories about<br \/>\n\tFermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/06\/15\/higgs_bosons\/\">God<br \/>\n\tParticles Breeding Like Bosons<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/large-hadron-collider\/7829090\/The-God-particle-may-exist-in-five-forms-Large-Hadron-Colliders-rival-project-finds.html\">The<br \/>\n\t\u2018God Particle\u2019 may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider\u2019s rival<br \/>\n\tproject finds<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science_and_environment\/10313875.stm\">US<br \/>\n\texperiment hints at \u2018multiple God particles\u2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/06\/15\/2324254\/Fermilab-Experiment-Hints-At-Multiple-Higgs-Particles\">Fermilab<br \/>\n\tExperiment Hints at Multiple Higgs Particles<\/a>.   The source of these<br \/>\n\tstories can be traced back to this <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1005.4238\">preprint<\/a>, whose authors then<br \/>\n\tappeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www-hep.phys.cmu.edu\/%7Epaulini\/WRCT\/\">this<br \/>\n\tradio program<\/a>, leading to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/breaking\/2010\/06\/04\/could-dzero-result-point-to-multiple-higgses\/\">this<br \/>\n\tSymmetry Breaking story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn May 18 D0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnal.gov\/pub\/presspass\/press_releases\/CP-violation-20100518.html\">claimed<\/a><br \/>\n\tobservation of CP violation in processes involving B-mesons of a sort<br \/>\n\tthat could not be explained by the SM, at a significance level of around<br \/>\n\t3 sigma.  For an explanation, a good place to look is <a href=\"http:\/\/resonaances.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/new-physics-claim-from-d0.html\">Resonaances<\/a>.<br \/>\n\tA violation of the SM is an extraordinary claim, so it requires some<br \/>\n\textraordinary evidence, and a 3-sigma result is not that extraordinary.<br \/>\n\tThe case for such a violation was strengthened by the fact that D0 and<br \/>\n\tCDF had seen a 2-sigma violation of the SM in a similar CP-violating<br \/>\n\tprocess.   The May 23 theory theory preprint tries to explain these SM<br \/>\n\tviolations with a model involving two Higgs doublets.  Two days later<br \/>\n\tthough, on May 25, CDF <a href=\"http:\/\/agenda.infn.it\/getFile.py\/access?contribId=12&#038;resId=0&#038;materialId=slides&#038;confId=2635\">reported<\/a><br \/>\n\tnew results: with better data, their 2-sigma SM violation had gone away<br \/>\n\t(now it is 0.8 sigma, completely consistent with the SM).  Again, for a<br \/>\n\tgood explanation of this, see <a href=\"http:\/\/resonaances.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/cdf-says-calm-down-everybody.html\">Resonaances<\/a>.<br \/>\n\tSomehow, the disappearance of one of the main reasons for taking all<br \/>\n\tthis seriously didn&#8217;t make it into the Symmetry Breaking story, or any<br \/>\n\tof the flood of ridiculous stories that appeared today.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3019\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Even Wrong reports: Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons, The \u2018God Particle\u2019 may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider\u2019s rival project finds, US experiment hints at \u2018multiple God particles\u2019, Fermilab Experiment Hints at Multiple Higgs &#8230; <a title=\"Science, Media and Hype: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/science-media-and-hype-god-particles-breeding-like-bosons\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}