{"id":3100,"date":"2008-10-31T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/31\/fermilab-discovers-something-m\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T08:52:18","slug":"fermilab-discovers-something-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/31\/fermilab-discovers-something-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Fermilab Discovers&#8230; Something. Maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high-energy physics blogosphere (well, two blogs worth) is abuzz this morning with the news that the CDF collaboration <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0810.5357\">has seen something in collisions producing multiple muons<\/a> (a muon is sort of like an electron, only heavier). You can get more from <a href=\"http:\/\/dorigo.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/31\/cdf-publishes-multi-muons\/\">Tommaso Dorigo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1045\">Peter Woit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What they&#8217;re really seeing is not entirely clear. They see more of these collisions that produce multiple muons than they can explain with the Standard Model, but it&#8217;s not clear what that means at this point. It could be <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0810.0714\">some exotic particle<\/a>, or it could just be a new and interesting background effect in their detector.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t be sorted out for quite some time. The only way to really resolve this is to see if the other detector at Fermilab, the D0 detector, sees the same sort of thing in their data. This requires a long and complicated analysis, though, so expect this to be hanging out there tantalizingly for the next several months.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s my impression based on a somewhat groggy reading of this morning&#8217;s blog posts. Anybody who knows more is encouraged to leave a comment, preferably with as little jargon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high-energy physics blogosphere (well, two blogs worth) is abuzz this morning with the news that the CDF collaboration has seen something in collisions producing multiple muons (a muon is sort of like an electron, only heavier). You can get more from Tommaso Dorigo and Peter Woit. What they&#8217;re really seeing is not entirely clear.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/31\/fermilab-discovers-something-m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fermilab Discovers&#8230; Something. Maybe.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}