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Constraints On The Higgs Mass From The Muon Anomaly

... pairs (a simple-to-measure process) or taking into account tau-lepton decays involving hadrons in the final state. These are the methods ... the experimental estimate than the one based on hadronic tau decays, the two in some way "agree to disagree" with experiment; in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 15 2010 - 12:44am - 0 attachments

Planet Earth's Vanishing Act

... and it just sort of vanished.", said a spokesmonster from Tau Ceti.  "Well, I wrote WOW! in the log and hypermailed my ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 26 2010 - 3:12am - 0 attachments

Plot Of The Week - Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons Of The Third Kind

... very light Higgs particle would then decay into a pair of tau leptons, as shown in the diagram on the right, which I stole from the web ... and a A boson, and that all A bosons decay into pairs of tau leptons, constitute the first experimental bound on the said process. If ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 21 2010 - 8:18pm - 0 attachments

Top Of The Noughties

... the July 2000 announcement of the observation of the tau neutrino by Fermilab's DONUT collaboration springs to mind as one of the significant events of the last decade. Tau neutrinos carry no electric charge and hardly interact with other matter. ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 27 2009 - 2:31pm - 0 attachments

Plot Of The Week - Top Quarks Aplenty

... from Drell-Yan, WW, fake leptons, and Z decays to tau lepton pairs. From the above dataset the top pair cross section has been ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 4 2009 - 7:53pm - 0 attachments

New Z Bosons That LHC Can Discover In Three Months

... separately for electrons (L_e), muons (L_mu), and tau leptons (L_tau); however, recently the discovery of neutrino mixing has proven that ... and separately the three leptonic numbers L_e, L_mu, L_tau, and still manage to obtain a consistent, non a-priori ruled out theory. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 18 2009 - 3:49pm - 0 attachments

Tackling Alzheimer's Disease- Aβ Catabolism Over Anabolism?

The extracellular deposits of of the amyloid beta (Aβ) protein are the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease(AD) brain. These Aβ deposits are result of- 1) increased production of Aβ (anabolism)- High activity and levels of β-secretase (BACE1) and γ-secreta ...

Article - Sachin Patil - Jan 19 2009 - 1:13pm - 0 attachments

A Week's Worth Of Science: Four Papers To Browse

... the direction of the Gran Sasso underground facility) into tau neutrinos. Tau neutrinos are notoriously hard to detect: technically it is the last ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 1 2009 - 8:29am - 0 attachments

A Quadrillion Collisions

... the one which discovered the charm quark and the tau lepton, or the ones which uncovered many mysteries of electroweak ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 15 2009 - 5:46pm - 0 attachments

CDF Kisses Another New Physics Effect Bye-Bye

... the signature: one electron, or a muon, or a tau lepton, or a jet, or missing transverse energy. This defined several ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 6 2009 - 11:49pm - 0 attachments