:(

[steuard]

Alas: "The probability of the D0 data being consistent with the presence of a dijet resonance with 4 pb production cross section at 145 GeV/c2 is 8×10⁻⁶." Or translated to non-expert-speak, that strong hint of new physics that the CDF group at Fermilab announced a week or two ago (see my last blog entry) has been pretty thoroughly shot down. Oh, one could hold out hope that it's the D0 group that's wrong (and that maybe the LHC will release data later this summer to support the new claim), but it's almost always safest to bet on the folks who aren't making the bold claim in a case like this.

Ah well. Next year in post-Standard-Model data!

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[spoonless.livejournal.com]

Darn, well that's a shame. Can't say it was unexpected though.

What's sad is that in the 90's there were two big new discoveries, dark energy and neutrino oscillations. But what have we got to show for this past decade? Nothing new whatsoever. I hope the new decade will bring something.