Comments on: Fermi KO’s LHC With Amazing Discovery!!!

By: Virgil Samms

Virgil Samms — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:12:54 +0000

and to the extent that it does, it's probably an accident.

Or else it could be that time of year when silliness reigns and you can't trust any news story you read.

By: rpenner

rpenner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:33:21 +0000

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0885

CF: Figure 1 which shows processes which involve only the W boson.

By: rpenner

rpenner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:29:10 +0000

One further clarification, this is not a naked top quark which is not part of a meson or baryon — it’s a top-quark without its anti-matter partner. Some weak processes, QCD processes and electromagnetic processes naturally produce equal-and-opposite pairs of matter and anti-matter. Here, a rare weak force process resulted in a quark-antiquark pair which was not top-antitop.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:18:27 +0000

Just to clarify, it doesn’t look very much like that Mohenjo-Daro mandala, and to the extent that it does, it’s probably an accident.

By: Joshua Zelinsky

Joshua Zelinsky — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:36:26 +0000

Also to clarify: The picture given is a picture of a series of collisions that involved the creation of an isolated top quark. It is not a picture of a top quark itself. (At least that’s how I understand it. I am not a physicist)

By: Joshua Zelinsky

Joshua Zelinsky — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:43:04 +0000

This is awesome. Win for Fermi and for particle physics.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:11:52 +0000

Looks to me kind of like that Mohenjo-Daro mandala they used, or abused, in Mimsy. Probably not an accident.