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Re: Higgs Spotted?

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From: Steven Timm
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:12
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The coupling strengths of the higgs are proportional to the mass of the 
particles it couples to.  So one reason people think that these events
are _not_ Higgs is that a Higgs should also couple to quarks.  Ting
reported that an extensive search was made for events which included 
quarks (jets) in the final state with diphoton masses of this type,
and came up empty.  A Higgs decay to two photons (and two photons only)
is not impossible but rather unlikely.  Nevertheless, SSC detectors
all have plans on how they will see that mode because it is one of the 
unique signatures.

Another poster made some comment about the Z width.  The Z partial 
width has been shown to be the same for e+e-, mu+ mu- and tau+tau-.

Steve Timm
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 10:12:21 -0500 
From: Steven Timm <st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted?
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