US experiment hints at 'multiple Higgs bosons.

[tinrobot]

There may be multiple versions of the elusive "God particle" - or Higgs boson - according to a new study.

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Researchers working on the experiment observed collisions of protons and anti-protons in the Tevatron.

The collisions produced pairs of matter particles slightly more often than they yielded anti-matter particles.

Physicists had already seen such differences - known as "CP violation", but these effects were small compared to those seen by the DZero experiment.

The DZero results showed much more significant "asymmetry" of matter and anti-matter - beyond what could be explained by the Standard Model.

Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick J Fox from Fermilab say this large asymmetry effect can be accounted for by the existence of multiple Higgs bosons.

They say the data points to five Higgs bosons with similar masses but different electric charges.

Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.

more : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10313875.stm

[krispos42]

1. What 5 bosuns might look like

[rrneck]

2. Oh, crap.

Multiple versions of the "God particle". Just what we need, sectarian particle physics. Just don't tell the fundies or we'll never hear the end of it.

[Thor_MN]

3. There can be only one true god particle. Mess with the others and you go straight to hell.

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