Refining an analysis to see if a hypothetical new particle is there.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-11-21.html, by Andy Beretvas.
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Z boson lends a hand to measure the W boson mass
DZero uses the precisely-known Z-boson mass to help determine the W-boson mass.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-11-14.html, by Mark Williams.
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Unexpected bumps
Looking for confirmation of a new particle, seen by CDF at Fermilab, at the LHC/CMS.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-11-08.html, by Don Lincoln.
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Trilepton events using a blind analysis
CDF looks for new physics, beyond the Standard Model, in multi-lepton final states.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-11-07.html, by Andy Beretvas.
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What does a neutrino see?
Z boson-mediated neutrino-nucleon neutral-current elastic (NCE) scattering, as studied by MiniBooNE.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-11-01.html, by Ranjan Dharmapalan, University of Alabama.
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Muons, matter and mystery
DZero publishes that their experiment actually produces more matter muons than anti-matter muons.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-10-31.html, by Mark Williams. Spanish translation by Jesus Orduña.
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The geometry of particle decays
Studying the information in the trajectories of the final state particles, carefully, at CMS.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-10-25.html, by Jim Pivarski.
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