New Experiments Constrain Higgs Mass
Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 10:15
in Physics & Chemistry
The territory where the Higgs boson may be found continues to shrink. The latest data from the collider experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermilab now exclude a significant fraction of the allowed Higgs mass range established by earlier measurements. Those experiments predict a Higgs mass between 114 and 185 GeV/c^2. The CDF and DZero results carve out a section in the middle of this range and exclude a mass between 160 and 170 GeV/c^2.