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What does the latest $B_s^0\rightarrow \mu^+\mu^-$ results mean for SUSY?
A paper from the LHCb collaboration just came out last week, stating basically that the $B_s^0\rightarrow\mu^+\mu^-$ decay matches standard model predictions, and people are already shouting that SUSY ...
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Some very basic questions on the Higgs Boson
What exactly is a boson?
Is the Higgs boson the cause of gravity or a result of it? Does the collision of particles at the LHC create a gravity field or waves or somehow interact with the gravity ...
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What's the Standard Model width of a 125 GeV Higgs?
There's a fairly broad mass spread in the new results out of Atlas and CMS. I'm curious how this fits with the expected SM width.
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Might the LHC see nothing new at all?
There's no guarantee that supersymmetry (or more exotic new physics) will be seen at the LHC. Meanwhile, it's standard lore that a Higgsless standard model becomes nonunitary somewhere in the vicinity ...
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If the LHC doesn't find the Higgs Boson, what would be the implications for the Standard Model?
What would be the implications to the Standard Model if the Higgs Boson hadn't been found with the LHC?
Also, if the Higgs Boson had not been found with the LHC, would it have been successfully ...
